Document GroupStore.registerListener

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lukebarnard 2018-01-02 18:12:08 +00:00
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@ -103,6 +103,22 @@ export default class GroupStore extends EventEmitter {
this.emit('update');
}
/**
* Register a listener to recieve updates from the store. This also
* immediately triggers an update to send the current state of the
* store (which could be the initial state).
*
* XXX: This also causes a fetch of all group data, which effectively
* causes 4 separate HTTP requests. This is bad, we should at least
* deduplicate these in order to fix:
* https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/5901
*
* @param {function} fn the function to call when the store updates.
* @return {Object} tok a registration "token" with a single
* property `unregister`, a function that can
* be called to unregister the listener such
* that it won't be called any more.
*/
registerListener(fn) {
this.on('update', fn);
// Call to set initial state (before fetching starts)
@ -111,6 +127,8 @@ export default class GroupStore extends EventEmitter {
this._fetchRooms();
this._fetchMembers();
// Similar to the Store of flux/utils, we return a "token" that
// can be used to unregister the listener.
return {
unregister: () => {
this.unregisterListener(fn);