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authorMatt A. Tobin <mattatobin@localhost.localdomain>2018-02-02 04:16:08 -0500
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+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+this.EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["Observers"];
+
+var Cc = Components.classes;
+var Ci = Components.interfaces;
+var Cr = Components.results;
+var Cu = Components.utils;
+
+Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm");
+
+/**
+ * A service for adding, removing and notifying observers of notifications.
+ * Wraps the nsIObserverService interface.
+ *
+ * @version 0.2
+ */
+this.Observers = {
+ /**
+ * Register the given callback as an observer of the given topic.
+ *
+ * @param topic {String}
+ * the topic to observe
+ *
+ * @param callback {Object}
+ * the callback; an Object that implements nsIObserver or a Function
+ * that gets called when the notification occurs
+ *
+ * @param thisObject {Object} [optional]
+ * the object to use as |this| when calling a Function callback
+ *
+ * @returns the observer
+ */
+ add: function(topic, callback, thisObject) {
+ let observer = new Observer(topic, callback, thisObject);
+ this._cache.push(observer);
+ this._service.addObserver(observer, topic, true);
+
+ return observer;
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Unregister the given callback as an observer of the given topic.
+ *
+ * @param topic {String}
+ * the topic being observed
+ *
+ * @param callback {Object}
+ * the callback doing the observing
+ *
+ * @param thisObject {Object} [optional]
+ * the object being used as |this| when calling a Function callback
+ */
+ remove: function(topic, callback, thisObject) {
+ // This seems fairly inefficient, but I'm not sure how much better
+ // we can make it. We could index by topic, but we can't index by callback
+ // or thisObject, as far as I know, since the keys to JavaScript hashes
+ // (a.k.a. objects) can apparently only be primitive values.
+ let [observer] = this._cache.filter(v => v.topic == topic &&
+ v.callback == callback &&
+ v.thisObject == thisObject);
+ if (observer) {
+ this._service.removeObserver(observer, topic);
+ this._cache.splice(this._cache.indexOf(observer), 1);
+ }
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Notify observers about something.
+ *
+ * @param topic {String}
+ * the topic to notify observers about
+ *
+ * @param subject {Object} [optional]
+ * some information about the topic; can be any JS object or primitive
+ *
+ * @param data {String} [optional] [deprecated]
+ * some more information about the topic; deprecated as the subject
+ * is sufficient to pass all needed information to the JS observers
+ * that this module targets; if you have multiple values to pass to
+ * the observer, wrap them in an object and pass them via the subject
+ * parameter (i.e.: { foo: 1, bar: "some string", baz: myObject })
+ */
+ notify: function(topic, subject, data) {
+ subject = (typeof subject == "undefined") ? null : new Subject(subject);
+ data = (typeof data == "undefined") ? null : data;
+ this._service.notifyObservers(subject, topic, data);
+ },
+
+ _service: Cc["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"].
+ getService(Ci.nsIObserverService),
+
+ /**
+ * A cache of observers that have been added.
+ *
+ * We use this to remove observers when a caller calls |remove|.
+ *
+ * XXX This might result in reference cycles, causing memory leaks,
+ * if we hold a reference to an observer that holds a reference to us.
+ * Could we fix that by making this an independent top-level object
+ * rather than a property of this object?
+ */
+ _cache: []
+};
+
+
+function Observer(topic, callback, thisObject) {
+ this.topic = topic;
+ this.callback = callback;
+ this.thisObject = thisObject;
+}
+
+Observer.prototype = {
+ QueryInterface: XPCOMUtils.generateQI([Ci.nsIObserver, Ci.nsISupportsWeakReference]),
+ observe: function(subject, topic, data) {
+ // Extract the wrapped object for subjects that are one of our wrappers
+ // around a JS object. This way we support both wrapped subjects created
+ // using this module and those that are real XPCOM components.
+ if (subject && typeof subject == "object" &&
+ ("wrappedJSObject" in subject) &&
+ ("observersModuleSubjectWrapper" in subject.wrappedJSObject))
+ subject = subject.wrappedJSObject.object;
+
+ if (typeof this.callback == "function") {
+ if (this.thisObject)
+ this.callback.call(this.thisObject, subject, data);
+ else
+ this.callback(subject, data);
+ }
+ else // typeof this.callback == "object" (nsIObserver)
+ this.callback.observe(subject, topic, data);
+ }
+}
+
+
+function Subject(object) {
+ // Double-wrap the object and set a property identifying the wrappedJSObject
+ // as one of our wrappers to distinguish between subjects that are one of our
+ // wrappers (which we should unwrap when notifying our observers) and those
+ // that are real JS XPCOM components (which we should pass through unaltered).
+ this.wrappedJSObject = { observersModuleSubjectWrapper: true, object: object };
+}
+
+Subject.prototype = {
+ QueryInterface: XPCOMUtils.generateQI([]),
+ getScriptableHelper: function() {},
+ getInterfaces: function() {}
+};