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In the next example, we integrate DataFX with our StackExchange example. Once again, the only change is in the

getObservableList method, but for clarity, we show the whole main class in Listing 11-18.

Listing 11-18. Obtaining Questions Using DataFX

import java.io.IOException;

import javafx.application.Application;

import static javafx.application.Application.launch;

import javafx.collections.ObservableList;

import javafx.concurrent.Worker;

import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.scene.control.ListView;

import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;

import javafx.stage.Stage;

import org.datafx.provider.ListDataProvider;

import org.datafx.provider.ListDataProviderBuilder;

import org.datafx.io.RestSource;

import org.datafx.io.RestSourceBuilder;

import org.datafx.io.converter.InputStreamConverter;

import org.datafx.io.converter.JsonConverter;

public class StackOverflowDataFX extends Application {

@Override

public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws IOException {

ListView<Question> listView = new ListView<>();

listView.setItems(getObservableList());

listView.setCellFactory(l -> new QuestionCell());

StackPane root = new StackPane();

root.getChildren().add(listView);

Scene scene = new Scene(root, 500, 300);

primaryStage.setTitle("StackOverflow List");

primaryStage.setScene(scene);

primaryStage.show();

System.out.println ("Done with the setup");

}

ObservableList<Question> getObservableList() throws IOException {

InputStreamConverter converter = new JsonConverter("item", Question.class);

RestSource restSource = RestSourceBuilder.create()

.converter(converter)

.host(" http://api.stackexchange.com " )

.path("2.2").path("search")

.queryParam("order", "desc")

.queryParam("sort", "activity")

.queryParam("tagged", "javafx")

.queryParam("site", "stackoverflow").build();

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