Hm, okay, for that, where basically you are just using BroadcastReceiver as
a separated class not known by the rest of the framework, it seems okay.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Kiran Rao <techie.curi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops .. apologies for the typo, and the ensuing confusion. I did mean
> LocalBroadcastManager in my original post, wherever I referred to
> LocalBroadcastReceiver.
>
> Mark has summed it all up in his response. My current implementation is
> this:
>
>
> try to fork BroadcastReceiver and use a forked edition with
>> LocalBroadcastManager and ordered-broadcast support
>
>
> But I have added my own flag (mConsumed) and added my own methods (
> consumeBroadcast(), clearConsumeBroadcast() and isBroadcastConsumed()).
>
> Secondly, my solution still doesn't allow using any of the setResult*methods
> of
> BroadcastReceiver (since all of these first do a checkSynchronousHint()).
> The way around this is to add another bunch of methods that basically do
> the exact same thing as getResult* and setResult* ; but which do not go
> through the checkSynchronousHint() path.
>
> Using setOrderedHint() which would allow me to avoid all of this pain.All
> my changes would be isolated to LocalBroadcastManager, and I would not
> need to fork BroadcastReceiver (not to mention that code which registers
> for such local ordered broadcasts wouldn't need to deal with yet another
> forked class; and confusing methods like consumeBroadcast() in place of
> abortBroadcast())
>
> On Friday, 18 May 2012 02:18:21 UTC+5:30, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com>
>> wrote:
>> > No, you should not be using it. Why would you even *want* to use it?
>> I can
>> > only imagine using this to do things that are broken. :)
>>
>> To clarify (and fix a typo in Kiran's post), he is working on adding
>> ordered broadcasts to LocalBroadcastManager from the Android Support
>> package, while maintaining maximum fidelity with the protocol used by
>> regular ordered broadcasts.
>>
>> Most of this can go into (a fork of) LocalBroadcastManager without
>> issue. However, calling abortBroadcast() on a BroadcastReceiver throws
>> a RuntimeException ("BroadcastReceiver trying to return result during
>> a non-ordered broadcast") if you try to use abortBroadcast() without
>> having the Intent go through the standard sendOrderedBroadcast().
>>
>> I have not seen Kiran's code -- I have merely been advising him so far
>> via email, as this is an itch I had been meaning to scratch myself.
>> Off the cuff, the options appear to be:
>>
>> - use setOrderedHint(), despite it being labeled as "internal", or
>>
>> - attempt to override the internal checkSynchronousHint() to not raise
>> the RuntimeException, or
>>
>> - try to fork BroadcastReceiver and use a forked edition with
>> LocalBroadcastManager and ordered-broadcast support, or
>>
>> - abandon LocalBroadcastManager entirely and create a workalike that
>> supports ordered "pseudocasts" or some such
>>
>> Certainly, I am up for other suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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