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LiveState class

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Package:
@microsoft/live-share

Live fluid object that synchronizes a named state and optional data value across clients.

Extends

LiveDataObject<{ Events: ILiveStateEvents<TState> }>

Remarks

The primary benefit of using the LiveState object in a Teams meeting, versus something like a SharedMap, is that you can restrict the roles of who's allowed to perform state changes.

Constructors

LiveState<TState>(IDataObjectProps<{ Events: ILiveStateEvents<TState> }>)

Properties

disposed
factory

The objects fluid type factory.
handle

Handle to a data store
id
IFluidHandle
IFluidLoadable
IFluidRouter
initializeState

The initialization status of the data object.
isInitialized

Flag that indicates whether initialization has succeeded or not.
state

The current state.
TypeName

The objects fluid type/name.

Inherited Properties

addListener
captureRejections

Value: boolean

Change the default captureRejections option on all new EventEmitter objects.
captureRejectionSymbol

Value: Symbol.for('nodejs.rejection')

See how to write a custom rejection handler.
defaultMaxListeners

By default, a maximum of 10 listeners can be registered for any single event. This limit can be changed for individual EventEmitter instances using the emitter.setMaxListeners(n) method. To change the default for allEventEmitter instances, the events.defaultMaxListeners property can be used. If this value is not a positive number, a RangeError is thrown.

Take caution when setting the events.defaultMaxListeners because the change affects all EventEmitter instances, including those created before the change is made. However, calling emitter.setMaxListeners(n) still has precedence over events.defaultMaxListeners.

This is not a hard limit. The EventEmitter instance will allow more listeners to be added but will output a trace warning to stderr indicating that a "possible EventEmitter memory leak" has been detected. For any single EventEmitter, the emitter.getMaxListeners() and emitter.setMaxListeners() methods can be used to temporarily avoid this warning:

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.setMaxListeners(emitter.getMaxListeners() + 1);
emitter.once('event', () => {
  // do stuff
  emitter.setMaxListeners(Math.max(emitter.getMaxListeners() - 1, 0));
});

The --trace-warnings command-line flag can be used to display the stack trace for such warnings.

The emitted warning can be inspected with process.on('warning') and will have the additional emitter, type, and count properties, referring to the event emitter instance, the event's name and the number of attached listeners, respectively. Its name property is set to 'MaxListenersExceededWarning'.
errorMonitor

This symbol shall be used to install a listener for only monitoring 'error' events. Listeners installed using this symbol are called before the regular 'error' listeners are called.

Installing a listener using this symbol does not change the behavior once an 'error' event is emitted. Therefore, the process will still crash if no regular 'error' listener is installed.
off
on
once
prependListener
prependOnceListener
removeListener

Methods

dispose()

Disposes of the object when its container is disposed of.
initialize(TState, UserMeetingRole[])

Initialize the object to begin sending/receiving state updates through this DDS.
set(TState)

Set a new state value

Inherited Methods

addAbortListener(AbortSignal, (event: Event) => void)

Listens once to the abort event on the provided signal.

Listening to the abort event on abort signals is unsafe and may lead to resource leaks since another third party with the signal can call e.stopImmediatePropagation(). Unfortunately Node.js cannot change this since it would violate the web standard. Additionally, the original API makes it easy to forget to remove listeners.

This API allows safely using AbortSignals in Node.js APIs by solving these two issues by listening to the event such that stopImmediatePropagation does not prevent the listener from running.

Returns a disposable so that it may be unsubscribed from more easily.

import { addAbortListener } from 'node:events';

function example(signal) {
  let disposable;
  try {
    signal.addEventListener('abort', (e) => e.stopImmediatePropagation());
    disposable = addAbortListener(signal, (e) => {
      // Do something when signal is aborted.
    });
  } finally {
    disposable?.[Symbol.dispose]();
  }
}
emit<K>(string | symbol, AnyRest)

Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event named eventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

Returns true if the event had listeners, false otherwise.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();

// First listener
myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
  console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
});
// Second listener
myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
  console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
});
// Third listener
myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
  const parameters = args.join(', ');
  console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
});

console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));

myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

// Prints:
// [
//   [Function: firstListener],
//   [Function: secondListener],
//   [Function: thirdListener]
// ]
// Helloooo! first listener
// event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
// event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener
eventNames()

Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners. The values in the array are strings or Symbols.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

const myEE = new EventEmitter();
myEE.on('foo', () => {});
myEE.on('bar', () => {});

const sym = Symbol('symbol');
myEE.on(sym, () => {});

console.log(myEE.eventNames());
// Prints: [ 'foo', 'bar', Symbol(symbol) ]
finishInitialization(boolean)

Call this API to ensure PureDataObject is fully initialized. Initialization happens on demand, only on as-needed bases. In most cases you should allow factory/object to decide when to finish initialization. But if you are supplying your own implementation of DataStoreRuntime factory and overriding some methods and need a fully initialized object, then you can call this API to ensure object is fully initialized.
getClientInfo(string)

Get the client info for a given clientId
getDataObject(IFluidDataStoreRuntime)
getEventListeners(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget, string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .listeners on the emitter.

For EventTargets this is the only way to get the event listeners for the event target. This is useful for debugging and diagnostic purposes.

import { getEventListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

{
  const ee = new EventEmitter();
  const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
  ee.on('foo', listener);
  console.log(getEventListeners(ee, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
}
{
  const et = new EventTarget();
  const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
  et.addEventListener('foo', listener);
  console.log(getEventListeners(et, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
}
getFluidObjectFromDirectory<T>(string, IDirectory, (id: string, directory: IDirectory) => undefined | IFluidHandle<FluidObject<unknown> & IFluidLoadable>)

Retrieve Fluid object using the handle get
getMaxListeners()

Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to defaultMaxListeners.
getMaxListeners(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)

Returns the currently set max amount of listeners.

For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .getMaxListeners on the emitter.

For EventTargets this is the only way to get the max event listeners for the event target. If the number of event handlers on a single EventTarget exceeds the max set, the EventTarget will print a warning.

import { getMaxListeners, setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

{
  const ee = new EventEmitter();
  console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 10
  setMaxListeners(11, ee);
  console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 11
}
{
  const et = new EventTarget();
  console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 10
  setMaxListeners(11, et);
  console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 11
}
initializeInternal(boolean)

Initializes internal objects and calls initialization overrides. Caller is responsible for ensuring this is only invoked once.
listenerCount(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol)

A class method that returns the number of listeners for the given eventName registered on the given emitter.

import { EventEmitter, listenerCount } from 'node:events';

const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
console.log(listenerCount(myEmitter, 'event'));
// Prints: 2
listenerCount<K>(string | symbol, Function)

Returns the number of listeners listening for the event named eventName. If listener is provided, it will return how many times the listener is found in the list of the listeners of the event.
listeners<K>(string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

server.on('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
});
console.log(util.inspect(server.listeners('connection')));
// Prints: [ [Function] ]
on(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol, StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions) 
import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

// Emit later on
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
  ee.emit('foo', 42);
});

for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo')) {
  // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
  // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
  // if concurrent execution is required.
  console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
}
// Unreachable here

Returns an AsyncIterator that iterates eventName events. It will throw if the EventEmitter emits 'error'. It removes all listeners when exiting the loop. The value returned by each iteration is an array composed of the emitted event arguments.

An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting on events:

import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ac = new AbortController();

(async () => {
  const ee = new EventEmitter();

  // Emit later on
  process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
    ee.emit('foo', 42);
  });

  for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { signal: ac.signal })) {
    // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
    // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
    // if concurrent execution is required.
    console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
  }
  // Unreachable here
})();

process.nextTick(() => ac.abort());

Use the close option to specify an array of event names that will end the iteration:

import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

// Emit later on
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
  ee.emit('foo', 42);
  ee.emit('close');
});

for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { close: ['close'] })) {
  console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
}
// the loop will exit after 'close' is emitted
console.log('done'); // prints 'done'
on(EventTarget, string, StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions)
once(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol, StaticEventEmitterOptions)

Creates a Promise that is fulfilled when the EventEmitter emits the given event or that is rejected if the EventEmitter emits 'error' while waiting. The Promise will resolve with an array of all the arguments emitted to the given event.

This method is intentionally generic and works with the web platform EventTarget interface, which has no special'error' event semantics and does not listen to the 'error' event.

import { once, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('myevent', 42);
});

const [value] = await once(ee, 'myevent');
console.log(value);

const err = new Error('kaboom');
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('error', err);
});

try {
  await once(ee, 'myevent');
} catch (err) {
  console.error('error happened', err);
}

The special handling of the 'error' event is only used when events.once() is used to wait for another event. If events.once() is used to wait for the 'error' event itself, then it is treated as any other kind of event without special handling:

import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

once(ee, 'error')
  .then(([err]) => console.log('ok', err.message))
  .catch((err) => console.error('error', err.message));

ee.emit('error', new Error('boom'));

// Prints: ok boom

An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting for the event:

import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

const ee = new EventEmitter();
const ac = new AbortController();

async function foo(emitter, event, signal) {
  try {
    await once(emitter, event, { signal });
    console.log('event emitted!');
  } catch (error) {
    if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
      console.error('Waiting for the event was canceled!');
    } else {
      console.error('There was an error', error.message);
    }
  }
}

foo(ee, 'foo', ac.signal);
ac.abort(); // Abort waiting for the event
ee.emit('foo'); // Prints: Waiting for the event was canceled!
once(EventTarget, string, StaticEventEmitterOptions)
rawListeners<K>(string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.once('log', () => console.log('log once'));

// Returns a new Array with a function `onceWrapper` which has a property
// `listener` which contains the original listener bound above
const listeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');
const logFnWrapper = listeners[0];

// Logs "log once" to the console and does not unbind the `once` event
logFnWrapper.listener();

// Logs "log once" to the console and removes the listener
logFnWrapper();

emitter.on('log', () => console.log('log persistently'));
// Will return a new Array with a single function bound by `.on()` above
const newListeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');

// Logs "log persistently" twice
newListeners[0]();
emitter.emit('log');
removeAllListeners(string | symbol)

Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

It is bad practice to remove listeners added elsewhere in the code, particularly when the EventEmitter instance was created by some other component or module (e.g. sockets or file streams).

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.
request(IRequest)

{@inheritDoc PureDataObject.request}
setMaxListeners(number)

By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set to Infinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.
setMaxListeners(number, (EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)[]) 
import { setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

const target = new EventTarget();
const emitter = new EventEmitter();

setMaxListeners(5, target, emitter);
[captureRejectionSymbol]<K>(Error, string | symbol, AnyRest)

Constructor Details

LiveState<TState>(IDataObjectProps<{ Events: ILiveStateEvents<TState> }>) 

new LiveState(props: IDataObjectProps<{ Events: ILiveStateEvents<TState> }>)

Parameters

props

IDataObjectProps<{ Events: ILiveStateEvents<TState> }>

Property Details

disposed 

boolean disposed

Property Value

boolean

factory

The objects fluid type factory.

static factory: DataObjectFactory<LiveState<any>, DataObjectTypes>

Property Value

DataObjectFactory<LiveState<any>, DataObjectTypes>

handle

Handle to a data store

IFluidHandle<this> handle

Property Value

IFluidHandle<this>

id 

string id

Property Value

string

IFluidHandle 

IFluidHandle<this> IFluidHandle

Property Value

IFluidHandle<this>

IFluidLoadable 

this IFluidLoadable

Property Value

this

IFluidRouter 

this IFluidRouter

Property Value

this

initializeState

The initialization status of the data object.

LiveDataObjectInitializeState initializeState

Property Value

LiveDataObjectInitializeState

isInitialized

Flag that indicates whether initialization has succeeded or not.

boolean isInitialized

Property Value

boolean

state

The current state.

TState state

Property Value

TState

TypeName

The objects fluid type/name.

static TypeName: "@microsoft/live-share:LiveState" = "@microsoft/live-share:LiveState"

Property Value

"@microsoft/live-share:LiveState"

Inherited Property Details

addListener 

addListener: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.addListener

captureRejections

Value: boolean

Change the default captureRejections option on all new EventEmitter objects.

static captureRejections: boolean

Property Value

boolean

Inherited From LiveDataObject.captureRejections

captureRejectionSymbol

Value: Symbol.for('nodejs.rejection')

See how to write a custom rejection handler.

static captureRejectionSymbol: typeof captureRejectionSymbol

Property Value

typeof captureRejectionSymbol

Inherited From LiveDataObject.captureRejectionSymbol

defaultMaxListeners

By default, a maximum of 10 listeners can be registered for any single event. This limit can be changed for individual EventEmitter instances using the emitter.setMaxListeners(n) method. To change the default for allEventEmitter instances, the events.defaultMaxListeners property can be used. If this value is not a positive number, a RangeError is thrown.

Take caution when setting the events.defaultMaxListeners because the change affects all EventEmitter instances, including those created before the change is made. However, calling emitter.setMaxListeners(n) still has precedence over events.defaultMaxListeners.

This is not a hard limit. The EventEmitter instance will allow more listeners to be added but will output a trace warning to stderr indicating that a "possible EventEmitter memory leak" has been detected. For any single EventEmitter, the emitter.getMaxListeners() and emitter.setMaxListeners() methods can be used to temporarily avoid this warning:

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.setMaxListeners(emitter.getMaxListeners() + 1);
emitter.once('event', () => {
  // do stuff
  emitter.setMaxListeners(Math.max(emitter.getMaxListeners() - 1, 0));
});

The --trace-warnings command-line flag can be used to display the stack trace for such warnings.

The emitted warning can be inspected with process.on('warning') and will have the additional emitter, type, and count properties, referring to the event emitter instance, the event's name and the number of attached listeners, respectively. Its name property is set to 'MaxListenersExceededWarning'.

static defaultMaxListeners: number

Property Value

number

Inherited From LiveDataObject.defaultMaxListeners

errorMonitor

This symbol shall be used to install a listener for only monitoring 'error' events. Listeners installed using this symbol are called before the regular 'error' listeners are called.

Installing a listener using this symbol does not change the behavior once an 'error' event is emitted. Therefore, the process will still crash if no regular 'error' listener is installed.

static errorMonitor: typeof errorMonitor

Property Value

typeof errorMonitor

Inherited From LiveDataObject.errorMonitor

off 

off: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.off

on 

on: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.on

once 

once: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.once

prependListener 

prependListener: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.prependListener

prependOnceListener 

prependOnceListener: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.prependOnceListener

removeListener 

removeListener: TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Property Value

TypedEventTransform<LiveState<TState>, ILiveStateEvents<TState> & IEvent>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.removeListener

Method Details

dispose()

Disposes of the object when its container is disposed of.

function dispose()

initialize(TState, UserMeetingRole[])

Initialize the object to begin sending/receiving state updates through this DDS.

function initialize(initialState: TState, allowedRoles?: UserMeetingRole[]): Promise<void>

Parameters

initialState

TState

Initial state value

allowedRoles

UserMeetingRole[]

Optional. List of roles allowed to make state changes.

Returns

Promise<void>

a void promise that resolves once complete

set(TState)

Set a new state value

function set(state: TState): Promise<void>

Parameters

state

TState

New state value.

Returns

Promise<void>

a void promise that resolves once the set event has been sent to the server.

Inherited Method Details

addAbortListener(AbortSignal, (event: Event) => void)

Listens once to the abort event on the provided signal.

Listening to the abort event on abort signals is unsafe and may lead to resource leaks since another third party with the signal can call e.stopImmediatePropagation(). Unfortunately Node.js cannot change this since it would violate the web standard. Additionally, the original API makes it easy to forget to remove listeners.

This API allows safely using AbortSignals in Node.js APIs by solving these two issues by listening to the event such that stopImmediatePropagation does not prevent the listener from running.

Returns a disposable so that it may be unsubscribed from more easily.

import { addAbortListener } from 'node:events';

function example(signal) {
  let disposable;
  try {
    signal.addEventListener('abort', (e) => e.stopImmediatePropagation());
    disposable = addAbortListener(signal, (e) => {
      // Do something when signal is aborted.
    });
  } finally {
    disposable?.[Symbol.dispose]();
  }
}

static function addAbortListener(signal: AbortSignal, resource: (event: Event) => void): Disposable

Parameters

signal

AbortSignal

resource

(event: Event) => void

Returns

Disposable

Disposable that removes the abort listener.

Inherited From LiveDataObject.addAbortListener

emit<K>(string | symbol, AnyRest)

Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event named eventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

Returns true if the event had listeners, false otherwise.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();

// First listener
myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
  console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
});
// Second listener
myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
  console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
});
// Third listener
myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
  const parameters = args.join(', ');
  console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
});

console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));

myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

// Prints:
// [
//   [Function: firstListener],
//   [Function: secondListener],
//   [Function: thirdListener]
// ]
// Helloooo! first listener
// event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
// event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener

function emit<K>(eventName: string | symbol, args: AnyRest): boolean

Parameters

eventName

string | symbol

args

AnyRest

Returns

boolean

Inherited From LiveDataObject.emit

eventNames()

Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners. The values in the array are strings or Symbols.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

const myEE = new EventEmitter();
myEE.on('foo', () => {});
myEE.on('bar', () => {});

const sym = Symbol('symbol');
myEE.on(sym, () => {});

console.log(myEE.eventNames());
// Prints: [ 'foo', 'bar', Symbol(symbol) ]

function eventNames(): (string | symbol)[]

Returns

(string | symbol)[]

Inherited From LiveDataObject.eventNames

finishInitialization(boolean)

Call this API to ensure PureDataObject is fully initialized. Initialization happens on demand, only on as-needed bases. In most cases you should allow factory/object to decide when to finish initialization. But if you are supplying your own implementation of DataStoreRuntime factory and overriding some methods and need a fully initialized object, then you can call this API to ensure object is fully initialized.

function finishInitialization(existing: boolean): Promise<void>

Parameters

existing

boolean

Returns

Promise<void>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.finishInitialization

getClientInfo(string)

Get the client info for a given clientId

function getClientInfo(clientId: string): Promise<undefined | IClientInfo>

Parameters

clientId

string

Fluid clientId we are requesting user info for

Returns

Promise<undefined | IClientInfo>

IClientInfo object if the user is known, otherwise it will return undefined

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getClientInfo

getDataObject(IFluidDataStoreRuntime) 

static function getDataObject(runtime: IFluidDataStoreRuntime): Promise<PureDataObject<DataObjectTypes>>

Parameters

runtime

IFluidDataStoreRuntime

Returns

Promise<PureDataObject<DataObjectTypes>>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getDataObject

getEventListeners(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget, string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .listeners on the emitter.

For EventTargets this is the only way to get the event listeners for the event target. This is useful for debugging and diagnostic purposes.

import { getEventListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

{
  const ee = new EventEmitter();
  const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
  ee.on('foo', listener);
  console.log(getEventListeners(ee, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
}
{
  const et = new EventTarget();
  const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
  et.addEventListener('foo', listener);
  console.log(getEventListeners(et, 'foo')); // [ [Function: listener] ]
}

static function getEventListeners(emitter: EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget, name: string | symbol): Function[]

Parameters

emitter

EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget

name

string | symbol

Returns

Function[]

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getEventListeners

getFluidObjectFromDirectory<T>(string, IDirectory, (id: string, directory: IDirectory) => undefined | IFluidHandle<FluidObject<unknown> & IFluidLoadable>)

Retrieve Fluid object using the handle get

function getFluidObjectFromDirectory<T>(key: string, directory: IDirectory, getObjectFromDirectory?: (id: string, directory: IDirectory) => undefined | IFluidHandle<FluidObject<unknown> & IFluidLoadable>): Promise<undefined | T>

Parameters

key

string

key that object (handle/id) is stored with in the directory

directory

IDirectory

directory containing the object

getObjectFromDirectory

(id: string, directory: IDirectory) => undefined | IFluidHandle<FluidObject<unknown> & IFluidLoadable>

optional callback for fetching object from the directory, allows users to define custom types/getters for object retrieval

Returns

Promise<undefined | T>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getFluidObjectFromDirectory

getMaxListeners()

Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to defaultMaxListeners.

function getMaxListeners(): number

Returns

number

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getMaxListeners

getMaxListeners(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)

Returns the currently set max amount of listeners.

For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .getMaxListeners on the emitter.

For EventTargets this is the only way to get the max event listeners for the event target. If the number of event handlers on a single EventTarget exceeds the max set, the EventTarget will print a warning.

import { getMaxListeners, setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

{
  const ee = new EventEmitter();
  console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 10
  setMaxListeners(11, ee);
  console.log(getMaxListeners(ee)); // 11
}
{
  const et = new EventTarget();
  console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 10
  setMaxListeners(11, et);
  console.log(getMaxListeners(et)); // 11
}

static function getMaxListeners(emitter: EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget): number

Parameters

emitter

EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget

Returns

number

Inherited From LiveDataObject.getMaxListeners

initializeInternal(boolean)

Initializes internal objects and calls initialization overrides. Caller is responsible for ensuring this is only invoked once.

function initializeInternal(existing: boolean): Promise<void>

Parameters

existing

boolean

Returns

Promise<void>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.initializeInternal

listenerCount(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol)

Warning

This API is now deprecated.

Since v3.2.0 - Use listenerCount instead.

A class method that returns the number of listeners for the given eventName registered on the given emitter.

import { EventEmitter, listenerCount } from 'node:events';

const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
console.log(listenerCount(myEmitter, 'event'));
// Prints: 2

static function listenerCount(emitter: EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, eventName: string | symbol): number

Parameters

emitter

EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>

The emitter to query

eventName

string | symbol

The event name

Returns

number

Inherited From LiveDataObject.listenerCount

listenerCount<K>(string | symbol, Function)

Returns the number of listeners listening for the event named eventName. If listener is provided, it will return how many times the listener is found in the list of the listeners of the event.

function listenerCount<K>(eventName: string | symbol, listener?: Function): number

Parameters

eventName

string | symbol

The name of the event being listened for

listener

Function

The event handler function

Returns

number

Inherited From LiveDataObject.listenerCount

listeners<K>(string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

server.on('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
});
console.log(util.inspect(server.listeners('connection')));
// Prints: [ [Function] ]

function listeners<K>(eventName: string | symbol): Function[]

Parameters

eventName

string | symbol

Returns

Function[]

Inherited From LiveDataObject.listeners

on(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol, StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions) 

import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

// Emit later on
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
  ee.emit('foo', 42);
});

for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo')) {
  // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
  // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
  // if concurrent execution is required.
  console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
}
// Unreachable here

Returns an AsyncIterator that iterates eventName events. It will throw if the EventEmitter emits 'error'. It removes all listeners when exiting the loop. The value returned by each iteration is an array composed of the emitted event arguments.

An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting on events:

import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ac = new AbortController();

(async () => {
  const ee = new EventEmitter();

  // Emit later on
  process.nextTick(() => {
    ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
    ee.emit('foo', 42);
  });

  for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { signal: ac.signal })) {
    // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
    // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
    // if concurrent execution is required.
    console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
  }
  // Unreachable here
})();

process.nextTick(() => ac.abort());

Use the close option to specify an array of event names that will end the iteration:

import { on, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

// Emit later on
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
  ee.emit('foo', 42);
  ee.emit('close');
});

for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { close: ['close'] })) {
  console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
}
// the loop will exit after 'close' is emitted
console.log('done'); // prints 'done'

static function on(emitter: EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, eventName: string | symbol, options?: StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions): AsyncIterator<any[], any, any>

Parameters

emitter

EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>

eventName

string | symbol

options

StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions

Returns

AsyncIterator<any[], any, any>

An AsyncIterator that iterates eventName events emitted by the emitter

Inherited From LiveDataObject.on

on(EventTarget, string, StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions) 

static function on(emitter: EventTarget, eventName: string, options?: StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions): AsyncIterator<any[], any, any>

Parameters

emitter

EventTarget

eventName

string

options

StaticEventEmitterIteratorOptions

Returns

AsyncIterator<any[], any, any>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.on

once(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, string | symbol, StaticEventEmitterOptions)

Creates a Promise that is fulfilled when the EventEmitter emits the given event or that is rejected if the EventEmitter emits 'error' while waiting. The Promise will resolve with an array of all the arguments emitted to the given event.

This method is intentionally generic and works with the web platform EventTarget interface, which has no special'error' event semantics and does not listen to the 'error' event.

import { once, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
import process from 'node:process';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('myevent', 42);
});

const [value] = await once(ee, 'myevent');
console.log(value);

const err = new Error('kaboom');
process.nextTick(() => {
  ee.emit('error', err);
});

try {
  await once(ee, 'myevent');
} catch (err) {
  console.error('error happened', err);
}

The special handling of the 'error' event is only used when events.once() is used to wait for another event. If events.once() is used to wait for the 'error' event itself, then it is treated as any other kind of event without special handling:

import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

const ee = new EventEmitter();

once(ee, 'error')
  .then(([err]) => console.log('ok', err.message))
  .catch((err) => console.error('error', err.message));

ee.emit('error', new Error('boom'));

// Prints: ok boom

An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting for the event:

import { EventEmitter, once } from 'node:events';

const ee = new EventEmitter();
const ac = new AbortController();

async function foo(emitter, event, signal) {
  try {
    await once(emitter, event, { signal });
    console.log('event emitted!');
  } catch (error) {
    if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
      console.error('Waiting for the event was canceled!');
    } else {
      console.error('There was an error', error.message);
    }
  }
}

foo(ee, 'foo', ac.signal);
ac.abort(); // Abort waiting for the event
ee.emit('foo'); // Prints: Waiting for the event was canceled!

static function once(emitter: EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>, eventName: string | symbol, options?: StaticEventEmitterOptions): Promise<any[]>

Parameters

emitter

EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap>

eventName

string | symbol

options

StaticEventEmitterOptions

Returns

Promise<any[]>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.once

once(EventTarget, string, StaticEventEmitterOptions) 

static function once(emitter: EventTarget, eventName: string, options?: StaticEventEmitterOptions): Promise<any[]>

Parameters

emitter

EventTarget

eventName

string

options

StaticEventEmitterOptions

Returns

Promise<any[]>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.once

rawListeners<K>(string | symbol)

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.once('log', () => console.log('log once'));

// Returns a new Array with a function `onceWrapper` which has a property
// `listener` which contains the original listener bound above
const listeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');
const logFnWrapper = listeners[0];

// Logs "log once" to the console and does not unbind the `once` event
logFnWrapper.listener();

// Logs "log once" to the console and removes the listener
logFnWrapper();

emitter.on('log', () => console.log('log persistently'));
// Will return a new Array with a single function bound by `.on()` above
const newListeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');

// Logs "log persistently" twice
newListeners[0]();
emitter.emit('log');

function rawListeners<K>(eventName: string | symbol): Function[]

Parameters

eventName

string | symbol

Returns

Function[]

Inherited From LiveDataObject.rawListeners

removeAllListeners(string | symbol)

Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

It is bad practice to remove listeners added elsewhere in the code, particularly when the EventEmitter instance was created by some other component or module (e.g. sockets or file streams).

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function removeAllListeners(eventName?: string | symbol): LiveState<TState>

Parameters

eventName

string | symbol

Returns

LiveState<TState>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.removeAllListeners

request(IRequest)

{@inheritDoc PureDataObject.request}

function request(request: IRequest): Promise<IResponse>

Parameters

request

IRequest

Returns

Promise<IResponse>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.request

setMaxListeners(number)

By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set to Infinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function setMaxListeners(n: number): LiveState<TState>

Parameters

n

number

Returns

LiveState<TState>

Inherited From LiveDataObject.setMaxListeners

setMaxListeners(number, (EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)[]) 

import { setMaxListeners, EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

const target = new EventTarget();
const emitter = new EventEmitter();

setMaxListeners(5, target, emitter);

static function setMaxListeners(n?: number, eventTargets: (EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)[])

Parameters

n

number

A non-negative number. The maximum number of listeners per EventTarget event.

eventTargets

(EventEmitter<DefaultEventMap> | EventTarget)[]

Zero or more {EventTarget} or {EventEmitter} instances. If none are specified, n is set as the default max for all newly created {EventTarget} and {EventEmitter} objects.

Inherited From LiveDataObject.setMaxListeners

[captureRejectionSymbol]<K>(Error, string | symbol, AnyRest) 

function [captureRejectionSymbol]<K>(error: Error, event: string | symbol, args: AnyRest)

Parameters

error

Error

event

string | symbol

args

AnyRest

Inherited From LiveDataObject.[captureRejectionSymbol]