Package org.eclipse.jface.viewers

Interface ITreeContentProvider

All Superinterfaces:
IContentProvider, IStructuredContentProvider
All Known Subinterfaces:
ICommonContentProvider, IPipelinedTreeContentProvider, IPipelinedTreeContentProvider2
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractSynchronizationContentProvider, BaseWorkbenchContentProvider, ObservableListTreeContentProvider, ObservableSetTreeContentProvider, PreferenceContentProvider, RefactoringHistoryContentProvider, SynchronizationContentProvider, TreeNodeContentProvider, WorkbenchContentProvider
public interface ITreeContentProvider extends IStructuredContentProvider
An interface to content providers for tree-structure-oriented viewers.
See Also:

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    Object[]
    getChildren(Object parentElement)
    Returns the child elements of the given parent element.
    Object[]
    getElements(Object inputElement)
    Returns the elements to display in the viewer when its input is set to the given element.
    Object
    getParent(Object element)
    Returns the parent for the given element, or null indicating that the parent can't be computed.
    boolean
    hasChildren(Object element)
    Returns whether the given element has children.

    Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IContentProvider

    dispose, inputChanged

  • Method Details

    • getElements

      Object[] getElements(Object inputElement)
      Returns the elements to display in the viewer when its input is set to the given element. These elements can be presented as rows in a table, items in a list, etc. The result is not modified by the viewer.

      NOTE: The returned array must not contain the given inputElement, since this leads to recursion issues in AbstractTreeViewer (see bug 9262).

      Specified by:
      getElements in interface IStructuredContentProvider
      Parameters:
      inputElement - the input element
      Returns:
      the array of elements to display in the viewer

    • getChildren

      Object[] getChildren(Object parentElement)
      Returns the child elements of the given parent element.

      The difference between this method and IStructuredContentProvider.getElements is that getElements is called to obtain the tree viewer's root elements, whereas getChildren is used to obtain the children of a given parent element in the tree (including a root).

      The result is not modified by the viewer.
      Parameters:
      parentElement - the parent element
      Returns:
      an array of child elements

    • getParent

      Object getParent(Object element)
      Returns the parent for the given element, or null indicating that the parent can't be computed. In this case the tree-structured viewer can't expand a given node correctly if requested.
      Parameters:
      element - the element
      Returns:
      the parent element, or null if it has none or if the parent cannot be computed

    • hasChildren

      boolean hasChildren(Object element)
      Returns whether the given element has children.

      Intended as an optimization for when the viewer does not need the actual children. Clients may be able to implement this more efficiently than getChildren.

      Parameters:
      element - the element
      Returns:
      true if the given element has children, and false if it has no children