def LoadAnnouncementFilesIntoTheDatabase(): announcements = [] announcementsPath = Settings.GetAnnouncementWatchPath() entries = os.listdir( announcementsPath ) files = []; for entry in entries: # We can't do anything with undecodable filenames because we can't even join the paths (to move the file to the invalid directory) without getting an UnicodeDecodeError... # "Undecodable filenames will still be returned as string objects." # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3409381/how-to-handle-undecodable-filenames-in-python if not isinstance( entry, unicode ): continue filePath = os.path.join( announcementsPath, entry ) if os.path.isfile( filePath ): modificationTime = os.path.getmtime( filePath ) item = modificationTime, filePath # Add as a tuple. files.append( item ) files.sort() for item in files: path = item[ 1 ] # First element is the modification time, second is the path. releaseInfo = AnnouncementWatcher.ProcessAnnouncementFile( path ) if releaseInfo is not None: announcements.append( releaseInfo ) return announcements
def __init__( self ): MyGlobals.Logger.info( "Starting announcement directory watcher." ) # "When you call observer.schedule() path should be str properly encoded to what the file system is, not unicode" # https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/issues/157#issuecomment-16584053 path = Settings.GetAnnouncementWatchPath().encode( sys.getfilesystemencoding() ) eventHandler = MyWatchdogEventHandler() self.Observer = Observer() self.Observer.schedule( eventHandler, path, recursive = False ) self.Observer.start()
