Module java.desktop
Package java.awt.event

Class InvocationEvent

java.lang.Object
java.util.EventObject
java.awt.AWTEvent
java.awt.event.InvocationEvent
All Implemented Interfaces:
ActiveEvent, Serializable
public class InvocationEvent extends AWTEvent implements ActiveEvent
An event which executes the run() method on a Runnable when dispatched by the AWT event dispatcher thread. This class can be used as a reference implementation of ActiveEvent rather than declaring a new class and defining dispatch().

Instances of this class are placed on the EventQueue by calls to invokeLater and invokeAndWait. Client code can use this fact to write replacement functions for invokeLater and invokeAndWait without writing special-case code in any AWTEventListener objects.

An unspecified behavior will be caused if the id parameter of any particular InvocationEvent instance is not in the range from INVOCATION_FIRST to INVOCATION_LAST.

Since:
1.2
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  • Field Details

    • INVOCATION_FIRST

      public static final int INVOCATION_FIRST
      Marks the first integer id for the range of invocation event ids.
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    • INVOCATION_DEFAULT

      public static final int INVOCATION_DEFAULT
      The default id for all InvocationEvents.
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    • INVOCATION_LAST

      public static final int INVOCATION_LAST
      Marks the last integer id for the range of invocation event ids.
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    • runnable

      protected Runnable runnable
      The Runnable whose run() method will be called.

    • notifier

      protected volatile Object notifier
      The (potentially null) Object whose notifyAll() method will be called immediately after the Runnable.run() method has returned or thrown an exception or after the event was disposed.
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    • catchExceptions

      protected boolean catchExceptions
      Set to true if dispatch() catches Throwable and stores it in the exception instance variable. If false, Throwables are propagated up to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop.

  • Constructor Details

    • InvocationEvent

      public InvocationEvent(Object source, Runnable runnable)
      Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source which will execute the runnable's run() method when dispatched.

      This is a convenience constructor. An invocation of the form InvocationEvent(source, runnable) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation of InvocationEvent(source, runnable, null, false).

      This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

      Parameters:
      source - The Object that originated the event
      runnable - The Runnable whose run() method will be executed
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if source is null
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    • InvocationEvent

      public InvocationEvent(Object source, Runnable runnable, Object notifier, boolean catchThrowables)
      Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source which will execute the runnable's run() method when dispatched. If notifier is non-null, notifyAll() will be called on it immediately after run() has returned or thrown an exception.

      An invocation of the form InvocationEvent(source, runnable, notifier, catchThrowables) behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation of InvocationEvent(source, InvocationEvent.INVOCATION_DEFAULT, runnable, notifier, catchThrowables).

      This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

      Parameters:
      source - The Object that originated the event
      runnable - The Runnable whose run() method will be executed
      notifier - The Object whose notifyAll method will be called after Runnable.run has returned or thrown an exception or after the event was disposed
      catchThrowables - Specifies whether dispatch should catch Throwable when executing the Runnable's run() method, or should instead propagate those Throwables to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if source is null
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    • InvocationEvent

      public InvocationEvent(Object source, Runnable runnable, Runnable listener, boolean catchThrowables)
      Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source which will execute the runnable's run() method when dispatched. If listener is non-null, listener.run() will be called immediately after run has returned, thrown an exception or the event was disposed.

      This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

      Parameters:
      source - The Object that originated the event
      runnable - The Runnable whose run() method will be executed
      listener - The Runnable whose run() method will be called after the InvocationEvent was dispatched or disposed
      catchThrowables - Specifies whether dispatch should catch Throwable when executing the Runnable's run() method, or should instead propagate those Throwables to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if source is null

    • InvocationEvent

      protected InvocationEvent(Object source, int id, Runnable runnable, Object notifier, boolean catchThrowables)
      Constructs an InvocationEvent with the specified source and ID which will execute the runnable's run() method when dispatched. If notifier is non-null, notifyAll() will be called on it immediately after run() has returned or thrown an exception.

      This method throws an IllegalArgumentException if source is null.

      Parameters:
      source - The Object that originated the event
      id - An integer indicating the type of event. For information on allowable values, see the class description for InvocationEvent
      runnable - The Runnable whose run() method will be executed
      notifier - The Object whose notifyAll method will be called after Runnable.run has returned or thrown an exception or after the event was disposed
      catchThrowables - Specifies whether dispatch should catch Throwable when executing the Runnable's run() method, or should instead propagate those Throwables to the EventDispatchThread's dispatch loop
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if source is null
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  • Method Details

    • dispatch

      public void dispatch()
      Executes the Runnable's run() method and notifies the notifier (if any) when run() has returned or thrown an exception.
      Specified by:
      dispatch in interface ActiveEvent
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    • getException

      public Exception getException()
      Returns any Exception caught while executing the Runnable's run() method.
      Returns:
      A reference to the Exception if one was thrown; null if no Exception was thrown or if this InvocationEvent does not catch exceptions

    • getThrowable

      public Throwable getThrowable()
      Returns any Throwable caught while executing the Runnable's run() method.
      Returns:
      A reference to the Throwable if one was thrown; null if no Throwable was thrown or if this InvocationEvent does not catch Throwables
      Since:
      1.5

    • getWhen

      public long getWhen()
      Returns the timestamp of when this event occurred.
      Returns:
      this event's timestamp
      Since:
      1.4

    • isDispatched

      public boolean isDispatched()
      Returns true if the event is dispatched or any exception is thrown while dispatching, false otherwise. The method should be called by a waiting thread that calls the notifier.wait() method. Since spurious wakeups are possible (as explained in Object.wait()), this method should be used in a waiting loop to ensure that the event got dispatched: 
           while (!event.isDispatched()) {
         notifier.wait();
     }
      If the waiting thread wakes up without dispatching the event, the isDispatched() method returns false, and the while loop executes once more, thus, causing the awakened thread to revert to the waiting mode.

      If the notifier.notifyAll() happens before the waiting thread enters the notifier.wait() method, the while loop ensures that the waiting thread will not enter the notifier.wait() method. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that the waiting thread will ever be woken from the wait.

      Returns:
      true if the event has been dispatched, or any exception has been thrown while dispatching, false otherwise
      Since:
      1.7
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    • paramString

      public String paramString()
      Returns a parameter string identifying this event. This method is useful for event-logging and for debugging.
      Overrides:
      paramString in class AWTEvent
      Returns:
      A string identifying the event and its attributes