watchdog 2.0.0

About watchmedo Tricks

watchmedo can read tricks.yaml files and execute tricks within them in response to file system events. Tricks are actually event handlers that subclass watchdog.tricks.Trick and are written by plugin authors. Trick classes are augmented with a few additional features that regular event handlers don’t need.

An example tricks.yaml file:

tricks:
- watchdog.tricks.LoggerTrick:
    patterns: ["*.py", "*.js"]
- watchmedo_webtricks.GoogleClosureTrick:
    patterns: ['*.js']
    hash_names: true
    mappings_format: json                  # json|yaml|python
    mappings_module: app/javascript_mappings
    suffix: .min.js
    compilation_level: advanced            # simple|advanced
    source_directory: app/static/js/
    destination_directory: app/public/js/
    files:
      index-page:
      - app/static/js/vendor/jquery*.js
      - app/static/js/base.js
      - app/static/js/index-page.js
      about-page:
      - app/static/js/vendor/jquery*.js
      - app/static/js/base.js
      - app/static/js/about-page/**/*.js

The directory containing the tricks.yaml file will be monitored. Each trick class is initialized with its corresponding keys in the tricks.yaml file as arguments and events are fed to an instance of this class as they arrive.

Installation Caveats

The watchmedo script depends on PyYAML which links with LibYAML, which brings a performance boost to the PyYAML parser. However, installing LibYAML is optional but recommended. On Mac OS X, you can use homebrew to install LibYAML:

$ brew install libyaml

On Linux, use your favorite package manager to install LibYAML. Here’s how you do it on Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt install libyaml-dev

On Windows, please install PyYAML using the binaries they provide.

2.0.0

2021-02-11 • full history

• Avoid deprecated PyEval_InitThreads on Python 3.7+ (#746)

• [inotify] Add support for IN_CLOSE_WRITE events. A FileCloseEvent event will be fired. Note that IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE events are not handled to prevent much noise. (#184, #245, #280, #313, #690)

• [inotify] Allow to stop the emitter multiple times (#760)

• [mac] Support coalesced filesystem events (#734)

• [mac] Drop support for macOS 10.12 and earlier (#750)

• [mac] Fix an issue when renaming an item changes only the casing (#750)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @bstaletic, @lukassup, @ysard, @SamSchott, @CCP-Aporia, @BoboTiG

1.0.2

2020-12-18 • full history

• Wheels are published for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows (#739)

• [mac] Fix missing event_id attribute in fsevents (#721)

• [mac] Return byte paths if a byte path was given in fsevents (#726 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/726>`_)

• [mac] Add compatibility with old macOS versions (#733 <https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/pull/733>`_)

• Uniformize event for deletion of watched dir (#727)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @SamSchott, @CCP-Aporia, @di, @BoboTiG

1.0.1

2020-12-10 • Fix version with good metadatas.

1.0.0

2020-12-10 • full history

• Versioning is now following the semver

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5

• [mac] Regression fixes for native fsevents (#717)

• [windows] winapi.BUFFER_SIZE now defaults to 64000 (instead of 2048) (#700)

• [windows] Introduced winapi.PATH_BUFFER_SIZE (defaults to 2048) to keep the old behavior with path-realted functions (#700)

• Use pathlib from the standard library, instead of pathtools (#556)

• Allow file paths on Unix that don’t follow the file system encoding (#703)

• Removed the long-time deprecated events.LoggingFileSystemEventHandler class, use LoggingEventHandler instead

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @SamSchott, @bstaletic, @BoboTiG, @CCP-Aporia

0.10.4

2020-11-21 • full history

• Add logger parameter for the LoggingEventHandler (#676)

• Replace mutable default arguments with if None implementation (#677)

• Expand tests to Python 2.7 and 3.5-3.10 for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows

• [mac] Performance improvements for the fsevents module (#680)

• [mac] Prevent compilation of watchdog_fsevents.c on non-macOS machines (#687)

• [watchmedo] Handle shutdown events from SIGTERM and SIGINT more reliably (#693)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @Sraw, @CCP-Aporia, @BoboTiG, @maybe-sybr

0.10.3

2020-06-25 • full history

• Ensure ObservedWatch.path is a string (#651)

• [inotify] Allow to monitor single file (#655)

• [inotify] Prevent raising an exception when a file in a monitored folder has no permissions (#669, #670)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @brant-ruan, @rec, @andfoy, @BoboTiG

0.10.2

2020-02-08 • full history

• Fixed the build_ext command on macOS Catalina (#628)

• Fixed the installation of macOS requirements on non-macOS OSes (#635)

• Refactored dispatch() method of FileSystemEventHandler, PatternMatchingEventHandler and RegexMatchingEventHandler

• [bsd] Improved tests support on non Windows/Linux platforms (#633, #639)

• [bsd] Added FreeBSD CI support (#532)

• [bsd] Restored full support (#638, #641)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @evilham, @danilobellini

0.10.1

2020-01-30 • full history

• Fixed Python 2.7 to 3.6 installation when the OS locale is set to POSIX (#615)

• Fixed the build_ext command on macOS (#618, #620)

• Moved requirements to setup.cfg (#617)

• [mac] Removed old C code for Python 2.5 in the fsevents C implementation

• [snapshot] Added EmptyDirectorySnapshot (#613)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @Ajordat, @tehkirill, @BoboTiG

0.10.0

2020-01-26 • full history

Breaking Changes

• Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3

• Emitters that failed to start are now removed

• [snapshot] Removed the deprecated walker_callback argument, use stat instead

• [watchmedo] The utility is no more installed by default but via the extra watchdog[watchmedo]

Other Changes

• Fixed several Python 3 warnings

• Identify synthesized events with is_synthetic attribute (#369)

• Use os.scandir() to improve memory usage (#503)

• [bsd] Fixed flavors of FreeBSD detection (#529)

• [bsd] Skip unprocessable socket files (#509)

• [inotify] Fixed events containing non-ASCII characters (#516)

• [inotify] Fixed the way OSError are re-raised (#377)

• [inotify] Fixed wrong source path after renaming a top level folder (#515)

• [inotify] Removed delay from non-move events (#477)

• [mac] Fixed a bug when calling FSEventsEmitter.stop() twice (#466)

• [mac] Support for unscheduling deleted watch (#541)

• [mac] Fixed missing field initializers and unused parameters in watchdog_fsevents.c

• [snapshot] Don’t walk directories without read permissions (#408)

• [snapshot] Fixed a race condition crash when a directory is swapped for a file (#513)

• [snasphot] Fixed an AttributeError about forgotten path_for_inode attr (#436)

• [snasphot] Added the ignore_device=False parameter to the ctor (597)

• [watchmedo] Fixed the path separator used (#478)

• [watchmedo] Fixed the use of yaml.load() for yaml.safe_load() (#453)

• [watchmedo] Handle all available signals (#549)

• [watchmedo] Added the --debug-force-polling argument (#404)

• [windows] Fixed issues when the observed directory is deleted (#570 and #601)

• [windows] WindowsApiEmitter made easier to subclass (#344)

• [windows] Use separate ctypes DLL instances

• [windows] Generate sub created events only if recursive=True (#454)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @LKleinNux, @rrzaripov, @wildmichael, @TauPan, @segevfiner, @petrblahos, @QuantumEnergyE, @jeffwidman, @kapsh, @nickoala, @petrblahos, @julianolf, @tonybaloney, @mbakiev, @pR0Ps, javaguirre, @skurfer, @exarkun, @joshuaskelly, @danilobellini, @Ajordat

0.9.0

2018-08-28 • full history

• Deleting the observed directory now emits a DirDeletedEvent event

• [bsd] Improved the platform detection (#378)

• [inotify] Fixed a crash when the root directory being watched by was deleted (#374)

• [inotify] Handle systems providing uClibc

• [linux] Fixed a possible DirDeletedEvent duplication when deleting a directory

• [mac] Fixed unicode path handling fsevents2.py (#298)

• [watchmedo] Added the --debug-force-polling argument (#336)

• [windows] Fixed the FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY constant (#376)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @vulpeszerda, @hpk42, @tamland, @senden9, @gorakhargosh, @nolsto, @mafrosis, @DonyorM, @anthrotype, @danilobellini, @pierregr, @ShinNoNoir, @adrpar, @gforcada, @pR0Ps, @yegorich, @dhke

0.8.3

2015-02-11 • full history

• Fixed the use of the root logger (#274)

• [inotify] Refactored libc loading and improved error handling in inotify_c.py

• [inotify] Fixed a possible unbound local error in inotify_c.py

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @mmorearty, @tamland, @tony, @gorakhargosh

0.8.2

2014-10-29 • full history

• Event emitters are no longer started on schedule if Observer is not already running

• [mac] Fixed usued arguments to pass clang compilation (#265)

• [snapshot] Fixed a possible race condition crash on directory deletion (#281)

• [windows] Fixed an error when watching the same folder again (#270)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @tamland, @apetrone, @Falldog, @theospears

0.8.1

2014-07-28 • full history

• Fixed anon_inode descriptors leakage (#249)

• [inotify] Fixed thread stop dead lock (#250)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @Witos, @adiroiban, @tamland

0.8.0

2014-07-02 • full history

• Fixed argh deprecation warnings (#242)

• [snapshot] Methods returning internal stats info were replaced by mtime(), inode() and path() methods

• [snapshot] Deprecated the walker_callback argument

• [watchmedo] Fixed auto-restart to terminate all children processes (#225)

• [watchmedo] Added the --no-parallel argument (#227)

• [windows] Fixed the value of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (#123)

• [windows] Fixed octal usages to work with Python 3 as well (#223)

• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @tamland, @Ormod, @berdario, @cro, @BernieSumption, @pypingou, @gotcha, @tommorris, @frewsxcv