Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] directory watcher

["Alex Blewitt" <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. Does it periodically scan for changes, or does it hook in
with the underlying file system notifications to receive changes? I
believe that the Win32 resources API has the ability to pick up
changes; it would be good if that worked for other systems too.

Does it do the reverse, uninstalling a bundle if the corresponding
file is deleted?

Alex.

On 30/08/2007, Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I finally did something that has been on my list for quite some time.
>  Inspired by Peter Kriens' FileInstall bundle, I made a DirectoryWatcher
> that, as the name implies, watches a directory and installs, uninstalls,
> configures, ... things that are dropped into/removed from/changed in the
> dir.  The current working support directly calls installBundle() etc but I
> have also been working on one that calls p2 API to effect and install.  The
> design consists of a DirectoryWatcher with which you can register listeners.
>  The listeners then get added, removed and changed events for the files of
> interest in the directory being watched.  It is quite easy to create a new
> listener that does your own thing.
>
> Keeping in mind that this is quite early, take a look at
>         org.eclipse.equinox.p2.directorywatcher
> I have added not this to the PSF files yet as there are some compile errors
> in the provisioning listener as I have not completed enhancing the metadata
> generator to work on individual files rather than directories.  More to come
> later...
>
> Jeff
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