help with jtree icons

[ankit_k]

i'm creeting a tree view for the file system....in order to assgin different icons to each node i'm overriding getTreeCellRendererComponent in the following manner

public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
				boolean sel, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row,
				boolean hasFocus) {
        System.out.println("in cell renderer");
        FileSystemView fsv=FileSystemView.getFileSystemView();
			DefaultMutableTreeNode dmtn = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) value;
			File nodefile=(File)dmtn.getUserObject();//i'm getting the below mentioned exception here
                        Icon icon;
			String filename = "";
			if (nodefile != null) {
				if (ismynodefilesystem(nodefile)) {
					
					if (filename == null) {
						filename = fsv.getSystemDisplayName(nodefile);
						
					}
					
				} else {
					filename = nodefile.getName();
				}
			}
			JLabel result = (JLabel) super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree,
					filename, sel, expanded, leaf, row, hasFocus);
			if (nodefile != null) {
				
				icon = fsv.getSystemIcon(nodefile);
								
				result.setIcon(icon);
			}
			return result;
		}

i have assigned a File object to each node using setUserObject()

i'm getting an exception as:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.io.File

at line:File nodefile=(File)dmtn.getUserObject();


please help me with this code and do point out my mistakes
thanks

[doWhile]

Class cast exception means you are trying to case one type of object into another which is incompatible - in this case it appears the dmtn user object is a String...are all the userObjects set as Files? I'd recommend posting an SSCCE which clearly demonstrates the problem, which demonstrates how you are setting the user objects (and please use the code tags)

[ankit_k]

Class cast exception means you are trying to case one type of object into another which is incompatible - in this case it appears the dmtn user object is a String...are all the userObjects set as Files? I'd recommend posting an SSCCE which clearly demonstrates the problem, which demonstrates how you are setting the user objects (and please use the code tags)

as i mentioned i have assigned each node a file with setUserObject() method.after assigning it i have also verified it using getUserObject() method
i don't know what does SSCCE mean

[doWhile]

Short, Self Contained, Correct Example In other words show us some code that we can run which demonstrates the problem you are having - the shorter the better.

[ankit_k]

ok i got the solution,this worked for me:

public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
                boolean sel, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row,
                boolean hasFocus)
     {
        System.out.println("value is :"+value.getClass());
        if ((value != null) && (value instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
      Object userObject = ((DefaultMutableTreeNode) value)
          .getUserObject();
      System.out.println("node is dmtn");
      if(userObject instanceof File)
      {
          System.out.println("value is file");
          File tempfile=(File)userObject;
         this.setText(tempfile.getName());
          this.setIcon(fsv.getSystemIcon(tempfile));
      }
         }
 
        return this;    }