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mstoreysmith
mstoreysmith

Reputation: 139

JCIFS Watch Directory

I've been using JCIFS to watch an SMB directory for changes by polling the directory timestamp. However, that timestamp isn't always updated when the directory CONTENTS are updated (e.g. a file gets a new timestamp).

I note that the JCIFS SmbFile has a watch() method. Is there an example of how to use this?

The alternative for me would be to monitor each individual file in the directory for updates. But I fear the overhead, with a large number of files on a slow network, would be considerable.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 177

Answers (1)

dilettante
dilettante

Reputation: 101

The code is available on github for examination.

Briefly: SmbFile.watch() returns a watch handle.

The watch handle has a method (also called watch()) that allows you to block until there are changes, at which point it returns a list of changes.

Upvotes: 0

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