I'm using SQL as datasource. My app's searchbox has autosuggestion, but currently it's only able to return the results of 1 column (e.g. column1). I want it to be able to search in 2 columns (so, column1 + column2) and show both column's result in the autosuggestion dropdown. This is the code I'm trying to implement the method with, but without any success.
public void LoadSuggestions(){
final String[] from = new String[] {"column1", "column2"};
final int[] to = new int[] {R.id.suggestion_text}; //suggestion_text is the TextView to populate
suggestionAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(MainActivity.this,
R.layout.suggestion_row,null, from, to,0){
@Override
public void changeCursor(Cursor cursor) {
super.swapCursor(cursor);
}
};
search.setSuggestionsAdapter(suggestionAdapter);
search.setOnSuggestionListener(new SearchView.OnSuggestionListener() {
@Override
public boolean onSuggestionClick(int position) {
CursorAdapter ca = search.getSuggestionsAdapter();
Cursor cursor = ca.getCursor();
cursor.moveToPosition(position);
String clicked_word = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("column1"));
search.setQuery(clicked_word, false);
search.clearFocus();
search.setFocusable(false);
Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, WordMeaningActivity.class);
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString(("column1",clicked_word);
intent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onSuggestionSelect(int position) {
return true;
}
});
search.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
String text = search.getQuery().toString();
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-züÜöÖőŐűŰáÁéÉíÍóÓúÚ \\-.]{1,25}");
Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
if(m.matches())
{
Cursor c = myDbHelper.getMeaning(text);
if(c.getCount()==0)
{
showAlertDialog();
}
else
{
search.clearFocus();
search.setFocusable(false);
Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, WordMeaningActivity.class);
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString(("column1", text);
intent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivity(intent);
}
}
else
{
showAlertDialog();
}
return false;
}
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(final String s) {
search.setIconifiedByDefault(false);
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-züÜöÖőŐűŰáÁéÉíÍóÓúÚ \\-.]{1,25}");
Matcher m = p.matcher(s);
if(m.matches()) {
Cursor cursorSuggestion = myDbHelper.getSuggestions(s);
suggestionAdapter.changeCursor(cursorSuggestion);
}
return false;
}
});}
and this is the SQL query behind it
public Cursor getSuggestions(String text) {
Cursor c= myDatabase.rawQuery("SELECT _id, column1, column2 FROM words WHERE column1 LIKE '"+text+"%' AND column2 LIKE '"+text+"%' LIMIT 40", null);
return c;}
I think the main problem is here:
final String[] from = new String[] {"column1", "column2"};
because with this order, if I search something, it will return column1's list, but if I change the order from {"column1", "column2"} to {"column2", "column1"}, the autosuggestion will show column2's results only. I understand that I should do something with this line:
final int[] to = new int[] {R.id.suggestion_text};
but I didn't find any detailed info on this, only a solution where the columns would be shown in different rows, but I need both results to show in a single dropdown. Thank you for your time and for reading this!
Ok, after some days resting I just saw it clear, the way to accomplish this is changing this string:
Cursor c= myDatabase.rawQuery("SELECT _id, column1, column2 FROM words WHERE column1 LIKE '"+text+"%' AND column2 LIKE '"+text+"%' LIMIT 40", null);
To this:
Cursor c= myDatabase.rawQuery("SELECT _id, column1 FROM words WHERE column1 LIKE '"+text+"%' UNION SELECT _id, column2 FROM words WHERE column2 LIKE '"+text+"%' LIMIT 40", null);
This way, the search will happen in both rows, so the suggestions will be taken and shown from both rows.