From a6ee3bac85c84c1a24c1a2aa621f77ba5d1c0bb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peteris Krumins <peteris.krumins@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:52:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add EventEmitter.prototype.once

---
 lib/events.js                          | 10 +++++++++-
 test/simple/test-event-emitter-once.js | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 test/simple/test-event-emitter-once.js

diff --git a/lib/events.js b/lib/events.js
index e0480b0..cf9651a 100644
--- a/lib/events.js
+++ b/lib/events.js
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.addListener = function (type, listener) {
 
 EventEmitter.prototype.on = EventEmitter.prototype.addListener;
 
+EventEmitter.prototype.once = function (type, listener) {
+  var self = this;
+  self.on(type, function g () {
+    self.removeListener(type, g);
+    listener.apply(this, arguments);
+  });
+};
+
 EventEmitter.prototype.removeListener = function (type, listener) {
   if ('function' !== typeof listener) {
     throw new Error('removeListener only takes instances of Function');
@@ -112,4 +120,4 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.listeners = function (type) {
     this._events[type] = [this._events[type]];
   }
   return this._events[type];
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+};
diff --git a/test/simple/test-event-emitter-once.js b/test/simple/test-event-emitter-once.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8639231
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/simple/test-event-emitter-once.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+common = require("../common");
+assert = common.assert
+var events = require('events');
+
+var e = new events.EventEmitter();
+var times_hello_emited = 0;
+
+e.once("hello", function (a, b) {
+  times_hello_emited++;
+});
+
+e.emit("hello", "a", "b");
+e.emit("hello", "a", "b");
+e.emit("hello", "a", "b");
+e.emit("hello", "a", "b");
+
+process.addListener("exit", function () {
+  assert.equal(1, times_hello_emited);
+});
+
-- 
2.7.4