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
* @return the tree path that should be used as the parent path for the
	 *         given widget and sorter
	 */
	private TreePath internalGetSorterParentPath(Widget parent,
			ViewerComparator comparator) {
		TreePath path;
		if (comparator instanceof TreePathViewerSorter
				&& parent instanceof Item) {
			Item item = (Item) parent;
			path = getTreePathFromItem(item);
		} else {
			path = null;
		}
		return path;
	}
	/**
	 * Compare the two elements using the given sorter. If the sorter is a
	 * {@link TreePathViewerSorter}, the provided tree path will be used. If
	 * the tree path is null and the sorter is a tree path sorter, then the
	 * elements are root elements
	 * 
	 * @param sorter
	 *            the sorter
	 * @param parentPath
	 *            the path of the elements' parent
	 * @param e1
	 *            the first element
	 * @param e2
	 *            the seocnd element
	 * @return the result of comparing the two elements