Package org.eclipse.jface.viewers

Class ArrayContentProvider

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ArrayContentProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

IContentProvider, IStructuredContentProvider

public class ArrayContentProvider
extends Object
implements IStructuredContentProvider

This implementation of IStructuredContentProvider handles the case where the viewer input is an unchanging array or collection of elements.

This class is not intended to be subclassed outside the viewer framework.

Since:

2.1

Restriction:

This class is not intended to be subclassed by clients.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ArrayContentProvider()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object[]	getElements(Object inputElement)	Returns the elements in the input, which must be either an array or a Collection.
static ArrayContentProvider	getInstance()	Returns an instance of ArrayContentProvider.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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

dispose, inputChanged

Constructor Details

ArrayContentProvider

public ArrayContentProvider()

Method Details

getInstance

public static ArrayContentProvider getInstance()

Returns an instance of ArrayContentProvider. Since instances of this class do not maintain any state, they can be shared between multiple clients.

Returns:

an instance of ArrayContentProvider

Since:

3.5

getElements

public Object[] getElements(Object inputElement)

Returns the elements in the input, which must be either an array or a Collection.

Specified by:

getElements in interface IStructuredContentProvider

Parameters:

inputElement - the input element

Returns:

the array of elements to display in the viewer