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1.8 KiB
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46 lines
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class:: NotificationCenter
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summary:: let an object emit notifications
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related:: Classes/SimpleController, Classes/NodeWatcher
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categories:: Control
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description::
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One common OOP pattern is Model-View-Controller where one object (the controller) is a dependant of the model. Every time the model changes it notifies all of its dependants. In this case the model has a dictionary of dependants and iterates through those.
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Another common pattern is NotificationCenter wherein an object emits a notification and clients can register functions that will be executed when that notification happens.
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A link::Classes/Server:: emits a \newAllocators notification when it creates new node and bus allocators which it does when it quits or boots.
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code::
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NotificationCenter.notify(Server.default, \newAllocators);
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You can listen for this:
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code::
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NotificationCenter.register(Server.default, \newAllocators, yourself, {
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// throw away all your node variables
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// or stop the music
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});
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The link::Classes/Buffer:: class register a function to clear its info cache whenever a server restarts. The server is emitting changed messages quite often (every 0.4 secs for the status updates), and the Buffer class is only interested in boot/quit events, so this is a more lightweight system for this purpose.
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ClassMethods::
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private::initClass
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method::notify
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The object emits a message and may also pass extra args.
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method::register
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An interested client can register the action function for the object/message notification. A listener may only register one action per object/message notification.
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method::unregister
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Remove the registrations.
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method::registerOneShot
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After the notification has been emitted and handled, automatically unregister.
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method::registrationExists
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Simply confirms if a registration is already in place.
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