cocktail-trait-eventable

A CocktailJS Trait Extension

A trait to use an Emitter as a delegate.

Install

npm install cocktail --save
npm install cocktail-trait-eventable --save

Trait requires (glue code)

A getEmitter method is required as a glue code for this trait.

getEmitter(): should return an EventEmitter instance or any other object with the same api as node events.EventEmitter class.

Usage

MyClass.js

var cocktail     = require('cocktail'),
    Eventable    = require('cocktail-trait-eventable'),
    EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;

cocktail.mix({
    '@exports': module,
    '@as'     : 'class',

    '@traits' : [Eventable],

    constructor: function() {
        this._emitter = new EventEmitter();
    },

    // glue code for Eventable Trait
    getEmitter: function() {
        return this._emitter;
    },

    doSomethingAndFireEvent: function(){
        // ... do something here
        // and
        // now fire an event 'firing'
        this.emit('firing', this);
    }
});

And then in your index you can do:

index.js

var MyClass = require('./MyClass'),
    obj;

obj = new MyClass();

//we can call `on`  or `addListener` here since our MyClass is Eventable
obj.on('firing', function(){ console.log('Event Fired!'); });

obj.doSomethingAndFireEvent();

API

The following methods will be publicly available on the host class:

• addListener(eventName, handler): Adds a listener to the end of the listeners array for the specified event.
  • eventName: {String} the event name to be listened to.
  • handler: {Function} the event handler.

    myObj.addListener('event', function(){/*handler*/});

• addListener(options): Adds a listener to the end of the listeners array for the specified event.
  • options: {Object} an object containing value-pairs of event name and handler and an optional scope.

    myObj.addListener({event: myObj.onEvent, scope: myObj});

• emit(eventName, arg1, arg2, ..., argN): Execute each of the listeners in order with the supplied arguments.
  • eventName: {String} the event name to be listened to.
  • arg1..N: {Any} arguments to be passed as parameters in the event handler.

    myObj.emit('event', myObj, true, 1, 'another param');

• on(eventName, handler): Idem addListener method.

    myObj.on('event', function(){/*handler*/});

• on(options): Idem addListener method.

    myObj.on({event: myObj.onEvent, scope: myObj});

• once(eventName, handler): Adds a one time event listener.
  • eventName: {String} the event name to be listened to.
  • handler: {Function} the event handler.

    myObj.once('event', function(){/*handler*/});

• once(options): Adds a one time event listener.
  • options: {Object} an object containing value-pairs of event name and handler and an optional scope.

    myObj.once({event: myObj.onEvent, scope: myObj});

• removeListener(eventName, handler): Removes the given handler for the event.
  • eventName: {String} the event name.
  • handler: {Function} the event handler.

    myObj.removeListener('event', funcHandler);

• removeListener(options): Removes the given handler for the event.
  • options: {Object} an object containing value-pairs of event name and handler.

    myObj.removeListener({event: myObj.onEvent});

• removeAllListeners(eventName): Remove all listeners for the given event.
  • eventName: {String} the event name.

    myObj.removeAllListeners();