/* 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/. */ var EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["Observers"]; /** * A service for adding, removing and notifying observers of notifications. * Wraps the nsIObserverService interface. * * @version 0.2 */ 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() {}, };