Wishlist: Automatic gpx import

[tjhowse]

I sync GPX files from fitotrack to my server. I would love to drop them into a directory and have them automatically import into workout-tracker.

It might be less work overall to write a crontask to curl the GPX files to the workouts endpoint, provided I can get the auth sorted out.

In any case: Love this project! I just imported 401 workouts into my instance in one go. It took a few minutes but worked perfectly. Thanks hugely!

[jovandeginste]

I wanted to either add an API endpoint, or a directory per user to auto-import from.

What are the thoughts? Should the files be deleted on successful import in case of the directory?

[tjhowse]

Here's how I'd do it:

1. Poll directory contents every x seconds for files.
2. If a new file appears: store its file size and schedule another poll in 5 seconds,
3. If a file's size hasn't changed on the second poll: Queue it for import.
4. Once an import has finished, create an "archive" subdirectory if it doesn't already exist and move the imported file into it.

This system gives us reasonable confidence we're not going to start importing a file while it's still being written to disk, and avoids deleting anything. Does that sound reasonable?

[jovandeginste]

I'll make a PoC with this flow:

• check every 5 minutes
• if a file appears, and modification time > 2 minutes:
  • add the file
  • move to ./archive
  • on error: move to ./failed