Polling from a network directory - windows

Question

I have been working on the following project, some background:
I am an intern currently developing a new search system for my organization. The current setup is microsoft sharepoint 2013 in which the users upload files etc.. and on the other hand is the system I am developing which indexes all data being uploaded to apache SOLR.
I have been succesfull in mapping the sharepoint content repository to a network drive, and I can manually start my program to start indexing the conent of this network drive to SOLR using the Solrj api.
The problem I am facing however is that I am unable to poll events from this network drive. In my test build which ran local I used a watcher service to launch code (reindex documents, delete indexes) on file create, file modify and file delete.
This does not work unfortunantly with a url pointing to a network drive :(.
So the big question: Is there any API / library available for polling events from network drives?
Any help would be extemely appreciated !

Answer 1

So I fnally figured this one out, tried looking at .net's variant of the watcher service (system.io.filesystemwatcher) and i was having the same problem. I finally got it working by using java.io.FileAlterationMonitor / observer.
Code:
public class UNCWatcher {
// A hardcoded path to a folder you are monitoring .
public static final String FOLDER =
"A:\\Department";
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// The monitor will perform polling on the folder every 5 seconds
final long pollingInterval = 5 * 1000;
File folder = new File(FOLDER);
if (!folder.exists()) {
// Test to see if monitored folder exists
throw new RuntimeException("Directory not found: " + FOLDER);
}
FileAlterationObserver observer = new FileAlterationObserver(folder);
FileAlterationMonitor monitor =
new FileAlterationMonitor(pollingInterval);
FileAlterationListener listener = new FileAlterationListenerAdaptor() {
// Is triggered when a file is created in the monitored folder
#Override
public void onFileCreate(File file) {
try {
// "file" is the reference to the newly created file
System.out.println("File created: "
+ file.getCanonicalPath());
if(file.getName().endsWith(".docx")){
System.out.println("Uploaded resource is of type docx, preparing solr for indexing.");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
}
}
// Is triggered when a file is deleted from the monitored folder
#Override
public void onFileDelete(File file) {
try {
// "file" is the reference to the removed file
System.out.println("File removed: "
+ file.getCanonicalPath());
// "file" does not exists anymore in the location
System.out.println("File still exists in location: "
+ file.exists());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
}
}
};
observer.addListener(listener);
monitor.addObserver(observer);
System.out.println("Starting monitor service");
monitor.start();
}
}