[Feat] Force `fresh=true` on fetched styles
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Description
Target Use Case
When using a Mapbox Style URL like mapStyle="mapbox://styles/foo/123" the results are cached.
I am looking for a way to force a fresh version of the styles.
The Mapbox Style API has the (undocumented) fresh=true param for this use case (see https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-sdk-js/issues/364#issuecomment-617894314).
However, I don't see any way to pass this to mapbox-gl or maplibre-gl.
I tried manually fetching the same style URL that I see being fetched from the console and appending ?fresh=true, but it looked like that was not picket up by the map. Maybe because I change the URL when adding the flag?
Proposal
Ideally, I would be able to call <Map mapStyle="" fresh={true} /> (with true being evaluated by some condition (like a debug flag) internally).
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Research direction
Start by tracing how the Map component handles the mapStyle prop and fetches Mapbox styles. Check the existing tests around style loading, then verify that a fresh option causes the requested style URL to use fresh=true without breaking normal style loading.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100