Subscribing to Common Events in Dynamic Mode

When to Use

In dynamic subscription mode, an application subscribes to a common event when it is running. If the subscribed event is published during the running period, the subscriber application will receive the event, together with the parameters passed in the event. For example, if an application expects to be notified of low battery so that it can reduce power consumption accordingly when running, then the application can subscribe to the low-battery event. Upon receiving the event, the application can close some unnecessary tasks to reduce power consumption. Certain system common events require specific permissions to subscribe to. For details, see Required Permissions.

Available APIs

For details about the APIs, see API Reference.

API	Description
createSubscriber(subscribeInfo: CommonEventSubscribeInfo, callback: AsyncCallback<CommonEventData>): void	Creates a subscriber. This API uses an asynchronous callback to return the result.
createSubscriber(subscribeInfo: CommonEventSubscribeInfo): Promise<CommonEventSubscriber>	Creates a subscriber. This API uses a promise to return the result.
subscribe(subscriber: CommonEventSubscriber, callback: AsyncCallback): void	Subscribes to common events.

How to Develop

Import the commonEvent module.

import commonEvent from '@ohos.commonEventManager';

Create a subscribeInfo object. For details about the data types and parameters of the object, see CommonEventSubscribeInfo.

// Used to save the created subscriber object for subsequent subscription and unsubscription.
let subscriber = null;
// Subscriber information.
let subscribeInfo = {
    events: ["usual.event.SCREEN_OFF"], // Subscribe to the common event screen-off.
}

Create a subscriber object and save the returned object for subsequent operations such as subscription and unsubscription.

// Callback for subscriber creation.
commonEvent.createSubscriber(subscribeInfo, (err, data) => {
    if (err) {
        console.error(`[CommonEvent] CreateSubscriberCallBack err=${JSON.stringify(err)}`);
    } else {
        console.info(`[CommonEvent] CreateSubscriber success`);
        subscriber = data;
        // Callback for common event subscription.
    }
})

Create a subscription callback, which is triggered when an event is received. The data returned in the subscription callback contains information such as the common event name and data carried by the publisher. For details about the data types and parameters of the common event data, see CommonEventData.

// Callback for common event subscription.
if (subscriber !== null) {
    commonEvent.subscribe(subscriber, (err, data) => {
        if (err) {
            console.error(`[CommonEvent] SubscribeCallBack err=${JSON.stringify(err)}`);
        } else {
            console.info(`[CommonEvent] SubscribeCallBack data=${JSON.stringify(data)}`);
        }
    })
} else {
    console.error(`[CommonEvent] Need create subscriber`);
}