[ovirt-devel] SortedListModel

[Daniel Erez]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Wels" <awels at redhat.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:05:13 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] SortedListModel
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have a question about the SortedListModel. If you look at the
> setItems(Collection<T> value) method. You will notice that eventually all the
> items are added to a SortedSet. This is not a problem if all the elements of
> your collection are different. But what happens if the elements of your
> collection are not all different. More specifically if I pass in a comparator
> that matches on a field of the object that is not different like description,
> or
> size or something of that nature.
> 
> The set will reduce the number of elements. Before I change it to be a list
> that can have duplicates, I would like to know the origin of the set and if
> there are going to be any issues when I do that.

afaik, SortedListModel only maintains a list of business entities,
hence there isn't an issue with duplicate objects (as all displayed 
entities are unique). Are you trying to make use of SortedListModel
with a list of strings or something similar?

> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander
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