Class CounterRemover reference

Description
API reference

Description

CounterRemover is a utility class that automatically removes listeners after the listeners are triggered for certain times.
CounterRemover is a pure functional class. After the member functions in CounterRemover are invoked, the CounterRemover object can be destroyed safely.

API reference

Header

eventpp/utilities/counterremover.h

Template parameters

template <typename DispatcherType>
class CounterRemover;

DispatcherType can be CallbackList, EventDispatcher, EventQueue, HeterCallbackList, HeterEventDispatcher, or HeterEventQueue.

Member functions

explicit CounterRemover(DispatcherType & dispatcher);

Constructs an instance of CounterRemover.

Member functions for EventDispatcher and EventQueue

typename DispatcherType::Handle appendListener(
		const typename DispatcherType::Event & event,
		const typename DispatcherType::Callback & listener,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

typename DispatcherType::Handle prependListener(
		const typename DispatcherType::Event & event,
		const typename DispatcherType::Callback & listener,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

typename DispatcherType::Handle insertListener(
		const typename DispatcherType::Event & event,
		const typename DispatcherType::Callback & listener,
		const typename DispatcherType::Handle & before,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

Member functions for CallbackList

typename CallbackListType::Handle append(
		const typename CallbackListType::Callback & listener,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

typename CallbackListType::Handle prepend(
		const typename CallbackListType::Callback & listener,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

typename CallbackListType::Handle insert(
		const typename CallbackListType::Callback & listener,
		const typename CallbackListType::Handle & before,
		const int triggerCount = 1
	);

The member functions have the same names with the corresponding underlying class (CallbackList, EventDispatcher, or EventQueue), and also have the same parameters except there is one more parameter, triggerCount. triggerCount is decreased by one on each trigger, and when triggerCount is zero or negative, the listener will be removed.
The default value of triggerCount is 1, that means the listener is removed after the first trigger, which is one shot listener.

Free functions

template <typename DispatcherType>
CounterRemover<DispatcherType> counterRemover(DispatcherType & dispatcher);

Since CounterRemover takes one template parameter and it's verbose to instantiate its instance, the function counterRemover is used to construct an instance of CounterRemover via the deduced argument.

Sample code

#include "eventpp/utilities/counterremover.h"
#include "eventpp/eventdispatcher.h"

eventpp::EventDispatcher<int, void ()> dispatcher;
constexpr int event = 3;

dispatcher.appendListener(event, []() {
	// listener A
});

// Note the CounterRemover instance returned by counterRemover is invoked
// prependListener and destroyed immediately.
eventpp::counterRemover(dispatcher).prependListener(event, []() {
	// listener B
});
auto handle = eventpp::counterRemover(dispatcher).appendListener(event, []() {
	// listener C
}, 2);
eventpp::counterRemover(dispatcher).insertListener(event, []() {
	// listener D
}, handle, 3);

dispatcher.dispatch(event);
// All listeners were triggered.
// Listener B was removed.

dispatcher.dispatch(event);
// Listeners A, C, D were triggered.
// Listener C was removed.

dispatcher.dispatch(event);
// Listeners A, D were triggered.
// Listener D was removed.

dispatcher.dispatch(event);
// Listeners A was triggered.

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