it.gotoandplay.smartfoxclient
Class SFSEventDispatcher

java.lang.Object
  it.gotoandplay.smartfoxclient.SFSEventDispatcher

Direct Known Subclasses:

HttpConnection, SmartFoxClient

public class SFSEventDispatcher
extends java.lang.Object

SFSEventDispatcher is used by the SmartFoxClient class to notify about SmartFoxServer related events.

Version:

1.0.0

Author:

The gotoAndPlay() Team
http://www.smartfoxserver.com
http://www.gotoandplay.it

See Also:

SmartFoxClient, SFSEvent, ISFSEventListener

Constructor Summary

SFSEventDispatcher()
The constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	addEventListener(java.lang.String event, ISFSEventListener listener) Adds a new event listener.
void	dispatchEvent(SFSEvent eventObject)
boolean	removeEventListener(java.lang.String event, ISFSEventListener listener) Removes event listener.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SFSEventDispatcher

public SFSEventDispatcher()

The constructor.

Method Detail

addEventListener

public boolean addEventListener(java.lang.String event,
                                ISFSEventListener listener)
                         throws java.lang.NullPointerException

Adds a new event listener. Multiple listeners can be registered for single event and single listener can be registered for multiple events.

When event is dispached SFSEventDispatcher calls all listeners that are registered for the event but dosen't call them in any particular order.

Parameters:

event - the name of the event that listener listens for.

listener - the event listener.

Returns:

true if the listener is registered, otherwise flase. Listener may not be registered if its already registered for the same event.

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if listener == null

removeEventListener

public boolean removeEventListener(java.lang.String event,
                                   ISFSEventListener listener)

Removes event listener.

Parameters:

event - the name of the event listener was registered for.

listener - the listener that should be removed.

Returns:

true if the listener is removed, otherwise flase. Listener may not be removed if its haven't been registered for this event or its already removed.

dispatchEvent

public void dispatchEvent(SFSEvent eventObject)