Download again only if the previous request failed

[csr]

Hi there,

I'm using React Query for downloading files.

If the download request is successful, I want to download the file and cache it for future requests, which works great.

If the request fails, I use invalidateQuery on the query client so that we do NOT use the previous cached result.

I do not use refetch because that triggers a new download every time, regardless of whether there is a cached result or not.

Just wanted to confirm with you if I'm using the library the "right" way. Does my approach make sense?

My version: @tanstack/react-query": "4.29.5

[TkDodo]

If the request fails, I use invalidateQuery on the query client so that we do NOT use the previous cached result.

that doesn't make much sense, because invalidation doesn't remove a cached result - it just makes sure that the next time this data is requested, you get a background refetch