Module file_watcher

Code to watch configuration files for any changes.

Structs

FileEventReceiver

The receiver half of a watch channel used for receiving Events sent by a FileWatcher.

FileEventSender

The sender half of a watch channel used by a FileWatcher for sending Events.

FileWatcher

A wrapper around a notify::Watcher to watch a set of parent directories in order to learn about changes in some specific files that they contain.

FileWatcherBuilder

Builder used to configure a FileWatcher before it starts watching for changes.

Enums

DirEventFilter 🔒

A filter for deciding what to do with a notify::Event pertaining to files that are relative to one of the directories we are watching.

Event

Event possibly triggering a configuration reload

FileWatcherBuildError

An error coming from a FileWatcherBuilder.

Functions

channel

Create a new channel for use with a FileWatcher.

handle_event 🔒

Map a notify event to the Event type returned by FileWatcher.

ignore_event_kind 🔒

Check whether this is a kind of [notify::Event] that we want to ignore.

Type Aliases

NotifyWatcher 🔒

The concrete type of the underlying watcher.

Result

Result whose Err is FileWatcherBuildError.