RosWeb.Endpoint module not available after compiling

DavidVII

I’m not sure how to best describe this issue, but I’ve started to notice this recently and I don’t know what changed that started to trigger it. Basically, anytime I save a controller or any .ex file (something that triggers the compiler it seems), I get the following error when the live reloader reloads the page:

[error] #PID<0.661.0> running RosWeb.Endpoint (connection #PID<0.660.0>, stream id 1) terminated
Server: localhost:4000 (http)
Request: GET /live/websocket?vsn=2.0.0
** (exit) an exception was raised:
    ** (UndefinedFunctionError) function RosWeb.Endpoint.__handler__/2 is undefined (module RosWeb.Endpoint is not available)
        (ros) RosWeb.Endpoint.__handler__(%Plug.Conn{} ...) # Edited out the two args
        (phoenix) lib/phoenix/endpoint/cowboy2_handler.ex:17: Phoenix.Endpoint.Cowboy2Handler.init/2
        (cowboy) /ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_handler.erl:41: :cowboy_handler.execute/2
        (cowboy) /ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_stream_h.erl:296: :cowboy_stream_h.execute/3
        (cowboy) /ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_stream_h.erl:274: :cowboy_stream_h.request_process/3
        (stdlib) proc_lib.erl:249: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3


[error] #PID<0.669.0> running RosWeb.Endpoint (connection #PID<0.668.0>, stream id 1) terminated
Server: localhost:4000 (http)
Request: GET /phoenix/live_reload/socket/websocket?vsn=2.0.0
** (exit) an exception was raised:
    ** (UndefinedFunctionError) function RosWeb.Endpoint.__handler__/2 is undefined (module RosWeb.Endpoint is not available)
        (ros) RosWeb.Endpoint.__handler__(%Plug.Conn{} ...) # Edited out the two args
        (phoenix) lib/phoenix/endpoint/cowboy2_handler.ex:17: Phoenix.Endpoint.Cowboy2Handler.init/2
        (cowboy) ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_handler.erl:41: :cowboy_handler.execute/2
        (cowboy) ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_stream_h.erl:296: :cowboy_stream_h.execute/3
        (cowboy) ros/deps/cowboy/src/cowboy_stream_h.erl:274: :cowboy_stream_h.request_process/3
        (stdlib) proc_lib.erl:249: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3

I’m using Phoenix LiveView, but this happens outside of LiveView files as well. The websocket errors out a bunch of times before it recovers and it reloads the page just fine. It seems that this only happens in development, and only with live reloading enabled.

I’m really at a loss and don’t even know where to begin to debug this, but this throws a TON of errors in my logs while developing and is quite frustrating.

Is anyone interested in helping me figure out what’s going on? I’m happy to share code examples, but as I said, I’m having a hard time knowing what I could share that would lead to a clue to what’s going on.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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2019-08-07 19:07:10 UTC

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Nicd

There might be a compilation error occurring (the error message would be printed before those errors), and as the module cannot be compiled, it will lead to those errors. At least that’s what it usually is for me.

Post #1

DavidVII

Thanks for the reply, @Nicd!

Unfortunately, there’s no other error that is displayed before the one I posted. That error I shared is triggered like 3-4 times, then the page reloads just as expected. It’s really quite strange.

Any other ideas?

Post #2

DavidVII

New development in this bug:

Going to localhost:4000 triggers the module Endpoint is not available error, but if I expose my localhost using ngrok and visit mysubdomain.ngrok.io then the problem seems to go away. This is quite strange, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the domain.

Post #3

cyberwolf_ru

Hey! I’m getting the same behavior. Even on fresh generated app!

Did you found any solution apart from Ngrok? (ngrok trick works as well)

Post #4

DavidVII

Unfortunately not. I still get the same error and I’m no closer to finding out why. I’m currently ignoring it, but it’s a huge distraction. You’re the first person I’ve heard having the same issue.

I don’t even know where to begin, but maybe we can help each other debug it. I work on my project on an almost daily basis and would love to get this resolved. I haven’t been able to reproduce it in a newly generated app.

Post #5

jamesvl

I’ve been experiencing this same issue as well, and it finally annoyed me enough to start digging into it more. (I’m not using LiveView, but a regular Phoenix project.) Sometimes it seems like changes I make trigger 4-5 recompiles, and then I get lots of error messages while everything recompiles and the live reload WS endpoint can’t be reached.

I’m looking into it more and will post if I find anything.

Post #6

DavidVII

Good luck! I’ve spent hours trying to figure it out myself, but just haven’t been able to dig too deep due to time constraints. I’ve noticed the same thing as you too. If you look at the web console you’ll see the WS endpoint can’t be reached a bunch of times before the page reloads.

I wonder if it has to do with phoneix live reload?

Post #7

jamesvl

I’ve made some progress - but this seems very OS / editor dependent right now.

Overview:

I’m on Linux using NeoVim and every time I write to a buffer,
inotifywait sees 4 changes to the file, not one.
Because of how the elixir FileSystem and Phoenix CodeReloader are working, four reloads of the page are attempted
Because these reloads take place while compiling is still in progress, error messages are logged because the Endpoint module doesn’t exist yet

Other random notes:

I’ve tried other editors, including nano, but still get 2-3 inotify messages per file write
inotify on Linux doesn’t have a “latency” parameter like the OSX filesystem does
I couldn’t find a way to reduce the messages in nvim - my swap and backup files and stored in different directories entirely, and setting swap and backup to be off only reduces the messages by one

I tracked it down thus far by adding the following to line 22 in deps/phoenix_live_reload/lib/phoenix_live_reload/channel.ex

      Logger.debug "Live reload event for #{path} and event #{inspect(event)}"

Post #8

outlog

try increasing “interval” to say 500 GitHub - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_reload: Provides live-reload functionality for Phoenix · GitHub

as an alternative you should be able to use fs_poll see config here GitHub - phoenixframework/phoenix_live_reload: Provides live-reload functionality for Phoenix · GitHub

Post #9

beepboop

In my case the error is perfectly reproducible in the following scenario:

Create new project with default configuration: mix phx.new phoenix_test
Make a change to controller file, no live reload should be triggered
When you manually refresh page, a compile will be triggered and initial Live Reload connection to websockets will fail

I’m running Fedora, not sure if OS/Distro has any effect on it. Not sure how to fix it either, it’s quite annoying though.

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