ListView.addHeader with CursorAdapter and CursorLoader

Question

I'm using a ListView with a CursorLoader to load my records on it. For taht I set the adapter of the ListView with a SimpleCursorAdapter. I read on the doc that adding an header to the List with addHeaderView(View), wrapped my adapter to an HeaderListViewAdapter. Doing this, I'm not able to cast the adapter to a SimpleCursorAdapter and using swapCursor() on it when CursorLoader's onLoadFinished gets called.

Here's the code that's throwing the exception:

((SimpleCursorAdapter)mDrawerListView.getAdapter()).swapCursor(enhancedCursor);

It says that HeaderLsitView cannot be cast to a SimpleCursorAdapter

Is there anyway to disable that wrapping in order to use the swap cursor on my ListView adapter?

Answer 1

Although you get back a HeaderListAdapter when calling getAdapter() on your ListView you can still get the underlying SimpleCursorAdapter by calling the getWrappedAdapter() method on the HeaderListAdapter.