Grails 4 Spring Boot Dev Tools

What IDE version do you use? What Run/Debug Configuration do you use? Do you launch it in Debug mode? Do you have Settings (Preferences on macOS) | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle | Runner | Delegate IDE build/run actions to gradle enabled?

A sample project would be very helpful to investigate the problem.

Hello Andrey,

thank you for your answer.

The IDE-Version is IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3.5 / Build #IU-183.5912.21, built on February 26, 2019.

The app is not running in debug mode.

Delegate IDE build/run actions to gradle is enabled.

It's a bit strange becuase the app is always restarting after every save/autosave.

What Run/Debug Configuration do you use?

Have you tried to launch it it Debug mode?

Do you mean this?

And, I forgot, it's the same in debug mode.

As documentation specifies in Spring Boot Developer Tools and Spring Loaded section, the configuration must be like:

spring:
    devtools:
        restart:
            exclude:
                - grails-app/views/**
                - grails-app/i18n/**
                - grails-app/conf/**

I do not see  additional-exclude anywhere mentioned. Have you tried to specify all in exclude section?

If you see issue remains, please provide a sample project, describe the steps to reproduce. Thanks.

Thank you. The spring doc says: "If you want to keep those defaults and add additional exclusions, use the spring.devtools.restart.additional-exclude property instead."

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/using-boot-devtools.html#using-boot-devtools-restart-exclude

But I have also a sample project without the additional-exclude property set.

How can I provide the project?

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Please describe also the exacts steps and the expected/actual result. In my sample project it works fine: the app is not restarted if I just change the .gsp file and invoke build action from IDE.

Okay, my steps:

When the app is running, I change the <h1>subline</h1> to <h1>subline1</h1> or something else at the index.gsp in views/server.

After pressing Ctrl-S the app restarts.

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With configuration like 

restart:
    exclude:
        - grails-app/views/**
        - grails-app/i18n/**
        - grails-app/conf/**
    additional-exclude:
        - '*.gsp'
        - '*.gson'
        - 'logback.groovy'
        - '*.properties'

I do not get restarts if I edit files under grails-app/views/ directory and getting restarts if edit under e.g. grails-app/views/server directory. The same behaviour is when I'm running grails from command line. It does not seems to be related to IntelliJ IDEA.

That is totally weird. I don't know what I can do now. Strange, strange!

Thank you very much for your help!

Hey Andrey,

just want to let you know: there is also a discussion at grails.slack.com. The fixing (for the moment) is:

additional-exclude:
        - '**/*.gsp'

That works for me.

Thanks for the information!