Re: TimerTask as Filewatcher.

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:56:54 -0700
Message-ID:
<aD8Wi.38$Tp3.16@newsfe15.lga>
Lew wrote:

smartnhandsome wrote:

I want to use TimerTask to watch for a file in a particular folder.
and proceed to another line of code only after i get the file in a
particular folder.


Knute Johnson wrote:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {
            public void run() {
                File f = new File("c://temp3//");
                if (f.exists()) {
                    cancel(); // so it doesn't do it again
                    // do your thing here
                }
            }
        };
        timer.schedule(task,1000,1000); // try every second
    }
}


Now, finding out if that file not only exists but is complete, that's
another issue. You could find the file and another process might still
be writing to it.


See the "//do your thing" comment above :-).

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Knute Johnson
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