How to reload static assets in dev mode? about dropwizard HOT 15 CLOSED

Holy. And within a minute of reporting this, the light went on to look at the alternate constructors for AssetsBundle, finding one where I set the maxCacheSize to 0, and voila, works...

Silly me.

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Hello,
I know I comment a one year old issue, but I have the same problem AND this solution is not working anymore:
AssetsBundle has no maxCacheSize property anymore.

Have you find another way to set that?
Thanks

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You'll need to figure out how to get your IDE to update resources in the classpath.

For IntelliJ, this means running the Dropwizard application in Debug mode and executing Run | Reload Changed Classes.

Dropwizard does not support a "dev mode", nor do I have any plans to add one.

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Actually, I use Eclipse, and with "Automatic Build", resources are systematically copied from src/main/resources to /target/classes
I just made a test to be sure :)
So I thought it was some kind of cache...

As my webpages are 100% static, I can still use the jettyRun maven plugin on the side for dev and start both Dropwizard and this Jetty

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Apparently it's windows specific, and it has changed since Jetty 8:

Here's proposed solution, that I'm not able to really understand:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/16235377

In DW config, I can set connectorType, and all the buffer'sizes but not the buffer's types.
Regards

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I found it - just add in your config file:

    http:
      useDirectBuffers: false

Works perfectly now :)

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since 0.7.0 there is no useDirectBuffers option.

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OK. It is 2015 today. Any solution for this? Every time compiling when changing code in views is really killing time.

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I do this by using grunt and a few grunt tasks (grunt-watch, grunt-clean and grunt-copy) to update my assets files in the build directory.

when you have grunt-watch running all you have to do is make the changes to you assets files and then grunt will replace the files in your build directory so you can just refresh your webpage and get the changes.

I know this isnt a solution to the issue but its a decent work around :)

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Here's a solution on DW 0.7.1:

• do not use the AssetBundle as you don't have access to all the details (don't worry it's a very tiny Bundle)
• Add the AssetsServlet directly from the run method of your Application class
• configure the mapping
• add the desired initParameter (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/troubleshooting-locked-files-on-windows.html)
• maybe add some way to enable/disable this, as it's usefull in dev mode, but not in production

Dynamic dynamic = environment.admin().addServlet("assets", new AssetServlet("/website", "/admin-site/", "index.html", Charsets.UTF_8));
dynamic.addMapping("/admin-site/*");
if(devMode){
    dynamic.setInitParameter("useFileMappedBuffer", "false");
}

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For Eclipse is good to use Filesync plugin, as it explained here http://www.onehippo.org/library/development/use-filesync-eclipse-plugin-for-faster-turn-around.html

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Dynamic dynamic = environment.admin().addServlet("assets", new AssetServlet("/website", "/admin-site/", "index.html", Charsets.UTF_8));
dynamic.addMapping("/admin-site/*");
if(devMode){
    dynamic.setInitParameter("useFileMappedBuffer", "false");
}

Works for me in DW 0.9.
I use this and set my js build tool to copy the bundles into ./target/classes/assets/

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Should we always default this parameter to false or make AssetBundle be configurable?

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+1 on making AssetBundle configurable. Is there a plan to support "dev mode"?

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I think it's good for production use, but very annoying for developing with.
Not sure if it should be configurable or not, but maybe DW could use an overall devmode? This has probably been discussed before though.

On the other hand it is part of dropwizard-assets, so it could be fine to add it to AssetBundle?

I'm guess it is something everyone using assets in dropwizard has to deal with.

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