An Rx-friendly Filesystem Watcher

FilesystemWatchCache.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reactive.Disposables;
using System.Reactive.Linq;
using ReactiveUI;

namespace SaveAllTheTime.Models
{
    interface IFilesystemWatchCache
    {
        IObservable<string> Register(string directory, string filter = null);
    }

    public class FilesystemWatchCache : IFilesystemWatchCache
    {
        MemoizingMRUCache<Tuple<string, string>, IObservable<string>> watchCache = new MemoizingMRUCache<Tuple<string, string>, IObservable<string>>((pair, _) => {
            return Observable.Create<string>(subj => {
                var disp = new CompositeDisposable();

                var fsw = pair.Item2 != null ? 
                    new FileSystemWatcher(pair.Item1, pair.Item2) : 
                    new FileSystemWatcher(pair.Item1);

                disp.Add(fsw);

                var allEvents = Observable.Merge(
                    Observable.FromEventPattern<FileSystemEventHandler, FileSystemEventArgs>(x => fsw.Changed += x, x => fsw.Changed -= x),
                    Observable.FromEventPattern<FileSystemEventHandler, FileSystemEventArgs>(x => fsw.Created += x, x => fsw.Created -= x),
                    Observable.FromEventPattern<FileSystemEventHandler, FileSystemEventArgs>(x => fsw.Deleted += x, x => fsw.Deleted -= x));

                disp.Add(allEvents.Throttle(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(250), RxApp.TaskpoolScheduler)
                    .Select(x => x.EventArgs.FullPath)
                    .Synchronize(subj)
                    .Subscribe(subj));

                fsw.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
                return disp;
            }).Publish().RefCount();
        }, 25);

        public IObservable<string> Register(string directory, string filter = null)
        {
            lock (watchCache) {
                return watchCache.Get(Tuple.Create(directory, filter));
            }
        }
    }
}

FilesystemWatchCacheTests.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Reactive.Testing;
using ReactiveUI;
using System.Reactive.Linq;
using System.Reactive.Disposables;
using ReactiveUI.Testing;
using SaveAllTheTime.Models;
using Xunit;

namespace SaveAllTheTime.Tests.Models
{
    public class FilesystemWatchCacheTests : IEnableLogger
    {
        [Fact]
        public void FilesystemWatchCacheSmokeTest()
        {
            (new TestScheduler()).With(sched => {
                var targetDir = Path.GetTempPath();
                var targetFile = Path.Combine(targetDir, Guid.NewGuid() + "__" + Guid.NewGuid());
                var fixture = (new FilesystemWatchCache()).Register(targetDir);

                var output = fixture.CreateCollection();
                File.WriteAllText(targetFile, "Foo");
                File.Delete(targetFile);

                Assert.Equal(0, output.Count);

                sched.AdvanceByMs(100);
                Assert.Equal(0, output.Count);

                sched.AdvanceByMs(250);
                Assert.NotEqual(0, output.Count);
                Assert.True(output.Contains(targetFile));

                var currentCount = output.Count;
                output.Dispose();

                File.WriteAllText(targetFile, "Foo");
                File.Delete(targetFile);

                sched.AdvanceByMs(10000);
                Assert.Equal(currentCount, output.Count);

                foreach (var v in output) {
                    this.Log().Info(v);
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

Line 13 of the tests is my favorite. :)

@bradwilson Always be XUniting, every time