async-cancelable-events

async-cancelable-events

An EventEmitter replacement that allows the library to make events cancelable by the event handlers and allows event handlers to be synchronous or asynchronous.

Install

npm install async-cancelable-events

Usage

var EventEmitter = require('async-cancelable-events');
var util = require('util');

function MyEmittingObject() {
    EventEmitter.call(this);
    ...
}

util.inherits(MyEmittingObject, EventEmitter);

The API is intented to be a mostly-drop-in replacement for Node.js' EventEmitter object, with a little bit of DOM Events and more asynchronicity sprinkled in.

The primary differences between the EventEmitter and async-cancelable-events are:

1. If the last argument passed into this.emit is a function, it is assumed to be a callback that accepts a boolean indicating whether to continue the event (true) or cancel it (false).
2. The .on and .once methods try to "guess" if the provided handler is synchronous or asynchronous (based on its argument length), or can be explicitly registered as synchronous or asynchronous with .onSync, .onAsync, .onceSync, .onceAsync.
3. Passing the maximum number of listeners allowed will fire off a maxListenersPassed event with the event name and listener count as arguments. The warning the official EventEmitter prints is simply a listener for async-cancelable-events, and can be disabled by running this.removeAllListeners('maxListenersPassed') just after the EventEmitter.call(this) listed above.
4. The various method calls are chainable, so foo.on('bar', func1).on('baz', func2) is valid.

License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2012-2013 by David Ellis

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