Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Requirements
3. Installation
   1. Optional
   2. Mandatory
4. Usage
5. Note

1. Introduction

Tool to categorize files once they are moved to a directory.

This tool allows you to define multiple directories to observe and allows you to define custom file formats and rules to follow.

2. Requirements

The use of pip-tools is recommended to install required dependencies.

3. Installation

3.1 Optional

# Install virtualenv package for Python:
pip install virtualenv

# Create virtual environment named Dispatcher:
virtualenv Dispatcher
# or
virtualenv -p python3 Dispatcher

# Activate virtual environment:
source Dispatcher/bin/activate

# Deactivate virtual environment:
deactivate

3.2 Mandatory

# Install required pip-tools for requirements installation:
alias py='python -m pip'
py install pip-tools

# Move to root project directory:
cd /project_root/

# Read requirements to install:
pip-compile --output-file requirements.txt requirements.in

# Install required packages:
pip-sync

4. Usage

Launch tool:

# Start main:
python src/Application.py

# or you can specify a configuration file:
python src/Application.py /path/custom_config.ini

Configurations file example:

# Legend
#   [opt] := optional parameter
#   [dft] := default value
#   [mnd] := mandatory parameter


[GENERAL]
# [opt] - Log directory. If no directory will be specified no log file will be created
# [dft] -
log.dir = /var/log

# [opt] - Directory for temporary files
# [dft] - /tmp
# tmp = /Volumes/Ramdisk/tmp

# [opt] - Threads for files handling
# [dft] - 2
threads = 3


[DISPATCHER]
# [mnd] - Specify files' extensions
# NOTE: directories and files without extension will be ignored
formats = {
            'F1' : [ '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.mp4', '.mp3', '.gif', '.png' ],
            'F2' : [ '.odt', '.txt', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.pptx', '.ppt' ]
          }

# [mnd] - Specify source directories to observe
sources = {
            'S1' : '/Volumes/Ramdisk/Downloads',
            'S2' : '/Volumes/Ramdisk/Downloads_2'
          }

# [opt] - Frequency (seconds) for checking new files
# [dft] - 1
sources.timeout = 0.5

# [mnd] - Specify destination directories
# NOTE: all not existing destinations directories will be created
# NOTE 2: files with the same name of new ones will be overwritten
destinations = {
                'D1' : '/Volumes/Ramdisk/ALL',
                'D2' : '/Volumes/Ramdisk/Media',
                'D3' : '/Volumes/Ramdisk/Documents'
               }

# [mnd] - Create rules
#   Every rule must have 'format', 'sources' and 'destinations' keys.
#   - 'format' key specify which file format to filter
#   - 'sources' key specify which directory to observe
#   - 'destinations' key specify where files, which match 'format' key, will be moved in
rules = {
            'R1' : {
                'formats' : [ 'F1' ],
                'sources' : [ 'S2' ],
                'destinations' : [ 'D2' ]
            },
            'R2' : {
                'formats' : [ 'F2' ],
                'sources' : [ 'S1', 'S2' ],
                'destinations' : [ 'D3' ]
            },
            'R3' : {
                'formats' : [ 'F1', 'F2' ],
                'sources' : [ 'S1', 'S2' ],
                'destinations' : [ 'D1' ]
            }
        }