Another option: Whatever accepts the upload (e.g. a cgi script) moves the file to where the clojure code expects to find it only when it is fully uploaded. the move should be an atomic operation.
On 11 Dec 2016 21:47, "larry google groups" <lawrencecloj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm in a situation where we allow staff to upload Microsoft Excel files to > our servers, which we then parse and store the data in DynamoDB. > > I've only used file watchers once before, to watch for any change in a > directory. These seemed to trigger when a file was created in a directory > -- I recall I then tried to read from such files, but I got an error > because the file was still being written. I'm curious if there are file > watchers that I can have trigger when a file is fully uploaded, or fully > copied? > > My goal is to avoid the errors that occur when I try to read from a file > that is still being written to. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.