How to hot-reload with vert.x 5 VertxApplication launcher

[Aleksandar Pavlovic]

Hi everyone, 

We've started migration from vert.x 4 to vert.x 5. With vert.x 4, we are using Gradle with a customized run task similar to this:

val vertxRunTask = getByName<JavaExec>("run") {
systemProperty(
"vertx.logger-delegate-factory-class-name",
"io.vertx.core.logging.Log4j2LogDelegateFactory"
)
args = listOf(
"run",
com.acme.app.MyVerticle,
"-conf",
"conf/config.json",
"--redeploy=src/main/kotlin/**/*",
"--launcher-class=io.vertx.core.Launcher",
"--on-redeploy=../gradlew classes",
)
}

The redeploy arguments give us a hot-reload development experience.

After the upgrade to vert.x 5.0.3 and based on vertx-5-migration-guide, we added a new dependency to the project and changed the Gradle configuration as follows:

val runVertxTask = getByName<JavaExec>("run") {
systemProperty(
"vertx.logger-delegate-factory-class-name",
"io.vertx.core.logging.Log4j2LogDelegateFactory"
)
args = listOf(
mainVerticle,
"-conf",
"conf/config.json",
"--redeploy=src/main/kotlin/**/*",
"--on-redeploy=../gradlew classes",
)
}

The last 2 arguments:

--redeploy

--on-redeploy

makes the Gradle run task fail. 

When I remove them, my application starts, but is insensitive to any change in the code base.

I've tried to analyze the source code changes between v4 (launcher belongs to vert.x core module) and v5 (separated module), and what is possibly missing. As far as I see, RunCommand is the same, and the Watcher class is present in the source code. 

Someone had/have the same problem? How did you solve it?

Thanks

[Thomas SEGISMONT]

Hi,

I think it should work if you add the vertx-launcher-legacy-cli library

See https://vertx.io/docs/guides/vertx-5-migration-guide/#_vert_x_legacy_cli

The CLI framework has been removed in Vert.x 5. You can rely on the legacy CLI jar for now but there is no guarantee it will be maintained for the whole Vert.x 5 lifetime (although, as long as it doesn't break, I believe we'll keep it).

It seems you need the redeployment feature for development. This feature is now present in the Vert.x Maven plugin but not in the Vert.x Gradle plugin.

We're looking for a contributor to this project, would be interested?

Thanks,

Thomas

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