jooby-apt: MVC annotations with intellij partial build

[ajcamilo]

Intellij partially builds, so not all classes are "processed". Only when doing a full rebuild.

The problem is the META-INF/services/io.jooby.MvcFactory file is overwritten with only the "compiled" classes and not all MVC classes.

(Jooby 2.x)

[jknack]

if that is the case... then we are lost. how can we fix this?

[jerouris]

@ajcamilo Have you tried doing an initial full compilation from inside the IDE? IDEA keeps a kind of an index which is properly updated only when you do the compilation from inside it.

[ajcamilo]

@jerouris yes, with the full compilation works, but when you change some of the MVC classes, the problem reappears (because the annotation processor only "sees" that class).

@jknack the MvcFactory is really needed? Can't you load the class mvcClass + "API$Factory" in code?
The services framework is really needed for "discovery", but this case you don't need to discover, because in the Jooby App, there will be an mvc(MvcClass.class) call.

[jknack]

one of the goals is to reduce the use of reflection or keep to minimum like using the ServiceLoader API.

I can try to something else from APT or add a fallback option withmvcClass + "$Suffix". This should fix the special use case while on real deploy the ServiceLoader will works