使用应用程序插件持续构建和运行Gradle应用程序

Question

I have a Spring boot Gradle app with application plugin:

plugins {
    id 'com.moowork.node' version '1.2.0'
    id 'java'
    id 'eclipse'
    //a plugin to run the gradle application using command line: ./gradlew run
    id 'application'
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.0.4.RELEASE'
}

mainClassName = 'com.boot.MyProject.MyApplication' 

I run this project using ./gradlew -t run . I'd like gradle to watch my project files and rebuilds the project and runs it if there is any change in its files. But it seems that merely using -t doesn't help.

Any idea how I should make this work?

Answer 1

According to this answer , it can't work if the app is still running. Gradle will detect the change but as the task ( run ) is not finished successfully, the restart won't be triggered.

It will only work well if the run task is finished before the change happens.