[Pixlib] When to use custom event classes?

[fluxs]

Hi,

Actually, when talking about pixlib events, it's easy to get confused 
between the Event object 's "class" and its event type.

The event type is what subscribers subscribe to:

myBroadcaster.addEventListener( "placeOrderEvent", myListener);

This mean that the myListener.placeOrderEvent method will be called when 
a "placeOrderEvent" is triggered.

This has nothing to do with the actual type (class) of the event object 
that is sent.
For example you can define an OrderEvent class that will be used with 
the placeOrderEvent, cancelOrderEvent etc.

Creating a custom event class is only necessary if you need to send your 
custom data in an event : if you want to send an Order instance, you 
will create an OrderEvent. If not, you might want to use one of the 
predefined event classes.

For example if you just need to send an orderID when triggering a 
cancelOrderEVENT, you may want to use the NumberEvent class.

Hope this helps,
fluxs

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa a écrit :

> Hello!
>
> I thought I knew about pixlib's event model. However, I'm a little 
> confused.
>
> In ARP, I used MM's event dispatcher, so, when I wanted to dispatch a 
> event, I would dispatch an event object. This object had a property 
> with the name of the event to call.
>
> Pixlib goes one step further providing support for custom event 
> classes. However, it's not clear on when I should create a custom 
> event class (extending BasicEvent) instead of using the BasicEvent 
> directly.
>
> Take Michael's (from deja-vue) pixlib MVC example. He has a OrderEvent 
> class. However, the EventList class has 3 eventTypes registered. 
> Xavier's sample does not use custom event classes at all.
>
> My conclusion is that, custom event classes are useful only when the 
> event needs to carry a lot of data. Also, it's best to generalize it 
> to the lower common denominator (OrderEvent, for example instead of 
> getOrdersEvent, placeOrderEvent, cancelOrderEvent as all of these 
> would use the same set of data) instead of creating a event class for 
> each of the events, if possible, avoiding redundancy.. am I right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcelo.
>
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