Custom Listeners

[Jdsfighter]

Hey everyone, I'm having some issues trying to wrap my head around custom even listeners. Here's my scenario.

I'm building an IRC Library, and one of my objects is a Socket, this socket can be placed into several states, but it is able to connect, close, listen, and send.

I'm trying to figure out how I can make it throw an event when a message is received.


I was thinking something along the lines of

public class IRCSocket {
	public IRCSocket() {
        //code
	}
	
	class Listener implements Runnable {
		@Override
		public void run() {
		//more code
                fireEvent(msg) //obviously a message was received
		}
	}

Then whenever the MessageListener is referenced

public class foo implements MessageListener {
     @override
     MessageReceived(String msg) {
           //call parse method on msg
           System.out.println(msg);
     }
}

In the above scenario, foo would have referenced the IRCSocket as well as the MessageListener, and from foo, messages could be sent, received, parsed, etc.

How would I go about making it possible so that every class that implements MessageListener is instantly able to receive MessageReceived events without having to manually add them to a list of listeners?

[quad64bit]

without having to manually add them to a list of listeners

I'm not sure you can. When using event listeners elsewhere in java, you have to add the listener to the item you want to use it with manually. You are in essence "registering" the component with the listener system.

An example would be something like a MouseMotionListener. You can subclass one, do all kinds of fancy things with it, but it will do nothing until you add that listener to the JComponent which will use it.