erniebrodeur / watchfolder

a bog standard watchfolder, written in Go with speed, lean, and concurrency in mind.

Watchfolder

Watch a folder or file for changes, and do something about it.

Imports

• External imports, not stdlib stuff

Runtime

• fsnotify

Testing

• ginkgo
• gomega

Packages

cmd/watchfolder

• contains main loop

internal/target

• contains target types and functions

internal/actions

• things that can be done

internal/event

• types of events

internal/watch

• watch
• watched

internal/server

• the internal server/daemon

internal/server/configuration

• the server configuration (as a buildable object)

internal/listening

• listening types

Types

Event Listener

Watched

• slice of all files being watched
• only watches files

Watch

• combo of []targets, []events, and []actions

Targets

• slice of all active targets

Target

• generic that can be file or directory

TargetFile

• file

TargetDirectory

• directory

Action

• thing to do to a target

Event

• trigger for target
• calls action

Server

• contains runtime server information
• waits for events in []targets
• calls action when event triggers in []targets

ServerConfiguration

• server related settings

Listener

Threads

ListenerManager

• controls listeners

Listener

• individual listener for each target