How do I create a fileWatcher with an onFileChange event using spawn?
shuji
cravstar at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 13 04:18:45 UTC 2017
On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 21:25:37 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote:
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> Something like this:
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> module file_watcher;
>
> import std.concurrency;
> import std.file;
> import std.signals;
> import std.datetime;
>
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> void fileWatcher(Tid tid, string filename, int loopSleep) {
> auto modified0 = timeLastModified(filename);
>
> while (true) {
> modified = timeLastModified(filename);
>
> if (modified > modified0) {
> modified0 = modified;
> //if (onFileChange !is null)
> // onFileChange(receiver);
> }
>
> sleep(dur!"msecs"(loopSleep));
> }
> }
>
>
> But I'm not sure how to send the onFiledChange event.
@Nemanja Boric I would not recommend calling those APIs on
Windows because they work on entire directories, not suitable for
individual files and sometimes those functions not even work
when other programs change the files in a non standard way (that
has happened to me before when editing through a text editor)
@Enjoys Math The way I usually deal with this problem is I save
the filename, the time and handler function in an associative
array and loop through when something changes, this way you can
delete, sort, etc on the map when the files are deleted or so.
Hope this helps a little.
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