// Copyright (c) 2013, 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 'src/directory_watcher.dart'; import 'src/file_watcher.dart'; import 'src/watch_event.dart'; export 'src/custom_watcher_factory.dart' show registerCustomWatcher; export 'src/directory_watcher.dart'; export 'src/directory_watcher/polling.dart'; export 'src/file_watcher.dart'; export 'src/file_watcher/polling.dart'; export 'src/watch_event.dart'; abstract class Watcher { /// The path to the file or directory whose contents are being monitored. String get path; /// The broadcast [Stream] of events that have occurred to the watched file or /// files in the watched directory. /// /// Changes will only be monitored while this stream has subscribers. Any /// changes that occur during periods when there are no subscribers will not /// be reported the next time a subscriber is added. Stream get events; /// Whether the watcher is initialized and watching for changes. /// /// This is true if and only if [ready] is complete. bool get isReady; /// A [Future] that completes when the watcher is initialized and watching for /// changes. /// /// If the watcher is not currently monitoring the file or directory (because /// there are no subscribers to [events]), this returns a future that isn't /// complete yet. It will complete when a subscriber starts listening and the /// watcher finishes any initialization work it needs to do. /// /// If the watcher is already monitoring, this returns an already complete /// future. /// /// This future always completes successfully as errors are provided through /// the [events] stream. Future get ready; /// Creates a new [DirectoryWatcher] or [FileWatcher] monitoring [path], /// depending on whether it's a file or directory. /// /// If a native watcher is available for this platform, this will use it. /// Otherwise, it will fall back to a polling watcher. Notably, watching /// individual files is not natively supported on Windows, although watching /// directories is. /// /// If [pollingDelay] is passed, it specifies the amount of time the watcher /// will pause between successive polls of the contents of [path]. 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 Watcher(String path, {Duration? pollingDelay}) { if (File(path).existsSync()) { return FileWatcher(path, pollingDelay: pollingDelay); } else { return DirectoryWatcher(path, pollingDelay: pollingDelay); } } }