[#BloombergLP-ball-ObserverAdapter]
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This class aids in the implementation of the `Observer` protocol by allowing clients to implement that protocol by implementing a single method signature: `publish(const Record&, const Context&)`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_observeradapter.h>`

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class ObserverAdapter
    : public xref:BloombergLP/ball/Observer.adoc[Observer]
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== Base Classes

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| Name| Description
| `xref:BloombergLP/ball/Observer.adoc[Observer]`
| This class provides a protocol for receiving and processing log record output.
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== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/ObserverAdapter/2destructor.adoc[`~ObserverAdapter`] [.small]#[destructor]# [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy this observer.
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/ObserverAdapter/publish-0c1.adoc[`publish`] 
| `publish` overloads
| xref:BloombergLP/ball/ObserverAdapter/releaseRecords.adoc[`releaseRecords`]  [.small]#[virtual]#
| Discard any shared reference to a `Record` object that was supplied to the `publish` method and is held by this observer. Note that classes that derive from `ObserverAdapter` should _not_ implement this method. Also note that this operation should be called if resources underlying the previously provided shared‐pointers must be released.
|===



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