persist: true -> retry: true #19509

yuwenmemon · 2023-05-24T01:29:37Z

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marcaaron · 2023-05-31T01:06:09Z

src/libs/Network/index.js

-        const shouldPersist = lodashGet(request, 'data.persist', false);
-        if (shouldPersist) {
+        const shouldRetry = lodashGet(request, 'data.retry', false);
+        if (shouldRetry) {


Idk... I think we don't really need a retry: true at all?

What is passing persist now besides tests? I think we can just remove this entirely?

Yeah, just tests... great will do!

marcaaron · 2023-07-03T17:59:37Z

Any status update for this one @yuwenmemon?

yuwenmemon · 2023-07-03T19:22:57Z

Ah hm, I've forgotten about this one sadly and TBH don't remember the context super well now.

@marcaaron I believe we should just remove persist entirely is that right? Curious, what changed so that this is the case?

marcaaron · 2023-07-03T22:47:11Z

I know it's been a while. We can close it for focus if you don't want to dive back in and continue to track the progress in the cleanup issue here (which I just made a plane task). This stuff is pretty tricky and demands some intense focus to make sure we are not screwing things up 😄

For this PR, I don't think anything is passing a data.persist anymore. We used to pass that to tell our API commands that they are "writes" and should be persisted. Since we use API.write() for that now, we don't need the explicit check and everything that should be persisted is getting persisted by default.

Retry-ability also isn't determined by any sort of modifier any more IIRC. Anything that is going into the SequentialQueue should be getting retried by default.

So, basically we can just remove the entire block here:

App/src/libs/Network/index.js

Lines 43 to 47 in 9bd7ccd

    
           const shouldPersist = lodashGet(request, 'data.persist', false); 
        
           if (shouldPersist) { 
        
               SequentialQueue.push(request); 
        
               return; 
        
           }

And then fix up the tests. And as a final step to CYA - check that there are no usages of Network.post() that are somehow making it into the SequentialQueue (pretty sure there are none though).

yuwenmemon · 2023-07-06T06:52:59Z

And then fix up the tests.

For the tests do you think it would be a good idea to move a bunch of those NetworkTest cases that are affected to a new APITest?

marcaaron · 2023-07-06T21:51:15Z

For the tests do you think it would be a good idea to move a bunch of those NetworkTest cases that are affected to a new APITest?

No strong feelings.

marcaaron · 2023-07-06T21:52:00Z

Mainly we just have to update the tests so they are not breaking on the missing param that we are no longer passing. Any cleanup beyond that might be a bonus, but not expected tbh.

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yuwenmemon · 2023-07-12T16:50:41Z

@marcaaron this is ready for review now!

marcaaron

LGTM. AFAICT we are just removing dead code. Next up - 🔪 Network.post() itself (less easy since it is all tied up with the authentication code still).

marcaaron · 2023-07-13T02:26:03Z

I'm running out of time to do the testing for this one today so adding it to the top of my list for tomorrow - though - I think we can skip it since we're removing dead code.

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marcaaron · 2023-07-15T00:19:50Z

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