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NAME

POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::Touched

SYNOPSIS

  use POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::Touched;

  #$watcher is a PoCo::DW:Object::Touched
  my $watcher = POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::Touched->new
    (
     alias      => 'dirwatch',
     directory  => '/some_dir',
     filter     => sub { $_[0] =~ /\.gz$/ && -f $_[1] },
     callback   => \&some_sub,
     interval   => 1,
    );

  $poe_kernel->run;

DESCRIPTION

POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::Touched extends DirWatch::Object::NewFile in order to exclude files that have already been processed, but still pick up files that have been changed.

Accessors

seen_files

Read-write. Will return a hash ref in with keys will be the full path of all previously processed documents that still exist in the file system and the values are listrefs containing the size and last changed dates of the files. [ ( stat($file) )[7..10] ]

cmp

An Array::Compare object

Extended methods

dispatch

override 'dispatch' Don't dispatch if file has been seen before and has the same values for stat($file)[7..10]

meta

Keeping tests happy.

SEE ALSO

POE::Component::DirWatch::Object, Moose

AUTHOR

Guillermo Roditi, <groditi@cpan.org>

BUGS

If a file is created and deleted between polls it will never be seen. Also if a file is edited more than once in between polls it will never be picked up.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-poe-component-dirwatch-object at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=POE-Component-DirWatch-Object. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc POE::Component::DirWatch::Object::Touched

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

People who answered way too many questions from an inquisitive idiot:

#PoE & #Moose
Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcatsystems.co.uk>
Rocco Caputo

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006 Guillermo Roditi. All Rights Reserved. This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.