/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package java.util; /** * Observable is used to notify a group of Observer objects when a change * occurs. On creation, the set of observers is empty. After a change occurred, * the application can call the {@link #notifyObservers()} method. This will * cause the invocation of the {@code update()} method of all registered * Observers. The order of invocation is not specified. This implementation will * call the Observers in the order they registered. Subclasses are completely * free in what order they call the update methods. * * @see Observer */ public class Observable { List<Observer> observers = new ArrayList<Observer>(); boolean changed = false; /** * Constructs a new {@code Observable} object. */ public Observable() { } /** * Adds the specified observer to the list of observers. If it is already * registered, it is not added a second time. * * @param observer * the Observer to add. */ public void addObserver(Observer observer) { if (observer == null) { throw new NullPointerException("observer == null"); } synchronized (this) { if (!observers.contains(observer)) observers.add(observer); } } /** * Clears the changed flag for this {@code Observable}. After calling * {@code clearChanged()}, {@code hasChanged()} will return {@code false}. */ protected void clearChanged() { changed = false; } /** * Returns the number of observers registered to this {@code Observable}. * * @return the number of observers. */ public int countObservers() { return observers.size(); } /** * Removes the specified observer from the list of observers. Passing null * won't do anything. * * @param observer * the observer to remove. */ public synchronized void deleteObserver(Observer observer) { observers.remove(observer); } /** * Removes all observers from the list of observers. */ public synchronized void deleteObservers() { observers.clear(); } /** * Returns the changed flag for this {@code Observable}. * * @return {@code true} when the changed flag for this {@code Observable} is * set, {@code false} otherwise. */ public boolean hasChanged() { return changed; } /** * If {@code hasChanged()} returns {@code true}, calls the {@code update()} * method for every observer in the list of observers using null as the * argument. Afterwards, calls {@code clearChanged()}. * <p> * Equivalent to calling {@code notifyObservers(null)}. */ public void notifyObservers() { notifyObservers(null); } /** * If {@code hasChanged()} returns {@code true}, calls the {@code update()} * method for every Observer in the list of observers using the specified * argument. Afterwards calls {@code clearChanged()}. * * @param data * the argument passed to {@code update()}. */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public void notifyObservers(Object data) { int size = 0; Observer[] arrays = null; synchronized (this) { if (hasChanged()) { clearChanged(); size = observers.size(); arrays = new Observer[size]; observers.toArray(arrays); } } if (arrays != null) { for (Observer observer : arrays) { observer.update(this, data); } } } /** * Sets the changed flag for this {@code Observable}. After calling * {@code setChanged()}, {@code hasChanged()} will return {@code true}. */ protected void setChanged() { changed = true; } }