How wait and get lock on file
I want wait till other program releases lock on particular file, then I want to proceed to open that unlocked file.
I came across many solutions, but none are useful, here is my code -
File file = new File("c:\\somelockedfile.txt");
FileChannel channel = null;
try{
channel = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw").getChannel();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
// Get an exclusive lock on the whole file
FileLock lock = channel.lock();
try {
doWithLockedFile(file);
} finally {
lock.release();
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try{
channel.close();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I know when I will be running this code, file will be locked by some other Windows process, so I want to wait till other process releases lock and then I will proceed with unlocked file. If I try to open locked file I will get FileNotFoundException like "(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)".
In above code I can't wait for getting lock because same exception will be thrown in line "channel = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw").getChannel();"
Please help me on this, basically I want to get notified that other process has released lock on file, and till that time, I want to wait().
Answer
I got it worked by some sleep and queuing file names received by watcher for waiting and getting locks.
Solution:
package dirwatch;
import java.nio.file.*;
import static java.nio.file.StandardWatchEventKinds.ENTRY_CREATE;
import static java.nio.file.StandardWatchEventKinds.OVERFLOW;
import static java.nio.file.LinkOption.*;
import java.nio.file.attribute.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class WatchDir {
private final WatchService watcher;
private final Map<WatchKey,Path> keys;
private final boolean recursive;
private boolean trace = false;
private BlockingQueue<String> fileProcessingQueue;
//******* processedFileQueue **** will be used by other threads to retrive unlocked files.. so I have
// kept as public final
public final BlockingQueue<String> processedFileQueue;
private volatile boolean closeProcessingThread;
private volatile boolean closeWatcherThread;
private void processFiles(){
System.out.println("DirWatchProcessingThread Started");
String fileName;
outerLoop: while(!closeProcessingThread || !fileProcessingQueue.isEmpty()){
try{
fileName = fileProcessingQueue.poll(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
fileName = null;
}
if(fileName == null || fileName.equals("")){
continue outerLoop;
}
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
innerLoop: while(true){
FileInputStream fis = null;
File file = new File(fileName);
try{
fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
break innerLoop;
}catch(FileNotFoundException fnfe){
if(!file.exists() || file.isDirectory()){
System.out.println("File: '"+fileName+"has been deleted in file system or it is not file. Not processing this file.");
continue outerLoop;
}
try{
Thread.sleep(WatchDirParameters.millisToPuaseForFileLock);
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
}
if((System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) > WatchDirParameters.millisToSwapFileForUnlocking){
if(fileProcessingQueue.offer(fileName)){
continue outerLoop;
}else{
startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
continue innerLoop;
}
}
}finally{
if(fis != null){
try{
fis.close();
}catch(IOException ioe){
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
System.out.println("Queuing File: "+fileName);
processedLoop:while(true){
try{
if(processedFileQueue.offer(fileName, 1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)){
break processedLoop;
}
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
//ie.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
closeWatcherThread = true;
closeProcessingThread = true;
System.out.println("DirWatchProcessingThread Exited");
}
/**
* Process all events for keys queued to the watcher
*/
private void processEvents(){
System.out.println("DirWatcherThread started.");
while(!closeWatcherThread) {
// wait for key to be signalled
WatchKey key;
try {
key = watcher.take();
} catch (InterruptedException x) {
// if we are returning from these method, it means we no longer wants to watch directory
// we must close thread which may be waiting for file names in queue
continue;
}catch(ClosedWatchServiceException cwse){
break;
}
Path dir = keys.get(key);
if (dir == null) {
System.err.println("WatchKey not recognized!!");
continue;
}
try{
for (WatchEvent<?> event: key.pollEvents()) {
WatchEvent.Kind kind = event.kind();
if (kind == OVERFLOW) {
continue;
}
// Context for directory entry event is the file name of entry
WatchEvent<Path> ev = cast(event);
Path name = ev.context();
Path child = dir.resolve(name);
if(kind.equals(ENTRY_CREATE)){
// if directory is created, and watching recursively, then
// register it and its sub-directories
if (recursive) {
try {
if (Files.isDirectory(child, NOFOLLOW_LINKS)) {
registerAll(child);
continue;
}
} catch (IOException x) {
// ignore to keep sample readbale
}
}
while(true){
if(fileProcessingQueue.remainingCapacity() < 2){
// if only one last can be inserted then don't queue this we need 1 empty space in queue
// for swaping file names..
// sleep for some time so processing thread may have made some rooms to queue in fileQueue
// this logic will not create any problems as only one this thread is inserting in queue
try{
Thread.sleep(200);
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
}
continue;
}
if(!fileProcessingQueue.offer(child.toString())){
// couldn't queue this element by whatever reason.. we will try to enqueue again by continuing loop
continue;
}else{
// file name has been queued in queue
break;
}
}
}
}
// reset key and remove from set if directory no longer accessible
boolean valid = key.reset();
if (!valid) {
keys.remove(key);
// all directories are inaccessible
if (keys.isEmpty()) {
break;
}
}
}catch(ClosedWatchServiceException cwse){
break;
}
}
closeProcessingThread = true;
closeWatcherThread = true;
System.out.println("DirWatcherThread exited.");
}
public void stopWatching(){
try{
watcher.close();
}catch(IOException ioe){
}
closeProcessingThread = true;
closeWatcherThread = true;
}
public static WatchDir watchDirectory(String dirName, boolean recursive) throws InvalidPathException, IOException, Exception{
try{
Path dir = Paths.get(dirName);
final WatchDir watchDir = new WatchDir(dir, recursive);
watchDir.closeProcessingThread = false;
watchDir.closeWatcherThread = false;
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
watchDir.processFiles();
}
}, "DirWatchProcessingThread").start();
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
watchDir.processEvents();
}
}, "DirWatcherThread").start();
return watchDir;
}catch(InvalidPathException ipe){
throw ipe;
}catch(IOException ioe){
throw ioe;
}catch(Exception e){
throw e;
}
}
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static <T> WatchEvent<T> cast(WatchEvent<?> event) {
return (WatchEvent<T>)event;
}
/**
* Register the given directory with the WatchService
*/
private void register(Path dir) throws IOException {
//WatchKey key = dir.register(watcher, ENTRY_CREATE, ENTRY_DELETE, ENTRY_MODIFY);
WatchKey key = dir.register(watcher, ENTRY_CREATE);
if (trace) {
Path prev = keys.get(key);
if (prev == null) {
System.out.format("register: %s\n", dir);
} else {
if (!dir.equals(prev)) {
System.out.format("update: %s -> %s\n", prev, dir);
}
}
}
keys.put(key, dir);
}
/**
* Register the given directory, and all its sub-directories, with the
* WatchService.
*/
private void registerAll(final Path start) throws IOException {
// register directory and sub-directories
Files.walkFileTree(start, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
@Override
public FileVisitResult preVisitDirectory(Path dir, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
register(dir);
return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
}
});
}
/**
* Creates a WatchService and registers the given directory
*/
private WatchDir(Path dir, boolean recursive) throws IOException {
fileProcessingQueue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<String>(WatchDirParameters.fileQueueSize, false);
processedFileQueue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<String>(WatchDirParameters.fileQueueSize, false);
this.watcher = FileSystems.getDefault().newWatchService();
this.keys = new HashMap<WatchKey,Path>();
this.recursive = recursive;
//CreateTxtFile.createFile(dir, 1);
if (recursive) {
System.out.format("Scanning %s ...\n", dir);
registerAll(dir);
System.out.println("Done.");
} else {
register(dir);
}
// enable trace after initial registration
this.trace = true;
}
}
Config Class:
package dirwatch;
public class WatchDirParameters {
public static final int millisToPuaseForFileLock = 200;
public static final int fileQueueSize = 500;
public static final int millisToSwapFileForUnlocking = 2000;
}