Eclipse Platform
Release 3.6

org.eclipse.jface.viewers
Class ArrayContentProvider

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ArrayContentProvider
All Implemented Interfaces:
IContentProvider, IStructuredContentProvider

public class ArrayContentProvider
extends Object
implements IStructuredContentProvider

This implementation of IStructuredContentProvider handles the case where the viewer input is an unchanging array or collection of elements.

This class is not intended to be subclassed outside the viewer framework.

Since:
2.1
Restriction:
This class is not intended to be subclassed by clients.

Constructor Summary
ArrayContentProvider()
           
 
Method Summary
 void dispose()
          This implementation does nothing.
 Object[] getElements(Object inputElement)
          Returns the elements in the input, which must be either an array or a Collection.
static ArrayContentProvider getInstance()
          Returns an instance of ArrayContentProvider.
 void inputChanged(Viewer viewer, Object oldInput, Object newInput)
          This implementation does nothing.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

ArrayContentProvider

public ArrayContentProvider()
Method Detail

getInstance

public static ArrayContentProvider getInstance()
Returns an instance of ArrayContentProvider. Since instances of this class do not maintain any state, they can be shared between multiple clients.

Returns:
an instance of ArrayContentProvider
Since:
3.5

getElements

public Object[] getElements(Object inputElement)
Returns the elements in the input, which must be either an array or a Collection.

Specified by:
getElements in interface IStructuredContentProvider
Parameters:
inputElement - the input element
Returns:
the array of elements to display in the viewer

inputChanged

public void inputChanged(Viewer viewer,
                         Object oldInput,
                         Object newInput)
This implementation does nothing.

Specified by:
inputChanged in interface IContentProvider
Parameters:
viewer - the viewer
oldInput - the old input element, or null if the viewer did not previously have an input
newInput - the new input element, or null if the viewer does not have an input

dispose

public void dispose()
This implementation does nothing.

Specified by:
dispose in interface IContentProvider

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