java监听器的作用,Java中监听器的目的是什么？

I looked for this online, but couldn't find an adequate explanation to what it exactly does. What I saw was a Java Interface and it was passed as a parameter in another class as a "Listener". People added various listeners to a list and called them all through a single method.

I'm not sure why I would use it. Can someone care to explain?

This is my original help post where someone told me to use listeners.

解决方案

In the code example that you linked the KillMonsterEventListener

public interface KillMonsterEventListener {

void onKillMonster ();

}

provides a way for users of your API to tell you something like this:

Here is a piece of code. When a monster is killed, call it back. I will decide what to do.

This is a way for me to plug in my code at a specific point in your execution stream (specifically, at the point when a monster is killed). I can do something like this:

yourClass.addKillMonsterEventListener(

new KillMonsterEventListener() {

public onKillMonster() {

System.out.println("A good monster is a dead monster!");

}

}

);

Somewhere else I could add another listener:

yourClass.addKillMonsterEventListener(

new KillMonsterEventListener() {

public onKillMonster() {

monsterCount--;

}

}

);

When your code goes through the list of listeners on killing a monster, i.e.

for (KillMonsterEventListener listener : listeners) {

listener.onKillMonster()

}

both my code snippets (i.e. the monsterCount-- and the printout) get executed. The nice thing about it is that your code is completely decoupled from mine: it has no idea what I am printing, what variable I am decrementing, and so on.