Chokidar: weird issue whereby watcher.getWatched() is empty object

[ORESoftware]

Just starting use with this lib, this is a weird one, I have the following code, which initializes the watcher, given a socketio message:

    socket.on('watch', function (msg) {

            msg = JSON.parse(msg);

            console.log('watch has been received by server', msg);
            console.log('paths received by server', msg.paths);

            if (watcher) {
                console.log('Watched paths before:', watcher.getWatched());
                watcher.add(msg.paths);
            }
            else {
                console.log('Watcher initialized.');
                watcher = chokidar.watch(msg.paths);
                console.log('Newly watched paths:', watcher.getWatched());
            }

        });

this is what getslogged, not sure what to say

watch has been received by server { paths:
[ '/Users/Olegzandr/WebstormProjects/suman/test/integration-tests/test0.js',
'/Users/Olegzandr/WebstormProjects/suman/test/integration-tests' ] }
paths received by server [ '/Users/Olegzandr/WebstormProjects/suman/test/integration-tests/test0.js',
'/Users/Olegzandr/WebstormProjects/suman/test/integration-tests' ]
Watcher initialized.
Newly watched paths: {} <<<< ???

why might the watched paths object be empty?

[ORESoftware]

my guess is that we have to wait for the 'add' event to fire, to actually get the list of actively watched paths. I can live with that, and if you don't think this should change, please close :)

[ORESoftware]

perhaps a list of "getRegistered" along with "getWatched", because there is a period whereby a path is registered by the user but getWatched() won't return it yet.

Let me give you a real life example of where a getRegistered call might be useful.

User, registers a path x, but x doesn't exist yet. The user may want to know it is registered, before an add event gets fired. Then the user creates the path x, and chokidar picks it up.

[es128]

You should be waiting for the ready event.

watcher = chokidar.watch(msg.paths).on('ready', function() {
    console.log('Newly watched paths:', watcher.getWatched());
}