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- /*
- * @(#)PropertyChangeEvent.java 1.21 97/01/03
- *
- * Copyright (c) 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * This software is the confidential and proprietary information of Sun
- * Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You shall not
- * disclose such Confidential Information and shall use it only in
- * accordance with the terms of the license agreement you entered into
- * with Sun.
- *
- * SUN MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE
- * SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- * PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SUN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
- * SUFFERED BY LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING
- * THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES.
- *
- * CopyrightVersion bdk_beta
- *
- */
-
- package java.beans;
-
- /**
- * 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.
- * <P>
- * Normally PropertyChangeEvents are accompanied by the name and the old
- * and new value of the changed property. If the new value is a builtin
- * type (such as int or boolean) it must be wrapped as the
- * corresponding java.lang.* Object type (such as Integer or Boolean).
- * <P>
- * Null values may be provided for the old and the new values if their
- * true values are not known.
- * <P>
- * 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.
- */
-
- public class PropertyChangeEvent extends java.util.EventObject {
-
- /**
- * @param source The bean that fired the event.
- * @param propertyName The programmatic name of the property
- * that was changed.
- * @param oldValue The old value of the property.
- * @param newValue The new value of the property.
- */
- public PropertyChangeEvent(Object source, String propertyName,
- Object oldValue, Object newValue) {
- super(source);
- this.propertyName = propertyName;
- this.newValue = newValue;
- this.oldValue = oldValue;
- }
-
- /**
- * @return The programmatic name of the property that was changed.
- * May be null if multiple properties have changed.
- */
- public String getPropertyName() {
- return propertyName;
- }
-
- /**
- * @return The new value for the property, expressed as an Object.
- * May be null if multiple properties have changed.
- */
- public Object getNewValue() {
- return newValue;
- }
-
- /**
- * @return The old value for the property, expressed as an Object.
- * May be null if multiple properties have changed.
- */
- public Object getOldValue() {
- return oldValue;
- }
-
- /**
- * @param propagationId The propagationId object for the event.
- */
- public void setPropagationId(Object propagationId) {
- this.propagationId = propagationId;
- }
-
- /**
- * 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.
- *
- * @return the propagationId object associated with a bound/constrained
- * property update.
- */
- public Object getPropagationId() {
- return propagationId;
- }
-
- private String propertyName;
- private Object newValue;
- private Object oldValue;
- private Object propagationId;
- }
-