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? 😊

You'll need v4 and

ApolloDebugServer

to be able to read the memory cache from the IDEA plugin

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.

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?

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

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?

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

Giving

4.0.0-beta.3-SNAPSHOT.41

a shot now

hurray! 😄

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 😂

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