API java : InvocationEvent

java.awt.event
Class InvocationEvent

java.lang.Object
  java.util.EventObject
      java.awt.AWTEvent
          java.awt.event.InvocationEvent

All Implemented Interfaces:

ActiveEvent, Serializable

public class InvocationEvent
extends AWTEvent
implements ActiveEvent

An event which executes the run() method on a Runnable when dispatched by the AWT event dispatcher thread. This class can be used as a reference implementation of ActiveEvent rather than declaring a new class and defining dispatch().

Instances of this class are placed on the EventQueue by calls to invokeLater and invokeAndWait. Client code can use this fact to write replacement functions for invokeLater and invokeAndWait without writing special-case code in any AWTEventListener objects.

Since:

1.2

See Also:

ActiveEvent, EventQueue.invokeLater(java.lang.Runnable), EventQueue.invokeAndWait(java.lang.Runnable), AWTEventListener, Serialized Form

INVOCATION_FIRST

public static final int INVOCATION_FIRST

Marks the first integer id for the range of invocation event ids.

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INVOCATION_DEFAULT

public static final int INVOCATION_DEFAULT

The default id for all InvocationEvents.

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INVOCATION_LAST

public static final int INVOCATION_LAST

Marks the last integer id for the range of invocation event ids.

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runnable

protected Runnable runnable

The Runnable whose run() method will be called.

notifier

protected Object notifier

The (potentially null) Object whose notifyAll() method will be called immediately after the Runnable.run() method returns.

catchExceptions

protected boolean catchExceptions

Set to true if dispatch() catches Throwable and stores it in the exception instance variable. If false, Throwables are propagated up to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop.

InvocationEvent

public InvocationEvent(Object source,
                      
                      
                       Runnable runnable)

Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source which will execute the runnable's run method when dispatched.

This is a convenience constructor. An invocation of the form InvocationEvent(source, runnable) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation of InvocationEvent(source, runnable, null, false).

This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

Parameters:

source - the Object that originated the event

runnable - the Runnable whose run method will be executed

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if source is null

See Also:

InvocationEvent(Object, Runnable, Object, boolean)

InvocationEvent

public InvocationEvent(Object source,
                      
                      
                       Runnable runnable,
                      
                      
                       Object notifier,
                       boolean catchThrowables)

Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source which will execute the runnable's run method when dispatched. If notifier is non-null, notifyAll() will be called on it immediately after run returns.

An invocation of the form InvocationEvent(source, runnable, notifier, catchThrowables) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation of InvocationEvent(source, InvocationEvent.INVOCATION_DEFAULT, runnable, notifier, catchThrowables).

This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

Parameters:

source - the Object that originated the event

runnable - the Runnable whose run method will be executed

notifier - the Object whose notifyAll method will be called after Runnable.run has returned

catchThrowables - specifies whether dispatch should catch Throwable when executing the Runnable's run method, or should instead propagate those Throwables to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if source is null

See Also:

InvocationEvent(Object, int, Runnable, Object, boolean)

InvocationEvent

protected InvocationEvent(Object source,
                          int id,
                         
                         
                          Runnable runnable,
                         
                         
                          Object notifier,
                          boolean catchThrowables)

Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source and ID which will execute the runnable's run method when dispatched. If notifier is non-null, notifyAll will be called on it immediately after run returns.

Note that passing in an invalid id results in unspecified behavior. This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

Parameters:

source - the Object that originated the event

id - the ID for the event

runnable - the Runnable whose run method will be executed

notifier - the Object whose notifyAll method will be called after Runnable.run has returned

catchThrowables - specifies whether dispatch should catch Throwable when executing the Runnable's run method, or should instead propagate those Throwables to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if source is null

dispatch

public void dispatch()

Executes the Runnable's run() method and notifies the notifier (if any) when run() returns.

Specified by:

dispatch in interface ActiveEvent

getException

public Exception getException()

Returns any Exception caught while executing the Runnable's run() method.

Returns:

A reference to the Exception if one was thrown; null if no Exception was thrown or if this InvocationEvent does not catch exceptions

getThrowable

public Throwable getThrowable()

Returns any Throwable caught while executing the Runnable's run() method.

Returns:

A reference to the Throwable if one was thrown; null if no Throwable was thrown or if this InvocationEvent does not catch Throwables

getWhen

public long getWhen()

Returns the timestamp of when this event occurred.

Returns:

this event's timestamp

Since:

1.4

paramString

public String paramString()

Returns a parameter string identifying this event. This method is useful for event-logging and for debugging.

Overrides:

paramString in class AWTEvent

Returns:

A string identifying the event and its attributes