Contact emails

asu...@chromium.org, a...@chromium.org, christin...@chromium.org,
ds...@chromium.org, memm...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/whatwg/fs/blob/main/proposals/FileSystemObserver.md

Specification

https://github.com/whatwg/fs/pull/165

Design docs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d6YoPvk0rdNBQaZcoFP-V5u4CBjgahvmnVsZpbn0Gmo/edit?usp=sharing

Summary

The FileSystemObserver interface notifies websites of changes to the file
system. Sites observe changes to files and directories in the user's local
device (as specified in WICG/file-system-access) or in the Bucket File
System (as specified in whatwg/fs), and are notified of basic change info,
such as the change type.

Blink component

Blink>Storage>FileSystem
<https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EStorage%3EFileSystem>

TAG review

Exempt per early TAG design review:
https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/868


RisksInteroperability and Compatibility

Gecko: Positive (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/942)
Positive on use-case

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/291)

Web developers: Strongly positive (
https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/issues/72)

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

Not enabled in WebView


Goals for experimentation

- Obtain more web developer feedback to validate the API shape

- Identify any major performance issues against real world use cases, that
could help determining future improvements and optimizations

Ongoing technical constraints

None

Debuggability

N/A

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No. Available on desktop only.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
<https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
?

Yes

https://wpt.fyi/results/fs/FileSystemObserver.https.tentative.window.html?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

Flag name on chrome://flags

file-system-observer

Finch feature name

FileSystemObserver

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/40105284

Launch bug

https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4261040

Estimated milestones

Origin trial desktop first

129

Origin trial desktop last

134

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4622243656630272?gate=5110010073317376

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to prototype:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGnvaEXNQ0OUo61DXeuhzARPyOu_E6vA6VsD6%2BBwVDGW_0BQJw%40mail.gmail.com

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status
<https://chromestatus.com/>.

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