no 'restart' command

[FKPSC]

Key features mentions this on point 3:

Service Control: Start, stop, restart, enable, or disable services seamlessly with straightforward commands.

But there is no restart command.

I looked into the code and saw there is a reload function. It does not seem to do what I expect.

I found your project while looking for an alternative to pm2 that works with pino. I am happy so far. A restart command should be easy to implement :)

[flexwie]

We had a discussion about this in #6
Can you explain what you'd expect from a reload and how it differs from that?

[FKPSC]

I get this error:

$ sudo ser reload staging
thread 'main' panicked at src/handlers/handle_reload_service.rs:51:10:
Failed to reload service staging.ser.service. Ensure it has an ExecReload statement: MethodError(OwnedErrorName(ErrorName(Str(Owned("org.freedesktop.systemd1.JobTypeNotApplicable")))), Some("Job type reload is not applicable for unit staging.ser.service."), Msg { type: Error, sender: UniqueName(Str(Borrowed(":1.3"))), reply-serial: 6, body: Signature("s") })
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

but running sudo ser stop staging && sudo ser start staging works just fine but it's quite cumbersome to type every time I need to to restart the node instance when I pull the changes.

[flexwie]

So the reload works as designed, your unit file needs to specify a ExecReload target (take a look at the error message).
For a dedicated restart command, that would be quite easy to implement if @secretshardul is open for it?