akka.event
Interface EventBus

All Known Subinterfaces:

ActorEventBus, LoggingBus

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActorEventBus, EventStream, LookupEventBus, ScanningEventBus, SubchannelEventBus

public interface EventBus

Represents the base type for EventBuses Internally has an Event type, a Classifier type and a Subscriber type

For the Java API, see akka.event.japi.*

Method Summary

void	publish(akka.event.EventBus.Event event) Publishes the specified Event to this bus
boolean	subscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber, akka.event.EventBus.Classifier to) Attempts to register the subscriber to the specified Classifier
void	unsubscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber) Attempts to deregister the subscriber from all Classifiers it may be subscribed to
boolean	unsubscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber, akka.event.EventBus.Classifier from) Attempts to deregister the subscriber from the specified Classifier

Method Detail

subscribe

boolean subscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber,
                  akka.event.EventBus.Classifier to)

Attempts to register the subscriber to the specified Classifier

Returns:

true if successful and false if not (because it was already subscribed to that Classifier, or otherwise)

unsubscribe

boolean unsubscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber,
                    akka.event.EventBus.Classifier from)

Attempts to deregister the subscriber from the specified Classifier

Returns:

true if successful and false if not (because it wasn't subscribed to that Classifier, or otherwise)

unsubscribe

void unsubscribe(akka.event.EventBus.Subscriber subscriber)

Attempts to deregister the subscriber from all Classifiers it may be subscribed to

publish

void publish(akka.event.EventBus.Event event)

Publishes the specified Event to this bus