Another unique feature of Bloc instances is that they allow us to override onEvent which is called whenever a new event is added to the Bloc. Just like with onChange and onTransition, onEvent can be overridden locally as well as globally.

abstract class CounterEvent {}

class CounterIncrementPressed extends CounterEvent {}

class CounterBloc extends Bloc<CounterEvent, int> {
  CounterBloc() : super(0) {
    on<CounterIncrementPressed>((event, emit) => emit(state + 1));
  }

  @override
  void onEvent(CounterEvent event) {
    super.onEvent(event);
    print(event);
  }

  @override
  void onChange(Change<int> change) {
    super.onChange(change);
    print(change);
  }

  @override
  void onTransition(Transition<CounterEvent, int> transition) {
    super.onTransition(transition);
    print(transition);
  }
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class SimpleBlocObserver extends BlocObserver {
  @override
  void onEvent(Bloc bloc, Object? event) {
    super.onEvent(bloc, event);
    print('${bloc.runtimeType} $event');
  }

  @override
  void onChange(BlocBase bloc, Change change) {
    super.onChange(bloc, change);
    print('${bloc.runtimeType} $change');
  }

  @override
  void onTransition(Bloc bloc, Transition transition) {
    super.onTransition(bloc, transition);
    print('${bloc.runtimeType} $transition');
  }
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We can run the same main.dart as before and should see the following output:

Increment
CounterBloc Increment
Transition { currentState: 0, event: Increment, nextState: 1 }
CounterBloc Transition { currentState: 0, event: Increment, nextState: 1 }
Change { currentState: 0, nextState: 1 }
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Note: onEvent is called as soon as the event is added. The local onEvent is invoked before the global onEvent in BlocObserver.