Idle state on AsyncState

[Solido]

I use AsyncSignal to display some computation and manage the status as exposed for users.
Being not only internal I would make a common use of an idle state. Feedback?

[rodydavis]

Is idle before the execution is called? Or would it be a separate Boolean on the AsyncState object?

[rodydavis]

Or would it be a new state?

[Solido]

To clarify it is a state used in conjonction with UI.
AsyncState by default is for any activity, not UI.

When used for UI you have a default state to return after loading/error/data

I'm interested to see how preact and others model this case but I've a direct need for it.

[rodydavis]

Could you provide some puedo code?

[r0hit-gupta]

Yeah, I feel this feature would be really handy. For reference:
https://github.com/jinyus/dart_beacon?tab=readme-ov-file#asyncvalue

[jinyus]

@r0hit-gupta
I was actually thinking of removing the idle state because it's cumbersome when you don't need it...but I found that it makes a couple scenarios more ergonomic.
eg: When you're on a search page and haven't search for anything thing yet.

[r0hit-gupta]

@jinyus would it be possible to pass in a custom parameter? Maybe something like {initManually: true} while declaring the future signal.

[jinyus]

@r0hit-gupta Yes, it's called manualStart
https://github.com/jinyus/dart_beacon?tab=readme-ov-file#beaconfuture

Here's an example: https://github.com/jinyus/dart_beacon/tree/main/examples/flutter_main/lib/search

[Solido]

This ticket is still open and we've no clear ground on it.
My 2 certitudes are

• any Field will require and idle/initial state
• asyncState does not.

Can we move this to a discussion and challenge the best implementations to solve the UI fields case?

[rodydavis]

Works for me! If you also want to make a PR happy to review too

[Solido]

I've do decisive view on the solution.
It seems that modifying AsyncState is not the right solution as it works well.
Thinking about something for the UI.

Point is this is a recurring case and Signals can offer a better solution than
letting any user comes with home made code.