File::ChangeNotify::Event(3)

NAME
File::ChangeNotify::Event - Class for file change events

VERSION
version 0.31

SYNOPSIS
    my $watcher = File::ChangeNotify->instantiate_watcher(
        directories => [ '/my/path', '/my/other' ],
        filter      => qr/\.(?:pm|conf|yml)$/,
        exclude => [ 't', 'root', qr(/(?!\.)[^/]+$) ],
    );

    for my $event ( $watcher->new_events ) {
        print $event->path, ' - ', $event->type, "\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION
This class provides information about a change to a specific file or directory.

METHODS

  File::ChangeNotify::Event->new(...)
This method creates a new event. It accepts the following arguments:

•   path => $path

    The full path to the file or directory that changed.

•   type => $type

    The type of event. This must be one of "create", "modify", "delete", or "unknown".

  $event->path
Returns the path of the changed file or directory.

  $event->type
Returns the type of event.

  $event->has_attributes
This returns true for modify events which include information about a path's attribute changes.

  $event->attributes
If the event includes information about changes to a path's attributes, then this returns a two-element arrayref. Each element is in turn a hashref which will contain at least one of the following keys:

•   permissions

    The permissions mask for the path.

•   uid

    The user id that owns the path.

•   gid

    The group id that owns the path.

Note that only keys which changed will be included.

  $event->has_content
This returns true for modify events which include information about a file's content.

  $event->content
This returns a two-element arrayref where the first element is the old content and the second is the new content.

Note that this content is stored as bytes, not UTF-8. You will need to explicitly call "Encode::decode" on the content to make it UTF-8. This is done because there's no reason you couldn't use this feature with file's containing any sort of binary data.

SUPPORT
Bugs may be submitted at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-ChangeNotify> or via email to bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org>.

I am also usually active on IRC as 'autarch' on "irc://irc.perl.org".

SOURCE
The source code repository for File-ChangeNotify can be found at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/File-ChangeNotify>.

AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2009 - 2019 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.