How to get ArrayList from Hashmap<String String>

Question

Here I have fetched data from server/json and populated my ArrayList

ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> newsUpdateList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
private static final String TAG_NEWSCAPTION = "caption";
private static final String TAG_NEWSDATE = "date";

 HashMap<String, String> newsUpdate = new HashMap<String, String>();
            //adding each child node to HashMap key => value
            newsUpdate.put(TAG_NEWSCAPTION, newsCaption);
            newsUpdate.put(TAG_NEWSDATE, newsDate);
            newsUpdateList.add(newsUpdate);

Somewhere else (within my Adapter Class), I want to populate a ListView using this data, and i get the data like:

 HashMap<String, String> newsItem = newsUpdateList.get(position);

And then in building the individual List items, I have two TextViews in which i have to load the news caption, and news date.

 TextView caption = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.newsCaption);
 TextView date = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.newsDate);

Here's the problem, what is the proper way the extract the caption and date from the

 HashMap<String, String> newsItem

Any ideas, ...new to JAVA and Android :)

HashMap associate a Key and a Value. There is two objects here. And List has only one dimension. So how do you want these two objects become one? — Simon Marquis
– Simon Marquis, Commented Aug 23, 2014 at 9:24
Thanks Simon & Haresh. @Haresh, your answer was exactly what I needed. Could you put this as an answer so I can accept it? — Tochie
– Tochie, Commented Aug 23, 2014 at 9:51

Hareshkumar Chhelana · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-23 09:57:12Z

Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.

public class PendingAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    private List<Map<String, Object>> mPendingItemList;

    public PendingAdapter() {
        mPendingItemList = DataModel.getInstance().getPendingItemList();
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mPendingItemList.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return mPendingItemList.get(position);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ViewHolder holder;
        if (null == convertView) {

            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getActivity()).inflate(
                    R.layout.pending_item, null);
            holder = new ViewHolder();

            holder.tv_title = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_title);
            holder.tv_content = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_content);
            holder.tv_counter = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_counter);
            holder.tv_ongoing = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_ongoing);
            holder.tv_type = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_type);
            holder.tv_date = (TextView) convertView
                    .findViewById(R.id.pi_tv_date);
            convertView.setTag(holder);
        }else {
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        HashMap<String, String> itemDataHashMap = (HashMap<String, String>) getItem(position);

        holder.tv_title.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("planet"));
        holder.tv_content.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("content"));
        holder.tv_counter.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("counter"));
        holder. tv_type.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("type"));
        holder.tv_ongoing.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("ongoing"));
        holder.tv_date.setText(itemDataHashMap.get("date"));

        convertView.setTag(holder);
        return convertView;
    }

    static class ViewHolder {
        TextView tv_title;
        TextView tv_content;
        TextView tv_counter;
        TextView tv_ongoing;
        TextView tv_type;
        TextView tv_date;
    }
}

bhargavg · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-23 09:26:53Z

1

I would prefer creating a separate model class called News as follows

public class News {
    private String caption;
    private String date;

    // getters and setters for both caption and date
}

Then, instead of using a HashMap, you can directly use ArrayList<News> to save.

To render the fields in getView,

News news = newsUpdateList.get(position);
TextView caption = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.newsCaption);
TextView date = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.newsDate);

caption.setText(news.getCaption());
date.setText(news.getDate());

answered Aug 23, 2014 at 9:26

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