@Tony
The latter. If you need more control and stability then you could roll your
own module loading/injecting system with fs, vm or eval.
2013/8/17 Tony Huang <cnwz...@gmail.com>
> @George
> This is really cool! Is this a public API? Or it's just hacking into the
> internal implementation of node.js?
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, George Stagas <gsta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> function removeCached(mod) {
>> delete require.cache[require.resolve(mod)];
>> }
>>
>> // then
>>
>> require('foo');
>>
>> // ... later
>>
>> removeCached('foo');
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/17 Tony Huang <cnwz...@gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm creating a framework for my game server, and developing the module
>>> hot update feature.
>>>
>>> My design is very similar to the Erlang hot update feature. Modules will
>>> be hot updated should meet the interface:
>>> module.exports = {
>>> 'status': "data",
>>> 'version': "1.0",
>>> 'init': function() {
>>> return initialStatus;
>>> },
>>> 'code_changed': function(oldVersion, newVersion, oldStatus) {
>>> return newStatus;
>>> }
>>> };
>>>
>>> So, when the module source file changes, the framework will get the
>>> status of original version of module, and remove it from the module cache,
>>> and import the new module, and invoke the code_changed method of the new
>>> version of module to generate the new status and assign it to the new
>>> module to finish the update process.
>>>
>>> As a result, I need an API to remove the module from the module cache,
>>> will it be possible or will this API be added in the future version of
>>> node?
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
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