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[IDEA] Be able to cancel a search that I started #409
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I know this was discussed at some time on the old forums or the old Mirth Slack.
Some notes:
- the searches are long running HTTP requests waiting for data
- We could kill this client-side only - However this would still leave a potentially long running or slow query going server-side
- We could add a kill option that operates server-side - This would require some sort of coordination in sending the search so it can be killed and server side orchestration to kill it. I don't remember how to do this in Java, JDBC, mybatis etc but I'm sure there are modern tools to do it
- The slow searches can come from three places:
- a slow DB query, how can this be killed with a kill signal?
- slow marshalling of the XML returned to the client
- slow unmarshalling or rendering of the XML in the client
I am in favor of stopping such requests at client even before sending to server. Chris and I are working on a PR on his web-client to implement the same. [PR#33] (gibson9583/oie-web-client@97edb89)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use search daily. I can be searching for anything, an accession number (which I always put in metadata) or a given string (yes, it's bad, but I usually use some other filters to narrow the depth of the search). Some times a search is taking forever and then I notice that it won't return anything. The GUI is pretty much toast now and any new searches will not work until the first one finishes.
Describe your use case
I need this feature so I can accomplish doing a search that I know will work, compared to the one that I started and it's killing the DB for no reason - since no results will come out of it (potentially after scanning the whole table)
Describe the solution you'd like
There should be a cancel search button that just kills the whole pipeline going to the DB.
Describe alternatives you've considered
My workaround is to kill the GUI completely and re-launch a new one. ugh!