First post of the new year… I hope it’s coherant. And it’s to do with dealing with rows in tables. Another of RFT’s weak points.

This post contains code that will return a hashtable with a specified row’s data. The hashtable’s keys are the column names, and the values are the values in the cell. The value type is whatever the object type of the cell is.

To use it, paste the code into wherever you use tables and want to get row data from them. Call the method and pass in the table to interrogate and the row number to fetch. Easy!

I know, I know… the code could be much improved. Please send in your fixes. Thanks!


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public Hashtable getObjectsForRow(GuiSubitemTestObject tblTargetTable, int iRowNumber) throws Exception
{
//set up a hashtable to store our results
Hashtable htKeyValuePairs = new Hashtable();

//get the test data from the table so that we can use it
ITestDataTable itdt = (ITestDataTable)tblTargetTable.getTestData(“contents”);

//get the number of columns; we’re going to use this for the loop
int iNumberOfColumns = itdt.getColumnCount();

//loop through each column
for(int iColumnCounter = 0; iColumnCounter < iNumberOfColumns; iColumnCounter++)
{
//get the column name (as a string) and the corresponding cell value (as an object)
String sColumnName = itdt.getColumnHeader(iColumnCounter).toString();
//with the: iRowNumber – 1, the “-1″ is there because all these methods are 1-based
Object oCellValue = itdt.getCell(iRowNumber – 1, iColumnCounter);

//if either the column name or the cell == null, set them to a blank
//string, or the hashtable won’t be able to deal with it
if(sColumnName == null)
{
sColumnName = “”;
}
if(oCellValue == null)
{
oCellValue = “”;
}

//add the column name and cell value to the hashtable
htKeyValuePairs.put(sColumnName, oCellValue);
}

//return the hashtable
return htKeyValuePairs;
}