That's what I assumed would happen, but when I ran this particular test
case, I got different results.
> PropChangeEventListener nodeEventListener = new PropChangeEventListener();
> ObservationManager observationManager = session.getWorkspace()
>
> .getObservationManager();
> observationManager.addEventListener(nodeEventListener,
> Event.PROPERTY_CHANGED,
> "/", true, null, null,
> false);
>
> // Create node
> Node root = session.getRootNode();
> Node temp = root.addNode("nodeA", "typeA");
> temp.setProperty("author", "Stephen King");
> root.save();
>
> // Set author property to the same value
> Node nodeA = root.getNode("nodeA");
> nodeA.setProperty("author", "Stephen King");
> nodeA.save();
>
This is the listener class:
> public class PropChangeEventListener implements EventListener
> {
> public void onEvent(EventIterator events)
> {
> while (events.hasNext())
> {
> Event event = events.nextEvent();
> int eventType = event.getType();
> System.out.println("Type " + eventType);
> }
> }
> }
>
The onEvent method is called even though the value of author is the same.
Any idea why?
On Dec 14, 2007 2:27 PM, Marcel Reutegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sridhar Raman wrote:
> > I am a bit confused about what Event.PROPERTY_CHANGED stands for. Is it
> > triggered whenever a node.setProperty is called? Or is it triggered
> _only_
> > if the previous value and the new value of the property do not match?
>
> it is the latter. see also section 8.3 in the specification.
>
> regards
> marcel
>
