A debouncer for [notify] that is optimized for ease of use.

• Only emits a single Rename event if the rename From and To events can be matched
• Merges multiple Rename events
• Takes Rename events into account and updates paths for events that occurred before the rename event, but which haven't been emitted, yet
• Optionally keeps track of the file system IDs all files and stitches rename events together (macOS FS Events, Windows)
• Emits only one Remove event when deleting a directory (inotify)
• Doesn't emit duplicate create events
• Doesn't emit Modify events after a Create event

Installation

[dependencies]
notify-debouncer-full = "0.5.0"

In case you want to select specific features of notify, specify notify as dependency explicitly in your dependencies. Otherwise you can just use the re-export of notify from debouncer-full.

notify-debouncer-full = "0.5.0"
notify = { version = "..", features = [".."] }

Examples

use notify_debouncer_full::{notify::*, new_debouncer, DebounceEventResult};

// Select recommended watcher for debouncer.
// Using a callback here, could also be a channel.
let mut debouncer = new_debouncer(Duration::from_secs(2), None, |result: DebounceEventResult| {
    match result {
        Ok(events) => events.iter().for_each(|event| println!("{event:?}")),
        Err(errors) => errors.iter().for_each(|error| println!("{error:?}")),
    }
}).unwrap();

// Add a path to be watched. All files and directories at that path and
// below will be monitored for changes.
debouncer.watch(".", RecursiveMode::Recursive).unwrap();

Features

The following crate features can be turned on or off in your cargo dependency config:

• serde passed down to notify-types, off by default
• web-time passed down to notify-types, off by default
• crossbeam-channel passed down to notify, off by default
• macos_fsevent passed down to notify, off by default
• macos_kqueue passed down to notify, off by default
• serialization-compat-6 passed down to notify, off by default

Caveats

As all file events are sourced from notify, the known problems section applies here too.

Notify Debouncer Full

A debouncer for notify that is optimized for ease of use.

• Only emits a single Rename event if the rename From and To events can be matched
• Merges multiple Rename events
• Takes Rename events into account and updates paths for events that occurred before the rename event, but which haven't been emitted, yet
• Optionally keeps track of the file system IDs all files and stitches rename events together (FSevents, Windows)
• Emits only one Remove event when deleting a directory (inotify)
• Doesn't emit duplicate create events
• Doesn't emit Modify events after a Create event

Features

• crossbeam-channel passed down to notify, off by default

• serialization-compat-6 passed down to notify, off by default