writeOperation/writeFragment no longer publish updates by default

[edenman]

Version

4.0.0-beta.7

Summary

Recently updated from beta4. writeOperation and writeFragment used to publish by default but now they don't (as a result of #5755)

Steps to reproduce the behavior

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[edenman]

(the signatures of the two methods look identical because publish is a default param)

[BoD]

Thanks for flagging! We made the write operations not suspending, but it turned out publish needs to be suspend - so publishing is now removed by default, which is a behavior change. We should highlight that in the migration guide.

[edenman]

Yeah. And probably deprecate the non-suspend version? Or at least rename it to something that indicates it doesn't publish updates?

[BoD]

@edenman After some thinking, we think the behavior change warrants an API change, which makes it harder to miss.

In #5976, we change the names of the non publishing write functions and add extensions that have the same signature as in v3. Let us know what you think.

[edenman]

#5976 wfm

[BoD]

This has now been released in 4.0.0-rc.1.

Note: if you manually called ApolloStore.publish(), this is no longer needed with the RC onward, as the write methods now publish by default again (same behavior as 3.x). If you were explicitly passing publish = true then no change is needed.

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