Is it safe to call rs.loadDirectory() multiple times on the same instance?

[julien-c]

Hi,

what's the best way to "refresh" a bot's brain when e.g. updating the files: should I just create a new RiveScript() and loadDirectory() each time, or is it safe to call loadDirectory over and over again with the same argument?

Is there a better way?

Thanks!

[kirsle]

Yeah, create a new RiveScript to reload the brain. A long time ago it used to be enough to just loadDirectory() again and data for new triggers would replace those for the existing triggers, but now the triggers are appended to a list and duplicates are technically allowed which doesn't work out so well when you just wanted to reload the bot.

[julien-c]

Got it, thanks. The examples in the repo are great, but it's sometimes a bit hard to figure out how it actually works inside.

Thanks a lot for your help.