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Misleading documentation with regards to `query`'s `fetchPolicy` allowed policies

See original GitHub issue

Intended outcome: Set “cache-and-network” when querying directly from the ApolloClient.

Actual outcome: Error message:

Error: cache-and-network fetchPolicy can only be used with watchQuery

How to reproduce the issue: Follow the documentation here and try to query via client.query(...) with fetch policy "cache-and-network".

Version

apollo-client@<version number>

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:47
Comments:34 (12 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

16reactions

cyberdudecommented, Dec 13, 2018

Is this still a thing?

8reactions

theodorDiaconucommented, Aug 31, 2018

Any update on this ? This is very strange! I expected the query to return initially from cache and make the request in the meantime then the component will get updated with fresh data!

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