[5.x]: GQL asset transform immediately argument

[bastiaanwuisman]

What happened?

Description

The 'immediately' argument for the GQL transform directive is marked as deprecated with the message '[_Deprecated_] This argument is deprecated and has no effect.' (https://github.com/craftcms/cms/blob/5.x/src/gql/arguments/Transform.php#L75). This was done in 2021 in this commit, which also removes support for $generateNow on Asset urls in general.

That functionality however seems to have been restored in 2022 as $immediately in this commit, and the GQL transform directive clearly supports that argument as well.

There does however seem to be a bug with immediately: false in combination with GQL caching. If you enable GQL caching (which is default) and query for a transformed asset url with immediately: false you get the assets/generate-transform url (as expected). But firing the same GQL request will once again result in the deferred url (because of the GQL caching), even though the transformed file exists at this point. This makes serving the transformed asset on subsequent requests inefficient

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Actual behavior

Craft CMS version

5.9.16

PHP version

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Installed plugins and versions

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CMS-1908

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for reporting that! Fixed the caching bug for the next release. I also brought back support for the immediately argument on assets’ url fields for Craft 5.10.

[brandonkelly]

Craft 4.17.12 and 5.9.18 are out with that fix. Thanks again!