On 2/17/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked in a major improvement to Tree2. Most users won't > notice a difference but you will want to test your code to make sure > nothing has been broken. The change should be available in the latest
works as aspected! > nightly build. It will *not* be in the upcoming tomahawk release that > is due in the next two weeks. > > The improvement relates to MYFACES-911 and consists of a proposal > originally made by Mathias Werlitz's (with some modifications.) It > provides much better support for *dynamic* trees. You are no longer > constrained to the 0, 0:1, etc. node id scheme. You can provide your > own TreeWalker interface now which is in charge of "walking" the data > during rendering. > > The idea is that the renderer calls next() on the TreeWalker interface > which sets the current node and returns a boolean value indicating > whether or not another node is available. There is also the option to > ignore the tree state so you can walk the entire tree regardless of > whether or not nodes are expanded or collapsed. nice > > There should be no change to your existing tree2 JSF unless you want > to take advantage of the new features. Everything is supposed to be > backwards compatible. I added a few unit tests and went through the > examples. There is one use case that is not working at the moment > (hide root node) and I will fix that shortly. yeah, figured it out, but I am not depending (yet) on hidding the root > I'm hoping to start a discussion about the tree2 stuff with our now > significant number of users. Over the next few days I will be trying > to go through the old JIRA issues and commenting on them. I'm also > looking to improve the documentation (although I could certainly use > some help on that.) > > Stay tuned ... thanks, Matthias > Sean > -- Matthias Wessendorf Zülpicher Wall 12, 239 50674 Köln http://www.wessendorf.net mwessendorf-at-gmail-dot-com
