Disable swrv for certain endpoints

[Kiffin Gish]

I would like to be able to disable swrv for certain endpoints, is that possible?

For example, all calls to /api/comments should simple passthru and always make remote api calls.

Or is there an easier way to do this with useSWRV()?

[Adam DeHaven]

You would need to provide an example of how you’re using swrv in your project.

swrv doesn’t automatically “bind” to every request in your app, etc.

[Kiffin Gish]

This is a Vue3 application, and in the base API class SWRV is being hooked into all calls like this:

export function useApi<T extends resource | resource[]>(
  key: KeyFunction | string,
  resourcesToInclude: IncludeList = [],
  config: SWRV.IConfig = {}
): UseApiResponse<T> {

  const _config = {
    ...defaultConfig,
    ...config,
  };

  const {
    data: apiData,
    error,
    isValidating,
    mutate,
  } = useSWRV<AxiosResponse<JSONApiResponse<T>>>(
    key,
    (key) => {
      const url = addIncludesToPath(key, resourcesToInclude);
      return (api
          .get(url)
          .catch(error => Promise.reject([ errorAsApiError(error) ]))
      );
    },
    _config
  );

  const errors = computed(() => apiData.value?.data.errors || error.value);
  const included = computed(() => apiData.value?.data?.included;
  const meta = computed(() => apiData.value?.data?.meta);
  const data = computed(() => apiData.value?.data?.data;

  // These are intended for collections
  const links = computed(() => apiData.value?.data?.links);
  const pagination = computed(() => meta.value?.pagination);

  return {
    data,
    errors,
    meta,
    pagination,
    links,
    included,
    isValidating,
    mutate,
  };

If keys is /api/comments/... I would like to skip looking in the cache altogether.

[Adam DeHaven]

The easiest way would be to just provide a dynamic key (in your wrapper function) for any request utilizing the /api/comments/** path, for example new Date().getTime()

Since the cache key will be different on every request, it won't read from the cache.

[Kiffin Gish]

But doesn't that mean that the cache will then be polluted with all kinds of irrelevant hash key values, since I am assuming that when the call returns it will be adding the key- value (url - response) to the cache?

[Adam DeHaven]

You could also override the cache provider for URLs that match a certain syntax, or set the ttl to 1 so that the requests essentially are never valid in the cache.