RefinementList trigger transform-items (vue instantsearch)

[oliverbeck-dev]

Hi,
I have a RefinementList where I already use :transform-items="myTranformFunction". this function gets called only when the widget is loaded. I need to trigger transform-items from a watcher

is this even possible?

[Haroenv]

This will only be called when InstantSearch renders. What use case do you have for re-transforming later? some async data?

[oliverbeck-dev]

exactly. Basically I have a searchable refinement list. while searching, the items (around 4500 options) come from an external datasource async.

[Haroenv]

Weird that this is not possible with Algolia out of the box 🤔 you can actually set the facet as searchable and then it will work out of the box.

If that's not possible for some reason (please let us know so we can list the feature gap), I recommend you either:

• fork refinementList and replace searchForFacetValues with your third-party request
• pass a custom searchClient (a la https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/going-further/conditional-requests/js/) which changes the searchForFacetValues method of the client to call your backend instead