Is there a way to handle cancelled requests

[hbatalhaStch]

I am making requests to my AdonisJs api from a Flutter application using dio and one of dio's features is the ability to cancel a request.

After some tests I noticed that request cancellations done by the client has no effect on the api since it had already received the requests.

So I am wondering if it's possible to handle cancelled requests.

I'm using V5.

[muco-rolle]

Hey @hbatalhaStch does the cancellation send back any information to the backend? It does something to notify the server you should be able to handle that

[hbatalhaStch]

does the cancellation send back any information to the backend?

no, it just kills that request connection to the backend.

in express we have something like this:

authRouter.post("/api/signup", async (req, res) => {

    let requestCancelled = false;
    req.socket.on('close', async () => {
        requestCancelled = true;
    })
// rest of the code
}

we can use requestCancelled to opt out of any operation in the rest of the code and just return an error for example.

[holoyan]

router.get('/t', async (ctx) => {
  ctx.request.request.socket.on('close', () => {
    // do something
  })
})

from source code seems that ctx.request.request is instance of incoming request

@hbatalhaStch

[hbatalhaStch]

thank you