#--------------------------------------------------------------------- package Win32::ChangeNotify; # # Copyright 1998 Christopher J. Madsen # # Created: 3 Feb 1998 from the ActiveWare version # (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. # Developed by ActiveWare Internet Corp., http://www.ActiveWare.com # # Other modifications (c) 1997 by Gurusamy Sarathy # # Author: Christopher J. Madsen # Version: 1.02 (13-Jun-1999) # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the same terms as Perl itself. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the # GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. # # Monitor directory for changes #--------------------------------------------------------------------- $VERSION = '1.02'; use Carp; use Win32::IPC 1.00 '/./'; # Import everything require Exporter; require DynaLoader; @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader Win32::IPC); # Items to export into callers namespace by default. Note: do not export # names by default without a very good reason. Use EXPORT_OK instead. # Do not simply export all your public functions/methods/constants. @EXPORT = qw( FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_ATTRIBUTES FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_DIR_NAME FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_FILE_NAME FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SECURITY FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_SIZE INFINITE ); @EXPORT_OK = qw( wait_all wait_any ); sub AUTOLOAD { # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant() # XS function. my $constname; ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; if ($constname =~ /^(?:FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_|INFINITE)/) { my $val = constant($constname); croak("$constname is not defined by Win32::ChangeNotify") if $! != 0; eval "sub $AUTOLOAD { $val }"; goto &$AUTOLOAD; } } # end AUTOLOAD bootstrap Win32::ChangeNotify; sub new { my ($class,$path,$subtree,$filter) = @_; if ($filter =~ /\A[\s|A-Z_]+\Z/i) { $filter = 0; foreach (split(/[\s|]+/, $_[3])) { $filter |= constant("FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_" . uc $_); carp "Invalid filter $_" if $!; } } _new($class,$path,$subtree,$filter); } # end new sub Close { &close } sub FindFirst { $_[0] = Win32::ChangeNotify->_new(@_[1..3]); } sub FindNext { &reset } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Win32::ChangeNotify - Monitor events related to files and directories =head1 SYNOPSIS require Win32::ChangeNotify; $notify = Win32::ChangeNotify->new($Path,$WatchSubTree,$Events); $notify->wait or warn "Something failed: $!\n"; # There has been a change. =head1 DESCRIPTION This module allows the user to use a Win32 change notification event object from Perl. This allows the Perl program to monitor events relating to files and directory trees. The C method and C & C functions are inherited from the L<"Win32::IPC"> module. =head2 Methods =over 4 =item $notify = Win32::ChangeNotify->new($path, $subtree, $filter) Constructor for a new ChangeNotification object. C<$path> is the directory to monitor. If C<$subtree> is true, then all directories under C<$path> will be monitored. C<$filter> indicates what events should trigger a notification. It should be a string containing any of the following flags (separated by whitespace and/or C<|>). ATTRIBUTES Any attribute change DIR_NAME Any directory name change FILE_NAME Any file name change (creating/deleting/renaming) LAST_WRITE Any change to a file's last write time SECURITY Any security descriptor change SIZE Any change in a file's size (C<$filter> can also be an integer composed from the C constants.) =item $notify->close Shut down monitoring. You could just C instead (but C works even if there are other copies of the object). This happens automatically when your program exits. =item $notify->reset Resets the ChangeNotification object after a change has been detected. The object will become signalled again after the next change. (It is OK to call this immediately after C, but it is not required.) =item $notify->wait See L<"Win32::IPC">. Remember to call C afterwards if you want to continue monitoring. =back =head2 Deprecated Functions and Methods B still supports the ActiveWare syntax, but its use is deprecated. =over 4 =item FindFirst($Obj,$PathName,$WatchSubTree,$Filter) Use $Obj = Win32::ChangeNotify->new($PathName,$WatchSubTree,$Filter) instead. =item $obj->FindNext() Use C<$obj-Ereset> instead. =item $obj->Close() Use C<$obj-Eclose> instead. =back =head1 AUTHOR Christopher J. Madsen EFE Loosely based on the original module by ActiveWare Internet Corp., F =cut # Local Variables: # tmtrack-file-task: "Win32::ChangeNotify" # End: