watchdog: Prevent reload if a file gets closed without any changes

[lociii]

What's the issue?

watchdog 5.0 introduced a new signal that is fired when a file gets closed without any changes written.
This leads to random reloads when something opens and closes a file. opened events are already ignored, so we should ignore the new closed_no_write events too.

How to reproduce?

Update to watchdog 5.0+ and wait for the reloads to come in.

What's the expected behavior?

Werkzeug should only reload if there are actual changes to the code base.

Environment

• Python version: 3.11.2
• Werkzeug version: 3.0.4
• watchdog version: 5.0.2

[marianobianchi]

I'm using Django and django-extensions. I started getting reloads on every request. After doing some checks I was able to find that it started happening after upgrading werkzeug from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4

[ckarli]

I'm using Django and django-extensions. I started getting reloads on every request. After doing some checks I was able to find that it started happening after upgrading werkzeug from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4

I am also having the same problem

I am using
werkzeug==3.0.4
watchdog==5.0.2

After a request i get bogus changes detected

backend-1 | * Detected change in '/backend/common/schema.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/drf_spectacular/openapi.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/drf_spectacular/utils.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/drf_spectacular/generators.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/drf_spectacular/views.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py', reloading backend-1 | * Detected change in '/backend/common/authentication.py', reloading postgres-1 | 2024-09-17 08:08:21.866 UTC [104] LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer backend-1 | * Restarting with watchdog (inotify)

[jdimmerman]

Opened a PR but needs feedback on direction: #2954 (comment)

[lociii]

Opened a PR but needs feedback on direction: #2954 (comment)

I already opened one over a month ago. Not much progress from the maintainer side so far.
#2947

[jdimmerman]

Thanks @lociii - much better solution. Closing mine

[lociii]

@ThiefMaster @davidism
This issue breaks runserver_plus from django-extensions for everyone not pinning watchdog to 4.x and using the file system events reload mechanism.
It would be really appreciated if my simple fix could be merged and released.

[mlgarchery]

Thank you very much @lociii for reporting the issue :)
I enforced watchdog version to be <5 in my project (using functions-framework) to fix it temporarily and move forward