// Copyright (c) 2015, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file. import 'dart:io'; import '../watcher.dart'; import 'custom_watcher_factory.dart'; import 'file_watcher/native.dart'; /// Watches a file and emits [WatchEvent]s when the file has changed. /// /// Note that since each watcher only watches a single file, it will only emit /// [ChangeType.MODIFY] events, except when the file is deleted at which point /// it will emit a single [ChangeType.REMOVE] event and then close the stream. /// /// If the file is deleted and quickly replaced (when a new file is moved in its /// place, for example) this will emit a [ChangeType.MODIFY] event. /// /// On Linux, the underlying SDK `File.watch` fails if the system limit on /// watchers has been reached. If this happens the SDK exception is thrown, it /// is a `FileSystemException` with message `Failed to watch path` and /// OSError `No space left on device`, `errorCode = 28`. abstract class FileWatcher implements Watcher { /// Creates a new [FileWatcher] monitoring [file]. /// /// If a native file watcher is available for this platform, this will use it. /// Otherwise, it will fall back to a [PollingFileWatcher]. Notably, native /// file watching is *not* supported on Windows. /// /// If [pollingDelay] is passed, it specifies the amount of time the watcher /// will pause between successive polls of the directory contents. Making this /// shorter will give more immediate feedback at the expense of doing more IO /// and higher CPU usage. Defaults to one second. Ignored for non-polling /// watchers. factory FileWatcher(String file, {Duration? pollingDelay}) { var customWatcher = createCustomFileWatcher(file, pollingDelay: pollingDelay); if (customWatcher != null) return customWatcher; // [File.watch] doesn't work on Windows, but // [FileSystemEntity.isWatchSupported] is still true because directory // watching does work. if (FileSystemEntity.isWatchSupported && !Platform.isWindows) { return NativeFileWatcher(file); } return PollingFileWatcher(file, pollingDelay: pollingDelay); } }