DEPRECATED

This repository is now closed. The project has been renamed CloseWatch and folded into https://github.com/swoval/swoval where any future updates will be made. The last version of sbt-mac-watch-service is 1.2.4. The new artifact is named sbt-close-watch and has the same configuration and usage instructions (as of version 1.2.4).

MacOSXWatchService

This is an sbt plugin that replaces the native java PollingWatchService with the MacOSXWatchService, which uses the apple file system api to receive file events.

Usage

Add

addSbtPlugin("com.swoval" %% "sbt-mac-watch-service" % "1.2.2")

to your project/plugins.sbt. To apply the plugin globally, add those commands to ~/.sbt/1.0/plugins/watch.sbt (creating the file if necessary).

With luck the plugin works well with default settings, but there are a number of configuration options. By default the plugin overrides a number of sbt settings and tasks and commands:

• sources in Compile
• sources in Test
• includeFilter in managedSources
• includeFilter in unmanagedSources
• ~ (aka sbt.BasicCommands.continuous)

To prevent the plugin from overriding these sbt defaults, the following flags are available:

• useDefaultWatchService -- don't override ~
• useDefaultSourceList -- don't override sources in *
• useDefaultIncludeFilters -- don't override includeFilter in *

The new implementation of ~ relies on a cache of source files. It can be configured with the fileCache key. To disable caching the sources (which impacts the sources in * tasks)

fileCache := com.swoval.files.FileCaches.NoCache

You can further tweak the file cache to control the latency of the buffered file events and whether or not to monitor files directly or just the directories (see FileCache.scala).

When using the default sbt continuous execution implementation, you can tune the watch service with the following settings (default values follow the :=):

pollInterval := 75.milliseconds -- This overrides the internal sbt pollInterval duration. SBT currently polls the WatchService for events at this rate. Reducing the value decreases latency but increases cpu utilization.

watchLatency := 50.milliseconds -- Sets the latency parameter which causes the underly apple file system api to buffer events for this duration. Lower values reduces the trigger latency, but, if the values are too small, multiple builds can be triggered for the same event.

watchQueueSize := 256 -- Sets the maximum number of cached file system events per watched path. Decrease to reduce memory utilization.

Credits

The initial implementation was based on directory-watcher, which in turn relied on takari-directoy-watcher. Thanks to @francisdb who provided lots of early feedback.

License

This library is licensed under the Apache 2 license. See LICENSE for more information.