Reload doesn't work

[fedelibre]

Reload (Ctrl+R shortcut) doesn't work.

Steps to reproduce:

• open the epub file
• update the content and regenerate the epub
• Ctrl+R to reload the document

I keep seeing the old content. I have to close Foliate and reopen it in order to see the new content.

Version:

• Foliate version: 2.4.2
• OS/Distribution and version: Fedora 32
• Desktop environment: GNOME 3.36
• Installation method: Flatpak

[jdbosser]

Hi! I am experiencing the same issue. I have never contributed to an open source project, but I would be interested in giving it a go and try to fix this.

Even reloading it from the menus does not reload the content from the disk. It seems like reload behaves like a rerender of the same file in memory, and does not reload the file from the disk.

[johnfactotum]

I'm not sure what's causing this either.

Might be that the file is cached by WebKit (files are fed to Epub.js as a file URI, which I think Epub.js then fetches with XMLHttpRequest). This seems plausible, as reloading after deleting the file works as expected, but not after merely modifying it.

But I'm not sure how to clear this cache. Calling webkit_web_context_clear_cache () does not appears to have any effect.

[johnfactotum]

Fixed in the gtk4 branch.