Hey, we're trying to enable auto-reload in develop...

# ktor

[CLOVIS]

Hey, we're trying to enable auto-reload in development.
Our project is structured like this:

project/
    app/
        build.gradle.kts
    utils/
        build.gradle.kts

The :app project has the main function and the Ktor Application instanciation.

We run the project with:

./gradlew :app:run & ./gradlew :app:jar --continuous

During debugging, we have a script that pings the /ping route of the server continuously to force auto-reload (since it otherwise only reloads on the next received request).

We have noticed that:
• source code changes in the app module triggers recompilation, and Ktor auto-reload
• source code changes in the utils module triggers recompilation, but does not trigger Ktor auto-reload
• using build scans, we checked that editing utils does trigger its own recompilation, as well as the recompilation of àpp
Looking at the documentation, it seems Ktor is only looking at the classes for the current module, not the dependencies. How can I add the other modules as watch points? They are not in the app/build directory.

[e5l]

Hey, could you try specifying an absolute path in the classes section? https://ktor.io/docs/auto-reload.html

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

This issue may be relevant.

[CLOVIS]

Indeed, it's the same issue. Doesn't seem to have a solution yet.

[CLOVIS]

@e5l in the real project, there are dozens of dependencies, it's not feasible to list all of them. Anyway, an absolute path wouldn't be shareable via Git