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* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* Matthew Hall - bugs 206839, 124684, 239302, 245647, 194734, 195222,
* 264286
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.databinding.viewers;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Observables;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.list.IObservableList;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.set.IObservableSet;
import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.value.IObservableValue;
import org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.viewers.ViewerObservableValueDecorator;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.CheckboxTableViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.CheckboxTreeViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ICheckable;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelectionProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer;
/**
* Factory methods for creating observables for JFace viewers
*
* @since 1.1
*/
public class ViewersObservables {
private static void checkNull(Object obj) {
if (obj == null)
throw new IllegalArgumentException();
}
/**
* Returns an observable which delays notification of value change events
* from <code>observable</code> until <code>delay</code> milliseconds have
* passed since the last change event, or until a FocusOut event is received
* from the underlying viewer control (whichever happens earlier). This
* class helps to delay validation until the user stops changing the value
* (e.g. until a user stops changing a viewer selection). To notify about
* pending changes, the returned observable value will fire a stale event
* when the wrapped observable value fires a change event, but this change
* is being delayed.
*
* @param delay
* the delay in milliseconds
* @param observable
* the observable being delayed
* @return an observable which delays notification of value change events
* from <code>observable</code> until <code>delay</code>
* milliseconds have passed since the last change event.
*
* @since 1.3
*/
public static IViewerObservableValue observeDelayedValue(int delay,
IViewerObservableValue observable) {
return new ViewerObservableValueDecorator(Observables
.observeDelayedValue(delay, observable), observable.getViewer());
}
/**
* Returns an observable value that tracks the current selection of the
* given selection provider. If the selection provider provides selections
* of type {@link IStructuredSelection}, the observable value will be the
* first element of the structured selection as returned by
* {@link IStructuredSelection#getFirstElement()}.
*
* @param selectionProvider
* @return the observable value tracking the (single) selection of the given
* selection provider
*/
public static IObservableValue observeSingleSelection(
ISelectionProvider selectionProvider) {
checkNull(selectionProvider);
return ViewerProperties.singleSelection().observe(selectionProvider);
}
/**
* Returns an observable list that tracks the current selection of the given
* selection provider. Assumes that the selection provider provides
* selections of type {@link IStructuredSelection}. Note that the observable
* list will not honor the full contract of <code>java.util.List</code> in
* that it may delete or reorder elements based on what the selection
* provider returns from {@link ISelectionProvider#getSelection()} after
* having called
* {@link ISelectionProvider#setSelection(org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection)}
* based on the requested change to the observable list. The affected
* methods are <code>add</code>, <code>addAll</code>, and <code>set</code>.
*
* @param selectionProvider
* @return the observable value tracking the (multi) selection of the given
* selection provider
*
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IObservableList observeMultiSelection(
ISelectionProvider selectionProvider) {
checkNull(selectionProvider);
return ViewerProperties.multipleSelection().observe(selectionProvider);
}
/**
* Returns an observable value that tracks the current selection of the
* given viewer. If the viewer provides selections of type
* {@link IStructuredSelection}, the observable value will be the first
* element of the structured selection as returned by
* {@link IStructuredSelection#getFirstElement()}.
*
* @param viewer
* the viewer
* @return the observable value tracking the (single) selection of the given
* viewer
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IViewerObservableValue observeSingleSelection(Viewer viewer) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.singleSelection().observe(viewer);
}
/**
* Returns an observable list that tracks the current selection of the given
* viewer. Assumes that the viewer provides selections of type
* {@link IStructuredSelection}. Note that the observable list will not
* honor the full contract of <code>java.util.List</code> in that it may
* delete or reorder elements based on what the viewer returns from
* {@link ISelectionProvider#getSelection()} after having called
* {@link ISelectionProvider#setSelection(org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection)}
* based on the requested change to the observable list. The affected
* methods are <code>add</code>, <code>addAll</code>, and <code>set</code>.
*
* @param viewer
* @return the observable value tracking the (multi) selection of the given
* selection provider
*
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IViewerObservableList observeMultiSelection(Viewer viewer) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.multipleSelection().observe(viewer);
}
/**
* Returns an observable value that tracks the input of the given viewer.
* <p>
* The returned observer is blind to changes in the viewer's input unless
* its {@link IObservableValue#setValue(Object)} method is called directly.
*
* @param viewer
* the viewer to observe
* @return an observable value tracking the input of the given viewer
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IObservableValue observeInput(Viewer viewer) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.input().observe(viewer);
}
/**
* Returns an observable set that tracks the checked elements of the given
* <code>ICheckable</code>.
*
* @param checkable
* {@link ICheckable} containing the checked elements to track
* @param elementType
* element type of the returned set
* @return an observable set tracking the checked elements of the given
* checkable.
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IObservableSet observeCheckedElements(ICheckable checkable,
Object elementType) {
checkNull(checkable);
return ViewerProperties.checkedElements(elementType).observe(checkable);
}
/**
* Returns an observable set that tracks the checked elements of the given
* viewer. Assumes that the viewer implements {@link ICheckable}.
*
* @param viewer
* {@link CheckboxTableViewer} containing the checked elements to
* track.
* @param elementType
* element type of the returned set
* @return an observable set that tracks the checked elements of the given
* viewer.
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IViewerObservableSet observeCheckedElements(
CheckboxTableViewer viewer, Object elementType) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.checkedElements(elementType).observe(viewer);
}
/**
* Returns an observable set that tracks the checked elements of the given
* viewer. Assumes that the viewer implements {@link ICheckable}.
*
* @param viewer
* {@link CheckboxTreeViewer} containing the checked elements to
* track.
* @param elementType
* element type of the returned set
* @return an observable set that tracks the checked elements of the given
* viewer.
* @since 1.2
*/
public static IViewerObservableSet observeCheckedElements(
CheckboxTreeViewer viewer, Object elementType) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.checkedElements(elementType).observe(viewer);
}
/**
* Returns an observable set that tracks the filters of the given viewer.
* Note that the returned set will not track changes that are made using
* direct API on StructuredViewer (by calling
* {@link StructuredViewer#addFilter(org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ViewerFilter)
* addFilter()},
* {@link StructuredViewer#removeFilter(org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ViewerFilter)
* removeFilter()}, or
* {@link StructuredViewer#setFilters(org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ViewerFilter[])
* setFilters()}) -- it is assumed that filters are only changed through the
* returned set.
*
* @param viewer
* viewer containing the filters to be tracked
* @return an observable set that tracks the filters of the given viewer.
* @since 1.3
*/
public static IViewerObservableSet observeFilters(StructuredViewer viewer) {
checkNull(viewer);
return ViewerProperties.filters().observe(viewer);
}
}