Re: Filesystem events

We didn't come to much of a resolution.
It was suggested that the current behavior in browsers was incorrect; 
that the File should become inaccessible if/when it changes.

There still seems to be some hang-up on the Directory entry concept. For 
example, WebKit allows the drag and drop (and selection via input file 
-webkit-directory) of a directory,
creating directory entry hooks, and Mozilla does not seem to support that.

All vendors (I believe) are supportive of stashing File objects into 
IndexedDB.

I don't know that we've made it any further on the concept of mount 
points and/or simple input file directory standardization, and as such, 
there's not been progress on
file / directory watchers.

-Charles


On 5/29/2013 11:21 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Interesting conversation, thanks for pointing to it :-)
>
> So it seems FileList should be live objects that show updates and 
> removals of files and this would be fetched poolling over it (not 
> perfect, but does the job). Ok, I have seen this yet and in fact I'm 
> doing a "hack" looking when modifiedTime and length are null on Chrome 
> to detect when a file has been (re)moved, but what happens when a file 
> is added? How can I be able to detect it? I'm specially interested on 
> this use case.
>
> El 29/05/2013 19:51, "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com 
> <mailto:chuck@jumis.com>> escribió:
>
>     On 5/29/2013 10:26 AM, piranna@gmail.com
>     <mailto:piranna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>         Currently there's no way to fetch real time filesystem
>         modifications inside webapps, both on FileLists or DirEntries.
>         I propose to add filesystem monitoring events to the
>         DirEntries objects, so when a file or directory is added,
>         removed or modified a corresponding event would buble on the
>         filesystem hierarchy up to the DirEntry object where an event
>         listener is registered to catch it, so the webapp would act in
>         correspondance (hashing the files, uploading them...).
>
>         This would also be applied to the FileSystem API and the
>         DeviceStorage API (so for example files dropped on that folder
>         would be uploaded and later removed, in a mail box or printer
>         queue style) and up to some degree on FileList objects, too.
>
>
>     See also:
>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0087.html
>