Unsubscribing and subscribing very quickly causes unexpected behavior

[rafaelcorreiapoli]

Hi, consider this code:

const b = function() {
1  const handler = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
2  const id = handler.id
3  asteroid.unsubscribe(id)
4  const handler2 = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
}

Until line 3 everything works as expected. I get all "added" messages and "removed" messages The problem is after resubscribing (on line 4) I don't get the "insert" messages again. I'm trying to understand how asteroid and ddp.js works inside to find clues about this behaviour and I think that is something related to the asynchronicity of unsub and sub

(Obviously the "b" function is hypothetical but something similar is happening on my App because of React's HMR)

[rafaelcorreiapoli]

const c = function() {
 const handler = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
 const id = handler.id
 asteroid.unsubscribe(id)
 setTimeout(() => {
  const handler2 = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
 }, 500) 
}

This makes it works as expected... so I think that the problem is related to asynchronicity

On meteor's own implementation, it works as expected

const m = function() {
const handler = Meteor.subscribe('pokemons')
handler.stop()
const handler2 = Meteor.subscribe('pokemons')
}

after calling m, I have the documents on the client provided by the "pokemons'' publication

[clayne11]

This happens because when you unsub from a subscription, it doesn't actually get deleted from the subscription cache until the server replies with a nosub message.

https://github.com/mondora/asteroid/blob/master/src/base-mixins/subscriptions.js#L81-L86

IMO the subscription should be deleted immediately when you unsubscribe.

https://github.com/mondora/asteroid/blob/master/src/base-mixins/subscriptions.js#L63-L65

[boldkhuu]

I faced this problem and it's solved by below:

const c = function() {
  const handler = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
  const id = handler.id
  asteroid.unsubscribe(id)
  asteroid.subscriptions.cache.del(id) // deleting from cache synchronously
  const handler2 = asteroid.subscribe('pokemons')
}