Ticket #290 (closed Enhancement: fixed)

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

Server-side event extension facility

Reported by: jri Owned by: jri
Priority: Major Milestone: Release 4.1
Component: DeepaMehta Standard Distribution Version: 4.0.11
Keywords: Cc: dgf, Malte
Complexity: 5 Area: Application Framework / API
Module: deepamehta-core

Description

Plugins should be able to define its own events (along with the corresponding listener interfaces).

This would enable the following example scenario (not subject of this ticket): once the Files plugin receives an uploaded file (see #289) it would do nothing but fire a FILE_UPLOAD event. This event is defined and fired by the Files plugin. Once fired, the File Repository plugin (#291) would hop in and store the incoming file in the file repository. Thus, the file upload is decoupled from the file processing.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by jri

  • Status changed from new to accepted

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by jri

This remains to be discussed.

After talking to dgf the current implementation plan diverges from the original description: Core events are not supposed to be extendable. They are opaque to the plugin developer. Instead, general OSGi events could be utilized for plugin specific events.

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jri

  • Status changed from accepted to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by jri

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Resolution wontfix deleted

The topic is opened again through a possible "USER_LOGIN" event fired by the Access Control plugin. See #538.

At the low-level I'm still not sure weather to extend DM (Core) events or to utilize OSGi events. Important is a proper abstraction to provide the DM plugin developer with a unified API for both, event firing and event consumption.

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by jri

For pragmatic reasons I go for extendable DM events now.

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by Jörg Richter

Core: extendable server-side events (#290).

A plugin can introduce custom server-side events (and the corresponding listener interfaces).
Other plugins can implement listeners for these events.

Core API:
there is a new base class for all Events: de.deepamehta.core.service.DeepaMehtaEvent.

Introducing a custom event:

package my.cool.plugin;

import my.cool.plugin.event.MyEventListener;

import de.deepamehta.core.service.DeepaMehtaEvent;
import de.deepamehta.core.service.Listener;

class MyCoolPlugin extends PluginActivator {

    static DeepaMehtaEvent MY_EVENT = new DeepaMehtaEvent(MyEventListener.class) {
        @Override
        public void deliver(Listener listener, Object... params) {
            ((MyEventListener) listener).myEventHandler(
                (MyParamType1) params[0], (MyParamType2) params[1], ...
            );
        }
    };
}

Specify the listener interface:

package my.cool.plugin.event;

import de.deepamehta.core.service.Listener;

public interface MyEventListener extends Listener {

    void myEventHandler(MyParamType1 param1, MyParamType2 param2, ...);
}

Listening to custom events is analogous to core events:

package another.plugin;

import my.cool.plugin.event.MyEventListener

class AnotherPlugin extends PluginActivator implements MyEventListener {

    @Override
    public void myEventHandler(MyParamType1 param1, MyParamType2 param2, ...) {
        ...
    }
}

See #290.

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by Jörg Richter

Core: fire server-side custom events (#290).

A plugin can fire server-side custom events.

dms.fire_event(MY_EVENT, ParamType1 param1, ParamType2 param2, ...)

Core Service API has new method:

void fireEvent(DeepaMehtaEvent event, Object... params);

See #290.

comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by Jörg Richter

Access Control: LOGIN and LOGOUT events (#538).

The Access Control module fires custom events once a user logs in or out.

Your plugin can listen to these events analogous to core events:

import de.deepamehta.plugins.accesscontrol.event.PostLoginUserListener;
import de.deepamehta.plugins.accesscontrol.event.PostLogoutUserListener;

public class TimePlugin extends PluginActivator implements PostLoginUserListener,
                                                           PostLogoutUserListener {
    @Override
    public void postLoginUser(String username) {
        ...
    }

    @Override
    public void postLogoutUser(String username) {
        ...
    }
}

Don't forget to put Access Control in your plugin's dependencies (pom.xml):

<dependency>
    <groupId>de.deepamehta</groupId>
    <artifactId>deepamehta-accesscontrol</artifactId>
    <version>4.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

See #538.
See #290.

comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by jri

  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed
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