No loading spinner for long poll actions

[Kimeiga]

Version

0.14.8

Operating System

macOS

Distribution Method

dmg (Mac OS - Apple Silicon)

Describe the issue

Currently when you take actions that will take a while, such as moving a commit from one branch to another, moving a changed file from one commit to another, or etc, these actions can take around 2 seconds on a large monorepo like mine, but there is not loading spinner that indicates that the action is in progress.

How to reproduce (Optional)

1. Drag a commit from one branch to another branch on a large monorepo

2. Drag a changed file from one commit to another commit on a branch in a large monorepo

Expected behavior (Optional)

There should be a loading spinner somewhere indicating the action is in progress

Relevant log output (Optional)

[Byron]

Thanks a lot for reporting.

Even though the next major release is going to be much more efficient, there is still no notion of long-running processes. For instance, when cloning a repository, the UI just hangs there without any progress indication.

Showing progress certainly is yet to be solved in the UI (I think), but hope @PavelLaptev will correct me. Also CC to @amrbashir in case tauri already has support for long-running operations and progress reporting.

[amrbashir]

Unfortunately not, that will need to be handled by tauri users, here is a few things to note:

1. Use an async command for long running operations so it won't block the main thread and thus UI.
2. Use Channel to send data in a streaming fashion. Use this for reporting progress.
3. Long running operation can be stored in the ResourceTable and give back the rid to front-end for later queries or termination.

We use these techniques in our HTTP plugin, see https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/95e8f909b103c5c8f7c52a756fb5501b77267779/plugins/http/src/commands.rs

[Byron]

I see, thanks a lot @amrbashir, very helpful! I found this portion of the linked file most interesting as it brings together all concepts very concisely: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/blob/95e8f909b103c5c8f7c52a756fb5501b77267779/plugins/http/src/commands.rs#L316-L333 .

I can definitely see how this would be used to implement progress reporting.
CC @mtsgrd and @krlvi .