WatcherShutdown

Stops and removes a registered watcher from the watcher registry.

This is the destructive single-watcher lifecycle operation. After this call, the watcher is no longer registered and must be recreated before use.

Method Signature

WatcherShutdown(name=[string])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
name	string	true	The unique watcher name to shut down.

Examples

Shutdown a file watcher by name

watcherNew( "shutdownWatcher", getTempDirectory() );
watcherShutdown( "shutdownWatcher" );
writeOutput( "shutdown" );

Result: shutdown

Related

• WatcherExists
• WatcherGet
• WatcherGetAll
• WatcherList
• WatcherNew
• WatcherRestart
• WatcherShutdownAll
• WatcherStart
• WatcherStop
• WatcherStopAll