EventHandlingWatch (engineering.swat:java-watch 0.5.0 API)

All Superinterfaces:

ActiveWatch, AutoCloseable, Closeable

All Known Implementing Classes:

JDKBaseWatch, JDKDirectoryWatch, JDKFileTreeWatch, JDKFileWatch
```
public interface EventHandlingWatch
extends ActiveWatch
```

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`handleEvent(WatchEvent event)`	Handles `event`.
`default WatchEvent`	`relativize(WatchEvent event)`	Relativizes the full path of `event` against the path watched by this watch (as per `getPath()`).

Methods inherited from interface engineering.swat.watch.ActiveWatch
getPath, getScope

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable
close

- Method Detail
  - handleEvent
```
void handleEvent(WatchEvent event)
```
    Handles `event`. The purpose of this method is to trigger the event handler of this watch "from the outside" (in addition to having native file system libraries trigger the event handler "from the inside"). This is useful to report synthetic events (e.g., while handling overflows).
  - relativize
```
default WatchEvent relativize(WatchEvent event)
```
    Relativizes the full path of `event` against the path watched by this watch (as per `getPath()`). Returns a new event whose root path and relative path are set in accordance with the relativization.