Package org.eclipse.jface.viewers

Interface IIndexableLazyContentProvider

All Superinterfaces:

IContentProvider, ILazyContentProvider

public interface IIndexableLazyContentProvider
extends ILazyContentProvider

Adds efficient element indexing support to ILazyContentProvider.

Since:

3.5

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	findElement(Object element)	Find the row index of the parameter element in the set of contents provided by this object.

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

dispose, inputChanged

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

updateElement

Method Details

findElement

int findElement(Object element)

Find the row index of the parameter element in the set of contents provided by this object. Under normal usage, this method will only be used to implement StructuredViewer#setSelection(ISelection) more efficiently.

Parameters:

element - the element to find within the contents served here

Returns:

the zero-based index of the element, or -1 if the element is not found