It doesn’t solve the problem of your comment request timing out after waiting 30 seconds in a spotty mobile connection. Now that it timed out, you don’t know if it was actually posted or not. A proper API would not post duplicate comments in response to retries of a request that already succeeded (without the client knowing).
That’s a good point, I like @idunnololz@lemmy.world solution better. Make the request have it’s own identifier and if one goes through disregard the rest.
It doesn’t solve the problem of your comment request timing out after waiting 30 seconds in a spotty mobile connection. Now that it timed out, you don’t know if it was actually posted or not. A proper API would not post duplicate comments in response to retries of a request that already succeeded (without the client knowing).
That’s a good point, I like @idunnololz@lemmy.world solution better. Make the request have it’s own identifier and if one goes through disregard the rest.