Commander

Handy library to send & receive command with payload between subscribers for Android.

Features

• Subscription based
• No dependency on Framework
• Lightweight

Documentation

Installation

Step 1. Add the JitPack repository to your build file

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

Step 2. Add the dependency

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.rommansabbir:Commander:Tag'
}

Version available

Initialize

CommanderManager.initialize()

Note: You can initialize Commander from anywhere in application scope. But it's recommanded to initialize Commander from your application class.

Calling CommanderManager.initialize() several time from anywhere will be ignored if the instance is already initialized.

How To Access

CommanderManager.getInstance()

which return an instace of Commander.

Note: Before accessing Commander you must initialize Commander properly or else it will throw NotInitializedException exception.

Available methods

• register(subscriptionId: String, commandListener: Listener)
• unregister(subscriptionId: String): Boolean
• broadcastCommand(command: Command)
• receiveCommand(command: Command) [Commander.Listener]

Usages

How to register/unregister?

To register to Commander, you must initialize the Commander.Listener to get broadcasted command from other susbcribers.

Example:

private val listener = object : Commander.Listener {
    override fun receiveCommand(command: Command) {
        println(command.toString())
    }
}

//Register as a subscriber.
CommanderManager.getInstance().register(SubscriptionId, listener)

Note: SubscriptionId must be an unique identifier. If you try to register with an duplicate SubscriptionId, it will throw an DuplicateSubscriptionID exception.

SubscriptionId is the public unique identifer to communicate/send command between subscribers.

How to Broadcast a command using Commander?

Get the instance through CommanderManager.getInstance()

CommanderManager.getInstance().broadcastCommand(
        Command(
            "Init Command",
            mutableListOf
   
    (),
            Class1.SubscriptionId
        )
    )

   

Note: If you try to send command to a not registered subscriber , then it will throw NoSubscriberFound exception.

What is command?. Command is a simple data class that take action, payload and subscriptionId as the params & pass the same instance to the respective subscriber. SubscriberId is the main key point to identify to whom the command will be sent.

How to receive command?

Register as a subscriber and the command will be passed to the Commander.Listener's onReceived() callback method.

private val listener = object : Commander.Listener {
    override fun receiveCommand(command: Command) {
        //Broadcasted command would be received here if the `SubscriptionId` matched properly.
    }
}

For detail implementation, check the demo application. Happy Coding...

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License

Apache Version 2.0

Copyright (C) 2021 Romman Sabbir

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

		http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.