net.sf.mmm.util.event.base
Class AbstractEventSource<E extends Event,L extends EventListener<E>>

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.mmm.util.component.base.AbstractComponent
      net.sf.mmm.util.component.base.AbstractLoggableComponent
          net.sf.mmm.util.event.base.AbstractEventSource<E,L>

Type Parameters:

E - is the templated type of the events to send.

L - is the templated type of the listeners that can be registered here and that will receive the sent events.

All Implemented Interfaces:

EventSource<E,L>

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractSynchronizedEventSource

public abstract class AbstractEventSource<E extends Event,L extends EventListener<E>>
extends AbstractLoggableComponent
implements EventSource<E,L>

This is the abstract base implementation of the EventListener interface.

Since:

1.0.1

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Field Summary

private Collection<L>

listeners the registered listeners

Constructor Summary

	AbstractEventSource() The constructor.
protected	AbstractEventSource(CollectionFactory<? extends Collection> collectionFactory) The constructor.

Method Summary

void	addListener(L listener) This method registers a listener that is interested in Events.
protected void	fireEvent(E event) This method sends the given event to all registered listeners.
protected void	fireEvent(E event, L listener) This method sends the given event to the given listener.
protected void	handleListenerError(L listener, E event, Throwable error) This method is called if a listener throws something while handling an event.
boolean	removeListener(L listener) This method removes a listener.

Methods inherited from class net.sf.mmm.util.component.base.AbstractLoggableComponent

doInitialize, getLogger, setLogger

Methods inherited from class net.sf.mmm.util.component.base.AbstractComponent

doInitialized, getInitializationState, initialize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

listeners

private final Collection<L extends EventListener<E>> listeners

the registered listeners

Constructor Detail

AbstractEventSource

public AbstractEventSource()

The constructor.

AbstractEventSource

protected AbstractEventSource(CollectionFactory<? extends Collection> collectionFactory)

The constructor.

Parameters:

collectionFactory - is the collection factory used to create the internal Collection for the listeners.

Method Detail

addListener

public void addListener(L listener)

This method registers a listener that is interested in Events.

Specified by:

addListener in interface EventSource<E extends Event,L extends EventListener<E>>

Parameters:

listener - is the listener to add.

removeListener

public boolean removeListener(L listener)

This method removes a listener. If the listener was not registered before this method does not do any change.

Specified by:

removeListener in interface EventSource<E extends Event,L extends EventListener<E>>

Parameters:

listener - is the listener to remove.

Returns:

true if the given listener has successfully been removed, false if the listener was NOT registered.

fireEvent

protected void fireEvent(E event)

This method sends the given event to all registered listeners.

Parameters:

event - the event to set.

fireEvent

protected void fireEvent(E event,
                         L listener)

This method sends the given event to the given listener.

Parameters:

event - the event to set.

listener - the listener that should receive the event.

handleListenerError

protected void handleListenerError(L listener,
                                   E event,
                                   Throwable error)

This method is called if a listener throws something while handling an event.
The default implementation is log the error. Override this method to change the behaviour (e.g. ignore the problem, remove the "evil" listener, throw the error anyways).

Parameters:

listener - is the listener that caused the error.

event - is the event that could not be handled.

error - is the throwable caused by the listener while handling the event.