How to do separate threads, when using Filesystem Watcher
I'm using filesystem watcher in a windows service to watch a folder. The folder will get a comma delimited text file that it will have to parse and write to a sql database. I have all that working, but I'm getting system hangs when the oncreated event is fired.
The filesystem watch is ran in a new thread, correct? Can I create a new thread or a new backgound worker task for my LINQ statements and sql calls? I'm not sure how to go about this?
Here is a snipper of my code, when the oncreated is fired, it writes the text file to a main linq result list, then I go through that master list 16 times for each of my product types. I only show two here in the snippet.
The filesystem watch is ran in a new thread, correct? Can I create a new thread or a new backgound worker task for my LINQ statements and sql calls? I'm not sure how to go about this?
Here is a snipper of my code, when the oncreated is fired, it writes the text file to a main linq result list, then I go through that master list 16 times for each of my product types. I only show two here in the snippet.
public partial class ImportServer : ServiceBase
{
private System.Diagnostics.EventLog eventLog1;
private FileSystemWatcher watcher;
public ImportServer()
{
this.ServiceName = "UnityImport";
this.CanHandlePowerEvent = true;
this.CanHandleSessionChangeEvent = true;
this.CanPauseAndContinue = true;
this.CanShutdown = true;
this.CanStop = true;
this.AutoLog = true;
InitializeComponent();
if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("UnityImportLogSource"))
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource("UnityImportLogSource", "UnityImportLog");
eventLog1.Source = "UnityImportLogSource";
eventLog1.Log = "UnityImportLog";
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
//base.OnStart(args);
eventLog1.WriteEntry("service started");
watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
watcher.Path = Properties.Settings.Default.watcherPath.ToString();
watcher.Filter = "";
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnCreated);
}
public void OnCreated(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
eventLog1.WriteEntry("OnCreatedHit");
// To Read Use:
if (e.Name != null)
{
string thisFile = Properties.Settings.Default.watcherPath.ToString() + e.Name;
try
{
string[] lines = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(thisFile);
string pattern = ",(?=(?:[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))";
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex r = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(pattern);
var mainResults = from line in lines.AsEnumerable()
let data = r.Split(line.Trim(','))
where line.Length > 0
select data;
arraytoDataTable at = new arraytoDataTable();
fillNIRDataTable fillDataTable = new fillNIRDataTable();
// BMR CORN SILAGE
var bmrCornResult = from bmrCorn in mainResults.AsEnumerable()
where bmrCorn[4].ToString().Contains("BMR Corn")
select bmrCorn;
if (bmrCornResult.Count() > 0)
{
DataTable dtbmrCorn = at.makeDatatable(bmrCornResult.ToArray());
DataAccess bmrCornWrite = new DataAccess();
bmrCornWrite.UpsertUnityRaw("[dbo].[sp_updateCornSilageBMR]", dtbmrCorn, "@tableVariable");
// for insert into advantage
//fillNIRDataTable fillBMR = new fillNIRDataTable();
AdsAccess aBMR = new AdsAccess();
aBMR.UpdateNirData(fillDataTable.fillBMRCornSilageDT(dtbmrCorn));
}
// CORN SILAGE
var cornSResult = from cornS in mainResults.AsEnumerable()
where cornS[4].ToString().Contains("Corn Silage")
select cornS;
if (cornSResult.Count() > 0)
{
DataTable dt = at.makeDatatable(cornSResult.ToArray());
DataAccess cornSWrite = new DataAccess();
cornSWrite.UpsertUnityRaw("[dbo].[sp_updateCornSilage]", dt, "@tableVariable");
// for insert into advantage
//fillNIRDataTable fillCorn = new fillNIRDataTable();
AdsAccess aCorn = new AdsAccess();
aCorn.UpdateNirData(fillDataTable.fillCornSilageDT(dt));
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Thanks, I'll take a look. And perhaps this isn't a thread issue. What I'm noticing, if i place a file in the watcher folder, it seems to go through the process and even moves it. However, it doesn't update any of my sql statements. If I place the file in again and debug through the code, it works fine or if I place it in 2x without debugging. Almost as if processes are over-stepping each other.
ASKER
This is a drag and drop scenario, so far. Basically, we have a comma delimited file from an instrument that we drag to this folder, it processes it and places it into a database. I'd like to eventually FTP.
So far, the files are like 2k for our testing and they should never be more than 100k each. However, I could still see FTP beling an issue.
So far, the files are like 2k for our testing and they should never be more than 100k each. However, I could still see FTP beling an issue.
@Volox... I agree with you. I've also had some issues with large files, and incidentally, these files were being dumped into my watch folder via FTP. I came up with a scheme where when the file was created and my watcher first became aware of it, I kept a structure with the FileSize and LastModified time. I only then processed the files only after their size didnt change in a couple of seconds. I used a FileSystemWatcher to detect new files and changes etc, but also ran a timer (on a seperate thread) that polled the files every few seconds - wasnt a problem for me because the files were not dumped too fast and I could pull this kind of stunt. The timer would then queue files that hadnt changed for further processing. I'll dig around and see if I still have that code... it was literally more than 5 years ago.
I would also point out that you may want to add some code to your OnCreated event to check that the file is done being written (by whatever is placing it into that folder) and wait for it to finish if it still has the file open. I've run into cases with large files where FileSystemWatcher will fire the event before the file is done writing and so if you do your reads at that point you only get a portion of the data. This seems to be especially true if the process placing the file into the folder is FTPing it.