001 /* Observable.java -- an object to be observed
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037
038
039 package java.util;
040
041 /**
042 * This class represents an object which is observable. Other objects may
043 * register their intent to be notified when this object changes; and when
044 * this object does change, it will trigger the <code>update</code> method
045 * of each observer.
046 *
047 * Note that the <code>notifyObservers()</code> method of this class is
048 * unrelated to the <code>notify()</code> of Object.
049 *
050 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com)
051 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
052 * @see Observer
053 * @status updated to 1.4
054 */
055 public class Observable
056 {
057 /** Tracks whether this object has changed. */
058 private boolean changed;
059
060 /* List of the Observers registered as interested in this Observable. */
061 private LinkedHashSet observers;
062
063 /**
064 * Constructs an Observable with zero Observers.
065 */
066 public Observable()
067 {
068 observers = new LinkedHashSet();
069 }
070
071 /**
072 * Adds an Observer. If the observer was already added this method does
073 * nothing.
074 *
075 * @param observer Observer to add
076 * @throws NullPointerException if observer is null
077 */
078 public synchronized void addObserver(Observer observer)
079 {
080 if (observer == null)
081 throw new NullPointerException("can't add null observer");
082 observers.add(observer);
083 }
084
085 /**
086 * Reset this Observable's state to unchanged. This is called automatically
087 * by <code>notifyObservers</code> once all observers have been notified.
088 *
089 * @see #notifyObservers()
090 */
091 protected synchronized void clearChanged()
092 {
093 changed = false;
094 }
095
096 /**
097 * Returns the number of observers for this object.
098 *
099 * @return number of Observers for this
100 */
101 public synchronized int countObservers()
102 {
103 return observers.size();
104 }
105
106 /**
107 * Deletes an Observer of this Observable.
108 *
109 * @param victim Observer to delete
110 */
111 public synchronized void deleteObserver(Observer victim)
112 {
113 observers.remove(victim);
114 }
115
116 /**
117 * Deletes all Observers of this Observable.
118 */
119 public synchronized void deleteObservers()
120 {
121 observers.clear();
122 }
123
124 /**
125 * True if <code>setChanged</code> has been called more recently than
126 * <code>clearChanged</code>.
127 *
128 * @return whether or not this Observable has changed
129 */
130 public synchronized boolean hasChanged()
131 {
132 return changed;
133 }
134
135 /**
136 * If the Observable has actually changed then tell all Observers about it,
137 * then reset state to unchanged.
138 *
139 * @see #notifyObservers(Object)
140 * @see Observer#update(Observable, Object)
141 */
142 public void notifyObservers()
143 {
144 notifyObservers(null);
145 }
146
147 /**
148 * If the Observable has actually changed then tell all Observers about it,
149 * then reset state to unchanged. Note that though the order of
150 * notification is unspecified in subclasses, in Observable it is in the
151 * order of registration.
152 *
153 * @param obj argument to Observer's update method
154 * @see Observer#update(Observable, Object)
155 */
156 public void notifyObservers(Object obj)
157 {
158 if (! hasChanged())
159 return;
160 // Create clone inside monitor, as that is relatively fast and still
161 // important to keep threadsafe, but update observers outside of the
162 // lock since update() can call arbitrary code.
163 Set s;
164 synchronized (this)
165 {
166 s = (Set) observers.clone();
167 }
168 int i = s.size();
169 Iterator iter = s.iterator();
170 while (--i >= 0)
171 ((Observer) iter.next()).update(this, obj);
172 clearChanged();
173 }
174
175 /**
176 * Marks this Observable as having changed.
177 */
178 protected synchronized void setChanged()
179 {
180 changed = true;
181 }
182 }