inotify

class platypush.backend.inotify.InotifyBackend(watch_paths=None, **kwargs)

Bases: Backend

NOTE: This backend is deprecated in favour of platypush.backend.file.monitor.FileMonitorBackend.

(Linux only) This backend will listen for events on the filesystem (whether a file/directory on a watch list is opened, modified, created, deleted, closed or had its permissions changed) and will trigger a relevant event.

Triggers:

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyCreateEvent if a resource is created

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyAccessEvent if a resource is accessed

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyOpenEvent if a resource is opened

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyModifyEvent if a resource is modified

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyPermissionsChangeEvent if the permissions of a resource are changed

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyCloseEvent if a resource is closed

• platypush.message.event.inotify.InotifyDeleteEvent if a resource is removed

Requires:

• inotify (pip install inotify)

__init__(watch_paths=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

watch_paths (str) – Filesystem resources to watch for events

run()

Starts the backend thread. To be implemented in the derived classes if the loop method isn’t defined.