intelij spring boot hot swap causes context reload

Question

I am using Intellij 2017.2 with Spring Boot 1.5.4

When I recompile my current class with ctr+shift+F9, instead of the IDE doing a bytecode hotswap, the spring container gets reloaded.

On top of that, after the reload my RestConroller no longer works

I have tried adding / removing from my pom

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
    </dependency>

please advise

Works fine on my machine with disabled "spring-boot-devtools" dependency. Have you reimported project from maven tool window after disabling that dependency? — y.bedrov, Jan 12 '18 at 12:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '18 at 09:08

I am not sure if this is a spring boot bug as of the new version, but I ended up disabling manually the hot reload via properties:

This is done by setting the following in your application.properties:

spring.devtools.restart.enabled=false

The official doc:

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