Get notified when new Collection is created, updated or deleted

[wossio]

Hi,

is there a possibility to subscribe or somehow add an Observer to creation/updating and deleting of the collections and its collection sets?

I have a publishing service that has a 1:1 relation to local collections. I need them to be in the sync. If you know any other way please let me know.

Thanks

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

There’s no way to get notifications via the SDK, unfortunately. The best you can do is to periodically iterate through the collection tree looking for changes.   One pass should be very fast, a small fraction of a second, probably. So if you did it, say, once a minute, the CPU cost wouldn’t be noticeable. Such polling offends our architectural sensibilities, but it’s a practical solution that many plugins use.

[wossio]

it is a terrible solution! But a viable one!

Also, it is very interesting to see that such popular software has so limited SDK capabilities. I wonder how many developers and users alike would benefit from better SDK and better connectivity to external platforms.