modify-event

modify-event

Modify the value of the specific object's event

const {EventEmitter} = require('events');
const modifyEvent = require('modify-event');

const emitter = new EventEmitter();

modifyEvent(emitter, 'foo', val => val * 2);

emitter.on('foo', data => {
  data; //=> 2
});

emitter.emit('foo', 1);

Installation

Use npm.

npm install modify-event

API

const modifyEvent = require('modify-event');

modifyEvent(eventEmitter, eventName, modifier)

eventEmitter: Object (an instance of EventEmitter or its inheritance e.g. Stream)
eventName: String (event name)
modifier: Function
Return: Object (Same as the first argument)

It changes the first argument of the event listeners for a given event, in response to the return value of the modifier function.

const {EventEmitter} = require('events');
const modifyEvent = require('modify-event');

const emitter = new EventEmitter();

modifyEvent(emitter, 'data', val => val + 'b');
modifyEvent(emitter, 'data', val => val + 'c');

emitter
.on('data', listener)
.emit('data', 'a');

function listener(data) {
  data; //=> 'abc'
}

License

Copyright (c) 2015 - 2016 Shinnosuke Watanabe

Licensed under the MIT License.