Generator-jhipster: spring boot devTools not working. IDEA intellij.

[lluiscanals]

• Overview of the issue
  I recently updated to jhipster 2.23.0. Made all necessary changes and startup the app with the spring boot plugin. (spring-boot:run). It seems that spring boot devTools are not restarting my application when one file is changed, for example one XxxxxResource file.
  I'm using IDEA Intellij.

• Motivation for or Use Case

• JHipster Version(s)
  2.23.0

• JHipster configuration, a .yo-rc.json file generated in the root folder
  {
  "generator-jhipster": {
  "baseName": "jhipster",
  "packageName": "com.mycompany.myapp",
  "packageFolder": "com/mycompany/myapp",
  "authenticationType": "xauth",
  "hibernateCache": "ehcache",
  "clusteredHttpSession": "no",
  "websocket": "no",
  "databaseType": "sql",
  "devDatabaseType": "mysql",
  "prodDatabaseType": "mysql",
  "searchEngine": "elasticsearch",
  "useSass": false,
  "buildTool": "maven",
  "frontendBuilder": "grunt",
  "enableTranslation": true,
  "enableSocialSignIn": false,
  "rememberMeKey": "",
  "testFrameworks": [
  "gatling"
  ]
  }
  }

• Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

• Browsers and Operating System
  Ubuntu 14.04

• Reproduce the error
  I also have generated one fresh app with the same configuration and seems not to work.

• Related issues
  No one.

• Suggest a Fix

[mraible]

Are you compiling the file after you change it, or just saving it?

[lluiscanals]

Just saving. I though that devTools detect changes automatically.

I tried in eclipse and it is working on saving, like this example:
https://spring.io/blog/2015/06/17/devtools-in-spring-boot-1-3

[mraible]

This is because Eclipse compiles automatically on save. Here's how to get similar functionality in IntelliJ:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12744303/intellij-idea-java-classes-not-auto-compiling-on-save

[lluiscanals]

Thank you very much. Works now.
It's just an idea, but maybe a note in the documentation in the intellij part may help other people, or maybe it's only my fault, anyway, thanks for the light-speed response! xD

[gmarziou]

@lluiscanals would you consider submitting a PR for documentation on this topic?

[lluiscanals]

Yes of course. I have never done before....but always a first time for all
xD. Tomorrow I will read about how to submit a PR and I'll try! :)
El 29/10/2015 0:25, "Gaël Marziou" [email protected] escribió:

@lluiscanals https://github.com/lluiscanals would you consider
submitting a PR for documentation on this topic?

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[gmarziou]

Great :)

[bourdux]

@mraible, @lluiscanals Still IntelliJ will not automatically compile the class when the application is running. But hitting Ctrl-Shift-F9 will do the trick.