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What kind of loop? Does the finalizer task change something of the original tasks’ output?

Kind of, see his thread right above this one. He now has a task that copies project dependency compile output to the dependee compile output directory and makes

build

finalized by that task. 😕 The question is, what is the proper way to get ktor hot-reload working properly.

Is it possible to have a different location where both compile outputs can be copied to and ktor picks up those changes?

Given the work-around in the issue @David Smith linked to the place where ktor looks at seems to be configurable.

I could not see any way to configure the root location that ktor picks up though, their docs only say you can advise what locations inside the

build

directory, not where this

build

directory is

I just assumed the

ktor.deployment.watch = [ /build/classes/ ]

in

application.conf

in the work-around in the issue you mentioned would do that. But as I said, I'm not using ktor, so I don't know

the thing is that it wants

ktor.deployment.watch = [ classes ]

i.e. not the

/build/

part

Did you try? Maybe it works because of the

/

in the beginning. As I said, I'm just guessing here from what I see in that issue work-around. But yeah, if it has to be something in

build

, that's not too bad either, as I wouldn't put build output anywhere else anyway. 🙂

ok, I had a try and it seems that either it doesn’t like and ignores entries like

../../../mymodule/build/libs

or doesn’t reload jar files (since the module is packaged up into a jar file)

I'd guess you then need something like

../../../mymodule/build/classes/

or similar

I tried that but I think the issue is that it still doesn’t reload the jar, so I think there might be no escape from doing something like what I’ve done and manually provide the class files etc instead of the jar. If I put these files somewhere other than the build directory then I guess I can just add it to the classpath in the JavaExec job?