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I am attempting a study of JavaFX because I want to use it as the GUI of my program. My question is essentially a conceptual one:
To date my program is mostly the "Model" part of the MVC pattern; that is, almost all of my code is the OO-representation of abstractions in the sense of classes, and all of that code is logical code.
Since I do not want to be the only user of my program, I want to add the "View" part of MVC so that people can easily use and manipulate the "Model" part of my program. For this, I want to use JavaFX.
In my "Model" classes I obviously use various Lists, Maps, and other classes from the Java Collections API. In order to let the users of my program manipulate these underlying Lists and Maps I want to use the Observable(List/Map) interfaces in JavaFX.
A concrete example to bring clarity to the situation:
Let's say that I have a MachineMonitor class that every 3 minutes checks certain properties of a Machine, such as if the connection is still good, the speed that the gears are turning, etc. If certain inequalities are met (say that the speed of the gears has fallen to a rate of 1 turn/sec) the MachineMonitor fires a RestartMachineEvent.
Currently I use an ArrayList<MachineMonitor> to keep track of all of the individual MachineMonitor's. Now extending to the "View" part of MVC, I want the User to be able to manipulate a TableView that displays the list of MachineMonitors so that they can, for instance, create and remove new MachineMonitor's to monitor various Machines.
So that I can keep track of what the user of my program wants to do (say, create a MachineMonitorfor Machine #5 that checks to see if the turn/sec of the gears falls below 0.5) I use an ObservableList<MachineMonitor> as the underlying List for the TableView.
The easiest way to link the "Model" and "View" of my program would simply be to change the "Model" class to have an ObservableList<MachineMonitor> and not an ArrayList<MachineMonitor> but (getting to the topic of the question) I feel that this is very messy because it mixes "Model" and "View" code.
A naïve approach would be to use an ObservableList<MachineMonitor> for the TableView and retain the use of my ArrayList<MachineMonitor>. However, changes made to the ObservableList<MachineMonitor> do not affect the underlying List as per the JavaFX specifications.
Given this, is the best way to solve this conundrum to make a ChangeListener for the ObservableList<MachineMonitor> that "propagates" the changes made to the ObservableList<MachineMonitor> to the underlying "Model" ArrayList<MachineMonitor>? Perhaps put this in a class called MachineMonitorController?
This ad-hoc solution seems very messy and non-ideal.
My question is: What is the best way to retain nearly complete separation between the "Model" and "View" in this scenario?
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