Suggestion: Ability to ignore new fetch request? (Only search for words longer than 2 characters)

I am using this component with a remote dataset and pagination and it all works fine but I am trying to add the logic: only search if the filter is longer than 3 characters. Did somebody already figured this out?

The table component should keep its current state and do nothing when the filter value is between 1 and 3 characters long.

Or another usecase could be: start fetching data if the user stopped typing (after 500ms for example).

So actually what I am looking for is a validation method before the component starts fetching new data from the server. If the validation fails it should keep the current state.

I was thinking of something like the code below.

<table-component :data="fetchData" ....

methods: {
  fetchData({page, filter, sort}) {
    if (!shouldFetch()) {
        return false;
    }

    // otherwise, fetch results from server and return them
  }
}

Above code is not working because the data property does not accept anything else than an array. What do you think? Should I create a pull request for this or is there another solution for my question?

spatie / vue-table-component

Suggestion: Ability to ignore new fetch request? (Only search for words longer than 2 characters) #144