androidtokenizemultiautocompletetextview

replacing comma symbol with a pipe symbol in Comma Tokenizer android not working


I am using Comma Tokenizer in MultiAutoCompleteTextView but I want a pipe symbol after each selected text instead of a comma. As on stack I tried replacing the symbol in the base class but its not working. pls let me know if I am doing something wrong

public static class CommaTokenizer implements Tokenizer {
    public int findTokenStart(CharSequence text, int cursor) {
        int i = cursor;

        while (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) != '|') {
            i--;
        }
        while (i < cursor && text.charAt(i) == ' ') {
            i++;
        }

        return i;
    }

    public int findTokenEnd(CharSequence text, int cursor) {
        int i = cursor;
        int len = text.length();

        while (i < len) {
            if (text.charAt(i) == '|') {
                return i;
            } else {
                i++;
            }
        }

        return len;
    }

    public CharSequence terminateToken(CharSequence text) {
        int i = text.length();

        while (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) == ' ') {
            i--;
        }

        if (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) == '|') {
            return text;
        } else {
            if (text instanceof Spanned) {
                SpannableString sp = new SpannableString(text + "| ");
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) text, 0, text.length(),
                                        Object.class, sp, 0);
                return sp;
            } else {
                return text + "| ";
            }
        }
    }

Solution

  • Try this

    import android.text.SpannableString;
    import android.text.Spanned;
    import android.text.TextUtils;
    import android.widget.MultiAutoCompleteTextView;
    
    /**
     * Created by nilesh on 21/3/18.
     */
    
    public class MyTokenizer implements MultiAutoCompleteTextView.Tokenizer {
    
        public int findTokenStart(CharSequence text, int cursor) {
            int i = cursor;
    
            while (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) != ' ') {
                i--;
            }
            while (i < cursor && text.charAt(i) == ' ') {
                i++;
            }
    
            return i;
        }
    
        public int findTokenEnd(CharSequence text, int cursor) {
            int i = cursor;
            int len = text.length();
    
            while (i < len) {
                if (text.charAt(i) == ' ') {
                    return i;
                } else {
                    i++;
                }
            }
    
            return len;
        }
    
        public CharSequence terminateToken(CharSequence text) {
            int i = text.length();
    
            while (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) == ' ') {
                i--;
            }
    
            if (i > 0 && text.charAt(i - 1) == ' ') {
                return text;
            } else {
                if (text instanceof Spanned) {
                    SpannableString sp = new SpannableString(text + "|");
                    TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) text, 0, text.length(),
                            Object.class, sp, 0);
                    return sp;
                } else {
                    return text + "| ";
                }
            }
        }
    }
    

    ACTIVITY CODE

    import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.text.InputType;
    import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
    import android.widget.MultiAutoCompleteTextView;
    
    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    
        MultiAutoCompleteTextView multiAutoCompleteTextView;
    
    
        String []myArray;
        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    
            myArray=getResources().getStringArray(R.array.spinner_array);
    
            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, myArray);
    
    
            multiAutoCompleteTextView = findViewById(R.id.mMultiAutoCompleteTextView);
    
            multiAutoCompleteTextView.setTokenizer(new MyTokenizer());
    
            multiAutoCompleteTextView.setAdapter(adapter);
            multiAutoCompleteTextView.setTokenizer(new MyTokenizer());
            multiAutoCompleteTextView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
            multiAutoCompleteTextView.setThreshold(1);
    
        }
    
    
    }