I have a model with the following structure (specified here in Xcore):
class Network {
contains Master[] masters
}
class Master {
contains Slave[] slaves
}
class Slave {}
I want to use EMF databinding to create an observable list of all slave objects in all masters in the network.
How can this be done?
Alternatively: Can I create a observable list of observable lists of slaves? That is, a structure of the type IObservableList<IObservableList<Slave>>
.
The following, for example, does not work:
Network network = ...
IObservableList allSlaves = EMFProperties
.list(Literals.NETWORK__MASTERS)
.values(Literals.MASTER__SLAVES)
.observe(network);
The resulting list seem to be of type IObservableList<EList<Slave>>
instead of the desired type. The problem is that the resulting IObservableList
has elements of the class EObjectContainmentEList
, which is not an IObservableList
.
It turned out that there is a way to create nested observable lists, not only for EMF list features but for all kind of observable lists.
The trick is to use the MasterDetailObservables.detailValues
method with a factory that returns observable lists.
Network network = TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createNetwork();
network.getMasters().add(TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createMaster());
network.getMasters().add(TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createMaster());
network.getMasters().get(0).getSlaves().add(TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createSlave());
network.getMasters().get(1).getSlaves().add(TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createSlave());
network.getMasters().get(1).getSlaves().add(TryingFactory.eINSTANCE.createSlave());
IObservableList<Master> masterList = EMFProperties.list(Literals.NETWORK__MASTERS).observe(network);
IObservableList<IObservableList<Slave>> nestedLists = MasterDetailObservables.detailValues(masterList,
master -> Observables.constantObservableValue(masterList.getRealm(),
EMFProperties.list(Literals.MASTER__SLAVES).observe(master),
IObservableList.class),
IObservableList.class);
// Dispose nested lists when they are removed from the top-level list
nestedLists.addListChangeListener(event -> event.diff.accept(new ListDiffVisitor<IObservableList<?>>() {
@Override
public void handleRemove(int index, IObservableList<?> element) {
element.dispose();
}
@Override public void handleAdd(int index, IObservableList<?> element) {}
@Override public void handleMove(int oldIndex, int newIndex, IObservableList<?> element) {}
}));
nestedLists.forEach(System.out::println);
// Prints:
// [trying.impl.SlaveImpl@7692d9cc]
// [trying.impl.SlaveImpl@75f32542, trying.impl.SlaveImpl@7f1302d6]