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1890 Example: Using $parameters argument
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1924 <h1 id="events">Events<a class="headerlink" href="#events" title="Permanent link">#</a></h1>
1925 <p>WoltLab Suite's event system allows manipulation of program flows and data without having to change any of the original source code.
1926 At many locations throughout the PHP code of WoltLab Suite Core and mainly through inheritance also in the applications and plugins, so called <em>events</em> are fired which trigger registered <em>event listeners</em> that get access to the object firing the event (or at least the class name if the event has been fired in a static method).</p>
1927 <p>This page focuses on the technical aspects of events and event listeners, <a href="../../../package/pip/event-listener/">the eventListener package installation plugin page</a> covers how you can actually register an event listener.
1928 A comprehensive list of all available events is provided <a href="../event_list/">here</a>.</p>
1929 <h2 id="introductory-example">Introductory Example<a class="headerlink" href="#introductory-example" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2>
1930 <p>Let's start with a simple example to illustrate how the event system works.
1931 Consider this pre-existing class:</p>
1932 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
1933 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\example</span><span class="p">;</span>
1934 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\EventHandler</span><span class="p">;</span>
1935
1936 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleComponent</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1937 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="nv">$var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">;</span>
1938
1939 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">getVar</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1940 <span class="nx">EventHandler</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">getInstance</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">fireAction</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;getVar&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
1941
1942 <span class="k">return</span> <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span><span class="p">;</span>
1943 <span class="p">}</span>
1944 <span class="p">}</span>
1945 </code></pre></div>
1946 <p>where an event with event name <code>getVar</code> is fired in the <code>getVar()</code> method.</p>
1947 <p>If you create an object of this class and call the <code>getVar()</code> method, the return value will be <code>1</code>, of course:</p>
1948 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
1949
1950 <span class="nv">$example</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\example\ExampleComponent</span><span class="p">();</span>
1951 <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$example</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">getVar</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1952 <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">&quot;var is 1!&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
1953 <span class="p">}</span>
1954 <span class="k">else</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$example</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">getVar</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1955 <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">&quot;var is 2!&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
1956 <span class="p">}</span>
1957 <span class="k">else</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1958 <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">&quot;No, var is neither 1 nor 2.&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
1959 <span class="p">}</span>
1960
1961 <span class="c1">// output: var is 1!</span>
1962 </code></pre></div>
1963 <p>Now, consider that we have registered the following event listener to this event:</p>
1964 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
1965 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\listener</span><span class="p">;</span>
1966
1967 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleEventListener</span> <span class="k">implements</span> <span class="nx">IParameterizedEventListener</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1968 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">execute</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$className</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$eventName</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">array</span> <span class="o">&amp;</span><span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
1969 <span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">;</span>
1970 <span class="p">}</span>
1971 <span class="p">}</span>
1972 </code></pre></div>
1973 <p>Whenever the event in the <code>getVar()</code> method is called, this method (of the same event listener object) is called.
1974 In this case, the value of the method's first parameter is the <code>ExampleComponent</code> object passed as the first argument of the <code>EventHandler::fireAction()</code> call in <code>ExampleComponent::getVar()</code>.
1975 As <code>ExampleComponent::$var</code> is a public property, the event listener code can change it and set it to <code>2</code>.</p>
1976 <p>If you now execute the example code from above again, the output will change from <code>var is 1!</code> to <code>var is 2!</code> because prior to returning the value, the event listener code changes the value from <code>1</code> to <code>2</code>.</p>
1977 <p>This introductory example illustrates how event listeners can change data in a non-intrusive way.
1978 Program flow can be changed, for example, by throwing a <code>wcf\system\exception\PermissionDeniedException</code> if some additional constraint to access a page is not fulfilled.</p>
1979 <h2 id="listening-to-events">Listening to Events<a class="headerlink" href="#listening-to-events" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2>
1980 <p>In order to listen to events, you need to register the event listener and the event listener itself needs to implement the interface <code>wcf\system\event\listener\IParameterizedEventListener</code> which only contains the <code>execute</code> method (see example above).</p>
1981 <p>The first parameter <code>$eventObj</code> of the method contains the passed object where the event is fired or the name of the class in which the event is fired if it is fired from a static method.
1982 The second parameter <code>$className</code> always contains the name of the class where the event has been fired.
1983 The third parameter <code>$eventName</code> provides the name of the event within a class to uniquely identify the exact location in the class where the event has been fired.
1984 The last parameter <code>$parameters</code> is a reference to the array which contains additional data passed by the method firing the event.
1985 If no additional data is passed, <code>$parameters</code> is empty.</p>
1986 <h2 id="firing-events">Firing Events<a class="headerlink" href="#firing-events" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2>
1987 <p>If you write code and want plugins to have access at certain points, you can fire an event on your own.
1988 The only thing to do is to call the <code>wcf\system\event\EventHandler::fireAction($eventObj, $eventName, array &amp;$parameters = [])</code> method and pass the following parameters:</p>
1989 <ol>
1990 <li><code>$eventObj</code> should be <code>$this</code> if you fire from an object context, otherwise pass the class name <code>static::class</code>.</li>
1991 <li><code>$eventName</code> identifies the event within the class and generally has the same name as the method.
1992 In cases, were you might fire more than one event in a method, for example before and after a certain piece of code, you can use the prefixes <code>before*</code> and <code>after*</code> in your event names.</li>
1993 <li><code>$parameters</code> is an optional array which allows you to pass additional data to the event listeners without having to make this data accessible via a property explicitly only created for this purpose.
1994 This additional data can either be just additional information for the event listeners about the context of the method call or allow the event listener to manipulate local data if the code, where the event has been fired, uses the passed data afterwards. </li>
1995 </ol>
1996 <h3 id="example-using-parameters-argument">Example: Using <code>$parameters</code> argument<a class="headerlink" href="#example-using-parameters-argument" title="Permanent link">#</a></h3>
1997 <p>Consider the following method which gets some text that the methods parses.</p>
1998 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
1999 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\example</span><span class="p">;</span>
2000 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\EventHandler</span><span class="p">;</span>
2001
2002 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleParser</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2003 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2004 <span class="c1">// [some parsing done by default]</span>
2005
2006 <span class="nv">$parameters</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">];</span>
2007 <span class="nx">EventHandler</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">getInstance</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">fireAction</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;parse&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">);</span>
2008
2009 <span class="k">return</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span><span class="p">];</span>
2010 <span class="p">}</span>
2011 <span class="p">}</span>
2012 </code></pre></div>
2013 <p>After the default parsing by the method itself, the author wants to enable plugins to do additional parsing and thus fires an event and passes the parsed text as an additional parameter.
2014 Then, a plugin can deliver the following event listener</p>
2015 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
2016 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\listener</span><span class="p">;</span>
2017
2018 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleParserEventListener</span> <span class="k">implements</span> <span class="nx">IParameterizedEventListener</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2019 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">execute</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$className</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$eventName</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">array</span> <span class="o">&amp;</span><span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2020 <span class="nv">$text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span><span class="p">];</span>
2021
2022 <span class="c1">// [some additional parsing which changes $text]</span>
2023
2024 <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">;</span>
2025 <span class="p">}</span>
2026 <span class="p">}</span>
2027 </code></pre></div>
2028 <p>which can access the text via <code>$parameters['text']</code>.</p>
2029 <p>This example can also be perfectly used to illustrate how to name multiple events in the same method.
2030 Let's assume that the author wants to enable plugins to change the text before and after the method does its own parsing and thus fires two events:</p>
2031 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
2032 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\example</span><span class="p">;</span>
2033 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\EventHandler</span><span class="p">;</span>
2034
2035 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleParser</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2036 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2037 <span class="nv">$parameters</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">];</span>
2038 <span class="nx">EventHandler</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">getInstance</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">fireAction</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;beforeParsing&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">);</span>
2039 <span class="nv">$text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span><span class="p">];</span>
2040
2041 <span class="c1">// [some parsing done by default]</span>
2042
2043 <span class="nv">$parameters</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$text</span><span class="p">];</span>
2044 <span class="nx">EventHandler</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">getInstance</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">fireAction</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;afterParsing&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">);</span>
2045
2046 <span class="k">return</span> <span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;text&#39;</span><span class="p">];</span>
2047 <span class="p">}</span>
2048 <span class="p">}</span>
2049 </code></pre></div>
2050 <h2 id="advanced-example-additional-form-field">Advanced Example: Additional Form Field<a class="headerlink" href="#advanced-example-additional-form-field" title="Permanent link">#</a></h2>
2051 <p>One common reason to use event listeners is to add an additional field to a pre-existing form (in combination with template listeners, which we will not cover here).
2052 We will assume that users are able to do both, create and edit the objects via this form.
2053 The points in the program flow of <a href="../../pages/#abstractform">AbstractForm</a> that are relevant here are:</p>
2054 <ul>
2055 <li>adding object (after the form has been submitted):</li>
2056 <li>reading the value of the field</li>
2057 <li>validating the read value</li>
2058 <li>
2059 <p>saving the additional value after successful validation and resetting locally stored value or assigning the current value of the field to the template after unsuccessful validation</p>
2060 </li>
2061 <li>
2062 <p>editing object:</p>
2063 </li>
2064 <li>on initial form request:<ol>
2065 <li>reading the pre-existing value of the edited object</li>
2066 <li>assigning the field value to the template</li>
2067 </ol>
2068 </li>
2069 <li>after the form has been submitted:<ol>
2070 <li>reading the value of the field</li>
2071 <li>validating the read value</li>
2072 <li>saving the additional value after successful validation</li>
2073 <li>assigning the current value of the field to the template</li>
2074 </ol>
2075 </li>
2076 </ul>
2077 <p>All of these cases can be covered the by following code in which we assume that <code>wcf\form\ExampleAddForm</code> is the form to create example objects and that <code>wcf\form\ExampleEditForm</code> extends <code>wcf\form\ExampleAddForm</code> and is used for editing existing example objects.</p>
2078 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="o">&lt;?</span><span class="nx">php</span>
2079 <span class="k">namespace</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\event\listener</span><span class="p">;</span>
2080 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\form\ExampleAddForm</span><span class="p">;</span>
2081 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\form\ExampleEditForm</span><span class="p">;</span>
2082 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\exception\UserInputException</span><span class="p">;</span>
2083 <span class="k">use</span> <span class="nx">wcf\system\WCF</span><span class="p">;</span>
2084
2085 <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ExampleAddFormListener</span> <span class="k">implements</span> <span class="nx">IParameterizedEventListener</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2086 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="nv">$var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span>
2087
2088 <span class="k">public</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">execute</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$className</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$eventName</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">array</span> <span class="o">&amp;</span><span class="nv">$parameters</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2089 <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">$eventName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">);</span>
2090 <span class="p">}</span>
2091
2092 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">assignVariables</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2093 <span class="nx">WCF</span><span class="o">::</span><span class="na">getTPL</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">assign</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;var&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span><span class="p">);</span>
2094 <span class="p">}</span>
2095
2096 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">readData</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">ExampleEditForm</span> <span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2097 <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="k">empty</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$_POST</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2098 <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">example</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span><span class="p">;</span>
2099 <span class="p">}</span>
2100 <span class="p">}</span>
2101
2102 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">readFormParameters</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2103 <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">isset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$_POST</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;var&#39;</span><span class="p">]))</span> <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">intval</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$_POST</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;var&#39;</span><span class="p">]);</span>
2104 <span class="p">}</span>
2105
2106 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">save</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">ExampleAddForm</span> <span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2107 <span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">additionalFields</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">array_merge</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$eventObj</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">additionalFields</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;var&#39;</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span><span class="p">]);</span>
2108 <span class="p">}</span>
2109
2110 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">saved</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2111 <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span>
2112 <span class="p">}</span>
2113
2114 <span class="k">protected</span> <span class="k">function</span> <span class="nf">validate</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2115 <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">var</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
2116 <span class="k">throw</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nx">UserInputException</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;var&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;isNegative&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
2117 <span class="p">}</span>
2118 <span class="p">}</span>
2119 <span class="p">}</span>
2120 </code></pre></div>
2121 <p>The <code>execute</code> method in this example just delegates the call to a method with the same name as the event so that this class mimics the structure of a form class itself.
2122 The form object is passed to the methods but is only given in the method signatures as a parameter here whenever the form object is actually used.
2123 Furthermore, the type-hinting of the parameter illustrates in which contexts the method is actually called which will become clear in the following discussion of the individual methods:</p>
2124 <ul>
2125 <li><code>assignVariables()</code> is called for the add and the edit form and simply assigns the current value of the variable to the template.</li>
2126 <li><code>readData()</code> reads the pre-existing value of <code>$var</code> if the form has not been submitted and thus is only relevant when editing objects which is illustrated by the explicit type-hint of <code>ExampleEditForm</code>.</li>
2127 <li><code>readFormParameters()</code> reads the value for both, the add and the edit form.</li>
2128 <li><code>save()</code> is, of course, also relevant in both cases but requires the form object to store the additional value in the <code>wcf\form\AbstractForm::$additionalFields</code> array which can be used if a <code>var</code> column has been added to the database table in which the example objects are stored.</li>
2129 <li><code>saved()</code> is only called for the add form as it clears the internal value so that in the <code>assignVariables()</code> call, the default value will be assigned to the template to create an "empty" form.
2130 During edits, this current value is the actual value that should be shown.</li>
2131 <li><code>validate()</code> also needs to be called in both cases as the input data always has to be validated.</li>
2132 </ul>
2133 <p>Lastly, the following XML file has to be used to register the event listeners (you can find more information about how to register event listeners on <a href="../../../package/pip/event-listener/">the eventListener package installation plugin page</a>):</p>
2134 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="cp">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;</span>
2135 <span class="nt">&lt;data</span> <span class="na">xmlns=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://www.woltlab.com&quot;</span> <span class="na">xmlns:xsi=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;</span> <span class="na">xsi:schemaLocation=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://www.woltlab.com http://www.woltlab.com/XSD/2019/eventListener.xsd&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
2136 <span class="nt">&lt;import&gt;</span>
2137 <span class="nt">&lt;eventlistener</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">&quot;exampleAddInherited&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
2138 <span class="nt">&lt;eventclassname&gt;</span>wcf\form\ExampleAddForm<span class="nt">&lt;/eventclassname&gt;</span>
2139 <span class="nt">&lt;eventname&gt;</span>assignVariables,readFormParameters,save,validate<span class="nt">&lt;/eventname&gt;</span>
2140 <span class="nt">&lt;listenerclassname&gt;</span>wcf\system\event\listener\ExampleAddFormListener<span class="nt">&lt;/listenerclassname&gt;</span>
2141 <span class="nt">&lt;inherit&gt;</span>1<span class="nt">&lt;/inherit&gt;</span>
2142 <span class="nt">&lt;/eventlistener&gt;</span>
2143
2144 <span class="nt">&lt;eventlistener</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">&quot;exampleAdd&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
2145 <span class="nt">&lt;eventclassname&gt;</span>wcf\form\ExampleAddForm<span class="nt">&lt;/eventclassname&gt;</span>
2146 <span class="nt">&lt;eventname&gt;</span>saved<span class="nt">&lt;/eventname&gt;</span>
2147 <span class="nt">&lt;listenerclassname&gt;</span>wcf\system\event\listener\ExampleAddFormListener<span class="nt">&lt;/listenerclassname&gt;</span>
2148 <span class="nt">&lt;/eventlistener&gt;</span>
2149
2150 <span class="nt">&lt;eventlistener</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">&quot;exampleEdit&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
2151 <span class="nt">&lt;eventclassname&gt;</span>wcf\form\ExampleEditForm<span class="nt">&lt;/eventclassname&gt;</span>
2152 <span class="nt">&lt;eventname&gt;</span>readData<span class="nt">&lt;/eventname&gt;</span>
2153 <span class="nt">&lt;listenerclassname&gt;</span>wcf\system\event\listener\ExampleAddFormListener<span class="nt">&lt;/listenerclassname&gt;</span>
2154 <span class="nt">&lt;/eventlistener&gt;</span>
2155 <span class="nt">&lt;/import&gt;</span>
2156 <span class="nt">&lt;/data&gt;</span>
2157 </code></pre></div>
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