The order of notification?

[leo-987]

Hello, this tool is very convenient. But I want to know the order of notification if there are many file in the same directory.

[guyboertje]

@Oyld - Are you using this library/gem outside of Logstash?

[guyboertje]

@Oyld - Ordering/Sorting of the files returned by the glob pattern is a planned feature.
I have done some preliminary work on this.

What kind of order/sort would you want to apply?

I have these in mind:

• path
• modified_at
• smallest
• biggest
• least_bytes_read
• most_bytes_read

Would you want to combine them? e.g. most_bytes_read then path

[guyboertje]

Duplicate of #77

[leo-987]

Yes, I want use it outside of Logstash.
I need sort by creation time, since I want to collect log files.

[guyboertje]

@Oyld - unfortunately many *nix file systems do not record a creation_time for a file.
So this would not be a cross-platform possibility.

See this Stackoverflow answer

[guyboertje]

@Oyld - I'm curious, did you write some code that uses filewatch or are you using another library that uses it?
If you own code, do you use the observer or yielding interface?
If another, which one?

[leo-987]

Oh, I understand. Actualy I need mtime, not creation time.
Thank you for your pointer.
I want to write a tool for log collection like logstash, but it haven't done yet.
:)