Actionbarsherlock searchview: setOnQueryTextListener

Question

I'm trying to make a filter in a List using ActionBarSherlock's search view. The code I currently have is the following:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(final Menu menu) {
    getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.building_search, menu);

    SearchView searchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());

    SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() 
    {
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) 
        {
            // this is your adapter that will be filtered
            listAdapter.getFilter().filter(newText);
            return true;
        }

        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) 
        {
            // this is your adapter that will be filtered
            listAdapter.getFilter().filter(query);
            return true;
        }
    };
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryTextListener);

    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.search:
            onSearchRequested();
            return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

These are my imports:

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.AbsListView;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import be.ugent.zeus.hydra.AbstractSherlockActivity;
import be.ugent.zeus.hydra.R;
import be.ugent.zeus.hydra.data.caches.AssociationsCache;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem;
import com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView;
import com.dd.plist.NSArray;
import com.dd.plist.NSDictionary;
import com.dd.plist.NSString;
import com.dd.plist.XMLPropertyListParser;
import com.emilsjolander.components.stickylistheaders.StickyListHeadersListView;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

Most of it works: in my actionbar, I get a search icon, which is clickable and expands the searchview. What, however, doesn't work is the actual listener. I've put breakpoints inside both methods, but when I debug, nothing happens. The program doesn't break and nothing gets filtered and I can't figure out why.

Does anyone has any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As every other answer contained a bit of truth, but didn't answer the question fully, I'll create my own answer.

When this issue was created - half a year ago - ABS did not fully implement the SearchView functionality. As of ABS 4.2.0, this has been implemented.

My full implementation, by following the ABS sample app, can be found here.