Renamed AbstractListenerRegistry to ListenerRegistry (since it is not abstract).
- added checkForNonRegistrant() predicate and augmented unit tests.

Change-Id: I7ecc618f01fdc4cead6f143a1e5e0ddd03268efc
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/event/ListenerRegistry.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/event/ListenerRegistry.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.onosproject.event;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArraySet;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+/**
+ * Base implementation of an event sink and a registry capable of tracking
+ * listeners and dispatching events to them as part of event sink processing.
+ */
+public class ListenerRegistry<E extends Event, L extends EventListener<E>>
+        implements EventSink<E> {
+
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    private volatile boolean shutdown = false;
+
+    /**
+     * Set of listeners that have registered.
+     */
+    protected final Set<L> listeners = new CopyOnWriteArraySet<>();
+
+
+    /**
+     * Adds the specified listener.
+     *
+     * @param listener listener to be added
+     */
+    public void addListener(L listener) {
+        checkNotNull(listener, "Listener cannot be null");
+        listeners.add(listener);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Removes the specified listener.
+     *
+     * @param listener listener to be removed
+     */
+    public void removeListener(L listener) {
+        checkNotNull(listener, "Listener cannot be null");
+        if (checkForNonRegistrant()) {
+            checkArgument(listeners.remove(listener), "Listener not registered");
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void process(E event) {
+        for (L listener : listeners) {
+            try {
+                listener.event(event);
+            } catch (Exception error) {
+                reportProblem(event, error);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Predicate indicating whether we should throw an exception if the
+     * argument to {@link #removeListener} is not in the current set of
+     * listeners.
+     * <p>
+     * This default implementation returns <code>true</code>.
+     *
+     * @return true if non-listed listeners should cause exception on remove
+     */
+    protected boolean checkForNonRegistrant() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reports a problem encountered while processing an event.
+     *
+     * @param event event being processed
+     * @param error error encountered while processing
+     */
+    protected void reportProblem(E event, Throwable error) {
+        if (!shutdown) {
+            log.warn("Exception encountered while processing event " + event, error);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Prepares the registry for normal operation.
+     */
+    public void activate() {
+        shutdown = false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Prepares the registry for shutdown.
+     */
+    public void deactivate() {
+        shutdown = true;
+    }
+}