Ktor: Hot reload broken with Gradle on JDK9

[ManifoldFR]

I'm using Windows 10 with JDK9 installed, though my project is using JDK 8 still. My main function is in src/main/kotlin/web/Server.kt relative to the working directory. The Server.kt file is

package web

import io.ktor.application.Application
import io.ktor.server.engine.embeddedServer
import io.ktor.server.netty.Netty

val port: Int = 8080

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    embeddedServer(Netty, port,
            watchPaths = listOf("web"),
            module = Application::main
    ).start(wait = true)
}

I have a Gradle task runServer which I call from a terminal, defined in my build.gradle by

task runServer(type: JavaExec) {
    classpath = sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
    println classpath.asPath
    main = 'web.ServerKt'
}

If I call this task, hot reload will not work even though I configured it :

INFO ktor.application - No ktor.deployment.watch patterns match classpath entries, automatic reload is not active

For information, the previous line is

DEBUG ktor.application - Class Loader: jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@4f8e5cde: []

[soywiz]

It seems that no URLClassLoader is found in your ClassLoader chain. Let me check if I can reproduce it in windows and find a workaround

[soywiz]

BTW, tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46519092/how-to-get-all-jars-loaded-by-a-java-application-in-java9
But doesn't work either because security issues. It seems that there is no standard non-hacky way for getting the class loader URLs in Java9.
So I think your best bet right now if you want to use the watch feature, is to install the JDK8 and use it.

Going to update the documentation noticing this.

[ManifoldFR]

Yeah after some testing I was also suspecting the watch feature would just not work using JDK 9.0 due to how ClassLoaders were handled. Seems like support for that platform isn't quite ready yet.
Guess I'll just revert to 8 then, thanks for everything !

[orangy]

Please refer to #321 for JDK9 support