Gradle + IntelliJ: HotSwap in a plain Java application

Question

For a plain Java/Swing application, I am currently migrating the ant buildscripts to a gradle build.

While I got it up and running quickly, changes in recompiled classes are no longer picked up while debugging in IntelliJ IDEA.

All my build/run actions are delegated to gradle.

Things I've considered:

• This is not a duplicate of How to enable hot swapping in debug mode with gradle and jetty?, I'm working with a standalone Java application, not Spring
• For the same reason, https://github.com/thomas-adriano/gradle-hot-swap does not apply, I think
• I would expect the HotSwap mechanism to detect changes in /build/classes/ regardless of the used build tools
• I added the idea plugin to my build.gradle, hoping it would fix any potential confusions of classpaths
• When using the built-in IntelliJ-Compiler, hotswapping works as expected

So I put together this MVCE to illustrate my problem:

build.gradle:

group 'hotswaptest'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

src/main/java/HotSwappingOrNot.java

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;

public class HotSwappingOrNot {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        JFrame asdf = new JFrame();
        asdf.setContentPane(new JLabel("asdf"));

        asdf.setVisible(true);

        asdf.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
                float r = (float) Math.random();
                Color c = new Color(r, 1-r, r);
                asdf.setBackground(c);
            }
        });
    }
}

In order to test hotswapping, I change the new Color(r, 1-r, r) -bit to new Color(r, r, r) and press Ctrl+Shift+F9.

Answer 1

Not yet fixed IDEA-163187. I'm not aware of any workarounds available so far :(