Package groovy.util

Class ObservableList

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Iterable, Collection, List
    public class ObservableList
extends Object
implements List
    List decorator that will trigger PropertyChangeEvents when a value changes.
    An optional Closure may be specified and will work as a filter, if it returns true the property will trigger an event (if the value indeed changed), otherwise it won't. The Closure may receive 1 or 2 parameters, the single one being the value, the other one both the key and value, for example: 
     // skip all properties whose value is a closure
 def map = new ObservableList( {!(it instanceof Closure)} )

 // skip all properties whose name matches a regex
 def map = new ObservableList( { name, value -> !(name =˜ /[A-Z+]/) } )
    The current implementation will trigger specialized events in the following scenarios, you need not register a different listener as those events extend from PropertyChangeEvent
    • ObservableList.ElementAddedEvent - a new element is added to the list
    • ObservableList.ElementRemovedEvent - an element is removed from the list
    • ObservableList.ElementUpdatedEvent - an element changes value (same as regular PropertyChangeEvent)
    • ObservableList.ElementClearedEvent - all elements have been removed from the list
    • ObservableList.MultiElementAddedEvent - triggered by calling list.addAll()
    • ObservableList.MultiElementRemovedEvent - triggered by calling list.removeAll()/list.retainAll()

    Bound properties

    • content - read-only.
    • size - read-only.