Bug 84314 [Viewers] Need to allow mapping elements to multiple widgets/items
One of the projects I am working on is using an essentially graph structured dependancy model and we use TableTreeViewer for browsing (drilling down) through this graph. The nature of the model is such that the same model element can occur in multiple positions (paths) of the three. Current implementation of the TreeViewer and TableTreeViewer do not support such one-to-many mapping of model elements to widgets, leading to loads of unnecessary overhead to enshure that correct items will get updated. Suggestion: Element -> Item mapper should allow returning of more than one item per model element that is associated with this element.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/TableViewer.java
/**
	 * Sets the cell editors of this table viewer.
	 * 
	 * @param editors
	 *            the list of cell editors
	 */
	public void setCellEditors(CellEditor[] editors) {
		tableViewerImpl.setCellEditors(editors);
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the cell modifier of this table viewer.
	 * 
	 * @param modifier
	 *            the cell modifier
	 */
	public void setCellModifier(ICellModifier modifier) {
		tableViewerImpl.setCellModifier(modifier);
	}
	/**
	 * Sets the column properties of this table viewer. The properties must
	 * correspond with the columns of the table control. They are used to
	 * identify the column in a cell modifier.
	 * 
	 * @param columnProperties
	 *            the list of column properties
	 */
	public void setColumnProperties(String[] columnProperties) {
		tableViewerImpl.setColumnProperties(columnProperties);
	}
	/**