[Pdx-pm] Accessing File::Monitor attribute

[Robert Buels]

Not such great documentation.  From what I can tell, watch() returns a 
monitoring object, and you call mtime on that.

Here's a demo.  run it like demo.pl filename to watch a file for 
modifications for 10 seconds.

Rob



#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

use File::Monitor;
use File::Monitor::Object;
my $monitor = File::Monitor->new();
my $filewatcher = $monitor->watch($ARGV[0]);
print $filewatcher->mtime, "\n";
my $n = 10;
while($n--) {
     $monitor->scan;
     sleep 1;
     print $filewatcher->mtime, "\n";
}





Daniel Herrington wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm new to classes in perl and I've hit a roadblock using the 
> File::Monitor class. From the doc for  File::Monitor 
> http://search.cpan.org/~andya/File-Monitor-0.10/lib/File/Monitor/Object.pm 
> <http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=File%3A%3AMonitor>:
> The state of the monitored file or directory at the time of the last 
> scan can be queried. Before scan is called these methods will all return 
> undef. The following methods return the value of the corresponding field 
> from "stat" in perlfunc.
> For example:
> 
> my $modified = $object->mtime;
> 
> Now I've instantiated my object as per the instructions:
> 
> use File::Monitor; use File::Monitor::Object; my $wFileMonitor = 
> File::Monitor->new(); $wFileMonitor->watch($wFile); $wFileMonitor->scan; 
> my $modified = $wFileMonitor->mtime
> 
> But I get the following error:
> Can't locate object method "mtime" via package "File::Monitor" at 
> /home/workspace/watchFile.pl line 65.
> 
> I know it's getting lost in the reference to mtime, but I'm at a loss on 
> how to access it. The doc simply refers to $object->mtime and my read of 
> it says that $wFileMonitor should be $object.
> thanks,
> 
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