BlockUI: provide delay (before displaying the blockUI)

[nimo23]

Description

p:ajaxStatus has a delay property:

Delay in milliseconds before displaying the ajax status. Default is 0 meaning immediate.

<p:ajaxStatus delay="0"..>

Describe the solution you would like

Please provide the delay property also for p:blockUI:

Delay in milliseconds before displaying the blockUI. Default is 0 meaning immediate.

<p:blockUI delay="1200"..>

Additional context

No response

[melloware]

Hmmm i would be interested in your use case on why you would want to delaying blocking? Do you have an example?

[nimo23]

i would be interested in your use case on why you would want to delaying blocking

The same use case as why someone would add a delay in p:ajaxStatus:

Don't distract the user until it's needed, e.g. show the "blocking" only after 300ms - before 300ms, it's not worth to show the p:blockUI.

[melloware]

But BlockUi is usually triggered by an Ajax request so wouldn't the delay on the ajax request just apply and it wouldn't start? So once again I don't understand your use case?

[nimo23]

But BlockUi is usually triggered by an Ajax request so wouldn't the delay on the ajax request just apply and it wouldn't start?

But p:ajaxStatus is independent from p:blockUI. When using p:ajaxStatus delay="200", then it only delays the p:ajaxStatus (so the spinner is only shown if the ajax request did not complete before 200ms).

I want that p:blockUI is only shown if the ajax request did not complete after 300ms. I do NOT want to delay the ajax request but I want to delay the visibility of the blockUI - if the ajax request completed before 300ms, then no blockUI should be shown. Nothing else.

[melloware]

That makes sense I had no idea ajax status had that feature we should make them consistent.