Watching a Directory for Changes in Java

Question

I want to watch a directory for file changes. And I used WatchService in java.nio. I can successfully listen for file created event. But I can\'t listen for file modify even

Answer 1

I made some classes for this.

public interface FileAvailableListener {
    public void fileAvailable(File file) throws IOException;
}

and

public class FileChange {

private long lastModified;
private long size;
private long lastCheck;

public FileChange(File file) {
    this.lastModified=file.lastModified();
    this.size=file.length();
    this.lastCheck = System.currentTimeMillis();
}

public long getLastModified() {
    return lastModified;
}
public long getSize() {
    return size;
}
public long getLastCheck() {
    return lastCheck;
}

public boolean isStable(FileChange other,long stableTime) {
    boolean b1 = (getLastModified()==other.getLastModified());
    boolean b2 = (getSize()==other.getSize());
    boolean b3 = ((other.getLastCheck()-getLastCheck())>stableTime);
    return b1 && b2 && b3;
}
}

and

public class DirectoryWatcher {

private Timer timer;
private List tasks = new ArrayList();

public DirectoryWatcher() throws URISyntaxException, IOException, InterruptedException {
    super();
    timer = new Timer(true);        
}
public void addDirectoryMonitoringTask(DirectoryMonitorTask task,long period) {
    tasks.add(task);
    timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, 5000, period);      
}
public List getTasks() {
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(tasks);
}
public Timer getTimer() {
    return timer;
}
}

and

class DirectoryMonitorTask extends TimerTask {

public final static String DIRECTORY_NAME_ARCHIVE="archive";
public final static String DIRECTORY_NAME_ERROR="error";
public final static String LOCK_FILE_EXTENSION=".lock";
public final static String ERROR_FILE_EXTENSION=".error";   
public final static String FILE_DATE_FORMAT="yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS";

private String name;
private FileAvailableListener listener;
private Path directory;
private File directoryArchive;
private File directoryError;
private long stableTime;
private FileFilter filter;
private WatchService watchService;
private SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat(FILE_DATE_FORMAT);
private Hashtable fileMonitor = new Hashtable();

public DirectoryMonitorTask(String name,FileAvailableListener listener,Path directory,long stableTime,FileFilter filter) throws IOException {
    super();
    this.name=name;
    this.listener=listener;
    this.directory=directory;
    this.stableTime=stableTime;
    if (stableTime<1) {
        stableTime=1000;
    }
    this.filter=filter;
    validateNotNull("Name",name);
    validateNotNull("Listener",listener);
    validateNotNull("Directory",directory);
    validate(directory);
    directoryArchive = new File(directory.toFile(),DIRECTORY_NAME_ARCHIVE);
    directoryError = new File(directory.toFile(),DIRECTORY_NAME_ERROR);
    directoryArchive.mkdir();
    directoryError.mkdir();
    //
    log("Constructed for "+getDirectory().toFile().getAbsolutePath());

    initialize();
    //
    watchService = FileSystems.getDefault().newWatchService();
    directory.register(watchService,StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_CREATE,StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_DELETE,StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_MODIFY);
    log("Started");
}

private void initialize() {
    File[] files = getDirectory().toFile().listFiles();
    for (File file : files) {
        if (isLockFile(file)) {
            file.delete();
        } else if (acceptFile(file)) {
            fileMonitor.put(file,new FileChange(file));
            log("Init file added -"+file.getName());
        }
    }
}
public SimpleDateFormat getDateFormatter() {
    return dateFormatter;
}
public Path getDirectory() {
    return directory;
}
public FileAvailableListener getListener() {
    return listener;
}
public String getName() {
    return name;
}
public WatchService getWatchService() {
    return watchService;
}
public long getStableTime() {
    return stableTime;
}
public File getDirectoryArchive() {
    return directoryArchive;
}
public File getDirectoryError() {
    return directoryError;
}
public FileFilter getFilter() {
    return filter;
}   
public Iterator getMonitoredFiles() {
    return fileMonitor.keySet().iterator();
}

@Override
public void run() {
    WatchKey key;
    try {
        key = getWatchService().take();
        // Poll all the events queued for the key
        for (WatchEvent event : key.pollEvents()) {                                      
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            Path filePath = ((WatchEvent) event).context();
            File file = filePath.toFile();
            if ((!isLockFile(file)) && (acceptFile(file))) {
                switch (event.kind().name()) {
                    case "ENTRY_CREATE":
                        //                          
                        fileMonitor.put(file,new FileChange(file));
                        log("File created ["+file.getName()+"]");
                        break;
                        //
                    case "ENTRY_MODIFY":
                        //                          
                        fileMonitor.put(file,new FileChange(file));
                        log("File modified ["+file.getName()+"]");
                        break;  
                        //
                    case "ENTRY_DELETE":
                        //
                        log("File deleted ["+file.getName()+"]");
                        createLockFile(file).delete();
                        fileMonitor.remove(file);                           
                        break;
                        //
                }
            }
        }
        // reset is invoked to put the key back to ready state
        key.reset();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {              
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Iterator it = fileMonitor.keySet().iterator();

    while (it.hasNext()) {
        File file = it.next();  
        FileChange fileChange = fileMonitor.get(file);
        FileChange fileChangeCurrent = new FileChange(file);

        if (fileChange.isStable(fileChangeCurrent, getStableTime())) {
            log("File is stable ["+file.getName()+"]");
            String filename = getDateFormatter().format(new Date())+"_"+file.getName();
            File lockFile = createLockFile(file);
            if (!lockFile.exists()) {
                log("File do not has lock file ["+file.getName()+"]");
                try {
                    Files.createFile(lockFile.toPath());
                    log("Processing file ["+file.getName()+"]");
                    getListener().fileAvailable(file);                      
                    file.renameTo(new File(getDirectoryArchive(),filename));
                    log("Moved to archive file ["+file.getName()+"]");
                } catch (IOException e) {                       
                    file.renameTo(new File(getDirectoryError(),filename));
                    createErrorFile(file,e);
                    log("Moved to error file ["+file.getName()+"]");
                } finally {
                    lockFile.delete();

                }
            } else {                    
                log("File do has lock file ["+file.getName()+"]");
                fileMonitor.remove(file);
            }               
        } else {                
            log("File is unstable ["+file.getName()+"]");
            fileMonitor.put(file,fileChangeCurrent);
        }
    }       
}

public boolean acceptFile(File file) {
    if (getFilter()!=null) {
        return getFilter().accept(file);
    } else {
        return true;
    }       
}

public boolean isLockFile(File file) {
    int pos = file.getName().lastIndexOf('.');
    String extension="";
    if (pos!=-1) {
        extension = file.getName().substring(pos).trim().toLowerCase();
    }   
    return(extension.equalsIgnoreCase(LOCK_FILE_EXTENSION));
}

private File createLockFile(File file) {
    return new File(file.getParentFile(),file.getName()+LOCK_FILE_EXTENSION);
}

private void createErrorFile(File file,IOException exception) {
    File errorFile = new File(file.getParentFile(),file.getName()+ERROR_FILE_EXTENSION);

    StringWriter sw = null;
    PrintWriter pw = null;
    FileWriter fileWriter = null;
    try {
        //          
        fileWriter = new FileWriter(errorFile);
        if (exception!=null) {
            sw = new StringWriter();
            pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
            exception.printStackTrace(pw);      
            fileWriter.write(sw.toString());
        } else {
            fileWriter.write("Exception is null.");
        }
        //      
        fileWriter.flush();
        //
    } catch (IOException e) {
    } finally {
        if (sw!=null) {
            try {
                sw.close();
            } catch (IOException e1) {              
            }
        }
        if (pw!=null) {
            pw.close();
        }
        if (fileWriter!=null) {
            try {
                fileWriter.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {                   
            }
        }
    }
}

private void validateNotNull(String name,Object obj) {
    if (obj==null) {
        throw new NullPointerException(name+" is null.");
    }           
}       
private void validate(Path directory) throws IOException {          
    File file = directory.toFile();
    if (!file.exists()) {
        throw new IOException("Directory ["+file.getAbsolutePath()+"] do not exists.");
    } else if (!file.isDirectory()) {
        throw new IOException("Directory ["+file.getAbsolutePath()+"] is not a directory.");
    } else if (!file.canRead()) {               
        throw new IOException("Can not read from directory ["+file.getAbsolutePath()+"].");
    } else if (!file.canWrite()) {
        throw new IOException("Can not write to directory ["+file.getAbsolutePath()+"] .");
    }       
}

private void log(String msg) {
    //TODO
    System.out.println("Task ["+getName()+"] "+msg);
}
}