java.beans
Class PropertyChangeEvent

java.lang.Object
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  +--java.util.EventObject
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        +--java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent

public class PropertyChangeEvent

extends EventObject

A "PropertyChange" event gets delivered whenever a bean changes a "bound" or "constrained" property. A PropertyChangeEvent object is sent as an argument to the PropertyChangeListener and VetoableChangeListener methods.

Normally PropertyChangeEvents are accompanied by the name and the old and new value of the changed property. If the new value is a primitive type (such as int or boolean) it must be wrapped as the corresponding java.lang.* Object type (such as Integer or Boolean).

Null values may be provided for the old and the new values if their true values are not known.

An event source may send a null object as the name to indicate that an arbitrary set of if its properties have changed. In this case the old and new values should also be null.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

private Object	newValue New value for property.
private Object	oldValue Previous value for property.
private Object	propagationId Propagation ID.
private String	propertyName name of the property that changed.

Fields inherited from class java.util.EventObject

source

Constructor Summary

PropertyChangeEvent(Object source, String propertyName, Object oldValue, Object newValue)
Constructs a new PropertyChangeEvent.

Method Summary

Object	getNewValue() Sets the new value for the property, expressed as an Object.
Object	getOldValue() Gets the old value for the property, expressed as an Object.
Object	getPropagationId() The "propagationId" field is reserved for future use.
String	getPropertyName() Gets the programmatic name of the property that was changed.
void	setPropagationId(Object propagationId) Sets the propagationId object for the event.

Methods inherited from class java.util.EventObject

getSource, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, registerNatives, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

propertyName

private String propertyName

name of the property that changed. May be null, if not known.

newValue

private Object newValue

New value for property. May be null if not known.

oldValue

private Object oldValue

Previous value for property. May be null if not known.

propagationId

private Object propagationId

Propagation ID. May be null.

See Also:

#getPropagationId.

Constructor Detail

PropertyChangeEvent

public PropertyChangeEvent(Object source,
                           String propertyName,
                           Object oldValue,
                           Object newValue)

Constructs a new PropertyChangeEvent.

Parameters:

source - The bean that fired the event.

propertyName - The programmatic name of the property that was changed.

oldValue - The old value of the property.

newValue - The new value of the property.

Method Detail

getPropertyName

public String getPropertyName()

Gets the programmatic name of the property that was changed.

Returns:

The programmatic name of the property that was changed. May be null if multiple properties have changed.

getNewValue

public Object getNewValue()

Sets the new value for the property, expressed as an Object.

Returns:

The new value for the property, expressed as an Object. May be null if multiple properties have changed.

getOldValue

public Object getOldValue()

Gets the old value for the property, expressed as an Object.

Returns:

The old value for the property, expressed as an Object. May be null if multiple properties have changed.

setPropagationId

public void setPropagationId(Object propagationId)

Sets the propagationId object for the event.

Parameters:

propagationId - The propagationId object for the event.

getPropagationId

public Object getPropagationId()

The "propagationId" field is reserved for future use. In Beans 1.0 the sole requirement is that if a listener catches a PropertyChangeEvent and then fires a PropertyChangeEvent of its own, then it should make sure that it propagates the propagationId field from its incoming event to its outgoing event.

Returns:

the propagationId object associated with a bound/constrained property update.