sanity check - is hot reloading still broken for J...
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Shawn
05/01/2019, 1:30 AMsanity check - is hot reloading still broken for JDK >8
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napperley
05/01/2019, 2:41 AMWhat happens when the Hot Reloading feature is used on JDK versions > 8 (by vendor)? Which JDK vendor are you using?
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Shawn
05/01/2019, 2:42 AMso from my end it looks like I can never pick the correct name for the module to watch
Shawn
05/01/2019, 2:42 AMwhen I google the issue, the same thing more or less happened to the people reporting the issue on JDK9
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napperley
05/01/2019, 2:43 AMDoes a error appear via a stack trace in the logs?
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Shawn
05/01/2019, 2:43 AMIt just says
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INFO ktor.application - No ktor.deployment.watch patterns match classpath entries, automatic reload is not activeShawn
05/01/2019, 2:43 AMjust as described here
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/359
Shawn
05/01/2019, 2:44 AMaccording to the docs, it still officially doesn’t work with JDK 9 https://ktor.io/servers/autoreload.html
Shawn
05/01/2019, 2:44 AMI’m assuming every newer version also has the same change in
URLClassLoaderShawn
05/01/2019, 2:44 AMbut for completeness’s sake, I’m using oracle jdk11 on my machine
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napperley
05/01/2019, 2:45 AMAppears as though backwards compatibility has been deliberately broken to increase security on JDK 9 onwards ( https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/321 ).
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cy
05/01/2019, 6:56 AMYes, we have fix in 1.2.0-rc but it requires VM option to be set
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