ArrayContentProvider - A default implementation for IStructuredContentProvider

Posted On Aug 13, 2008 at by Prakash G.R.

Today I discovered that JFace provides a nice default implementation for the IStructuredContentProvider - the org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ArrayContentProvider class. Most of the time, the input to a ListViewer will be either an array of objects or List of objects. This content provider handles both cases. In fact it handles Collection - so you can even pass a Set or Queue to the viewer.setInput() method.

This might be the shortest tip I've ever written. Couldn't resist myself from blogging this. Hope its useful :-)

Update [6-Oct-2008]:
    ArrayContentProvider is now a singleton! Which means, less memory consumed even if you use this for multiple viewers



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