Is there any facility for reloading routes in the ...

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[dmcg]

Is there any facility for reloading routes in the debugger? Once I have a route set up I can edit its handler, rebuild and reload and see the change, but by default I currently need to restart to install a new route?

[s4nchez]

I’d be curious to learn as it’s not a use case I’ve faced so far. Usually, when running in-memory, restarting is quickly enough, but if there’s a smoother way (or even a REPL-like setup) that’d be worth documenting.

[dave]

It's easy to do with a watch on the FS and a suicide pill/reload, but TBH if you use SunHttp then things should reload really quickly. We could use a watchservice to get that going: https://www.http4k.org/blog/nanoservices/#7_watch_your_fs_for_file_changes