refactory might be done unproperly

Question

I am a beginner trying to learn Grails 3.1. Regarding to the default, I add the following scratch on the index page:

<ul>
    <g:each var="c" in="${grailsApplication.controllerClasses.sort { it.fullName } }">
        <li class="controller">
                        <g:link controller="${c.logicalPropertyName}">${c.fullName}</g:link>
        </li>
    </g:each>
</ul>

At the beginning, the index page shows no controller. Then, I create another controller, TodosController for instance. Because this controller name is not nice somehow, so I want to rename it (of course, using refactory feature in Intellij IDEA) into TodoListController. Unfortunately, the code still remains two controllers and shows them in the index page. When I click on the link of TodosController, I get the error:

Could not resolve view with name '/todos/index' in servlet with name 'grailsDispatcherServlet'

Snapshot of the error is below. I spend many times to find out where it is, but no magic thing happens to me. Anyone got such a situation?

Stop your application, and run the `clean` command for Grails. See if that fixes it. — Joshua Moore, Mar 31 '16 at 15:56
No worries, added it as the answer since it solved your issue. — Joshua Moore, Mar 31 '16 at 16:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 01 '16 at 13:56

Sounds like you've confused Grails slightly. Best thing to do in this case is to stop your application and run the clean command and try again. The reason is, that Grails compiled your initial Controller into the build directory, where the .class file still remains (even when the .groovy file is gone). The component scan still picks the class from the class path up and you end up with the two controllers.

refactory might be done unproperly

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