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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 19:33:14 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 19:33:14 +0000
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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/. */
+
+/**
+ * A service for adding, removing and notifying observers of notifications.
+ * Wraps the nsIObserverService interface.
+ *
+ * @version 0.2
+ */
+export var 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(topic, callback, thisObject) {
+ let observer = new Observer(topic, callback, thisObject);
+ this._cache.push(observer);
+ Services.obs.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(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) {
+ Services.obs.removeObserver(observer, topic);
+ this._cache.splice(this._cache.indexOf(observer), 1);
+ } else {
+ throw new Error("Attempt to remove non-existing observer");
+ }
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * 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(topic, subject, data) {
+ subject = typeof subject == "undefined" ? null : new Subject(subject);
+ data = typeof data == "undefined" ? null : data;
+ Services.obs.notifyObservers(subject, topic, data);
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * 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: ChromeUtils.generateQI([
+ "nsIObserver",
+ "nsISupportsWeakReference",
+ ]),
+ observe(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 };
+}
+
+Subject.prototype = {
+ QueryInterface: ChromeUtils.generateQI([]),
+ getScriptableHelper() {},
+ getInterfaces() {},
+};