I wanted to give a shot to checking the apollo nor...

# apollo-kotlin

[Stylianos Gakis]

I wanted to give a shot to checking the apollo normalized cache through the new IDE plugin.
As I open it, I am asked to look for a .db file in my device, which it does not seem to find when I click on it.
Is it that I would need to use the SQL backed cache for this to work? Right now we’re only using the in-memory one, aka MemoryCacheFactory(maxSizeBytes = 10 * 1024 * 1024) for example.
Didn’t find something regarding that here or here, maybe I am missing something? 😊

[mbonnin]

You'll need v4 and ApolloDebugServer to be able to read the memory cache from the IDEA plugin

[mbonnin]

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/v4/testing/apollo-debug-server

[bod]

if you were using the persisted cache the plugin could have read it by giving it the db file. But for the in-memory one it's more involved, it needs to communicate with your app.

[Stylianos Gakis]

Hmm so even for 3.x, if I for now do

.normalizedCache(
  SqlNormalizedCacheFactory(get<Context>(), "debug-apollo.db"),
)

in my ApolloClient (and remove the in-memory one for now, or I could also use chain I suppose), I should then be able to use the plugin to watch the normalized cache right?

I am doing this right now without much luck, will give it some more tries though, tried restarting the app, the IDE, reinstalling the App from scratch etc.
Anything obvious that I could be missing?

[Stylianos Gakis]

And by not much luck I mean this of course

[bod]

The plugin tries to find the file via adb commands - for it to work your app must be debbugable, I guess it's the case?

Otherwise, you can pull the file yourself (either command line adb pull or using AS's device explorer) and then epen it

[Stylianos Gakis]

Hmm yeah it should be debuggable, but I can triple check this.
If I do the adb pull myself, it will mean that I will need to re-fetch that each time, or is there a button to auto-do this if it already knows the path to the right place?

[bod]

also would you like to try the Snapshot version of the plugin?

[bod]

it will mean that I will need to re-fetch that each time

unfortunately yes

[bod]

(I could totally make the refresh button reload the file though! Good idea - logged here)

[Stylianos Gakis]

Giving 4.0.0-beta.3-SNAPSHOT.41 a shot now

[Stylianos Gakis]

Voilà

[bod]

hurray! 😄

[Stylianos Gakis]

And got a follow-up question because of what I learned from this 😅 Will post it on the main channel.
But how cool is that, the plugin is turning out to be a great addition to our workflow, you’re doing a killer job there, great job!
And with every question I make here the more you folks are convincing me that I must migrate to 4.x sooner rather than later 😂

[bod]

aww thank you very much that's great to hear! 🙏