`fs-index`: Filesystem monitoring using `notify-rs`
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Description
Use notify-rs
to enable filesystem monitoring for a specified root folder. This functionality would automatically update the index if any changes were detected within the watched directory.
Motivation
- Enhance UX with a straightforward solution for keeping the index up-to-date.
Proposal
We've decided to add a method ResourceIndex::watch_index()
to monitor a specific directory for changes and update the index whenever a change is detected.
For interacting with this method, we'll add a command to ark-cli
which is ark-cli watch <path>
To further build on this, we plan to enhance this functionality to enable watching multiple directories simultaneously. This will be possible through the following commands:
ark-cli watch --all
to watch all specified directories.ark-cli watch pin <path>
to add a directory to the watch list.ark-cli watch unpin <path>
to stop watching a directory.ark-cli watch list
to list the directories currently being watched.
We can also have a global configuration file, such as /Users/<username>/.ark/directories_to_watch
, to store the list of directories to monitor.