How to select a specific node programmatically?

Question

I have a jstree. I want to select the node which is bound to the object which has a location with id of 158. This works but seems stupid. What's the more idiomatic way of doing this?

var $tree = $('.jstree', myContext),
    node = $tree.find('li').filter(function() { 
        return ( $(this).data().location || {}).id === 158;
    });
$tree.jstree('select_node', n)

Answer 1

Just wanted to chime in here as none of the answers worked for me. What finally DID work was very simple:

$('#someTree').jstree('select_node', 'someNodeId');

Note that I didn't initialize someNodeId as a jQuery object. It's just a plain string.

I did this right after a tree was loaded without putting it into a "ready" bind event as it seems to not be necessary.

Hope it saves some one from a few frustrating hours. . .

To hook into the tree after it has been loaded:

.on('loaded.jstree', function() {
    // Do something here...
  });