On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2013, at 9:38 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 17, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 8:33 AM, "Alan D. Cabrera" <l...@toolazydogs.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm writing a plugin that performs a recurrent task, i.e. watches a file >>>>> system for changes. What's the best way to do this in a ATS plugin? >>>> >>>> Create a continuation and schedule it to run every so often on a TASK >>>> thread . >>>> >>>> You can alternatively have the continuation scheduled for a single run, >>>> and have it reschedule itself. That's useful if the interval between >>>> invocations is not fixed. >>> >>> As I consider it more carefully, I probably don't want to scan the file >>> system for changes but, instead, should wait for traffic_line to tell my >>> server to re-read configs. Is there an event for that or does my plugin >>> get restarted? >> >> Is that a global or a remap plugin? > > Both. For remap plugins, you need to implement TSRemapNewInstance() and TSRemapDeleteInstance(), <https://trafficserver.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/api/TSRemap.en.html>. For global plugins, you need to register a callback with TSMgmtUpdateRegister(), for example <https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/blob/master/plugins/gzip/gzip.cc#L798>. J
