For example, if you want WatchService to detect that dir \ file.txt has changed, you'll want to write code like this, which raises a runtime exception (NotDirectoryException).
var file = Paths.get("dir", "file.txt");
var watcher = FileSystems.getDefault().newWatchService();
file.register(watcher, StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_MODIFY);
[JavaDoc for Path :: register](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/jp/8/docs/api/java/nio/file/Path.html#register-java.nio.file.WatchService As you can see in -java.nio.file.WatchEvent.Kind: A-java.nio.file.WatchEvent.Modifier ...-), the registration target of WatchService is a directory. Or it can be said that WatchService monitors the events that occur in the files and directories under the registered directory. Therefore, if you want to detect only the events of a specific file, you need to devise the following, for example.
var file = Paths.get("dir", "file.txt");
var directory = file.getParent();
var watcher = FileSystems.getDefault().newWatchService();
directory.register(watcher, StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_MODIFY);
//File until interrupted by interrupt etc..Keep monitoring txt.
while (true) {
var watchKey = watcher.take();
for (var event : watchKey.pollEvents()) {
var modified = (Path) event.context();
if (modified.equals(file.getFileName())) {
// Do Something
}
}
}
You can get information about the entry where the event occurred with WatchEvent :: context. The return value of WatchEvent :: context is ʻObject, but in reality, a Pathobject is returned, so in the above example, it is cast as a variablemodified`.
Also, the Path object stored in modified is a relative path from the directory registered in WatchService. In short, it is var modified = Paths.get ("file.txt ");, so you need to be careful when comparing with ʻequals` etc.
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