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package javax.naming.event;
import javax.naming.Name;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
/**
* Contains methods for registering/deregistering listeners to be notified of
* events fired when objects named in a context changes.
*<p>
*<h4>Target</h4>
* The name parameter in the <tt>addNamingListener()</tt> methods is referred
* to as the <em>target</em>. The target, along with the scope, identify
* the object(s) that the listener is interested in.
* It is possible to register interest in a target that does not exist, but
* there might be limitations in the extent to which this can be
* supported by the service provider and underlying protocol/service.
*<p>
* If a service only supports registration for existing
* targets, an attempt to register for a nonexistent target
* results in a <tt>NameNotFoundException</tt> being thrown as early as possible,
* preferably at the time <tt>addNamingListener()</tt> is called, or if that is
* not possible, the listener will receive the exception through the
* <tt>NamingExceptionEvent</tt>.
*<p>
* Also, for service providers that only support registration for existing
* targets, when the target that a listener has registered for is
* subsequently removed from the namespace, the listener is notified
* via a <tt>NamingExceptionEvent</tt> (containing a
*<tt>NameNotFoundException</tt>).
*<p>
* An application can use the method <tt>targetMustExist()</tt> to check
* whether a <tt>EventContext</tt> supports registration
* of nonexistent targets.
*<p>
*<h4>Event Source</h4>
* The <tt>EventContext</tt> instance on which you invoke the
* registration methods is the <em>event source</em> of the events that are
* (potentially) generated.
* The source is <em>not necessarily</em> the object named by the target.
* Only when the target is the empty name is the object named by the target
* the source.
* In other words, the target,
* along with the scope parameter, are used to identify
* the object(s) that the listener is interested in, but the event source
* is the <tt>EventContext</tt> instance with which the listener
* has registered.
*<p>
* For example, suppose a listener makes the following registration:
*<blockquote><pre>
* NamespaceChangeListener listener = ...;
* src.addNamingListener("x", SUBTREE_SCOPE, listener);
*</pre></blockquote>
* When an object named "x/y" is subsequently deleted, the corresponding
* <tt>NamingEvent</tt> (<tt>evt</tt>) must contain:
*<blockquote><pre>
* evt.getEventContext() == src
* evt.getOldBinding().getName().equals("x/y")
*</pre></blockquote>
*<p>
* Furthermore, listener registration/deregistration is with
* the <tt>EventContext</tt>
* <em>instance</em>, and not with the corresponding object in the namespace.
* If the program intends at some point to remove a listener, then it needs to
* keep a reference to the <tt>EventContext</tt> instance on
* which it invoked <tt>addNamingListener()</tt> (just as
* it needs to keep a reference to the listener in order to remove it
* later). It cannot expect to do a <tt>lookup()</tt> and get another instance of
* a <tt>EventContext</tt> on which to perform the deregistration.
*<h4>Lifetime of Registration</h4>
* A registered listener becomes deregistered when:
*<ul>
*<li>It is removed using <tt>removeNamingListener()</tt>.
*<li>An exception is thrown while collecting information about the events.
* That is, when the listener receives a <tt>NamingExceptionEvent</tt>.
*<li><tt>Context.close()</tt> is invoked on the <tt>EventContext</tt>
* instance with which it has registered.
</ul>
* Until that point, a <tt>EventContext</tt> instance that has outstanding
* listeners will continue to exist and be maintained by the service provider.
*
*<h4>Listener Implementations</h4>
* The registration/deregistration methods accept an instance of
* <tt>NamingListener</tt>. There are subinterfaces of <tt>NamingListener</tt>
* for different of event types of <tt>NamingEvent</tt>.
* For example, the <tt>ObjectChangeListener</tt>
* interface is for the <tt>NamingEvent.OBJECT_CHANGED</tt> event type.
* To register interest in multiple event types, the listener implementation
* should implement multiple <tt>NamingListener</tt> subinterfaces and use a
* single invocation of <tt>addNamingListener()</tt>.
* In addition to reducing the number of method calls and possibly the code size
* of the listeners, this allows some service providers to optimize the
* registration.
*
*<h4>Threading Issues</h4>
*
* Like <tt>Context</tt> instances in general, instances of
* <tt>EventContext</tt> are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.
* Care must be taken when multiple threads are accessing the same
* <tt>EventContext</tt> concurrently.
* See the
* <a href=package-summary.html#THREADING>package description</a>
* for more information on threading issues.
*
* @author Rosanna Lee
* @author Scott Seligman
* @since 1.3
*/
public interface EventContext extends Context {
/**
* Constant for expressing interest in events concerning the object named
* by the target.
*<p>
* The value of this constant is <tt>0</tt>.
*/
public final static int OBJECT_SCOPE = 0;
/**
* Constant for expressing interest in events concerning objects
* in the context named by the target,
* excluding the context named by the target.
*<p>
* The value of this constant is <tt>1</tt>.
*/
public final static int ONELEVEL_SCOPE = 1;
/**
* Constant for expressing interest in events concerning objects
* in the subtree of the object named by the target, including the object
* named by the target.
*<p>
* The value of this constant is <tt>2</tt>.
*/
public final static int SUBTREE_SCOPE = 2;
/**
* Adds a listener for receiving naming events fired
* when the object(s) identified by a target and scope changes.
*
* The event source of those events is this context. See the
* class description for a discussion on event source and target.
* See the descriptions of the constants <tt>OBJECT_SCOPE</tt>,
* <tt>ONELEVEL_SCOPE</tt>, and <tt>SUBTREE_SCOPE</tt> to see how
* <tt>scope</tt> affects the registration.
*<p>
* <tt>target</tt> needs to name a context only when <tt>scope</tt> is
* <tt>ONELEVEL_SCOPE</tt>.
* <tt>target</tt> may name a non-context if <tt>scope</tt> is either
* <tt>OBJECT_SCOPE</tt> or <tt>SUBTREE_SCOPE</tt>. Using
* <tt>SUBTREE_SCOPE</tt> for a non-context might be useful,
* for example, if the caller does not know in advance whether <tt>target</tt>
* is a context and just wants to register interest in the (possibly
* degenerate subtree) rooted at <tt>target</tt>.
*<p>
* When the listener is notified of an event, the listener may
* in invoked in a thread other than the one in which
* <tt>addNamingListener()</tt> is executed.
* Care must be taken when multiple threads are accessing the same
* <tt>EventContext</tt> concurrently.
* See the
* <a href=package-summary.html#THREADING>package description</a>
* for more information on threading issues.
*
* @param target A nonnull name to be resolved relative to this context.
* @param scope One of <tt>OBJECT_SCOPE</tt>, <tt>ONELEVEL_SCOPE</tt>, or
* <tt>SUBTREE_SCOPE</tt>.
* @param l The nonnull listener.
* @exception NamingException If a problem was encountered while
* adding the listener.
* @see #removeNamingListener
*/
void addNamingListener(Name target, int scope, NamingListener l)
throws NamingException;
/**
* Adds a listener for receiving naming events fired
* when the object named by the string target name and scope changes.
*
* See the overload that accepts a <tt>Name</tt> for details.
*
* @param target The nonnull string name of the object resolved relative
* to this context.
* @param scope One of <tt>OBJECT_SCOPE</tt>, <tt>ONELEVEL_SCOPE</tt>, or
* <tt>SUBTREE_SCOPE</tt>.
* @param l The nonnull listener.
* @exception NamingException If a problem was encountered while
* adding the listener.
* @see #removeNamingListener
*/
void addNamingListener(String target, int scope, NamingListener l)
throws NamingException;
/**
* Removes a listener from receiving naming events fired
* by this <tt>EventContext</tt>.
* The listener may have registered more than once with this
* <tt>EventContext</tt>, perhaps with different target/scope arguments.
* After this method is invoked, the listener will no longer
* receive events with this <tt>EventContext</tt> instance
* as the event source (except for those events already in the process of
* being dispatched).
* If the listener was not, or is no longer, registered with
* this <tt>EventContext</tt> instance, this method does not do anything.
*
* @param l The nonnull listener.
* @exception NamingException If a problem was encountered while
* removing the listener.
* @see #addNamingListener
*/
void removeNamingListener(NamingListener l) throws NamingException;
/**
* Determines whether a listener can register interest in a target
* that does not exist.
*
* @return true if the target must exist; false if the target need not exist.
* @exception NamingException If the context's behavior in this regard cannot
* be determined.
*/
boolean targetMustExist() throws NamingException;
}