octane:reload seems not load new installed package (fixed by v1.4.2)

[elder moat]

Laravel Version: 8
PHP Version: 8.1.5
Server & Version: Swoole
Database Driver & Version: Ubuntu

Steps To Reproduce:
Today I face some problem, that in octane active circumstances, if we add some new package to laravel, and reload the octane server, the new package seems not be installed to octane server.

My solution is stop and start the octane, and the package will be loaded, otherwise it will occur that class not found error.

So this in my opinion that today we install the package and we need restart the server, is right?

[scarlet drift]

how did you solve this problem?

[hazy blade]

Yes, you need to restart Octane. It loads your application into memory as a long running process. If you install a package whilst Octane is running, it’s not going to see it.

[scarlet drift]

so octane:restart command does not help, we need to restart supervisor process for it and it is bad because it will be downtime

[hazy blade]

You can’t magically update code in place I’m afraid.

You can deploy the new version to a different server, and then switch traffic to the new server to avoid downtime.

[scarlet drift]

thank you, I had already thought about it but I needs to have one more server only for deploy

So I don't see a good solution to use Octane in production. I spent a week on experiments to understand It )))

[hazy blade]

Octane isn’t magic. You need to stop the process and re-start it to detect any changes.

If you don’t want downtime, then you need to implement a zero-download strategy where you deploy it to another server or directory, start the new process, then stop the old process.

[scarlet drift]

Yes, I understood it, but after changes of my code it is enough to run octane:restart - it is no downtime because workers restarts in sequence. But after a new package installed it doesn't work.

[elder moat]

You need octane:stop and start again, and it will solve the problems

[scarlet drift]

A new directory is not a solution because I can't start a new swoole server if an old one doesn't stopped.

[elder moat]

Restart i think it just reload the code you changed, and the memory seems not to be flushed and loaded

[scarlet drift]

but It will dowtime and several requests will finish with server error

thank you guys, I understood that it doesn't have a simple solution without downtime

[elder moat]

If octane stop that i didnt test whether the server would not receive any request

[scarlet drift]

I tested it, it is so

[elder moat]

Its needed confirm

[elder moat]

Ok, I get it

Thanks

[scarlet drift]

It seems to me we will have a fix https://github.com/laravel/octane/pull/644

[elder moat]

Yes

[elder moat]

octane:reload seems not load new installed package (fixed by v1.4.2)