How to expand all the nodes of treeTable?

Question

I have a tree table and two buttons:

• one for collapsing the tree and
• the other for expanding,

but they don't work. At the backing bean I did root.setExpanded(true); and root.setExpanded(false); but it doesn't work.

<center>
    <p:treeTable value="#{roleMB.root}" var="roleTreeTableVar"
        binding="#{roleMB.treeTable}" id="roleTreeTable">
        <f:facet name="header">
            <center>
                <p:commandButton value="Réduire tout"
                    icon="ui-icon-folder-collapsed" style="font-size: 0.9em" 
                    actionListener="#{roleMB.expandAll}" 
                    update=":roleTreeTableForm:roleTreeTable"  />
                <p:spacer width="30px" />
                <p:commandButton value="Développer tout"
                    icon="ui-icon-folder-open" style="font-size: 0.9em"  
                    actionListener="#{roleMB.collapseAll}" 
                    update=":roleTreeTableForm:roleTreeTable"  />
                <p:spacer width="30px" />
            </center>
        </f:facet>

        <p:column style="width:150px">
            <f:facet name="header"> 
                Nom de Role 
            </f:facet>
            <h:outputText value="#{roleTreeTableVar.nom}" />
        </p:column>

        <p:column style="width:100px">
            <f:facet name="header"> 
                Id de role 
            </f:facet>
            <h:outputText value="#{roleTreeTableVar.id}" />
        </p:column>

        <p:column style="width:20px">
            <p:commandLink oncomplete="dlgAddRole.show()" value="Ajouter"
                update=":addRoleForm:selectRolesNamesId">
                <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{roleTreeTableVar}"
                    target="#{roleMB.selectedRole}" />
            </p:commandLink>
            <p:commandLink oncomplete="delRole.show()" value="Supprimer">
                <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{roleTreeTableVar}"
                    target="#{roleMB.selectedRole}" />
            </p:commandLink>
            <p:commandLink oncomplete="editRole.show()" value="Modifier">
                <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{roleTreeTableVar}"
                    target="#{roleMB.selectedRole}" />
            </p:commandLink>
        </p:column>
    </p:treeTable>
</center>

Answer 1

This is recursive method for Collapse and Expande.

public void collapsingORexpanding(TreeNode n, boolean option) {
    if(n.getChildren().size() == 0) {
        n.setSelected(false);
    }
    else {
        for(TreeNode s: n.getChildren()) {
            collapsingORexpanding(s, option);
        }
        n.setExpanded(option);
        n.setSelected(false);
    }
}

• The variable n is the node than you want to expand or colapse.
• When The variable option is false, all children of the n is collapse, in the another case, is expanded
• setSelected(false) indicate than this node isn't selected

Answer 2

You should set the expanded property to true not just for the root node but for all the children nodes as well.