Is there a way to abort a get request manually?

[arjunvegda]

Hi,

Is there a way to abort a GET request when using lazy query?

const [trigger, { data, refetch, isFetching }] = useLazyGetPokemonByNameQuery();

Context: The API I am working with could take a while to fulfill the request (over a few minutes in some cases). I am planning to give user a way of cancelling the current request.

[phryneas]

In theory you might be able to call

const running = trigger()
runninc.cancel()

but I'm not 100% sure.

We have general cancellation support in RTKQ, but it is not really part of types and documentation because it is very unclear what would happen after cancellation from a developer experience side - the request would go into a weird "error" state. This needs more fleshing out.

Generally in most cases it does not make a difference though: cancelling does not stop most servers from actually processing it and if you're not interested in the result, it could also just be ignored. Your very-long-running-request here seems to be quite the difference from that "normal case" 🤔

[arjunvegda]

Makes sense! Thank you for the prompt response!