SearchView setQuery, other customizations not possible?

[inmyth]

I picked the code from the demo SearchViews below and added a single line setQuery to searchView in onCreateOptionsMenu method. It didn't work. In fact I see that at least setIconified doesn't work either. Is this behavior expected from creating searchView on onCreateOptionsMenu method ? Because the only way I could make it work is by adding the modified searchView to ActionBar.

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    boolean isLight = SampleList.THEME == R.style.Theme_Sherlock_Light;
    final SearchView searchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());            
   searchView.setQuery("test", false);

    menu.add("Search")
        .setIcon(isLight ? R.drawable.ic_search_inverse : R.drawable.abs__ic_search)
        .setActionView(searchView)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);

    return true;
}

[anshulupadhyay03]

I am also having same issue.I am trying to setQuery("test",false); in a method but i dont see the text visible in the searchView.Please fix this.

[551780457]

I am also having this issue......are there anyone can help to fix it....

[dandar3]

Your problem is caused by the fact that when you click to expand the SearchView it will call SearchView.onActionViewExpanded() where it sets the text to blank (if you put a breakpoint and debug the code you'll see it):

1289 mQueryTextView.setText("");
https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/blob/master/actionbarsherlock/src/com/actionbarsherlock/widget/SearchView.java#L1289

Maybe it could set it to mUserQuery instead, I don't know...

If what you want to is to default a search value for when the user expands the search view, you could try overriding the OnActionExpandListener, e.g.:

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        [...]

        // Search...
        MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.add("Search");
        searchMenuItem.setIcon(isLight ? R.drawable.ic_search_inverse : R.drawable.abs__ic_search)
                      .setActionView(searchView)
                      .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW);

        searchMenuItem.setOnActionExpandListener(new OnActionExpandListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem p_menuItem) {
                SearchView searchView = (SearchView) p_menuItem.getActionView();
                searchView.onActionViewExpanded();
                searchView.setQuery("TEST", true);
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemActionCollapse(MenuItem p_menuItem) {
                return true;
            }
        });

        return true;
    }

You may notice that inside onMenuItemActionExpand() I am calling searchView.onActionViewExpanded() - if you don't call it in there, it will get called afterwards and it will blank your search value again (again, found by putting a breakpoint in ABS SearchView code).

HTH,
Dan

[igtsekov]

This save me thank you :)