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
if (reveal && newSelection.size() > 0) {
			showItem((Item) newSelection.get(0));
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Shows the given item.
	 * 
	 * @param item
	 *            the item
	 */
	protected abstract void showItem(Item item);
	/**
	 * Updates the tree items to correspond to the child elements of the given
	 * parent element. If null is passed for the children, this method obtains
	 * them (only if needed).
	 * 
	 * @param widget
	 *            the widget
	 * @param parent
	 *            the parent element
	 * @param elementChildren
	 *            the child elements, or null
	 * @deprecated this is no longer called by the framework
	 */
	protected void updateChildren(Widget widget, Object parent,
			Object[] elementChildren) {