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Hi all, I'm having trouble with ktor's hot reload. My procedure is as follows:
• run terminal&gt; ./gradlew run
• other terminal&gt; ./gradlew -t build -x test -i
• &lt;hit endpoint&gt;
• run terminal&gt; [12:38:06.094] DefaultDispatcher-worker-1 co.example.TestController Hot reload test
• &lt;update log to log.error("Hot reload test 3")&gt;
• run terminal&gt; ktor.application Changes in application detected.
• run terminal&gt; Responding at <http://0.0.0.0:11111>
• &lt;hit endpoint&gt; 
• run terminal&gt; [12:38:06.094] DefaultDispatcher-worker-1 co.example.TestController Hot reload test
It appears to pick up the changes, but doesn't load in the updated classes. There doesn't seem to be a lot of configuration required, so I'm not sure what I could be missing?

Did you configure it as described in the <https://ktor.io/docs/auto-reload.html|documentation>?

Yes, I have since looked at the change log, and see that there was a regression that was fixed in 1.5.3. So change detection now seems to work, but if I run the project without the shadow plugin, it doesn't respond to any requests :confused:

I cannot reproduce it using Ktor 1.6.5 with my sample project. Could you please share your project?

Yes sure! I will just have to strip out all the code, which may take a while. I will post a zip with the project here when I'm done. Thanks!

Hi <@U017TSBJ2C9>,  I have managed to isolate the issue. In the project, the routes are configured inside a singleton object, but inside the configuration scope of the embeddedServer constructor, the singleton appears to be recreated without it's routes. The configuration of the server is given below:
```<http://log.info|log.info>("RouteTypeMap size: ")
		<http://log.info|log.info>(RouteBuilder.routeTypeMap.size.toString())

		embeddedServer(
				Netty
			, port = 11111
		) {
			<http://log.info|log.info>("RouteTypeMap size in configuration block: ")
			<http://log.info|log.info>(RouteBuilder.routeTypeMap.size.toString())```
which yields the following logs:
```RouteTypeMap size in Server:
870
RouteTypeMap size in configuration block:
0```
I'm quite new to Kotlin, so don't really have a clue why the singleton seems to lose it's state?