com.infomancers.collections.tree
Interface TreeAdapter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DOMAdapter, TreeModelAdapter

public interface TreeAdapter

Used as an adapter between an already existing tree model and this collections library.

A few well known trees already have implementations in this library, such as TreeModelAdapter for Swing's TreeModel interface and DOMAdapter for XML DOM.

See Also:

DOMAdapter, TreeModelAdapter

Method Summary

java.lang.Iterable<java.lang.Object>	getChildren(java.lang.Object node) Retrieves the children of the node specified.
java.lang.Object	getRoot() Retrieves the root of the tree.

Method Detail

getChildren

java.lang.Iterable<java.lang.Object> getChildren(java.lang.Object node)

Retrieves the children of the node specified. If the node has no children (is a leaf), an empty iterable is returned.

Cannot return null.

Parameters:

node - The node to retrieve the children for.

Returns:

The children nodes of the node.

getRoot

java.lang.Object getRoot()

Retrieves the root of the tree.

Cannot return null.

Returns:

The root of the tree.