#242 mlWatch can now ignore existing dirty files

Author: rjrudin

src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/MarkLogicPlugin.groovy

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ class MarkLogicPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 		String modulesGroup = "ml-gradle Modules"
 		project.task("mlLoadModules", type: LoadModulesTask, group: modulesGroup, dependsOn: "mlPrepareRestApiDependencies", description: "Loads modules from directories defined by mlAppConfig or via a property on this task").mustRunAfter(["mlClearModulesDatabase"])
 		project.task("mlReloadModules", group: modulesGroup, dependsOn: ["mlClearModulesDatabase", "mlLoadModules"], description: "Reloads modules by first clearing the modules database and then loading modules")
-		project.task("mlWatch", type: WatchTask, group: modulesGroup, description: "Run a loop that checks for new/modified modules every second and loads any that it finds")
+		project.task("mlWatch", type: WatchTask, group: modulesGroup, description: "Run a loop that checks for new/modified modules every second and loads any that it finds. To ignore files that are already dirty and only process new changes, include -PignoreDirty=true . ")
 		project.task("mlDeleteModuleTimestampsFile", type: DeleteModuleTimestampsFileTask, group: modulesGroup, description: "Delete the properties file in the build directory that keeps track of when each module was last loaded")
 
 		String qconsoleGroup = "ml-gradle qconsole"

src/main/groovy/com/marklogic/gradle/task/client/WatchTask.groovy

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import com.marklogic.appdeployer.command.modules.LoadModulesCommand
 import com.marklogic.appdeployer.impl.SimpleAppDeployer
 import com.marklogic.client.DatabaseClient
 import com.marklogic.client.ext.modulesloader.ModulesLoader
+import com.marklogic.client.ext.modulesloader.ModulesManager
 import com.marklogic.client.ext.modulesloader.impl.DefaultModulesFinder
 import com.marklogic.client.ext.modulesloader.impl.DefaultModulesLoader
+import com.marklogic.client.ext.modulesloader.impl.PropertiesModuleManager
 import com.marklogic.gradle.task.MarkLogicTask
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskAction
 
@@ -39,9 +41,18 @@ class WatchTask extends MarkLogicTask {
 		}
 
 		if (loader instanceof DefaultModulesLoader) {
-			DefaultModulesLoader dml = (DefaultModulesLoader) loader;
+			DefaultModulesLoader dml = (DefaultModulesLoader) loader
 			dml.setCatchExceptions(true)
 			dml.setShutdownTaskExecutorAfterLoadingModules(false)
+			if (project.hasProperty("ignoreDirty") && "true".equals(project.property("ignoreDirty"))) {
+				ModulesManager mgr = dml.getModulesManager()
+				if (mgr instanceof PropertiesModuleManager) {
+					println "Ignoring modules that need loading, will only load modules that are created/modified after this starts"
+					((PropertiesModuleManager)mgr).setMinimumFileTimestampToLoad(System.currentTimeMillis())
+				} else {
+					println "Unable to apply ignoreDirty property; the underlying modules loader implementation does not support this feature."
+				}
+			}
 		}
 
 		List<String> paths = getAppConfig().getModulePaths()