How to set cacheTime for setQuery methods

[vijaypushkin]

I want set cacheTime to a query set with setQuery method.

queryClient.setQueryData(key, value, { cacheTime: Infinity });
//                                           ^ throws a type error

Upon looking into the types.d.ts file it only these

export interface SetDataOptions {
    updatedAt?: number;
}

How to do I add cacheTime and other options to setQuery, is there any reason why this was omitted?

[TkDodo]

What problem are you trying to solve - what's your use-case?

[TkDodo]

you can set them per query key:
queryClient.setQueryDefaults(['todos'], { cacheTime: Infinity })

https://react-query.tanstack.com/reference/QueryClient#queryclientsetquerydefaults

[vijaypushkin]

Unfortunately, query defaults are not included in dehydrated state. Guess there's no point in asking RQ to do what it's not meant to do.

I will get the dehydrated state and store in Zustand or Local Storage in Client Side.

Thanks for your time man.

[TkDodo]

only data is part of the dehydrated state, meta information like cacheTime is never included.
but there's a new, different queryClient on the frontend where you hydrate into. That's where you have to set the defaults.

[vijaypushkin]

Wouldn't it be cool if there's a flag to merged query default options when hydrating? So that we get options from old query client also?

[TkDodo]

query options contain functions as well, and setting cacheTime on the server has a different effect than on the client. I don't think we should merge those.