Bug 161805 [Viewers] JFace TreeViewer collapses node when sibbling removed
3.2 1. Use the Eclipse Wizard to produce a plugin with a tree viewer view. 2. Paste the modified SampleView.java - this looks like the left part of the attached screenshot 3. Click on the top node Parent1 and type - 4. TreeViewer.remove is called to remove Parent 1. TreeViewer.refresh is called - this looks like the right part of the attached screenshot Wrong: node Parent 4 is now collapsed. Expectation Parent 4 is still expanded. Is there any workaround? Am I misusing your API? Note. The snippet is almost identical to the code generated by PDE for plugin / view / Tree Viewer. Here is the extra code in createPartControl: viewer.getTree().addKeyListener(new KeyListener() { public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { if (e.character == '-') { TreeParent parent = (TreeParent) ((IStructuredSelection)viewer.getSelection()).toArray()[0]; parent.getParent().removeChild(parent); viewer.refresh(); } if (e.character == '+') { TreeParent parent = (TreeParent) ((IStructuredSelection)viewer.getSelection()).toArray()[0]; parent.addChild(new TreeParent(new Date().toString())); } } });
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/AbstractTreeViewer.java
}
	}
	/**
	 * Tries to create a path of tree items for the given element or tree path.
	 * This method recursively walks up towards the root of the tree and in the
	 * case of an element (rather than a tree path) assumes that
	 * <code>getParent</code> returns the correct parent of an element.
	 * 
	 * @param elementOrPath
	 *            the element
	 * @param expand
	 *            <code>true</code> if all nodes on the path should be
	 *            expanded, and <code>false</code> otherwise
	 * @return Widget
	 */
	protected Widget internalExpand(Object elementOrPath, boolean expand) {
		if (elementOrPath == null) {
			return null;
		}
		Widget w = internalGetWidgetToSelect(elementOrPath);
		if (w == null) {
			if (equals(elementOrPath, getRoot())) { 
				return null;
			}
			
			Object parent = getParentElement(elementOrPath);
			if (parent != null) {
				Widget pw = internalExpand(parent, false);
				if (pw != null) {