org.mmbase.core.event
Class AllEventBroker

java.lang.Object
  org.mmbase.core.event.AbstractEventBroker
      org.mmbase.core.event.AllEventBroker

public class AllEventBroker

extends AbstractEventBroker

a simple broker for AllEventListener. Primarily created for the CluserManager, which has to propagate all local events int the mmbase cluster.

Since:

1.8

Author:

Ernst Bunders

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.mmbase.core.event.AbstractEventBroker

listeners

Constructor Summary

AllEventBroker()

Method Summary

boolean	canBrokerForEvent(Event event) this method should return true if this event broker can broker for events of this type.
boolean	canBrokerForListener(EventListener listener) this method should return true if this broker can accept and propagate events to the listener of this type.
protected void	notifyEventListener(Event event, EventListener listener) This method has two functions.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.mmbase.core.event.AbstractEventBroker

addListener, equals, hashCode, notifyForEvent, removeListener

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AllEventBroker

public AllEventBroker()

Method Detail

canBrokerForListener

public boolean canBrokerForListener(EventListener listener)

Description copied from class: AbstractEventBroker

this method should return true if this broker can accept and propagate events to the listener of this type. There are no fixed criteria for this. Most implementions do event instanceof <EventListener associated with this broker>

Specified by:

canBrokerForListener in class AbstractEventBroker

Parameters:

listener -

canBrokerForEvent

public boolean canBrokerForEvent(Event event)

Description copied from class: AbstractEventBroker

this method should return true if this event broker can broker for events of this type. There are no fixed criteria for this. Most implementions do event instanceof <EvenType associated with this broker>

Specified by:

canBrokerForEvent in class AbstractEventBroker

Parameters:

event -

notifyEventListener

protected void notifyEventListener(Event event,
                                   EventListener listener)
                            throws ClassCastException

Description copied from class: AbstractEventBroker

This method has two functions. It must cast both event and listener to the proper type and invoke the event on the listener. But it must allso check if the listener has constraint properties set. if so it must use them to decide if the event should be invoked on this listener.

Specified by:

notifyEventListener in class AbstractEventBroker

Parameters:

event -

listener -

Throws:

ClassCastException

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class AbstractEventBroker