I haven't forgotten this, and will release some code I've been working on for comparison soon. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [collections][submission] NotifyingCollections
> More updates: the source, jar, and javadoc have all been updated. > > http://nettool.sourceforge.net/nc > > Neil > > > --- Neil O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a much updated submission of the event-based notifying > > decorator mechanism for collections, as discussed on the list last > > month. > > > > The package is too big to be posted to this list. The source, > > javadoc, > > and pre-built jar can be downloaded from: > > > > http://nettool.sourceforge.net/nc > > > > The javadoc can be viewed online: > > > > http://nettool.sourceforge.net/nc/api > > > > The best place to start is the package description for > > o.a.c.collections.notifying. Either navigate from above, or directly > > via: > > > > > http://nettool.sourceforge.net/nc/api/org/apache/commons/collections/notifyi ng/package-summary.html#package_description > > > > > > This release provides notifying decorators for Collection, Set, > > SortedSet, List, Bag and SortedBag. Map and SortedMap implementations > > are present, but are not completed. > > > > NotifyingCollections uses pluggable event factories to generate its > > events. There are three such "event packages" included: 'simple', > > 'rich', and 'monolithic'. The 'simple' package is a bare-bones > > implementation (one event class) that is fast and light. The 'rich' > > package defines an event hierarchy (with AddEvent, RemoveEvent etc.) > > that tracks all delta data necessary to reconstruct a collection's > > entire history. In particular, RichCollectionEvent implements > > ReplayableEvent (see below). The 'monolithic' event package is (like > > 'rich') a heavyweight package that implements ReplayableEvent, but > > has > > only one event class (MonolithicCollectionEvent) instead of an > > hierarchy. This package is an implementation of the > > Heuer/mailing-list > > design that we discussed some time ago, and is basically intended as > > a > > dis-proof-of-concept. I will discuss this in a follow-on email. > > > > Probably the most interesting new feature is the "ReplayableEvent" > > interface. This interface defines two methods, #replay and #undo (may > > rename), and is implemented by the 'rich' and 'monolithic' package. > > An > > example of usage is below. > > > > > > ############################# > > > > class MyListener implements CollectionListener > > { > > CollectionEvent event; > > > > public void collectionEventOccurred(CollectionEvent event) > > { > > this.event = event; > > } > > } > > > > NotifyingList nl = NotifyingCollectionsUtils.notifyingList(new > > ArrayList()); > > > > MyListener listener = new MyListener(); > > nl.addCollectionListener(listener); > > > > String s = "hello"; > > > > nl.add(s); > > assertTrue(nl.size() == 1); > > > > AddEvent event = (AddEvent) listener.event; > > assertTrue(event.getAddedItem() == s); > > > > // now for the fun part > > event.undo(nl); // undoes the add action > > assertTrue(nl.size() == 0); > > > > // replay the action > > event.replay(nl); > > assertTrue(nl.size() == 1 && nl.contains(s)); > > > > // replay the action on a different target > > List list = new ArrayList(); > > > > event.replay(list); > > assertTrue(list.equals(nl)); > > > > ############################ > > > > More comments in follow-on email. > > > > Neil > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
