Question: Forcing draft save

[Tcintra]

Hi, thanks for building gmail.js it's been really helpful to understand how Gmail works.

I'm wondering if anyone here has found a way to force a draft to save. Currently I just wait for the draft to save (either via observer or with a 2s timeout) but this latency sucks for the user.

Unfortunately, I don't see anything in the DOM that would allow me to force the draft to save, and can't really find any network requests I could fire to force the save either (I'm sure it exists, but I don't see it).

Any guidance here would be much appreciated, even if the answer is "It's impossible". Thanks!

[josteink]

No idea, but I'm pretty sure that if you close your compose window, Gmail will cause a draft to be saved.

Maybe you can get some leads/clues that way?

[Tcintra]

Yea, the Save and Close button works well in the compose window (although it's a little weird if you save, close, and then send) but unfortunately doesn't look like a similar button is available on reply/forward? I guess one way around this is hitting the "Open in Popup" button, then quickly hitting "Save and close", but I wonder if that would look too glitchy to the user.