krzysztofzablocki / kzfilewatchers

A micro-framework for observing file changes, both local and remote. Helpful in building developer tools.

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kzfilewatchers's Issues

Objc Interoperability

Hi, I want to add interoperability with Objective-C by writing some wrappers above classes and enum, without modifying original sources.
It could be useful for project with legacy code base.

Version 1.1.0 doesn't work as a Swift package.

Hi, great project thanks for making this. I've just been integrating it into our project and noticed there was an issue using the Swift package. Seems that #26 fixed the issue (#25), but the repo hasn't been tagged since. We can happily use master but I was wondering if there's any chance of tagging a new version at some stage to make it possible to use versions again?

Thanks again!

Release with swift 5

Will there be a release with support for Swift 5?

[Question] KZFileWatchers Fatal Error, Xcode 8.2.1, Swift 3.0.2

Hi, from New Zealand! :-)

I like the idea of this framework and hopefully will be using it in an app I am developing, along with Freddy (for JSON data), and ReSwift (reactive states).

I downloaded this repo on 20 April 2017, and put only the source files into my project.

Recently, I have had a fatal runtime error on this piece of code in the Daemon class:
try! fileWatcher.start(closure: { result in

The full error is this:
fatal error: 'try!' expression unexpectedly raised an error: trips.FileWatcher.Error.failedToStart("Failed to open file"): file /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/swiftlang/swiftlang-800.0.63/src/swift/stdlib/public/core/ErrorType.swift, line 178

As seen in this screenshot of Xcode: http://imgur.com/a/cVQZT

I have adapted the Daemon code to initialize with an URL, then pass that as a path String to FileWatcher.Local as:
fileWatcher = FileWatcher.Local(path: String(describing: jsonURL))

This is shown by the full URL (where 'Store' and 'state.trip' both exist):
file:///Users/mikenorman/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/72D4C7B2-B12E-4E0D-B520-A194237BCABA/data/Containers/Data/Application/FCA0A655-5F08-40C9-AAF4-0658C8346439/Library/Store/state.trip

I am currently testing this to the iPhone 6s Simulator, which is working fine for any other builds.
The file I am trying to 'watch' is a JSON file (state.trip) in a 'Store' folder in the app's Library folder.

Is this an invalid operation for the i386 architecture? I only want to use this on iOS.
Thread 1: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_i386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)

I am not sure why it is throwing that fatal error, and any help will be awesome.

Thanks

--mike

Swift package manifest doesn't vend any products

Hi! This is a great little project! However, the Swift package manifest doesn't declare any products. When I try to use the package, SPM (tools version 5.5) doesn't accept the target's name as a dependency. The issue can be fixed by declaring a product that uses that target.

Support newest Xcode & Swift

Hi,
I would like to update the project to Xcode 9.3 and Swift 4.1. I would love to make PR but firstly I want to hear if this change is wanted or not. I noticed that used pods versions are very old and that some small code improvements can be done.

FTP support

Hey there
I want to connect a real FTP address with user:pass in xcode 9, can be use your framework?

Like this url.

Bad implementation of time intervals

you have a bug in your computation of default time intervals.
1/60 is an action on integers which results in a rounded number, specifically in a '0'

you should change the expression into: '1/60.0' if you want a floating point expression

Carthage support

Hi,
For iOS and macOS projets it's will be great to make your component Carthage compatible

Take a look at these articles:

• Ruthlessly Simple Dependency Management with Carthage
• Carthage Tutorial: Getting Started
• Making Carthage-compatible Frameworks with Swift
• Swift Cross Platform Framework (section Configure targets for Carthage) 👍

On your README.md add on top and add section for the installation with Carthage.

Optimize Remote Watching

use HEAD http request to compare meta changes instead of downloading for every interval.

TextEdit is breaking the dispatch_source observation

Hi there,
Thanks for this project. I am trying this out at present but I am not sure how it works.In the sample source example ,when I run the app and open the text file the changes that are typed in the text file are reflected on the app only when the file is saved . This happens only the first time , rest of the time if I change the text and save again nothing gets changed. This is contrary to what is happening in the GIF that has been attached to the project. Please tell tell how to make sure it works that way.

RemoteFileWatcher not making a callback on the main thread

The callback in Remote.swift is being executed on a background thread and it leads to crashes whenever someone wants to use the callback data without realizing that the callback is. being executed on the background thread.

This behaviour is also leading to random crashing issues in the unit tests (Exactly when the test are run twice).

I have opened a PR for the same - #23