From 5d4bb9c2e0b67717fca80db0dd09ea40c6029713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: euromark <euromark@web.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 21:17:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make dispatch return CakeEvent - resolves #2819

---
 lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php b/lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php
index 0a5a94e7c..c75bc924c 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Event/CakeEventManager.php
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ class CakeEventManager {
  * Dispatches a new event to all configured listeners
  *
  * @param string|CakeEvent $event the event key name or instance of CakeEvent
- * @return void
+ * @return CakeEvent
  */
 	public function dispatch($event) {
 		if (is_string($event)) {
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ class CakeEventManager {
 
 		$listeners = $this->listeners($event->name());
 		if (empty($listeners)) {
-			return;
+			return $event;
 		}
 
 		foreach ($listeners as $listener) {
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ class CakeEventManager {
 				$event->result = $result;
 			}
 		}
+		return $event;
 	}
 
 /**