JavaFX 8: how to add a timedelay to a listener?

Question

I\'m working on an JavaFX 8 app right now, where i have a tableView and some textFields above which make it possible to search/filter for certain columns in the tableView. I

Answer 1

Interesting problem, and one which I'm sure others have dealt with. I'm thinking this through for the first time and don't know how practical this suggestion is, but here goes:

Have your text field listeners send a notification to a queue. Then, use a util.TimerTask method that executes at your preferred time interval to process the queue, and use that to build a new filter (or not).

The wait time in the above could be rather varied, so to make it a bit more consistent, send the text field ID with a time stamp and have the Timer run more frequently and only process the new filter if a certain amount of time has elapsed.

There are various concurrency-safe queues that could be used to house the data.