Currently there is no direct support for individual tree item refresh even in the latest gwt version.
But there is a workaround for this. Each tree item is associated with an value. Using this value you can get the corresponding tree item.
In your case, i assume, you know which item to update/refresh ie you know which File Entity has changed. Use this file entity to search for the corresponding tree item. Once you get the tree item you just need to expand and collapse or collapse and expand its parent item. This makes parent item to re-render its children. Your changed file entity is one among the children. So it get refreshed.
public void refreshFileEntity(FileEntity fileEntity)
{
TreeNode fileEntityNode = getFileEntityNode(fileEntity, cellTree.getRootTreeNode()
// For expnad and collapse run this for loop
for ( int i = 0; i < fileEntityNode.getParent().getChildCount(); i++ )
{
if ( !fileEntityNode.getParent().isChildLeaf( i ) )
{
fileEntityNode.getParent().setChildOpen( i, true );
}
}
}
public TreeNode getFileEntityNode(FileEntity fileEntity, TreeNode treeNode)
{
if(treeNode.getChildren == null)
{
return null;
}
for(TreeNode node : treeNode.getChildren())
{
if(fileEntity.getId().equals( node.getValue.getId() ))
{
return node;
}
getEntityNode(fileEntity, node);
}
}