lib-jitsi-meet/modules/util/EventEmitterForwarder.js

/**
 * Implements utility to forward events from one eventEmitter to another.
 * @param src {object} instance of EventEmitter or another class that implements
 * addListener method which will register listener to EventEmitter instance.
 * @param dest {object} instance of EventEmitter or another class that
 * implements emit method which will emit an event.
 */
function EventEmitterForwarder (src, dest) {
    if (!src || !dest || typeof(src.addListener) !== "function" ||
        typeof(dest.emit) !== "function")
        throw new Error("Invalid arguments passed to EventEmitterForwarder");
    this.src = src;
    this.dest = dest;
}

/**
 * Adds event to be forwarded from src to dest.
 * @param srcEvent {string} the event that EventEmitterForwarder is listening
 * for.
 * @param dstEvent {string} the event that will be fired from dest.
 * @param arguments all other passed arguments are going to be fired with
 * dstEvent.
 */
EventEmitterForwarder.prototype.forward = function () {
    // This line is only for fixing jshint errors.
    var args = arguments;
    var srcEvent = args[0];
    //This will be the "this" value for emit function.
    args[0] = this.dest;
    //Using bind.apply to pass the arguments as Array-like object ("arguments")
    this.src.addListener(srcEvent,
        Function.prototype.bind.apply(this.dest.emit, args));
};

module.exports = EventEmitterForwarder;