Package com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.event

Class AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.event.AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler

All Implemented Interfaces:

IEventHandler

       public abstract class AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler extends Object implements IEventHandler
      

Base class for PDF document events handling based on the event type.

Handles AbstractPdfDocumentEvent event fired by PdfDocument.dispatchEvent(AbstractPdfDocumentEvent). Use PdfDocument.addEventHandler(String, AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler) to register this handler for specific type of event.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler()	Creates new AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler	addType(String type)	Adds new event type to handle by this AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler instance.
protected abstract void	onAcceptedEvent(AbstractPdfDocumentEvent event)	Handles the accepted event.
void	onEvent(IEvent event)	Handles the event.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler

             protected AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler()
            

Creates new AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler instance.

By default, this instance handles all types of the AbstractPdfDocumentEvent events. For specific types handling, use addType(String) method.

Method Details

addType

             public AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler addType
             (String type)
            

Adds new event type to handle by this AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler instance.

Parameters:

type - the AbstractPdfDocumentEvent type to handle

Returns:

this AbstractPdfDocumentEventHandler instance

onEvent

             public void onEvent
             (IEvent event)
            

Description copied from interface: IEventHandler

Handles the event.

Specified by:

onEvent in interface IEventHandler

Parameters:

event - to handle

onAcceptedEvent

             protected abstract void onAcceptedEvent
             (AbstractPdfDocumentEvent event)
            

Handles the accepted event.

Parameters:

event - AbstractPdfDocumentEvent to handle