Progress: cannot cancel

[bpasero]

Testing #111250

It does not seem possible to cancel the operations from the explorer, e.g. download (tried download from a remote Codespace).

[isidorn]

We do not allow to cancel when there is only one operation. This is as designed since file system providers currently do not support canceling. So on the Bulk Edit Service we can only cancel by not doing the remaining operations.

Though download might be a special case operation (I have to check if it goes through the Bulk Edit Service). Assigning to November for initial investigation.

fyi @jrieken

[bpasero]

I think we can still offer cancellation, even if the file system provider API does not allow it all the way down. We can cancel on a per-file basis at least for the "Download" and "Upload" operations. Move/Delete possibly not because they are implemented over the generic file system APIs in most cases.

[isidorn]

Not something I want to change in endgame, thus moving to debt week for discussions.
The issue is that BulkEditService currently does not distuinguish between different operations when reporting progress and would be nice if it stayed that way.
Also assigning to @jrieken for thoughts

[jrieken]

The issue is that BulkEditService currently does not distuinguish between different operations when reporting progress and would be nice if it stayed that way.

Bulk edit does support cancellation, for file edits it is just a matter of passing it down to the working copy service and so on. If cancelation is then actually doing something is up to the receiver of that token

[onurtore]

Is there any change this is going to be implemented ?

[muonmax]

For anyone who stumbles here from Google: you can force the cancellation of a download by reloading the window (Develop: Reload Window in command pallet).