generic/docs/event_system.rst
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Event system
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Generic library provides ``generic.event`` module which helps you implement
event systems in your application. By event system I mean an API for
*subscribing* for some types of events and to *handle* those events so previously
subscribed *handlers* are being executed.
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Basic usage
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First you need to describe event types you want to use in your application,
``generic.event`` dispatches events to corresponding handlers by inspecting
events' types, so it's natural to model those as classes::
>>> class CommentAdded(object):
... def __init__(self, post_id, comment):
... self.post_id = post_id
... self.comment = comment
Now you want to register handler for your event type::
>>> from generic.event import Manager
>>> manager = Manager()
>>> @manager.subscriber(CommentAdded)
... def print_comment(ev):
... print(f"Got new comment: {ev.comment}")
Then you just call ``generic.event.handle`` function with ``CommentAdded``
instance as its argument::
>>> manager.handle(CommentAdded(167, "Hello!"))
Got new comment: Hello!
This is how it works.
Event inheritance
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Using per-application event API
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API reference
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.. autoclass:: generic.event.Manager
:members: subscribe, subscriber, handle, unsubscribe
Functions below are just aliases for methods of globally instantiated
manager:
.. autofunction:: generic.event.subscribe(handler, event_type)
.. autofunction:: generic.event.subscriber(event_type)
.. autofunction:: generic.event.handle(event)
.. autofunction:: generic.event.unsubscribe(handler, event_type)