Concerns about TreeTableViews ability to display UNlimited number of rows of data

[Martin Klähn]

Hi guys,

I've now worked with TreeView and TreeTableView to some extent.

TableView as well as TreeTabelView are designed to visualize an unlimited
number of rows of data, broken out into columns".

For TableView I can understand that concept as i can pass the TableView the
ObservableList containing the data. The Implementation of that
ObservableList can do lazy loading of the available data although it has to
know how many dataset there are. So far so good.

However for TreeTableView and by extension TreeView (no comment about
unlimited number of rows of data there) I do not agree with that statement
with my current understanding of the API.

The only way I can set the children of an TreeItem is by
a) adding the child items to the ObservableList retrieved from
TreeItem.getChildren() where have to create all children elements and add
them (not LAZY) or
b) bind a ObservableList to TreeItem.getChildren() but that essentially
first copies all items from the bound list to that of
TreeItem.getChildren() (not LAZY).

So in order to visualize an unlimited number of rows of data with
TreeTableView and I'm not missing something I have to fully initialize an
unlimited amount of data.

Please tell me I've missed something!


- Martin