Replaced createActionSubscriber() functionality with simple dispatch()-methods.

Removed SimpleReduxFXStore.
Removed default drivers.
Removed functionality to attach ReduxFXView to 3rd-party store.

Author: netopyr

examples/colorchooser/pom.xml

@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
             <groupId>com.netopyr.reduxfx</groupId>
             <artifactId>reduxfx-view</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>

examples/colorchooser/src/main/java/com/netopyr/reduxfx/examples/colorchooser/app/ColorChooserApp.java

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.app.updater.Updater;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.app.view.MainView;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.middleware.LoggingMiddleware;
-import com.netopyr.reduxfx.store.SimpleReduxFXStore;
+import com.netopyr.reduxfx.store.ReduxFXStore;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.vscenegraph.ReduxFXView;
 import javafx.application.Application;
 import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
@@ -21,13 +21,10 @@ public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
         final AppState initialState = AppState.create().withColor(Color.VIOLET);
 
         // Setup the ReduxFX-store passing the initialState and the update-function
-        final SimpleReduxFXStore<AppState> store = new SimpleReduxFXStore<>(initialState, Updater::update, new LoggingMiddleware<>());
+        final ReduxFXStore<AppState> store = new ReduxFXStore<>(initialState, Updater::update, new LoggingMiddleware<>());
 
-        // Setup the ReduxFX-view passing the view-function and the primary stage that should hold the calculated view
-        final ReduxFXView<AppState> view = ReduxFXView.createStage(MainView::view, primaryStage);
-
-        // Connect store and view
-        view.connect(store.getStatePublisher(), store.createActionSubscriber());
+        // Setup the ReduxFX-view passing the store, the view-function and the primary stage that should hold the calculated view
+        ReduxFXView.createStage(store, MainView::view, primaryStage);
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {

examples/colorchooser/src/main/java/com/netopyr/reduxfx/examples/colorchooser/app/updater/Updater.java

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.app.actions.UpdateColorAction;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.app.state.AppState;
+import com.netopyr.reduxfx.updater.Update;
 
 import java.util.Objects;
 
@@ -43,25 +44,28 @@ private Updater() {
      * @return the new {@code AppState}
      * @throws NullPointerException if state or action are {@code null}
      */
-    public static AppState update(AppState state, Object action) {
+    public static Update<AppState> update(AppState state, Object action) {
         Objects.requireNonNull(state, "The parameter 'state' must not be null");
         Objects.requireNonNull(action, "The parameter 'action' must not be null");
 
-        // This is part of Vavr's pattern-matching API. It works similar to the regular switch-case
-        // in Java, except that it is much more flexible and returns a value.
-        // We check which of the cases is true and in that branch we specify the newState.
-        return Match(action).of(
+        return Update.of(
 
-                // If the action is a UpdateColorAction, we return a new AppState with the
-                // property color set to the new value.
-                Case($(instanceOf(UpdateColorAction.class)),
-                        updateColorAction -> state.withColor(updateColorAction.getValue())
-                ),
+                // This is part of Vavr's pattern-matching API. It works similar to the regular switch-case
+                // in Java, except that it is much more flexible and returns a value.
+                // We check which of the cases is true and in that branch we specify the newState.
+                Match(action).of(
 
-                // This is the default branch of this switch-case. If an unknown action was passed to the
-                // updater, we simply return the old state. This is a convention, that is not needed right
-                // now, but will help once you start to decompose your updater.
-                Case($(), state)
+                        // If the action is a UpdateColorAction, we return a new AppState with the
+                        // property color set to the new value.
+                        Case($(instanceOf(UpdateColorAction.class)),
+                                updateColorAction -> state.withColor(updateColorAction.getValue())
+                        ),
+
+                        // This is the default branch of this switch-case. If an unknown action was passed to the
+                        // updater, we simply return the old state. This is a convention, that is not needed right
+                        // now, but will help once you start to decompose your updater.
+                        Case($(), state)
+                )
         );
     }
 }

examples/colorchooser/src/main/java/com/netopyr/reduxfx/examples/colorchooser/component/ColorChooserComponent.java

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.component.ComponentBase;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.app.view.MainView;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.middleware.LoggingMiddleware;
+import com.netopyr.reduxfx.store.Driver;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.vscenegraph.ReduxFXView;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.vscenegraph.builders.Factory;
 import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@
  *
  * It extends {@code VBox} and adds one additional JavaFX property {@link #colorProperty()}. As usual in ReduxFX,
  * we do not want to modify state directly and this also applies to JavaFX properties of the public interface.
- * Instead we use a {@link com.netopyr.reduxfx.driver.Driver} for that. We can send commands to the driver to update
+ * Instead we use a {@link Driver} for that. We can send commands to the driver to update
  * the value of the JavaFX property. Commands are created in the {@link ColorChooserUpdater} together with the state
  * changes. If the value of a JavaFX property changes, our updater receives an action, which can be specified here.
  */
@@ -47,15 +48,12 @@ public ColorChooserComponent() {
         // Setup the initial state
         final ColorChooserState initialData = new ColorChooserState();
 
-        // A ComponentBase is the central piece of every component implemented with ReduxFX. It creates a separate
+        // A component-base is the central piece of every component implemented with ReduxFX. It creates a separate
         // ReduxFX-store for the component and acts as the factory for all JavaFX properties.
         final ComponentBase<ColorChooserState> componentBase = new ComponentBase<>(this, initialData, ColorChooserUpdater::update, new LoggingMiddleware<>());
 
-        // Setup the ReduxFX-view passing the view-function and this as the root node for the generated Scenegraph
-        final ReduxFXView<ColorChooserState> view = ReduxFXView.create(ColorChooserView::view, this);
-
-        // Connect componentBase and view
-        view.connect(componentBase.getStatePublisher(), componentBase.createActionSubscriber());
+        // Setup the ReduxFX-view passing the component-base the view-function and this as the root node for the generated Scenegraph
+        ReduxFXView.create(componentBase, ColorChooserView::view, this);
 
         // This sets up the JavaFX property of this component. The value can be changed by dispatching
         // ObjectChangedCommands in the ColorChooserUpdater (alongside any required state changes). The VChangeListener

examples/colorchooser/src/main/java/com/netopyr/reduxfx/examples/colorchooser/component/updater/ColorChooserUpdater.java

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.component.actions.UpdateGreenAction;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.component.actions.UpdateRedAction;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.examples.colorchooser.component.state.ColorChooserState;
+import com.netopyr.reduxfx.store.Driver;
 import com.netopyr.reduxfx.updater.Update;
 import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
 
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
  * action and calculates the new state from that.
  * <p>
  * Optionally it can also create an arbitrary number of commands, which are processed by a
- * {@link com.netopyr.reduxfx.driver.Driver}. Usually such a {@code Driver} has to be registered with the
+ * {@link Driver}. Usually such a {@code Driver} has to be registered with the
  * {@link com.netopyr.reduxfx.store.ReduxFXStore}-instance explicitly, but {@code ColorChooserComponent} uses a
  * {@link ComponentBase} which registers a driver for component-specific commands and actions automatically.
  * See {@link ColorChooserComponent} for more details.