That would be fantastic, Erik. I've got a somewhat complex setup where I rsync between folders. Being able to serve directly from the SVN location would be very handy.
Upayavira On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, at 04:58 PM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > With the exploded structure, maybe we can move the webapp source > underneath server/solr-webapp (and let the build just fill in the binary > Java stuff, and avoid overwriting anything). Then we can keep the source > in the same place as the “dist”, keeping it nice and DRY and easily > debuggable/refreshable-without-a-build? Would that work? > > Erik > > > > > > On Sep 10, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > > > On 9/10/2015 9:03 AM, Esther-Melaine Quansah wrote: > >> Is there a way for me to debug and modify Angular JS code in the Solr > >> Admin UI without needing to completely rebuild the server and clearing > >> browser cache? > > > > I'm not sure about browser caching. That might be a problem, but if it > > is, it's going to be a problem regardless of Solr version. In Firefox, > > holding down the shift key while you click the reload button (or > > pressing Shift-F5 in Windows) should invalidate the cache for the page > > you're on, so you don't need to dive into Options to clear the cache. > > Other browsers should have something similar, but it might not be > > exactly the same key(s). > > > > In Solr 5.2.x, the code you're talking about is in the war file, which > > gets extracted to server/solr-webapp/webapp. You can modify the > > extracted contents. I think that if that directory already exists on > > startup, jetty skips the extraction, so your changes might survive a > > restart ... but I am not positive, you'd have to test. > > > > Starting with Solr 5.3.x, the war file is gone. The application is > > pre-extracted in server/solr-webapp/webapp. Any changes you make to the > > application will definitely survive a Solr restart. > > > > So if you just change the running copy of the server that you downloaded > > or built, you can modify the Angular code and test the changes. If it's > > 5.3, I *know* that your changes won't be overwritten when you restart > > Solr, and if it's 5.2, I *think* they won't be overwritten. > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > >
