Ability to decorate ChangeListener

[Mario Ivankovits]

Hi Thomas!

Thanks for your input. Because I want to decorated listeners added by JavaFX core I can not use the sub/unsub pattern.
Your second proposal is almost what I do right now. In removeListener I consult a map where the decorated listeners and their undecorated one lives.

Regarding the symmetric doubts. Such listeners will always be removed by passing in the undecorated object to removeListener.
They should act like a transparent proxy.

Even if this breaks the equals paradigm, in this special case I can perfectly live with an equals/hashCode implementation like this below.
It won’t break your app; as long as both objects do not live in the same HashSet/Map …. for sure - but why should they? 

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj)
    {
        return obj == delegate; // && this == obj
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode()
    {
        return delegate.hashCode();
    }


Regards,
Mario


Am 22.03.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Tomas Mikula <tomas.mikula at gmail.com>:

> A simpler and more universal solution is to also override removeListener:
> 
> public void removeListener(ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
>    super.removeListener(decorated(listener));
> }
> 
> And the equals() method on decorated listeners only compares the
> delegates (thus is symmetric).
> 
> Regards,
> Tomas
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Tomas Mikula <tomas.mikula at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The suspicious thing about your solution is that your smart
>> implementation of equals() is not symmetric.
>> 
>> In case the observable value is visible only within your project, you
>> could do this:
>> 
>>    interface Subscription {
>>        void unsubscribe();
>>    }
>> 
>>    class MyObservableValue<T> implements ObservableValue<T> {
>>        public Subscription subscribe(ChangeListener<? extends T> listener) {
>>            ChangeListener<T> decorated = decorate(listener);
>>           addListener(decorated);
>>           return () -> removeListener(decorated);
>>        }
>>    }
>> 
>> and use subscribe()/unsubscribe() instead of addListener()/removeListener():
>> 
>>    Subscription sub = observableValue.subscribe(listener);
>>    // ...
>>    sub.unsubscribe();
>> 
>> Of course this is not possible if you need to pass the observable
>> value to the outside world as ObservableValue.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Tomas
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Mario Ivankovits <mario at datenwort.at> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> In one of my ObservableValue implementations I do have the need to decorate ChangeListener added to it.
>>> Today this is somewhat complicated to implement, as I have to keep a map of the original listener to the decorated one to being able to handle the removal process of a listener. Because the outside World did not know that I decorated the listener and the instance passed in to removeListener ist the undecorated one.
>>> 
>>> We can make things easier with a small change in ExpressionHelper.removeListener. When iterating through the listener list, the listener passed in as argument to removeListener is asked if it is equal to the one stored
>>> 
>>>                    if (listener.equals(changeListeners[index])) {
>>> 
>>> If we flip this to
>>> 
>>>                if (changeListeners[index].equals(listener)) {
>>> 
>>> a listener decoration can be smart enough to not only check against itself, but also against its delegate.
>>> 
>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> I could prepare a patch for the *ExpressionHelper classes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Mario
>>> 
>>>