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Parsing through a table - looking for a matching values

Here is the code where I am creating my table values.

 public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
      Object o = null;
      try {
         switch (column) {
            case ITEMID_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).rev.getItem().getStringProperty("item_id");
               break;
            }
            case REVID_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).rev.getStringProperty("item_revision_id");
               break;
            }
            case PRL_COL: {
             String prl = getRevPrl(rds.get(row).rev);
             if (isMatrixPRLCellReadOnly == true) {
                o = prl;
                
             }
             else {
                 if ((prl == null || prl.isEmpty())){
                    o = pmap.get(rds.get(row).rev);
                 }
                 else {
                    o = prl;
                 }
                 break; 
             }
             break;
            }
            case DATASETNAME_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).componentdataset.getStringProperty("object_string");
               break;
            }
            case DATASET_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).componentdataset.getStringProperty("object_type");
               break;
            }
            case COMMENT_COL: {
               o = cmap.get(rds.get(row).rev);
               break;
            }
            case REVUID_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).rev.getUid();
               break;
            }
            case DSETUID_COL: {
               o = rds.get(row).componentdataset.getUid();
               break;
            }
         }
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
      return o;
   }

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Then I am parsing information from the table to create a XML String

public void getTableXML(StringBuffer sb) {
      for(int i = 0; i < SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getRowCount(); i++) {
         Object item_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().ITEMID_COL);
         Object rev_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().REVID_COL);
         Object prl_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().PRL_COL);
         Object datasetName_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().DATASETNAME_COL);
         Object datasetType_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().DATASET_COL);
         Object comment_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().COMMENT_COL);
         Object revu_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().REVUID_COL);
         Object dsetu_id = SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().getValueAt(i, SingletonSelectTable.getInstance().DSETUID_COL);
         
         sb.append("   <ItemRevision itemId=\"" + item_id + "\"");
         sb.append(" revId=\"" + rev_id + "\"");
         sb.append(" prl=\"" + prl_id+ "\"");
         sb.append(" Uid=\"" + revu_id+ "\"");
         sb.append(">\n");
         sb.append("      <Comment>" + comment_id + "</Comment>\n");
         sb.append("      <Dataset name=\"" + datasetName_id + "\"");
         sb.append(" type=\"" + datasetType_id + "\"");
         sb.append(" Uid=\"" + dsetu_id + "\"");
         sb.append(" />\n");
         sb.append("   </ItemRevision>\n");
      }

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What I am trying to do is look for a matching value.

say that I have 5 entries in my table and there are 2 that have the same item_id
I want to create the logic that parsing through the table and when finds a match it will print out found match.

I am not sure what is the best way to parse the table. I am guessing we would have to get the first value for item_id and the check the rest of the table looking for a matching item_id. The we would have to get the second value for item_id and parse the table again?

I really do not know how to approach this.

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jkteater

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Can you show me an example of what you are suggesting?

jkteater

ASKER

I really need to figure out how to do this. I am going to increase the points. I could really use a example to help me understand.

In my XML string, I need to know if the data in the table is a part or a drawing. The only time I need to check for drawing or part is when I have a drawing for a part. If that is the case they will share the same item_id, but could be on different rows in the table. The table can have any where from 1 to 50 entries.

jkteater

ASKER

Ok lets assume that I have a arraylist - the list looks something like this

item rev type
1001 1001-1 part
1002 1002-1 part
1001 1001-1 drawing

so when I am writing out to my xml string - I need it to look something like this (not formatted)

<ItemRev item="1001" rev "1001-1">
<Masterdata Name="foo" type="part"/>
<ExtraData Name="foo" type="drawing"\>
</Itemrev>
<ItemRev item="1002" rev "1002-1">
<Masterdata Name="foo1" type="part"/>
</Itemrev>

as you see above that 1001 has 2 entries in the table/arraylist - one being a part and one a drawing.

How would you parse that arraylist - I am going to use rev as my key to look for matches

Here is what I am was thinking about the logic

get first entry in array
get rev value
check the rest of the array looking for a matching value of rev
if no match
write xml string to buffer
if match
get name value and and type value for the first entry and the matching entry
if type value = part
write xml buffer for masterdata
else
write xml buffer for extradata

but then what happens - if you h ave to do each line and check every line, that could take a while logically.

I hope the above makes more since at what I am trying to do