Add note to document watchPath incompatibility with cloud URIs #5712
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Signed-off-by: Jason Fan <[email protected]>
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bentsherman
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Jan 24, 2025
| @@ -508,6 +508,11 @@ that it will cause your pipeline to run forever. Consider using the `take` or `u | |||
| a certain condition is met (e.g. after receiving 10 files, receiving a file named `DONE`). | |||
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| The `channel.watchPath` relies on the Java file watch API which and POSIX notify events. | |||
| As such, `channel.watchPath` may not work with NFS network mounts and will not work for cloud provider URIs (e.g. `s3://.../*.txt`). | |||
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Per Paulo's comment here: #1061 (comment)
Perhaps there is something better than "may not work"... it may depend on specific implementations. Unfortunately, I don't have many systems to test specific scenarios.
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