I'll start with the easier part, if you want to converter a PagedList<> to a a List<> you can use the snapshot() method, as you can seen in the docs it retuns:
Returns an immutable snapshot of the PagedList in its current state.A PagedList snapshot is simply an immutable shallow copy of the current state of the PagedList as a List.
Now as for the other way around you'll need to use PagedList.Builder and for that you'd need a DataSource to create the PagedList. So a avery basic dataSource that would manage your static list would look like this:
StringDataSource.kt
class StringDataSource(val provider: StringListProvider) : PageKeyedDataSource<Int, String>() {
override fun loadInitial(params: LoadInitialParams<Int>, callback: LoadInitialCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(0, params.requestedLoadSize)
callback.onResult(list, 1, 2)
}
override fun loadAfter(params: LoadParams<Int>, callback: LoadCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize)
callback.onResult(list, params.key + 1)
}
override fun loadBefore(params: LoadParams<Int>, callback: LoadCallback<Int, String>) {
val list = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize)
val nextIndex = if (params.key > 1) params.key - 1 else null
callback.onResult(list, nextIndex)
}
companion object {
const val PAGE_SIZE = 20
}
}
As you can see you need to override the three methods loadInitial, loadAfter and loadBefore in order to tell the datasource how to load the cunks of data from the list. I've wrapped you list in a provider class just for organization purposes.
StringListProvider.kt
class StringListProvider(val list: List<String>) {
fun getStringList(page: Int, pageSize: Int): List<String> {
val initialIndex = page * pageSize
val finalIndex = initialIndex + pageSize
//TODO manage index out of range
return list.subList(initialIndex, finalIndex)
}
}
To use the data source to generate the PagedList you need to build a simple configuration with PagedList.Config.Builder:
val myConfig = PagedList.Config.Builder()
.setInitialLoadSizeHint(PAGE_SIZE)
.setPageSize(PAGE_SIZE)
.build()
And then pass that to the PagedList.Builder with the datasource:
val pagedStrings: PagedList<String> = PagedList.Builder<Int, String>(StringDataSource(StringListProvider(originalStrings)), myConfig)
.setInitialKey(0)
.build()
Now you have a PagedList in pagedStrings.
The same thing in java:
StringListProvider.java
public class StringListProvider {
private List<String> list;
public StringListProvider(List<String> list) {
this.list = list;
}
public List<String> getStringList(int page, int pageSize) {
int initialIndex = page * pageSize;
int finalIndex = initialIndex + pageSize;
//TODO manage out of range index
return list.subList(initialIndex, finalIndex);
}
}
StringDataSource.java
public class StringDataSource extends PageKeyedDataSource<Integer, String> {
public static final int PAGE_SIZE = 20;
private StringListProvider provider;
public StringDataSource(StringListProvider provider) {
this.provider = provider;
}
@Override
public void loadInitial(@NonNull LoadInitialParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadInitialCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(0, params.requestedLoadSize);
callback.onResult(result, 1, 2);
}
@Override
public void loadBefore(@NonNull LoadParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize);
Integer nextIndex = null;
if (params.key > 1) {
nextIndex = params.key - 1;
}
callback.onResult(result, nextIndex);
}
@Override
public void loadAfter(@NonNull LoadParams<Integer> params, @NonNull LoadCallback<Integer, String> callback) {
List<String> result = provider.getStringList(params.key, params.requestedLoadSize);
callback.onResult(result, params.key + 1);
}
}
Config generation
PagedList.Config myConfig = new PagedList.Config.Builder()
.setInitialLoadSizeHint(PAGE_SIZE)
.setPageSize(PAGE_SIZE)
.build();
List convertion
List<String> myList = new ArrayList<>();
StringListProvider provider = new StringListProvider(myList);
StringDataSource dataSource = new StringDataSource(provider);
PagedList<String> pagedStrings = new PagedList.Builder<Integer, String>(dataSource, myConfig)
.setInitialKey(0)
.build();
