philiprehberger-event-emitter

Type-safe event emitter with sync and async listener support.

Installation

pip install philiprehberger-event-emitter

Usage

Basic Events

from philiprehberger_event_emitter import EventEmitter

emitter = EventEmitter()

def on_user_created(user):
    print(f"User created: {user['name']}")

emitter.on("user:created", on_user_created)
emitter.emit("user:created", {"name": "Alice"})

Unsubscribe

# Using the returned unsubscribe function
unsubscribe = emitter.on("event", handler)
unsubscribe()

# Or manually
emitter.off("event", handler)

One-Time Listeners

emitter.once("init", lambda: print("Only fires once"))
emitter.emit("init")  # prints
emitter.emit("init")  # nothing

Prepend Listeners

# Insert listener at the front of the queue (fires before existing listeners)
emitter.on("data", second_handler)
emitter.prepend("data", first_handler)

emitter.emit("data", payload)  # first_handler runs before second_handler

# One-shot version
emitter.prepend_once("data", one_time_first_handler)

Middleware / Interceptors

# Middleware receives (event, args, kwargs) and can modify or cancel emissions
def logging_middleware(event, args, kwargs):
    print(f"Event fired: {event}")
    return True  # allow emission to proceed

def block_middleware(event, args, kwargs):
    if event == "secret":
        return False  # cancel emission
    return True

remove_logger = emitter.use(logging_middleware)
emitter.use(block_middleware)

emitter.emit("hello", "world")   # logged, listeners fire
emitter.emit("secret", "data")   # blocked, no listeners fire

remove_logger()  # remove the logging middleware

Async Listeners

async def async_handler(data):
    await save_to_db(data)

emitter.on("data:received", async_handler)

# Use async_emit to await async listeners
await emitter.async_emit("data:received", {"key": "value"})

Wait for an Event

import asyncio

async def main():
    emitter = EventEmitter()

    # Schedule an emission after a delay
    async def delayed_emit():
        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
        emitter.emit("ready", "payload")

    asyncio.create_task(delayed_emit())

    # Block until "ready" fires (with optional timeout)
    args, kwargs = await emitter.wait_for("ready", timeout=5.0)
    print(args[0])  # "payload"

asyncio.run(main())

Collect return values

# Sync: collect listener return values in registration order
emitter.on("compute", lambda x: x * 2)
emitter.on("compute", lambda x: x + 100)
results = emitter.emit_and_collect("compute", 5)
print(results)  # [10, 105]

# Async: awaits coroutine listeners and collects mixed sync + async returns
import asyncio

async def main():
    emitter = EventEmitter()

    def sync_handler(x):
        return f"sync:{x}"

    async def async_handler(x):
        return f"async:{x}"

    emitter.on("evt", sync_handler)
    emitter.on("evt", async_handler)
    results = await emitter.async_emit_and_collect("evt", 1)
    print(results)  # ["sync:1", "async:1"]

asyncio.run(main())

emit_and_collect is sync-only and raises TypeError if any registered listener is a coroutine function — use async_emit_and_collect in that case.

Emit with Timeout

import asyncio

async def slow_handler(data):
    await asyncio.sleep(10)
    return "done"

emitter.on("process", slow_handler)

# Only returns results from listeners that complete within the timeout
results = await emitter.emit_with_timeout("process", timeout=2.0, data="value")
print(results)  # [] (slow_handler timed out)

Max Listeners

# Warn when too many listeners are added (helps detect memory leaks)
emitter = EventEmitter(max_listeners=10)

Management

emitter.listener_count("event")      # number of listeners
emitter.event_names()                 # list of events with listeners
emitter.remove_all_listeners("event") # remove all for one event
emitter.remove_all_listeners()        # remove all listeners

API

Function / Class	Description
EventEmitter(max_listeners=None)	Create a new emitter
.on(event, listener)	Register listener, returns unsubscribe function
.once(event, listener)	Register one-time listener
.prepend(event, listener)	Insert listener at front of queue, returns unsubscribe function
.prepend_once(event, listener)	One-shot prepend listener
.off(event, listener)	Remove a listener
.use(middleware)	Register middleware that can modify/cancel emissions, returns remove function
.emit(event, *args, **kwargs)	Emit event synchronously
.emit_and_collect(event, *args, **kwargs)	Emit synchronously and return list of listener return values (raises if any listener is async)
.async_emit(event, *args, **kwargs)	Emit event, awaiting async listeners
.async_emit_and_collect(event, *args, **kwargs)	Emit, awaiting coroutines, and return list of listener return values
.wait_for(event, timeout=None)	Async wait for an event, returns (args, kwargs)
.emit_with_timeout(event, timeout, *args, **kwargs)	Emit with per-listener timeout, returns list of results
.listener_count(event)	Count listeners for an event
.event_names()	List events with listeners
.remove_all_listeners(event?)	Remove all or event-specific listeners

Development

pip install -e .
python -m pytest tests/ -v

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License

MIT