Open Bug 1609646 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Check if we should re-evaluate the input for eager evaluation each N seconds

Categories

(DevTools :: Console, task, P3)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Console
Type:
task

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: nchevobbe, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

The input is eagerly evaluated only when the user types, and we even have a mechanism to not reevaluate if the last input evaluation was similar.

But if one of the variable used in the input changes, the results can be obsolete, which might confuse users.

So we could maybe re-evaluate the input every N seconds (maybe 2 ? 3 ?)

Nice improvement. One caveat is that these "live updates" could cause loss of data.

Nicolas, could you help me understand why this should be P2?

Flags: needinfo?(nchevobbe)

probably not a P2 indeed.
FWIW Chrome isn't doing anything.
One thing we could do is be explicit that the evaluation was done at a given time? Not sure though

Flags: needinfo?(nchevobbe)
Priority: P2 → P3

Bug 1570707 would also be a workflow for this.

Severity: normal → S3
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