Restrict a java text field length

Sunday, April 13, 2014 java 0 Comments

There are many different way to do this. You might write your own once you figure out what has to be done exactly. But I came up with this. Additionally I wanted the input to be numeric as well. So below is what I came up with.

private class NumericAndLengthFilter extends DocumentFilter {

        /**
         * Number of characters allowed.
         */
        private int length = 0;

        /**
         * Restricts the number of charcacters can be entered by given length.
         * @param length Number of characters allowed.
         */
        public NumericAndLengthFilter(int length) {
            this.length = length;
        }

        @Override
        public void insertString(FilterBypass fb, int offset, String string,
                AttributeSet attr) throws
                BadLocationException {
            if (isNumeric(string)) {
                if (this.length > 0 && fb.getDocument().getLength() + string.
                        length()
                        > this.length) {
                    return;
                }
                super.insertString(fb, offset, string, attr);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void replace(FilterBypass fb, int offset, int length, String text,
                AttributeSet attrs) throws
                BadLocationException {
            if (isNumeric(text)) {
                if (this.length > 0 && fb.getDocument().getLength() + text.
                        length()
                        > this.length) {
                    return;
                }
                super.insertString(fb, offset, text, attrs);
            }
        }

        /**
         * This method tests whether given text can be represented as number.
         * This method can be enhanced further for specific needs.
         * @param text Input text.
         * @return {@code true} if given string can be converted to number; otherwise returns {@code false}.
         */
        private boolean isNumeric(String text) {
            if (text == null || text.trim().equals("")) {
                return false;
            }
            for (int iCount = 0; iCount < text.length(); iCount++) {
                if (!Character.isDigit(text.charAt(iCount))) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
}