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/AbstractTreeViewer.java
/**
     * Constant indicating that all levels of the tree should be expanded or
     * collapsed.
     * 
     * @see #expandToLevel
     * @see #collapseToLevel
     */
    public static final int ALL_LEVELS = -1;
    /**
     * List of registered tree listeners (element type: <code>TreeListener</code>). */
    private ListenerList treeListeners = new ListenerList();
    /**
     * The level to which the tree is automatically expanded each time the
     * viewer's input is changed (that is, by <code>setInput</code>). A
     * value of 0 means that auto-expand is off.
     * 
     * @see #setAutoExpandLevel
     */
    private int expandToLevel = 0;
    /**
     * Safe runnable used to update an item.
     */
    class UpdateItemSafeRunnable extends SafeRunnable {