Is there a way to refresh snapshots?

[Artur-]

When developing something involving multiple projects with a setup like

Project A provides some feature
Project B uses a snapshot of project A

You quickly run into the problem that you have one VS Code window open for each project, you fix something in project A and do mvn install.

You are able to run project B and it will use the new snapshot correctly but if you have a class from project A open e.g. for debugging, you will keep seeing the old source code so code lines won't match etc. Effectively you cannot debug.

The only workaround for this I have found is to do Reload window as it clears some cache(?) and then shows the correct sources for project A classes.

Is there a better way?

[fbricon]

Have you tried right clicking in B/pom.xml -> "Update project"?

[Artur-]

Thanks. that also works! It is a bit easier than reloading the window but it still requires re-opening the class file afterwards.

I thought that action was the same as

but only "Update project" in the pom.xml works in this case.

What would be awesome is that I could either do "refresh" on the class file by right clicking or if the "Update project" command worked so that it would automatically refresh relevant open class files

[fbricon]

yes it's the same command in the pom.xml context menu and the command palette.
There's no way to trigger a classpath update from an opened class, because that class doesn't know it's part of a snapshot or that it's maintained by a build system allowing snapshot updates.

[fbricon]

However, we might be able to reload the opened .class files, after a classpath update event. Could you open an enhancement request?