java: Get row data from popupmenu actionListener event

Question

I'm having a little scenario here that maybe a duplicate. I have JTable where i show some data, i have a mouselistener that listens for right clicks on the table and displays a popup menu with one menuitem. My goal is that when the user clicks the menuitem, i get the values from the table and feed them into a custom dialog which has some fill in fields, so that the user doesn't have to feed the whole dialog by hand since i will feed the dialog with the values selected on the table. but my problem is that the menuitem actionevent doesn't have a way of getting the point so that i can use table.getRowAt(). i have read another comment (check here https://stackoverflow.com/a/4122082/1788917) where i have been told that i can save the row number in a variable that can then be accessed by the actionlistener for the menuitem.

i want it to look like this

theScrollPane.getViewport().add(myJTable, null);
JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem(clickMe);

menuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    menuItemActionPerformed(e);
}
});

MouseListener popupListener = new PopupListener(); 
popupMenu.add(menuItem);
myJTable.addMouseListener(popupListener);

protected void menuItemActionPerformed (ActionEvent e) {
    // what to do here to get the table row data
    // and send it to my custom dialog via it's constructor ???
}


// a simple nested class for the popup
class PopupListener extends MouseAdapter {
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
        int row = myJTable.rowAtPoint(e.getPoint());
        int selectedRow = myJTable.getSelectedRow();

        // just to make sure the popup appears only where the row is 
                    // selected
        if (row == selectedRow) {
            showPopup(e);
        }
    }

    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
        int row = myJTable.rowAtPoint(e.getPoint());
        int selectedRow = myJTable.getSelectedRow();
        if (row == selectedRow) {
            showPopup(e);
        }
    }

    private void showPopup(MouseEvent e) {
        if (e.isPopupTrigger()) {
        popupMenu.show(e.getComponent(), e.getX(), e.getY());
        }
    }

}

so my question is, is saving the row number the only way that i can do this or is there a better way?

Answer 1

i have read another comment (check here https://stackoverflow.com/a/4122082/1788917) where i have been told that i can save the row number in a variable

You read the wrong comment.

If you read the answer above that link (ie. the one with 7 votes) you will see the solution is to select the row you clicked on BEFORE showing the popup menu. Then in your menu item Action you can reference

table.getSelectedRow();