RTK Query - Missing api for setting query data in advance, using local client data.

[omerman]

Hi again, ( Promise this one should be the last one for now ;) )

I wonder if it is at all possible to have the ability to set the data of a query in advance, with local data that the client already have.

I'll explain,

Say I have a rest "api/dishes/{dishId}/createEmptyDishRecipe" that creates a Recipe object (and attaches it to the Dish object) and returns it.

once this POST request is fulfilled, I will update a query named getDish assigning the id to relation field.

dispatch(api.util.updateQuery("getDish", dishId, draft => { draft.recipeId = newRecipe.id }))

Now, the problem is that I also want to set in advance the data for query getRecipe with the newly created Recipe (a moment later the UI will navigate to a new Recipe screen) but since the recipe is new, and no one has ever observed the query getRecipe with the new id, updateQuery won't do anything, and prefetch is kind of a bummer since it means an extra request for something that I already have in my hand

// This is ignored since the getRecipe query with the args sent was never observed.
dispatch(api.util.updateQuery("getRecipe", newRecipe.id, draft => newRecipe))

Is there any available solution for this kind of behavior?

Thanks again.. :)

[phryneas]

At the moment only by faking a fulfilled action, which I would not recommend.

With 1.7, we will support hydration, so you could use that to pre-set a few api slices, but since it is not the primary purpose of it you will likely have to hack a little bit around with it and "construct" the api cache entries that way.

That is going on, among other things (like suspense), in #1277 and you can already check out the codesandbox build. Feedback would be highly welcome.

[omerman]

Thank you! I'll be sure to take a look at that