How to remove child nodes from parent?

Hi,

I'm trying to remove child nodes from a parent node. First I tried

tree.removeItem(myParent)

, but that only seems to remove the parent, not the underlying child nodes. Is this correct behavior?
 Next I tried something like:

if (tree.hasChildren(MyParent) {
  for (Object obj : tree.getChildren(MyParent)) {
    if (obj instanceof MyChild) {
      tree.removeItem(obj);
    }
  }
}

However this doesn´t seem to work either; only the first child is being removed!?

What am I doing wrong here?

Regards,
Gerard

Hi Gerard,

looks like a bug to me. Please see https://github.com/vaadin/framework/issues/7984 .
You're good to report bugs there yourself if you're certain you encountered one.

Best+Thanks,
--Enver
 

Hello Gerard,
 

if (ttable.hasChildren(parentId)) {
                    ArrayList<Object> keys = new ArrayList<>();
                    for (Object i : 
                            ttable.getChildren(parentId)){
                        keys.add(i);
                        if (ttable.hasChildren(i)) {
                            keys.addAll(ttable.getChildren(i));
                        }
                    }
                    for (Object i : keys) {
                        ttable.removeItem(i);
                    }
                }

Most likely simpler solution exists, but hopefully this will also work for you : )

Regards,
Anastasia
 

This happens because you're iterating over the same collection that is being modified (indirectly through removeItem).

An even simpler solution would be to iterate over a copy instead:

if (tree.hasChildren(MyParent) {
  for (Object obj : new ArrayList(tree.getChildren(MyParent))) {
    if (obj instanceof MyChild) {
      tree.removeItem(obj);
    }
  }
}

Ah, true.

I had this idea in mind, but basically made the same mistake.

Closing bug.
 

Hi,

Thanks for your help, I was already afraid of making exactly just this mistake!

Regards,
Gerard