How to register a directory recursively?

[klauern]

I know that by default, Java's watch service won't register directories under a path recursively, but how would I go about doing that with this library?

[rplevy-draker]

I think that would be a good feature to add.

[rplevy-draker]

Just to be a little more clear, it's part of a category of useful functionality that I intend to add, namely "multiple watchers". I have not implemented multiple watchers yet because I did not need it for my specific use case. It's trivial except for how it changes the work-queue code, which involves some design decisions I will want to consider in more detail.

I think the recursive case should actually just be an option (like parallel mode), and when it is selected, watchers are defined internally for each subdirectory.

[klauern]

Yeah, I'm with you on that. I was using Java's WatchService to write a similar library and was hoping someone had a clean way to handle it. I was stumbling on whether I wanted to differentiate between setup and runtime directory registration, since I would have to register directories created as they are evented in addition to walking the tree at startup.