Esbonio does not always show content for files with identical names

[marcel-22]

Expected behavior

Have a working preview for each individual file.

Actual behavior

In a multi-root workspace we have multiple Sphinx projects defined, each with their own index.rst. When I switch between those files, for example activating another index file, sometimes(?) the preview does not switch to the content for the selected file, but instead still shows the content of the previously shown index.rst. When I close the Esbonio preview window inside the IDE, and then reactivate the preview, the tab with the old index.rst is activated in the editor whilst the other index.rst was active!

I am not sure what the conditions are, for example when documents are edited etc.
Before I start collecting more information, I would like to ask if this is a known issue?

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[alcarney]

When I close the Esbonio preview window inside the IDE, and then reactivate the preview, the tab with the old index.rst is activated in the editor whilst the other index.rst was active!

I hoped v0.96.1 included a fix for that - are you still on v0.96.0 at the moment?

the preview does not switch to the content for the selected file, but instead still shows the content of the previously shown index.rst

I'll have to see if I can reproduce it, but I think I can guess what's happening.

If you switch from docs/index.rst in root A to docs/index.rst in root B, then the preview url for each document will be identical. It's possible that the <iframe> in the preview pane is reading from its cache rather than the server - resulting in you seeing the wrong content.

Hopefully it's just a case of making sure the urls are unique in some way 🤞

[marcel-22]

I hoped v0.96.1 included a fix for that - are you still on v0.96.0 at the moment?

Hm, I have manually installed v0.96.1 and I believe the issue occured with that version..

[alcarney]

That's disappointing, will have to investigate when I look at the rest of the issue :/

And I assume esbonio has done a full rebuild of the docs since the upgrade?

[marcel-22]

I will check again, maybe it was with v0.96.0, I am not sure.