salt.beacons.watchdog¶

Watch files and translate the changes into salt events.

depends:

• watchdog Python module >= 0.8.3

class salt.beacons.watchdog.FileSystemEventHandler¶

A dummy class to make the import work

class salt.beacons.watchdog.Handler(queue, masks=None)¶

on_created(event)¶

on_deleted(event)¶

on_modified(event)¶

on_moved(event)¶

exception salt.beacons.watchdog.ValidationError¶

salt.beacons.watchdog.beacon(config)¶

Watch the configured directories

Example Config

beacons:
  watchdog:
    - directories:
        /path/to/dir:
          mask:
            - create
            - modify
            - delete
            - move

The mask list can contain the following events (the default mask is create, modify delete, and move):

• create - File or directory is created in watched directory

• modify - The watched directory is modified

• delete - File or directory is deleted from watched directory

• move - File or directory is moved or renamed in the watched directory

salt.beacons.watchdog.close(config)¶

salt.beacons.watchdog.to_salt_event(event)¶

salt.beacons.watchdog.validate(config)¶

Validate the beacon configuration