Need review on Data Integrity Module API design

[darius (Darius Jazayeri)]

@shivtej

Thanks @dkayiwa, it’s very helpful. Just one more thing I want to ask is that do we have anything like hot-reloader which compiles and host the module as we make changes in OpenMRS ? It would be very difficult to restarting server again & again to view changes.

@dkayiwa

Is this of help? [SDK-80] - OpenMRS Issues

Wrong answer @dkayiwa!

@shivtej, what you’re really asking is what is the most efficient way to test that the small iterative changes you make to your code have the behaviors that you want. The right answer to this is not “hot reloading”, it’s Test Driven Development.

Basically, (1) you write a a test expressing the behavior that you want your REST API to have, then (2) you write the code to implement this behavior, (3) running the test each time you make a change to ensure you’ve got it right.

If you’re not familiar with TDD and/or you haven’t done it before, I can 100% guarantee you that learning to do TDD while you build this REST API will save you time, even on the first project, versus running this code on a live server (and reloading it a lot) and manually testing it.