How to do a forced reload / refresh?

[nylz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I've been searching pretty long for a solution, to force a reload to an image. How can I do that?

Describe the solution you'd like A simple "Reload" - function, that reloads and displays the new image. Maybe something like URLImageService.shared.refresh(with: url) Or just a simplier solution described, if there is one. So further investigation by others confronted with this question will stop here on your page in the future. ;-)

Describe alternatives you've considered I've googled a lot, but did not find a satisfying solution for this. I already had a subpage, to what I switched for 0.2 secs and back, to force a reload. works, but looks stupid and ugly.

Additional context p.e.: User is uploading a new user-avatar, but the previous version is still shown. I already can remove it from the cache due to your implementation of my previous request, but this does not reload / refresh it on the screen.

[dmytro-anokhin]

Hey, you can remove cached image by URL:

URLImageService.shared.removeCachedImage(with: url)

[nylz]

Hi, yes, i know, but this does not refresh the URLImage-Component in my current view. Only when I enter this view next time, it is reloaded. I want to trigger the URLImage to load the new version from server and display it, without refreshing everything else.

[dmytro-anokhin]

After removing cached image URLImage will load it again. But you must trigger update, for instance by changing you @State property.

[nylz]

Ok, this is not very beautiful, but it is working. Thank You so much. You can close this.

Explanation: I had a simple dynamic function before, that provided the Url. like (pseudocode) URLImage(url: getAvatarUrl(self.session.currentuser.id) ...)

now i changed it to

@State userAvatarUrl: URLRequest? = nil

if self.userAvatarUrl != nil {
  URLImage(url: self.userAvatarUrl! ...)
}
...
onAppear() {
   // load stuff and set the avatarUrl
}

and after uploading (onSuccess):

let prevUrl = self.avatarUrl ... (+ ?? default) self.avatarUrl = nil DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.5) { self.avatarUrl = prevUrl } Pseudocde, coz the real is very much more complex due to many nested components... Next time, I'll consider this earlier. This was my first Swift-Project. ;-)