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I have a series of list in this list:

private List<List<String>> tableOverallList;

This object contains 8 values in each list. I need to place it in the table created. I would like to have 2 Rows with 8 columns:

String[] tableTitleList = {" Title", " (Re)set", " Obs", " Mean", " Std.Dev", " Min", " Max", "Unit"}; List<String> tabTitleList = Arrays.asList(tableTitleList);

Please help me to place the 1st list of values inside the List tableOverallList in the 2nd Row. I will try managing with the rest of the list.

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3); // 3 columns. PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 1")); PdfPCell cell2 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 2")); PdfPCell cell3 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 3")); PdfPCell cell4 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 4")); PdfPCell cell5 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 5")); PdfPCell cell6 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 6")); PdfPCell cell7 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 7")); PdfPCell cell8 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 8")); table.addCell(cell1); table.addCell(cell2); table.addCell(cell3); table.addCell(cell4); table.addCell(cell5); table.addCell(cell6); table.addCell(cell7); table.addCell(cell8); document.add(table);

Posted on StackOverflow on Jun 25, 2014 by srinivasan

That's really easy. So you have data in a nested list. For instance:

public List<List<String>> getData() { List<List<String>> data = new ArrayList<List<String>>(); String[] tableTitleList = {" Title", " (Re)set", " Obs", " Mean", " Std.Dev", " Min", " Max", "Unit"}; data.add(Arrays.asList(tableTitleList)); for (int i = 0; i < 10; ) { List<String> dataLine = new ArrayList<String>(); i++; for (int j = 0; j < tableTitleList.length; j++) { dataLine.add(tableTitleList[j] + " " + i); } data.add(dataLine); } return data; }

This will return a set of data where the first record is a title row and the following 10 rows contain mock-up data. It is assumed that this is data you have.

Now when you want to render this data in a table, you do this:

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(8); table.setWidthPercentage(100); List<List<String>> dataset = getData(); for (List<String> record : dataset) { for (String field : record) { table.addCell(field); } } document.add(table);

The result will look like this:

Resulting table

Resulting table

You can find the full source code here: ArrayToTable and this is the resulting PDF: array_to_table.pdf

If you only want 2 rows, a title row and a data row, change the following line:

for (int i = 0; i < 10; ) {

Into this:

for (int i = 0; i < 2; ) {

I've provided a more generic solution because it's more elegant to have generic code.

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