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<pre><span class="sourceLineNo">001</span><a id="line.1">/*</a>
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<span class="sourceLineNo">019</span><a id="line.19">package org.apache.shiro.event;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">020</span><a id="line.20"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">021</span><a id="line.21">/**</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">022</span><a id="line.22"> * An event bus can publish events to event subscribers as well as provide a mechanism for registering and unregistering</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">023</span><a id="line.23"> * event subscribers.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">024</span><a id="line.24"> * &lt;p/&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">025</span><a id="line.25"> * An event bus enables a publish/subscribe paradigm within Shiro - components can publish or consume events they</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">026</span><a id="line.26"> * find relevant without needing to be tightly coupled to other components. This affords great</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">027</span><a id="line.27"> * flexibility within Shiro by promoting loose coupling and high cohesion between components and a much safer pluggable</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">028</span><a id="line.28"> * architecture.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">029</span><a id="line.29"> * &lt;h2&gt;Sending Events&lt;/h2&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">030</span><a id="line.30"> * If a component wishes to publish events to other components:</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">031</span><a id="line.31"> * &lt;pre&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">032</span><a id="line.32"> * MyEvent myEvent = createMyEvent();</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">033</span><a id="line.33"> * eventBus.publish(myEvent);</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">034</span><a id="line.34"> * &lt;/pre&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">035</span><a id="line.35"> * The event bus will determine the type of event and then dispatch the event to components that wish to receive</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">036</span><a id="line.36"> * events of that type.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">037</span><a id="line.37"> * &lt;h2&gt;Receiving Events&lt;/h2&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">038</span><a id="line.38"> * A component can receive events of interest by doing the following.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">039</span><a id="line.39"> * &lt;ol&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">040</span><a id="line.40"> * &lt;li&gt;For each type of event you wish to consume, create a public method that accepts a single event argument.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">041</span><a id="line.41"> * The method argument type indicates the type of event to receive.&lt;/li&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">042</span><a id="line.42"> * &lt;li&gt;Annotate each of these public methods with the {@link org.apache.shiro.event.Subscribe Subscribe} annotation.&lt;/li&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">043</span><a id="line.43"> * &lt;li&gt;Register the component with the event bus:</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">044</span><a id="line.44"> * &lt;pre&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">045</span><a id="line.45"> * eventBus.register(myComponent);</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">046</span><a id="line.46"> * &lt;/pre&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">047</span><a id="line.47"> * &lt;/li&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">048</span><a id="line.48"> * &lt;/ol&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">049</span><a id="line.49"> * After registering the component, when when an event of a respective type is published, the component's</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">050</span><a id="line.50"> * {@code Subscribe}-annotated method(s) will be invoked as expected.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">051</span><a id="line.51"> * &lt;p/&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">052</span><a id="line.52"> * This design (and its constituent helper components) was largely influenced by</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">053</span><a id="line.53"> * Guava's &lt;a href="http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/eventbus/EventBus.html"&gt;EventBus&lt;/a&gt;</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">054</span><a id="line.54"> * concept, although no code was viewed/copied/imported (even though Guava code is Apache 2.0 licensed and could have</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">055</span><a id="line.55"> * been used).</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">056</span><a id="line.56"> *</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">057</span><a id="line.57"> * @since 1.3</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">058</span><a id="line.58"> */</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">059</span><a id="line.59">public interface EventBus {</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">060</span><a id="line.60"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">061</span><a id="line.61"> /**</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">062</span><a id="line.62"> * Publishes the specified event to an event subsystem that will deliver events to relevant {@link Subscribe}rs.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">063</span><a id="line.63"> *</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">064</span><a id="line.64"> * @param event The event object to distribute to relevant subscribers.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">065</span><a id="line.65"> */</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">066</span><a id="line.66"> void publish(Object event);</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">067</span><a id="line.67"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">068</span><a id="line.68"> /**</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">069</span><a id="line.69"> * Registers all event handler methods on the specified instance to receive relevant events. The handler methods</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">070</span><a id="line.70"> * are determined by the {@code EventBus} implementation, typically by using an</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">071</span><a id="line.71"> * {@link org.apache.shiro.event.support.EventListenerResolver EventListenerResolver}</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">072</span><a id="line.72"> * (e.g. {@link org.apache.shiro.event.support.AnnotationEventListenerResolver AnnotationEventListenerResolver}).</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">073</span><a id="line.73"> *</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">074</span><a id="line.74"> * @param subscriber the object whose event handler methods should be registered to receive events.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">075</span><a id="line.75"> */</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">076</span><a id="line.76"> void register(Object subscriber);</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">077</span><a id="line.77"></a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">078</span><a id="line.78"> /**</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">079</span><a id="line.79"> * Unregisters all previously-registered event handler methods on the specified instance. If the specified object</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">080</span><a id="line.80"> * was not previously registered, calling this method has no effect.</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">081</span><a id="line.81"> *</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">082</span><a id="line.82"> * @param subscriber the previously</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">083</span><a id="line.83"> */</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">084</span><a id="line.84"> void unregister(Object subscriber);</a>
<span class="sourceLineNo">085</span><a id="line.85">}</a>
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