I have a fragment containing a RecyclerView. I am trying to embed a filter in RecyclerView. The filter user interface opens a new fragment dialog in which the user enters a value. As soon as the user clicks the Search button in the fragments dialog, the value should be returned to the RecyclerView fragment, and the existing data in the view should be deleted. I want to refill the RecyclerView with a new dataset that I will get from the server. My problem is that I have a method called resetAdapterDetails()in the RecyclerView snippet that works as expected if called from the RecyclerView snippet itself. But when I try to call the same method from the fragments dialog, I get an exception:
transactionList.clear(); --> is trying to clear a list which is null
Although the data is still visible in the RecyclerView.
Fragment of RecyclerView :
public class TransactionHistoryFragment extends Fragment implements SearchView.OnQueryTextListener, DateRangePickerFragment.OnDateRangeSelectedListener{
private RecyclerView recyclerview;
private TransactionHistoryAdapter adapter;
private List<Transaction> transactionList;
public TransactionHistoryFragment() {
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_transaction_history, container, false);
recyclerview = (RecyclerView) view.findViewById(R.id.recyclerview);
LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
recyclerview.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);
return view;
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
setHasOptionsMenu(true);
getTransactionHistory("");
}
@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
inflater.inflate(R.menu.transactions_history_menu, menu);
final MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
final SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu, inflater);
}
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.filter_date:
FragmentManager fmDate = getActivity().getFragmentManager();
DateRangePickerFragment dialogFragmentDate = DateRangePickerFragment.newInstance(this, true);
dialogFragmentDate.show(fmDate, "Sample Fragment");
return true;
case R.id.filter_mobile:
FragmentManager fmMobile = getActivity().getFragmentManager();
SearchMobileFragment dialogFragmentMobile = new SearchMobileFragment ();
dialogFragmentMobile.show(fmMobile, "Sample Fragment");
return true;
default:
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
final List<Transaction> filteredModelList = filter(transactionList, newText);
adapter.setFilter(filteredModelList);
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
return false;
}
private List<Transaction> filter(List<Transaction> models, String query) {
query = query.toLowerCase();final List<Transaction> filteredModelList = new ArrayList<>();
for (Transaction model : models) {
final String text = model.getTxnStatus().toLowerCase();
if (text.contains(query)) {
filteredModelList.add(model);
}
}
return filteredModelList;
}
private void getTransactionHistory(String agentId){
GetTransactionHistoryTask task = new GetTransactionHistoryTask("agent1", "password");
task.getTransactionsByAgent("OU23","OU230000000123456789").subscribe(transactionHistoryResponse -> {
if(transactionHistoryResponse != null && transactionHistoryResponse.getTransactions() != null && transactionHistoryResponse.getTransactions().size() > 0 && transactionHistoryResponse.getErrors().size() == 0){
transactionList = transactionHistoryResponse.getTransactions();
adapter = new TransactionHistoryAdapter(transactionList);
recyclerview.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(getActivity(), LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL));
recyclerview.setAdapter(adapter);
onClickListnerRecyclerView();
}
else{
}
}, e -> e.printStackTrace());
}
private void onClickListnerRecyclerView() {
recyclerview.addOnItemTouchListener(
new RecyclerItemClickListener(getActivity(), new RecyclerItemClickListener.OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClick(View view, int position) {
try {
final Transaction transactionModel= (Transaction) adapter.getObjectAt(position);
Intent i = new Intent(getActivity(), TransactionDetailsActivity.class);
i.putExtra("transaction_object",transactionModel);
startActivity(i);
}
catch (Exception e){
Log.e("List issue", e.toString());
}
}
})
);
}
@Override
public void onDateRangeSelected(int startDay, int startMonth, int startYear, int endDay, int endMonth, int endYear) {
}
public void fetchDateRange(String startDate, String endDate) {
Log.e("DateRange",startDate + "\n" + endDate);
}
public void fetchMobileNumber(String mobileNumber) {
Log.e("Mobile",mobileNumber);
resetAdapterDetails();
}
public boolean resetAdapterDetails(){
try {
transactionList.clear();
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
recyclerview.setAdapter(adapter);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Reset Error", ""+e.getMessage());
}
return true;
}
}
Fragment Dialog :
public class SearchMobileFragment extends DialogFragment {
EditText mMobileNumberEditText;
Button search_button;
public SearchMobileFragment() {
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_search_mobile, container, false);
}
@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
mMobileNumberEditText = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.mobile_number_editText);
search_button = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.search_button);
search_button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
dismiss();
TransactionHistoryFragment obj = new TransactionHistoryFragment();
obj.fetchMobileNumber(mMobileNumberEditText.getText().toString());
}
});
}
}
The method fetchMobileNumber()in the TransactionHistoryFragment (RecyclerView fragment) is called by the method fetchMobileNumber()that is called from SearchMobileFragment (dialog fragment) .
Where am I mistaken? Why is it transactionList.clear();throwing a null pointer exception?