I would like to suggest to add a new function to get the last modified time of a file, which can be useful in many different ways. For example
Add a function like
proto native bool GetLastModifiedFileTime(string filename, out int year, out int month, out int day, out int hour, out int minute, out int second)
proto native bool GetLastModifiedFileTimeUTC(string filename, out int year, out int month, out int day, out int hour, out int minute, out int second)
the method would return true if the file was found and a valid date is returned
A method to be able to query basic file structure variables like, name, last modified, date created, size.
Within one method resulting in a callback instance create that holds onto such parameters:
proto native FileQueryParams QueryFile(string path);
Or when going even further, you could implement a whole FileApi to subscribe to file changes with a callback to the reload any changed configs so for example
class FileApi {
proto native static void SubscribtToFileChanges(string filename, FileChangeCallback callback);
proto native static void UnsubscribeFromFileChanges(string filename); // Would remove all callbacks for this file
proto native static void UnsubscribeFromFileChanges(FileChangeCallback callback); // Would remove this callback from all files
proto native static void SubscribeToFolderChanges(string folder, FolderChangeCallback callback, bool recursive = false); // Allow to subscribe to folder changes. setting resursive to true would notify a callback about changes in subfolders and not only in the current folder
proto native static void UnsubscribeFromFolderChanges(string folder); // Would remove all callbacks for this folder
proto native static void UnsubscribeFromFolderChanges(FolderChangeCallback callback); // Would remove this callback from all folders
// Maybe even move the rest of the file interaction here instead of global functions
proto native static bool MakeDirectory(string name);
proto native static bool DeleteFile(string name);
proto native static bool CopyFile(string sourceName, string destName);
proto static FindFileHandle FindFile(string pattern, out string fileName, out FileAttr fileAttributes, FindFileFlags flags);
proto static bool FindNextFile(FindFileHandle handle, out string fileName, out FileAttr fileAttributes);
proto native static void CloseFindFile(FindFileHandle handle);
proto static int ReadFile(FileHandle file, void param_array, int length);
//...
}
class FileChangeCallback { // Scripts would create their own instances of their custom classes inheriting this base class and overwrite the methods
void OnFileCreated(FileQueryParams info);
void OnFileDeleted(string filename);
void OnFileChanged(FileQueryParams oldInfo, FileQueryParams newInfo);
}
class FileQueryParams {
string filename;
int lastModifiedDate;
int createdDate;
int size;
}
class FileQueryChangeParams : FileQueryParams {
FileEditSource editedBy = FileEditSource.UNKNOWN;
}
// Scripts would create their own instances of their custom classes inheriting this base class and overwrite the methods
class FolderChangeCallback : FileChangeCallback { // Inherit the FileChangeCallback class, because all File events should also trigger when subscribed to the folder
void OnFolderCreated(FileQueryParams folderInfo);
void OnFolderDeleted(string foldername);
void OnSubFolderCreated(FileQueryParams folderInfo);
void OnSubFolderDeleted(string foldername);
}
enum FileEditSource {
ENGINE, // Caused by the engine without any script interaction or at least not directly through the FileApi
SCRIPT, // Initiated by another script via the FileApi
SYSTEM // Initiated from any other source outside of the DayZ enviroment like 3rd party apps
}