gcTime for queryClient.setQueryData

[james-wee-iress]

Based on this part of the documentation, it seems that setQueryData will have a 5 minute gcTime if not picked up by a useQuery hook. But we have a use case where the server data will not go stale and we do not know when the server data is going to be used, but the possibility of it being used is very high.

So, I wonder if there is a way to setQueryData with a custom gcTime like:

setQueryData(queryKey, data, {
  gcTime: Infinity
})

[TkDodo]

it will pick up the default gcTime, wich is 5 minutes, unless you specify a different default globally or per query key with queryClient.setQueryDefaults

[nklhtv]

@TkDodo Is there a way to specify the default gcTime for exact queries only?

The defaults set with queryClient.setQueryDefaults(['items'], { ... }) will affect queries like ['items', 5]

If we could pass something like {exact: true} like we can in queryClient.invalidateQueries

[TkDodo]

no, it's always a fuzzy match.