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TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #905443]

Thu, 30 August 2012 07:54

Eclipse User

Hi,
I am using Tree with TreeViewer.

Tree treeSWComponent = new Tree(composite, SWT.BORDER);
TreeViewer tree_viewer=new TreeViewer(treeSWComponent);

When I am adding a child in the TreeViewer (on selection of Tree item),

tree_viewer.add(Object parent, Object child);

Since items in the Tree are repeated, TreeViewer contains multiple same objects so child is always adding to very first occurence of its parent.

Thanks.

Re: TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #905481 is a reply to message #905443]

Thu, 30 August 2012 09:08

Eclipse User

Hi,
I don't know if I understand you correctly but make sure that your objects implement hashCode() and equals() methods in a way that they can be distinguished from each other.

Regards,
Thorsten

Re: TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #905787 is a reply to message #905481]

Fri, 31 August 2012 00:29

Eclipse User

hashCode() and equal() won't help because objects are repeated.

For eg. below, if second occurence of 'arg1' is selected and if I am trying to add child to it, its getting added to the first occuence.

tree_viewer.add(Object arg1, Object child);

- ASW1(parent)
- arg1(child)
- agr2(child)
- arg1(child)
+ ASW2(parent)

Thanks.

[Updated on: Fri, 31 August 2012 00:32] by Moderator

Re: TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #905815 is a reply to message #905787]

Fri, 31 August 2012 01:48

Eclipse User

On 2012-08-31 06:30, preeti baviskar wrote:
> hashCode() and equal() won't help because objects are repeated.

This scenario is not supported. You need non-duplicate elements. If you
need to simulate visually equal elements you still need to make the
contained holder objects all different (by equals). A simple workaround
is a holder class like this:

public final class IdElement<T> {

private T value;

private final int id;

public IdElement(T value, int id) {
this.value = value;
this.id = id;
}

public final T getValue() {
return value;
}

public final void setValue(T value) {
this.value = value;
}

public final int getId() {
return id;
}

@Override
public int hashCode() {
// Combine hashCode of int and of value;
}

@Override
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
// Combine equality of int and of value;
}

}

Now when inserting an Object of T into the tree, instead insert a
different value for int each time (e.g. by incrementation) and insert
the corresponding IdElement instead.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

Re: TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #905874 is a reply to message #905815]

Fri, 31 August 2012 04:41

Eclipse User

I would suspect that there must be a difference between arg1(child) (occurence1) and arg1(child) (occurence2). Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to have two nodes. If you have two green boxes and you ask a friend to put the paper in the green box, then he will naturally ask - which one of the two green boxes. Of course you could also modify your model directly by adding the new node to the user selected arg1(child). But you must be aware that if your nodes are not distinct with respect to hashCode and equals, all viewer related tasks like adding a child, setting a path etc. will not work properly.

Regards,
Thorsten

Re: TreeViewer with multiple same objects,adds child to first occurence of its parent [message #1759977 is a reply to message #905874]

Thu, 20 April 2017 14:14

Eclipse User

Even I am facing a problem of similar sort. In my case my tree structure has a parent with some same children whose name is same but some parameter is different.
I want to look for the duplicate childrens in tree then want to group children's of same name and different parameters under one new parent.
Is this possible by any chance.

For eg I have data like this:

parent 1
child1
a 34
b 24
c 34
a 23
c 35

this should look like
parent 1
child1
a
a 34
a 23
b
b 24
c
c 34
c 35

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