added event never fires

[callumlocke]

I've got Gaze set up as per the first example under Usage in the readme (except I'm using a more general watch pattern, /some/path/**/*.*).

When I create a new file, the added event doesn't fire (and neither does the all event).

The changed and deleted events work fine.

This is not the same as issue #14, as I don't get any added events, even for files created in pre-existing directories. When I rename a file that is being watched, I get the deleted event for the old filename, but no added event for the new one. Also, subsequent changes to the file don't trigger changed events. Basically Gaze never seems to pick up new files, but it works fine for all files that existed when I first called gaze(...).

I'm using Node v0.10.8 on OS X Mountain Lion.

Any idea what the problem could be?

[callumlocke]

I just tried this to see if there's any problem with fs.watch on my system:

require('fs').watch('app', {persistent: true}, function(event, filename) {
  console.log('EVENT', event);
  console.log('FILENAME', filename);
});

I saved the above as watch.js and ran it with node watch in the terminal. Then in a new terminal I ran touch app/foo to create a new file inside the app directory. The first terminal printed out:

EVENT rename
FILENAME foo

I think this is the expected output (?), so it seems that fs.watch does notice creation of new files correctly on my system.

[callumlocke]

OK I just solved my own problem, but I'm not sure why this made a difference, so you might want to treat this as a bug...

When I changed the watch pattern from an absolute path to a relative one, it worked.

i.e. I changed /some/path/**/*.* to path/**/*.* (My watcher script is /some/watch.js)

Once I made that change, the added event started working.

[bericp1]

I'm also experiencing this problem. I have a global config that files throughout my project reference for various config variables including paths which are all absolute and are being passed to gaze. When I add new files to folders being watched, the added event doesn't fire for me either.

I'm on the latest version of gaze (0.4.0)

[shama]

Fixed with 23cba6f

[scottcorgan]

I am currently still experiencing this issue using node 0.10.21. The 'added' event doesn't fire

[brett-shwom]

Could you please provide more context? Your gruntfile and the exact steps I can take to reproduce the issue.

[scottcorgan]

Ya sorry about that:

gaze('**', function (err, watcher) {
  // doing stuff here

  this.on('all', function (evt, filePath) {
    // react to file change
  });
});

I tried it with both ** and **/*. It works on delete and change, but not file add.

[brett-shwom]

You mean that it doesn't detect any file adds at all?

[scottcorgan]

Exactly

[brett-shwom]

Ah ok I was confusing this issue with #14.

[Herriau]

I am using the latest version as of writing (0.6.4, node 0.10.31, OS X 10.10) and this is still an issue, i.e. using a relative path as the pattern works but specifying an absolute path does not.