/** ROBLOX NOTE: We needed to monitor folders with many subfolders and even more files. QT QFileSystemWatcher wouldn't do the job right (perform pretty bad) and at the time of writing this it also had bug, which made it not only perform poor, but even not possible to use at all. */ /** Main header for the FileWatcher class. Declares all implementation classes to reduce compilation overhead. @author James Wynn @date 4/15/2009 Copyright (c) 2009 James Wynn (james@jameswynn.com) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ #ifndef _FW_FILEWATCHER_H_ #define _FW_FILEWATCHER_H_ #pragma once #include #include namespace FW { /// Type for a string typedef std::string String; /// Type for a watch id typedef unsigned long WatchID; // forward declarations class FileWatcherImpl; class FileWatchListener; /// Base exception class /// @class Exception class Exception : public std::runtime_error { public: Exception(const String& message) : std::runtime_error(message) {} }; /// Exception thrown when a file is not found. /// @class FileNotFoundException class FileNotFoundException : public Exception { public: FileNotFoundException() : Exception("File not found") {} FileNotFoundException(const String& filename) : Exception("File not found (" + filename + ")") {} }; /// Actions to listen for. Rename will send two events, one for /// the deletion of the old file, and one for the creation of the /// new file. namespace Actions { enum Action { /// Sent when a file is created or renamed Add = 1, /// Sent when a file is deleted or renamed Delete = 2, /// Sent when a file is modified Modified = 4 }; }; typedef Actions::Action Action; /// Listens to files and directories and dispatches events /// to notify the parent program of the changes. /// @class FileWatcher class FileWatcher { public: /// /// FileWatcher(); /// /// virtual ~FileWatcher(); /// Add a directory watch /// @exception FileNotFoundException Thrown when the requested directory does not exist WatchID addWatch(const String& directory, FileWatchListener* watcher, bool includeSubfolders); /// Remove a directory watch. This is a brute force search O(nlogn). void removeWatch(const String& directory); /// Remove a directory watch. This is a map lookup O(logn). void removeWatch(WatchID watchid); /// Updates the watcher. Must be called often. void update(); private: /// The implementation FileWatcherImpl* mImpl; };//end FileWatcher /// Basic interface for listening for file events. /// @class FileWatchListener class FileWatchListener { public: FileWatchListener() {} virtual ~FileWatchListener() {} /// Handles the action file action /// @param watchid The watch id for the directory /// @param dir The directory /// @param filename The filename that was accessed (not full path) /// @param action Action that was performed virtual void handleFileAction(WatchID watchid, const String& dir, const String& filename, Action action) = 0; };//class FileWatchListener };//namespace FW #endif//_FW_FILEWATCHER_H_