How to delete a row from jtable

The example by camickr is probably a more reusable solution, but for the sake of education…

• Rendering of cells is the domain of the view
• Model’s should never contain components, especially if you’re thinking about rendering them to the screen, this is simply the wrong approach to take…
• You need to set up a TableCellEditor which will act as the means by which you can retrieve notification of the edit actions (mouse click or keypress)

This is a basic example, for simplicity, I’ve used a DefaultTableModel as it has a nice removeRow method, but conceivably, you could use any TableModel, so long as you provided the means to remove a row and modified by the editor to support it…

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.util.EventObject;
import javax.swing.AbstractCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.event.CellEditorListener;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellEditor;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;

public class ButtonExample {

    public JTable table;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final ButtonExample example = new ButtonExample();
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                example.createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }

    private void createAndShowGUI() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Button Example");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        table = new JTable(new ExampleTableModel());
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
        table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);

        table.getColumn("action").setCellRenderer(new ButtonCellRenderer());
        table.getColumn("action").setCellEditor(new ButtonCellEditor());

        frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static class ExampleTableModel extends DefaultTableModel {

        public ExampleTableModel() {
            super(new Object[]{"id", "stuff", "blah", "action"}, 0);
            for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
                addRow(new Object[]{index, "Text for " + index, "Na na", index});
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
            return columnIndex == 3;
        }

    }

    public static class ButtonCellRenderer extends JButton implements TableCellRenderer {

        @Override
        public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
            if (value != null) {
                setText("Delete row " + value.toString());
            } else {
                setText("Delete Me");
            }
            if (isSelected) {
                setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
                setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
            } else {
                setForeground(table.getForeground());
                setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Button.background"));
            }
            return this;
        }
    }

    public static class ButtonCellEditor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TableCellEditor {

        private JButton editor;
        private Object value;
        private int row;
        private JTable table;

        public ButtonCellEditor() {
            editor = new JButton();
            editor.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                @Override
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    if (table != null) {
                        fireEditingStopped();
                        TableModel model = table.getModel();
                        if (model instanceof DefaultTableModel) {
                            ((DefaultTableModel) model).removeRow(row);
                        }
                    }
                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject e) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public Object getCellEditorValue() {
            return value;
        }

        @Override
        public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
            this.table = table;
            this.row = row;
            this.value = value;
            if (value != null) {
                editor.setText("Delete row " + value.toString());
            } else {
                editor.setText("Delete Me");
            }
            if (isSelected) {
                editor.setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
                editor.setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
            } else {
                editor.setForeground(table.getForeground());
                editor.setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Button.background"));
            }
            return editor;
        }
    }

}

Take a closer look at How to Use Tables for more details

This is just a personal preference, but I prefer to use a toolbar or menu item and key bindings to provide this support. Buttons in a table just seem so…dated – IMHO