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.

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Answer 1

Unfortunately this won't get subnodes for most container components. If you try a TabPane as parent, you'll find no children, but you can find tabs in it with getTabs(). The same is with SplitPane and other. So every container will require a specific approach.

You could use node.lookupAll("*"), but it also doesn't look inside.

The solution could be a "Prototype" pattern - creating a meta class with common interface of getChildren() method, which is realized in subclasses - one for each type.

Approach example is given here.