/* PropertyChangeEvent.java -- describes a change in a property Copyright (C) 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package cc.kune.common.client.actions; // TODO: Auto-generated Javadoc /** * PropertyChangeEvents are fired in the PropertyChange and VetoableChange event * classes. They represent the old and new values as well as the source Bean. If * the old or new value is a primitive type, it must be wrapped in the * appropriate wrapper type (java.lang.Integer for int, etc., etc.). * * <p> * If the old or new values are unknown (although why that would be I do not * know), they may be null. Also, if the set of properties itself has changed, * the name should be null, and the old and new values may also be null. Right * now Sun put in a propagationId, reserved for future use. Read the comments on * the constructor and on setPropagationId for more information. * * @author John Keiser * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) * @author Adapted version for GWT (C) The kune development team * @since 1.1 * @status udpated to 1.4 */ public class PropertyChangeEvent { /** * The name of the property that changed, may be null. Package visible for use * by PropertyChangeSupport. * * @serial the changed property name */ final String propertyName; /** * The new value of the property, may be null. Package visible for use by * PropertyChangeSupport. * * @serial the new property value */ final Object newValue; /** * The old value of the property, may be null. Package visible for use by * PropertyChangeSupport. * * @serial the old property value */ final Object oldValue; /** * The propagation ID, reserved for future use. May be null. * * @see #getPropagationId() * @serial the Propagation ID */ private Object propagationId; /** The source. */ private final Object source; /** * Create a new PropertyChangeEvent. Remember that if you received a * PropertyChangeEvent and are sending a new one, you should also set the * propagation ID from the old PropertyChangeEvent. * * @param source the Bean containing the property * @param propertyName the property's name * @param oldVal the old value of the property * @param newVal the new value of the property */ public PropertyChangeEvent(final Object source, final String propertyName, final Object oldVal, final Object newVal) { this.source = source; this.propertyName = propertyName; this.oldValue = oldVal; this.newValue = newVal; } /** * Get the property's new value. May be null if multiple properties changed. * * @return the property's new value */ public Object getNewValue() { return newValue; } /** * Get the property's old value. May be null if multiple properties changed. * * @return the property's old value */ public Object getOldValue() { return oldValue; } /** * Get the propagation ID. Right now, it is not used for anything. * * @return the propagation ID * @see #setPropagationId(Object) */ public Object getPropagationId() { return propagationId; } /** * Get the property name. May be null if multiple properties changed. * * @return the property name */ public String getPropertyName() { return propertyName; } /** * Gets the source. * * @return the source */ public Object getSource() { return source; } /** * Set the propagation ID. This is a way for the event to be passed from hand * to hand and retain a little extra state. Right now it is unused, but it * should be propagated anyway so that future versions of JavaBeans can use * it, for God knows what. * * @param propagationId * the propagation ID * @see #getPropagationId() */ public void setPropagationId(final Object propagationId) { this.propagationId = propagationId; } /** * Utility method to rollback a change. * * @return a new event with old and new swapped */ PropertyChangeEvent rollback() { PropertyChangeEvent result = new PropertyChangeEvent(source, propertyName, newValue, oldValue); result.propagationId = propagationId; return result; } } // class PropertyChangeEvent