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<h2 title="Class MethodDelegate" class="title">Class MethodDelegate</h2>
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<pre>public abstract class <span class="strong">MethodDelegate</span>
extends java.lang.Object</pre>
<div class="block"><b>DOCUMENTATION FROM APACHE AVALON DELEGATE CLASS</b>
<p>
Delegates are a typesafe pointer to another method. Since Java does not
have language support for such a construct, this utility will construct
a proxy that forwards method calls to any method with the same signature.
This utility is inspired in part by the C# delegate mechanism. We
implemented it in a Java-centric manner.
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<h2>Delegate</h2>
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Any interface with one method can become the interface for a delegate.
Consider the example below:
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public interface MainDelegate {
int main(String[] args);
}
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The interface above is an example of an interface that can become a
delegate. It has only one method, and the interface is public. In
order to create a delegate for that method, all we have to do is
call <code>MethodDelegate.create(this, "alternateMain", MainDelegate.class)</code>.
The following program will show how to use it:
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public class Main {
public static int main( String[] args ) {
Main newMain = new Main();
MainDelegate start = (MainDelegate)
MethodDelegate.create(newMain, "alternateMain", MainDelegate.class);
return start.main( args );
}
public int alternateMain( String[] args ) {
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
System.out.println( args[i] );
}
return args.length;
}
}
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By themselves, delegates don't do much. Their true power lies in the fact that
they can be treated like objects, and passed to other methods. In fact that is
one of the key building blocks of building Intelligent Agents which in tern are
the foundation of artificial intelligence. In the above program, we could have
easily created the delegate to match the static <code>main</code> method by
substituting the delegate creation call with this:
<code>MethodDelegate.createStatic(getClass(), "main", MainDelegate.class)</code>.
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Another key use for Delegates is to register event listeners. It is much easier
to have all the code for your events separated out into methods instead of individual
classes. One of the ways Java gets around that is to create anonymous classes.
They are particularly troublesome because many Debuggers do not know what to do
with them. Anonymous classes tend to duplicate alot of code as well. We can
use any interface with one declared method to forward events to any method that
matches the signature (although the method name can be different).
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<h3>Equality</h3>
The criteria that we use to test if two delegates are equal are:
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They both refer to the same instance. That is, the <code>instance</code>
parameter passed to the newDelegate method was the same for both. The
instances are compared with the identity equality operator, <code>==</code>.
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<li>They refer to the same method as resolved by <code>Method.equals</code>.</li>
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