com.bea.p13n.tracking.listeners
Class BehaviorTrackingListener

java.lang.Object
  com.bea.p13n.tracking.listeners.BehaviorTrackingListener

All Implemented Interfaces

EventListener

public class BehaviorTrackingListener
extends Object
implements EventListener

EventListener to handle all behavior tracking events. Events are persisted to the database. This class should be added to the property eventService.listeners in order to enable behavior tracking.

Constructor Summary

BehaviorTrackingListener()
Construct an instance of the listener and populate the eventTypes array with the event types that this listener will listen for.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object theOther) Implementation of equals so multiple listeners won't be added to the same handler.
String[]	getTypes() This method lets the EventListener advertise what types it is interested in.
void	handleEvent(Event theEvent) Handle the event.
int	hashCode() Returns a hash code value for the object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BehaviorTrackingListener

public BehaviorTrackingListener()

Construct an instance of the listener and populate the eventTypes array with the event types that this listener will listen for.

Method Detail

getTypes

public String[] getTypes()

Description copied from interface: EventListener

This method lets the EventListener advertise what types it is interested in. It is used by the EventHandler to dispatch only Events with a matching type to this EventListener. To listen on all events, implement this method to return a String[1] containing EventConstants.TYPE_ALL. Must not return null or return null in any element.

Specified by:

getTypes in interface EventListener

Returns

the event types that are specified (in application-config.xml) and are to be persisted to the database.

handleEvent

public void handleEvent(Event theEvent)

Handle the event. Ensure that it is an instanceof TrackingEvent and add it to a Buffer which will be swept to the database.

Specified by:

handleEvent in interface EventListener

Parameters

theEvent - subclass of TrackingEvent to be written to the database

equals

public boolean equals(Object theOther)

Implementation of equals so multiple listeners won't be added to the same handler. All listeners of the same class are considered equal.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is supported for the benefit of hashtables such as those provided by java.util.Hashtable.

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object