Reparse a parse(.vm) file after editing without restarting

Question

I have a .vm template:

#set($padSize = 0)
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("common.concepts.key"), $padSize): ${issue.getKey()}
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("common.concepts.url"), $padSize): ${baseurl}/browse/${issue.getKey()}
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("common.concepts.project"), $padSize): $issue.getProject().name
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("common.concepts.issuetype"), $padSize): $issue.getIssueTypeObject().getNameTranslation($i18n)
#if ($issue.reporterUser)
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("issue.field.reporter"), $padSize): $!issue.reporterUser.fullName
#end
#if ($issue.assigneeUser)
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("issue.field.assignee"), $padSize): $!issue.assigneeUser.fullName
#end
#if ($issue.getPriorityObject() && $issue.getPriorityObject().getId() != $constantsManager.getDefaultPriority().getString("id"))
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("issue.field.priority"), $padSize): $issue.getPriorityObject().getNameTranslation($i18n)
#end
#if ($attachments && $attachments.size() >0)
>$stringUtils.leftPad($i18n.getText("template.attachments"), $padSize): #foreach ($attachment in $attachments)$attachment.getFilename()#if ($velocityCount != $attachments.size()), #end#end
>
#end
>
$!{velocityhelper.quote($!issue.description)}

It is being parsed by another template:

#parse("templates/email/text/includes/issuesummarymin.vm")

It appears to be cached however, and the following settings have no effect for Velocity-parsed templates:

class.resource.loader.cache=false
velocimacro.library.autoreload=true

Is there a way for me to get the .vm file reparsed by Velocity so the template edits appear, without doing a restart?

Andreas Gounari · Answer

Have you tried touching the main template?

Jared Farrish · Answer

Hi Stacey, thank you for the response. The issue is that Velocity itself is caching files that have been parsed using the #parse() directive within a template. So the main template (that's calling on #parse() for another template, like an include file) is updating (no issues with browser caching here), but it stubbornly refuses to reparse the "included" #parse()ed templates. Does that make sense?

StaceyA · Answer

It should reparse the velocity template when you make edits. Does your project run from a target directory? Double check that the file is being copied over correctly to whichever directory you are running the project from. Also, is your browser doing some strange caching? Sometimes I find when I'm redoing the same template a lot my browser caches it and even with a hard page refresh maintains the old copy.