Can't find that in the docs
#Is there a way to cancel cell http requests?
sour fiber
slender dagger
May I ask the use case? If you don’t want to render the results could you not set some cancellation flag and then not render the data if that’s set?In effect, just throw away the results
Or do you actually want to cancel the api request so the service cancels? That’s much more complicated and not sure possible
sour fiber
I want to actually cancel, in case the user clicks off the site or changes an input parameter
slender dagger
How do you imagine a service once it starts querying or updating data can be cancelled and roll back a transaction? Regardless of if the cancellation is done from the web side or anywhere else?
sour fiber
posts should never be cancelled afaik
so queries only
the backend shouldn't care, where the cancellation comes from, at least with http it's angnostic
not sure I get the rest
slender dagger
I think there is a distinction between “cancel request” and “throwaway or ignore or don’t send response”. What’s the fundamental user experience you are looking to solve or improve?
sour fiber
I have a time control on the top, which you can quickly change and a table below, that needs very long to load. And basically it shouldn't load anymore, if you change the time control.
loud mesa
you probably want to work at a different API abstraction than cells for that query, and pass along an AbortController reference to Apollo that you can emit the cancellation from
sour fiber
probably, but not sure if that would be as convinient