JavaFX 2.0 + FXML. Updating scene values from a different Task

Question

I want to get the controller from a scene that i\'ve loaded with FXMLoader. The use case is:

1. My JSON manager receives a JSON object

2. The task I\'ve

Answer 1

1) You can get the controller from the FXMLLoader but don't know is it possible from Scene :

FXMLLoader fxmlLoader = new FXMLLoader();
Pane p = fxmlLoader.load(getClass().getResource("foo.fxml").openStream());
bar.foo fooController = (bar.foo) fxmlLoader.getController();

To use the fooController later in a different part of your code, you can use Node#setUserData(). For example after the code above:

p.setUserData(fooController);
...
// after a while of app logic and code
bar.foo controller_of_p = (bar.foo) p.getUserData();

This gives a workaround and a shortcut to achieve your goal.

2) If your node has an id then you can directly Node#lookup() it rather than constructing a for-loop :

TextField txt = (TextField) pane.lookup("#nodeId");