How do I get all nodes in a parent in JavaFX?

Question

In C# I found a method that was pretty sweet that allowed you to get all the descendants and all of THEIR descendants from a specified control.

I'm looking for a similar method for JavaFX.

I saw that the Parent class is what I want to work with since it is the class from which all Node classes that bear children are derived.

This is what I have so far (and I haven't really found anything on google with searches like "JavaFX get all nodes from a scene"):

public static ArrayList<Node> GetAllNodes(Parent root){
    ArrayList<Node> Descendents = new ArrayList<>();
    root.getChildrenUnmodifiable().stream().forEach(N -> {
        if (!Descendents.contains(N)) Descendents.add(N);
        if (N.getClass() == Parent.class) Descendents.addAll(
            GetAllNodes((Parent)N)
        );
    });
}

So how do I tell if N is a parent (or extended from a parent)? Am I doing that right? It doesn't seem to be working... It's grabbing all the nodes from the root (parent) node but not from the nodes with children in them. I feel like this is something that's probably got an answer to it but I'm just asking the question... wrong. How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

public static ArrayList<Node> getAllNodes(Parent root) {
    ArrayList<Node> nodes = new ArrayList<Node>();
    addAllDescendents(root, nodes);
    return nodes;
}

private static void addAllDescendents(Parent parent, ArrayList<Node> nodes) {
    for (Node node : parent.getChildrenUnmodifiable()) {
        nodes.add(node);
        if (node instanceof Parent)
            addAllDescendents((Parent)node, nodes);
    }
}