nextcloud
feat: add an option to filter what paths get checked for updates
An example use case would be a external storage where the root contains a very large number of sub-directories but each sub-directory is fairly small.
Currently trying to browse the root of the external storage will be slow (since the "check for update" cost scales with the number of items in directory) leading to a bad user experience. Disabling the "check for update" on the storage would make it fast but will lead to the filecache being out of date over time.
This would allow an admin to configure the instance so only the sub-directories are being checked for updates, while an external process (such as a periodic shallow-scan) can check for any changes to the root directory. Leading to an improved browsing experience for the user at the cost of a possible delay for new items in the root directory.
(Though systems like notify could be used to help there)
Currently this can only be configured by setting the mount option manually, in the future we might want to provide some curated presets in the ui.
Example for configuring it to not check the root folder as in the scenario described above:
occ files_external:option <mount id> filesystem_check_filter '/^.+$/'
update @since, added tests and changed some type hints from classes to interfaces