org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.event
Interface EventReceiver

public interface EventReceiver

Allows a developer to create a method which will be called when specific events occur by implementing this interface, this uses the Sakai event services

Author:

Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz@vt.edu), Antranig Basman (antranig@caret.cam.ac.uk)

Method Summary

String[]	getEventNamePrefixes() This defines the events that you want to know about by event name, receiveEvent(String, String) will be called whenever an event occurs which has a name which begins with any of the strings this method returns, simply return empty array if you do not want to match events this way Note: Can be used with getResourcePrefix()
String	getResourcePrefix() This defines the events that you want to know about by event resource (reference), receiveEvent(String, String) will be called whenever an event occurs which has a resource which begins with the string this method returns, simply return empty string to match no events this way Note: Can be used with getEventNamePrefixes()
void	receiveEvent(String eventName, String id) This defines what should happen when an event occurs that you want to know about

Method Detail

getEventNamePrefixes

String[] getEventNamePrefixes()

This defines the events that you want to know about by event name, receiveEvent(String, String) will be called whenever an event occurs which has a name which begins with any of the strings this method returns, simply return empty array if you do not want to match events this way

Note: Can be used with getResourcePrefix()

Returns:

an arrays of event name prefixes

getResourcePrefix

String getResourcePrefix()

This defines the events that you want to know about by event resource (reference), receiveEvent(String, String) will be called whenever an event occurs which has a resource which begins with the string this method returns, simply return empty string to match no events this way

Note: Can be used with getEventNamePrefixes()

Returns:

a string with a resource (reference) prefix

receiveEvent

void receiveEvent(String eventName,
                  String id)

This defines what should happen when an event occurs that you want to know about

Parameters:

eventName - a string which represents the name of the event (e.g. announcement.create)

id - the local id of the entity