With the Worklight/MobileFirst Studio application development for local development, I see many temporary or working files. My main issue, I may develop Java code for the server side used by an adapter and I assume that is pushed to the war file. But I sometimes don't see the change reflected. And sometimes I am working with the desktopbrowser/common web-application and I don't see those changes reflected. I may do a clean and build-all and Build All Environments.
I finally just scanned my entire Mac hard drive for those App-common and App-desktopbrowser files and found several. When I delete all of these, it looks like the working directory or cache issue is cleared up. I assume these are used internally and not documented. But I was curious if there is a clean way to delete these? Also, this is an older version of Worklight, will the same issue exist with future release? But at least I commented on directories you may not know about.
Here are the file paths that have a war file or wlapp file. Deleting these fixes my caching issue but is there a better way?
My version of Worklight: 6.2.0.01.20150430-1522
berlins-imac$ echo $TMPDIR /var/folders/dl/abcgq/T/
Delete the wlPreview and wlBuildResources
There are cached files here:
/Users/user/Documents/workspace62LunaNewNew4/WorklightServerConfig/servers/worklight/workarea/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles
rm -Rvf ./75/data/temp/default_node/SMF_WebContainer/MyApp/MyApp/widget-resources/MyApp-common-c2713f1cefc5f5f35bec867386f2344632197fcf
cd /Users/ap123User/Documents/workspace62LunaNewNew4/WorklightServerConfig/servers/worklight/apps/myApp*
You can safely delete these folders from the TMP folder in any way you'd like.
They get re-generated everytime you open Eclipse (with Studio installed). At least that's the case in newer releases of the product.