Apollo-client: refetchQueries with string arguments not updating component

[dmarkow]

Intended outcome:
Given a query:

const AllUsersQuery = gql`
  query AllUsers {
    users {
      id
      login
    }
  }
`;

Using refetchQueries: ["AllUsers"] in a mutation should re-execute the query and update any components depending on that query.

Actual outcome:
While the query is re-executed, the component never updates. Using the apollo dev tools in Chrome, I can see the new User item listed in the store, but it never makes it to my component.

If I instead import the original query variable and use refetchQueries: [{query: AllUsersQuery}], everything works as expected.

How to reproduce the issue:
Use string arguments in refetchQueries

[saudpunjwani101]

refetchQueries takes a query object, I don't think u can actually pass a string to it.

[dmarkow]

@saudpunjwani101 The documentation on refetchQueries says it can take an array of either strings or objects (and the first example uses the string option).

[saudpunjwani101]

Yeah ur right, although the query does re execute it's not resolving the updates. I'll try it

[helfer]

@dmarkow could you provide a reproduction for this?

[MichaelDeBoey]

@dmarkow If your get back a union, then this could be the same problem as in #1611, which is 'fixed' (you'll get warnings what to do) by #1638 :-)

[dmarkow]

I just tried to reproduce this on the current version and can't, so maybe it was resolved with some of the recent updates... Thanks!

[ctavan]

Might be related to the race-condition described in #1821.

[jpikora]

I've just come across the same issue as @dmarkow.

Object format [{ query: ... }, ...] for refetchQueries is working correctly, but when using Strings ['queryName', ...] the store is not updated, even though the refetch requests are correctly executed.

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[ctavan]

@jpikora I still believe that this is the race condition outlined in #1821

[hobochild]

I'm seeing the same behaviour @jpikora, passing the query document works but passing the operation name as a Array doesn't update the cache.

[jcace]

Any update on this? I still can't pass string arguments to refetchQueries, as they don't seem to update the cache. Apollo client v2.6.8