Re: TimerTask as Filewatcher.
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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