RE: Re: DefaultDispatchQueue implementation problem

Hi Thorsten,

Have you considered using

  Object sourceEvent = context.getEvent().getRootEvent();

This will tell you what the original event was that the user entered in the
browser...

Christian
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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Thorsten Möller
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Barracuda] Re: DefaultDispatchQueue implementation problem
>
>
> Christian Cryder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It _sounded like_ you are trying to figure out whether the event was
> > invoked directly, or whether a child event was actually fired.
> Exact. It's an event which normaly should never directly called.
> Here is an
> excerpt from my events.xml on which I want to explain it:
>
>
> <req-events>
> <event name="CheckMaintenance">
>     <event name="CheckLocale">
>         <event name="MainPage"/>
>         ...
>     </event>
> </event>
> ...
>
> The handler for events CheckMaintenance and CheckLocale are
> something like a
> filter which normally not produce a view event (only the CheckMaintenance
> will fire an event in case of backend maintenance to forward to an error
> page). Nevertheless it is possible to call the events through the browser
> directly. In this (unwanted but unavoidable) situation I want to make sure
> that something like a default view event will be produced, otherwise an
> exception is thrown. To test wheter the event was directly called
> I thought
> I can use the method listRemainingEvents() but the result was always an
> empty list.
>
> In the meantime there is another question: How to remove remaining events
> from the queue that is clean the queue? I need this to remove all events
> from the queue when there are calls on child events of
> CheckMaintenance but
> the backend is on maintenance and I want to prevent that child events will
> handled too.
>
> Thorsten
>
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