WatchService re-register events appended or replaced
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Jul 25 21:11:51 PDT 2012
On 26/07/2012 00:13, Michael Hall wrote:
> This isn't clear to me from the javadoc which I thought might make it worth raising the question even if I could track down the answer myself.
> When you re-register a path you should get the same WatchKey back. Does it keep it's old events and get the new ones added?
> I assume re-register amounts to an event reset but would feel safer in this assumption with some confirmation?
>
I think this is all covered in the javadoc (register method):
"If the file system object identified by this object is currently
registered with the watch service then the watch key, representing that
registration, is returned after changing the event set or modifiers to
those specified by the |events| and |modifiers| parameters. Changing the
event set does not cause pending events for the object to be discarded. "
So calling register on an object that is already registered does change
the event set but it doesn't discard events that are waiting to be
retrieved. Hopefully this helps.
-Alan
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