IEventListener

An interface for listener objects that receive notifications on fired events.

Description

The IEventListener interface allows you to define actions to be taken by listener objects after receiving a notification on a fired event.

Instance methods

onEvent

A method called when events this listener is subscribed to are fired.

onEvent(context: IContext, event: IEvent, args: Parameters): void

  • context: IContext - a context to trace execution through a call chain
  • event: IEvent - (optional) fired event.
  • args: Parameters - event arguments.

Examples

export class MyListener implements IEventListener {
    private onEvent(context: [IContext](../../../components/context/icontext), event: IEvent, args: Parameters): void {
        console.log("Fired event " + event.getName());
    }
}
     
let event = new Event("myevent");
event.addListener(new MyListener());
event.notify("123", Parameters.fromTuples("param1", "ABC"));
   
// Console output: Fired event myevent

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