Code autoreload not working for me

Ktor Version

1.1.3

Ktor Engine Used(client or server and name)

EngineMain I guess?

JVM Version, Operating System and Relevant Context

JDK 1.8. Windows 10

Feedback

Okay I have a new project generated using the Ktor IDEA plugin. I’m just trying to make autoreload work (which should by default?). I have only one Kotlin file in src/Application.kt. My application.conf looks like this:

ktor {
    deployment {
        port = 8080
        port = ${?PORT}
        autoreload = true
        watch = [ MyProjectFolder ]
    }
    application {
        modules = [ com.company.ApplicationKt.module ]
    }
}

The issue is, when I change Application.kt the project doesn’t reload and the changes are not reflected in the browser. I see this in the run output:

2019-02-25 11:01:46.894 [main] DEBUG Application - Watching F:\Projects\MyProjectFolder\out\production\classes for changes.
2019-02-25 11:01:46.895 [main] DEBUG Application - Watching F:\Projects\MyProjectFolder\out\production\classes\com for changes.
...

I also tried com.company instead of MyProjectFolder in the watch list but that one is even worse. The run output shows autoreload is disabled.

[AdityaAnand1]

@cy6erGn0m @orangy @e5l This should be super high priority. Since autoreload never works, it really worsens the development experience 😿

[Aberrantfox]

Same here, I’d also say the documentation on this is just very not clear unfortunately, so it’s very hard to know where to go with it… especially on maven - I had to swap to gradle to get it working at all but now it seems to have just stopped working altogether