Hi, I am trying out <#C01D6HTPATV|> and building a...

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[kartikpatodi]

Hi, I am trying out #C01D6HTPATV and building a basic text editor.
I wanted to add auto save functionality to it.
Is there any existing library for this?
If not, can someone please help me with the approach.

[edrd]

You could use Java's standard library Timer API to create a task which would execute every N seconds to save the in-memory contents to disk

[kartikpatodi]

Thanks @edrd.
I was wondering how can I handle app crash or system failure? 🤔

[edrd]

You mean inside this recurring task?

[kartikpatodi]

Yeah

[edrd]

It depends if you want to recover or let the app crash

[kartikpatodi]

Lets sat if app crashes between two save cyles

[kartikpatodi]

Or system shuts down for some reason

[edrd]

Well, some level of loss will happen... what you can do is minimize it by having a task that runs more frequently

[kartikpatodi]

Yeah

[edrd]

I'd invest on proper error handling (try to use almost zero exceptions) and short autosave cycles

[kartikpatodi]

Isn't Intellij a swing based application? I can probaby refer the intellij community repo on how they are handling it.

[edrd]

Yes... that could be an inspiration, although the IntelliJ repo is huge...

[kartikpatodi]

Yup 😂
Wondering if anyone from intellij team can help.

[edrd]

Well, they're a quite busy team... not sure 😛

[napperley]

IntelliJ is Swing based, and doesn't use Compose Desktop.