[e4-dev] I'd like to add static utility methods to UIEvents

[Dean Roberts <Dean_Roberts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I was writing a some more event handler
code today and thought that UIEvents could use some simple utility methods.
 I'd like to add them if nobody has any objections.

It is typical for an event handler to
want to know the type of the event.  ADD, REMOVE, SET etc.  Currently
code that cares writes 

if (UIEvents.EventTypes.ADD.equals(event.getProperty(UIEvents.EventTypes.ADD))
{
        //
foo
} else if ((UIEvents.EventTypes.SET.equals(UIEvents.event.getProperty(EventTypes.SET)
{
        //
bar
}

or I suppose this would be good enough
too

if (event.containsProperty(UIEvents.EventTypes.ADD))
{
        //
foo
} else if ((event.containsProperty(UIEvents.EventTypes.SET))
{
        //
bar
}

If we define utility methods on UIEvents
like
        public
static boolean isAdd(Event event);
        public
static boolean isSet(Event event);

Then the above code could look like

if (UIEvents.isAdd(event)) {
        //
foo
} else if (UIEvents.isSet(event) {
        //
bar
}

Admitedly the containsProperty() implementation
may be good enough ... I only thought of that one while writing this email.

Does anybody have strong feelings one
way or the other?  I think I still like the utility method implementation.

Dean_Roberts@xxxxxxxxxx