useLazyQuery polling?

[zebbedi]

Just trying out the new useLazyQuery hook and the documentation and the TS seem to suggest that it supports polling, however I can't seem to make it work.

Can someone confirm if it does indeed support polling?

[hwillson]

@zebbedi Polling should work; it doesn't start until after your first call to the execute function. If it isn't working, then that's a bug. Any chance you could put together a small reproduction that shows the issue?

[zebbedi]

Apologies i think we may have jumped the gun.

I think the thing that tripped us up was that we replaced a useQuery which had a 'skip: true' for initial load. With this the startPolling function is available immediately. When we swapped it out for a useLazyQuery the startPolling function is undefined and then becomes available only after the result of the first execution.

Not sure if that's still a consistency issue or expected?

[hwillson]

Interesting @zebbedi - that does't sound intended. I'll take a look - thanks!

[masad-frost]

I have a PR here since October apollographql/react-apollo#3645, I can move it to https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/ if there's interest.

[sanpablomarket]

this appears to still be broken. startPolling and stopPolling are undefined when returned from the lazy hook.

[Badbreaddead]

If anybody stumbles upon this: you can call initialQuery and then call startPolling

[arieller]

so basically subscribeToMore and polling is broken? :( :((((((((((((