net.sf.basedb.util.extensions.events
Interface EventFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActionClassEventFilter, AllEventsFilter, CombiningEventFilter, EventTypeFilter, ExtensionPointEventFilter

public interface EventFilter

A filter for events before they are sent to an EventHandler.

Version:

2.8

Author:

nicklas

Last modified

$Date: 2008-09-11 22:08:14 +0200 (Thu, 11 Sep 2008) $

Method Summary

boolean

shouldSend(EventType event, ExtensionPoint<?> extensionPoint, Extension<?> extension) Determine if the event should be sent to the event handler or not.

Method Detail

shouldSend

boolean shouldSend(EventType event,
                   ExtensionPoint<?> extensionPoint,
                   Extension<?> extension)

Determine if the event should be sent to the event handler or not.

Parameters:

event - The event that happend

extensionPoint - The extension point that the extension extends, or that the event happened to

extension - The extension the event happend to, or null if the event happended to the extension point

Returns:

TRUE to send the event to the event handler, or FALSE otherwise