jcifs

Interface SmbWatchHandle

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, Callable<List<FileNotifyInformation>>

public interface SmbWatchHandle
extends AutoCloseable, Callable<List<FileNotifyInformation>>

Handle for receiving change notifications from an SMB server

Author:

mbechler

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<FileNotifyInformation>	call()
void	close()
List<FileNotifyInformation>	watch() Get the next set of changes Will block until the server returns a set of changes that match the given filter.

Method Detail

watch

List<FileNotifyInformation> watch()
                           throws CIFSException

Get the next set of changes Will block until the server returns a set of changes that match the given filter. The file will be automatically opened if it is not and should be closed with close() when no longer needed. Closing the context should cancel a pending notify request, but that does not seem to work reliable in all implementations. Changes in between these calls (as long as the file is open) are buffered by the server, so iteratively calling this method should provide all changes (size of that buffer can be adjusted through Configuration.getNotifyBufferSize()). If the server cannot fulfill the request because the changes did not fit the buffer it will return an empty list of changes.

Returns:

changes since the last invocation

Throws:

CIFSException

call

List<FileNotifyInformation> call()
                          throws CIFSException

Specified by:

call in interface Callable<List<FileNotifyInformation>>

Throws:

CIFSException

See Also:

Callable.call()

close

void close()
    throws CIFSException

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable

Throws:

CIFSException

See Also:

AutoCloseable.close()