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
Item[] items = getItems(ti);
				for (int i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
					if (items[i].getData() != null) {
						disassociate(items[i]);
						items[i].dispose();
					} else {
						if (needDummy && !haveDummy) {
							haveDummy = true;
						} else {
							items[i].dispose();
						}
					}
				}
				if (needDummy && !haveDummy) {
					newItem(ti, SWT.NULL, -1);
				}
				return;
			}
		}
		
		
		if (elementChildren == null) {
			if (isTreePathContentProvider() && widget instanceof Item) {
				TreePath path = getTreePathFromItem((Item) widget);
				elementChildren = getSortedChildren(path);
			} else {
				elementChildren = getSortedChildren(parent);
			}
		}
		Control tree = getControl();