why is force fetch set when starting?

[manukall]

hi,

i'm using the same query in 4 components of my app. this leads to the query being run 4 times when my app loads. i suspect that the following code in SmartQuery is the reason:

if (this.starting) {
  this.options.forceFetch = true
}

so i'm wondering what the purpose of the force fetching is. why is it necessary to set this here?

[Akryum]

You are right, this is an error. 🍰

[manukall]

wow, that was quick. thanks!

also, i'm wondering if you have an opinion on unit testing components that use vue-apollo. right now i'm just not including apollo in my components during tests (i only Vue.use(apollo) when not in the test environment). does that make sense? is there a better approach?

[Akryum]

I think it's fine if you inject the data you would normally receive via Apollo. Maybe there are things to do to simulate a request (to test the component behavior with loadingKey changing from 1 to 0 for example).

[manukall]

thanks again! i tried stubbing fetch first. that worked as well but was a lot of work for when i wasn't actually testing apollo related things as well. i'm happier with skipping apollo in tests now :-)