PrimeFaces Tree component, setting selected node from managed bean

Question

I\'m running Primefaces 3.2 and JSF 2.0 on Glassfish 3.

I\'ve tried a lot, to programatically set the selected node from a managed bean. That includes setting the se

Answer 1

I solved it using:

node.setSelected(true);

I discovered that selecting the node is not enough for the "tree component" to expand from root node to selected node.

For this, I used the following approach. On the view :

on the java code:

public void onExpand(NodeExpandEvent event) {
    expand(event.getTreeNode());
}

private void expand(TreeNode treeNode){
    if (treeNode.getParent()!=null){
        treeNode.getParent().setExpanded(true);
        expand(treeNode.getParent());
    }
}