watcher

Documentation

Overview

Package watcher is a stupid time-based file modification watcher, I expect to use fsnotify once it becomes consistent among all platforms. You should not use it.

Index

• type Event
  • func (ev *Event) IsModify() bool
• type Watcher
  • func New() (*Watcher, error)
  • func (w *Watcher) Close()
  • func (w *Watcher) RemoveWatch(file string) error
  • func (w *Watcher) Watch(file string) error
• type WatcherFile

Types

type Event

type Event struct {
	Name string
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Event is the struct that watches a file.

func (*Event) IsModify

func (ev *Event) IsModify() bool

IsModify returns true if the event was a file modification, then it resets the modified flag.

type Watcher

type Watcher struct {
	Files map[string]*WatcherFile
	Event chan (*Event)
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Watcher is the struct that handles a the list of file to watch.

func New

func New() (*Watcher, error)

New allocates, returns a file watcher and starts the watching loop.

func (*Watcher) Close

func (w *Watcher) Close()

Close makes a watcher sleep.

func (*Watcher) RemoveWatch

func (w *Watcher) RemoveWatch(file string) error

RemoveWatch deletes a file from the watching list.

func (*Watcher) Watch

func (w *Watcher) Watch(file string) error

Watch adds a file to the watching list.

type WatcherFile

type WatcherFile struct {
	Filemtime time.Time
}

WatcherFile is the struct that handles the last known file properties.