javax.faces.event

Annotation Type ListenerFor

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value=TYPE)
 @Inherited
public @interface ListenerFor

Classes tagged with this annotation are installed as listeners using the method Application.subscribeToEvent(java.lang.Class<? extends javax.faces.event.SystemEvent>, java.lang.Class<?>, javax.faces.event.SystemEventListener) or UIComponent.subscribeToEvent(java.lang.Class<? extends javax.faces.event.SystemEvent>, javax.faces.event.ComponentSystemEventListener) (depending on the circumstances, described below).

The default implementation must support attaching this annotation to UIComponent or Renderer classes. In both cases, the annotation processing described herein must commence during the implementation of any variant of Application.createComponent() and must complete before the UIComponent instance is returned from createComponent(). The annotation processing must proceed according to an algorithm semantically equivalent to the following.

• If this annotation is not present on the class in question, no action must be taken.

Determine the "target" on which to call subscribeToEvent.

If the class to which this annotation is attached implements ComponentSystemEventListener and is a UIComponent instance, "target" is the UIComponent instance.

If the class to which this annotation is attached implements ComponentSystemEventListener and is a Renderer instance, "target" is the UIComponent instance that is to be rendered by this Renderer instance.

If the class to which this annotation is attached implements ComponentSystemEventListener and is neither an instance of Renderer nor UIComponent, the action taken is unspecified. This case must not trigger any kind of error.

If the class to which this annotation is attached implements SystemEventListener and does not implement ComponentSystemEventListener, "target" is the Application instance.

• Determine the variant of subscribeToEvent()to call and the parameters to pass to it.

  If "target" is a UIComponent call UIComponent.subscribeToEvent(Class, ComponentSystemEventListener), passing the systemEventClass() of the annotation as the first argument and the instance of the class to which this annotation is attached (which must implement ComponentSystemEventListener) as the second argument.

  If "target" is the Application instance, inspect the value of the sourceClass() annotation attribute value.

  If the value is Void.class, call Application.subscribeToEvent(Class, SystemEventListener), passing the value of systemEventClass() as the first argument and the instance of the class to which this annotation is attached (which must implement SystemEventListener) as the second argument.

  Otherwise, call Application.subscribeToEvent(Class, Class, SystemEventListener), passing the value of systemEventClass() as the first argument, the value of sourceClass() as the second argument, and the instance of the class to which this annotation is attached (which must implement SystemEventListener) as the third argument.

Example: The standard renderer for javax.faces.resource.Stylesheet must have the following annotation declaration:

@ListenerFor(systemEventClass=PostAddToViewEvent.class)

This will cause the renderer to be added as a listener for the PostAddToViewEvent to all components that list it as their renderer.

Since:

2.0

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
Class<? extends SystemEvent>	systemEventClass The kind of system event for which this class will be installed as a listener.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
Class	sourceClass The kind of object that emits events of the type given by the value of the systemEventClass() attribute.

Element Detail

systemEventClass

public abstract Class<? extends SystemEvent> systemEventClass

The kind of system event for which this class will be installed as a listener. The implementation only supports exact matches on the Class and must not honor subclass relationships. It is valid to have EL Expressions in the value of this attribute, as long as the expression resolves to an instance of the expected type.

sourceClass

public abstract Class sourceClass

The kind of object that emits events of the type given by the value of the systemEventClass() attribute. It is valid to have EL Expressions in the value of this attribute, as long as the expression resolves to an instance of the expected type.

Default:

java.lang.Void.class