Add RemoteData wrapper?

[popara]

Hi,
I have been playing with your libraries and I find them really pleasurable to work with. Only thing that is holding me back to implement it in my main project is the fact that I am using heavily
RemoteData package:
https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/krisajenkins/remotedata/latest

Do you think that there is a possibility to generate client code wrapped with RemoteData, and are you open or PRs in this area?

Thanks!

[ollef]

Hey!

Glad to hear you're enjoying the libraries so far. :)

I'd be open for it if there's a way to add it that doesn't force everyone to use it.

The reason it's preferrable (IMO) for the generated endpoints to return Result instead of RemoteData is that RemoteData is "too big", i.e. the endpoints never return NotAsked or Loading. If you're pattern matching on the returned value in your update function, you'd have to add cases that can never really happen if you used RemoteData.

With that said, we sometimes find it convenient to use RemoteData anyway, probably for the same reason as you. In those cases we usually use something like Cmd.map (SomeMessage << RemoteData.fromResult)

[popara]

Cool.

I totally agree with your reasoning, RemoteData should be whipped cream on top of this cake.

I will see to work this and next week on a version that will have a option to generate RD endpoints.

[popara]

BTW, usually I just save webdata to my model, and display result accordingly. If I need to work out details, I simply RemoteData.map, hence I dont work with case statements in update