Can not start app with ./gradlew run
tuhlmann opened this issue · 4 comments
Hey @raharrison ,
this is probably a question only a total Kotlin newbie can ask- I do it anyway :)
I'm looking at different ktor example projects to learn its structure, and while I can start most of them with ./gradlew run it seems I can't start yours. Can you let me know what I'm doing wrong?
I tried to find some explanation in the README. So once I get it to run I'm happy to provide a PR against your README (in case I didn't just miss the explanation).
My assumption is that I can run the service somehow- is run the correct command?
Here's what's going wrong:
tuhlmann:~/.../kotlin/kotlin-ktor-exposed-starter$ ./gradlew run
> Task :run FAILED
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':run'.
> No main class specified and classpath is not an executable jar.
Thanks,
Torsten.
Yes you're right, thanks for pointing this out. Have added missing config to Gradle file - can you try again with the latest version?
@raharrison Thank you so much for the quick response!
It's working now in this latest version.
There's one tiny thing that probably puts of other newcomers: When running the app with ./gradlew run at some point its output says the server is listening to 0.0.0.0:8080. But because there's no root route, going to localhost:8080 in the browser just gives back an error. A user might think now he's done something wrong etc.
Maybe a good addition would be a very simple index route that just lists the possible routes to get all widgets, or get a single one.
For my purposes the repo now works perfect- thank you!
Fair point - have added a simple index page.
Working great- thank you!