useQuery - data and error not updating with refetch

[viduli-prime]

I have a query like this,

const { data, error, refetch } = useQuery(QUERY, { fetchPolicy: "network-only", nextFetchPolicy: "network-only" })

When I call refetch and if the API returns an error, both data and error don’t update. error is null, and data holds the values from the last successful fetch. Although, the promise returned from refetch rejects with the error. Is that the intended behavior? If so, how do I get data to clear when the api returns an error?

Intended outcome:
I would expect data to be null and error to contain the error.

Actual outcome:
data and error contain the values from the previous fetch.

How to reproduce the issue:
Try a query like the above, API should return a successful result on the first run, and should return an error on the second run. Second run should be triggered by refetch

Versions

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Linux Mint 20.1 (Ulyssa)
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.17.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.1/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.11 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.1/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.13 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.1/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 94.0.4606.81
    Firefox: 90.0.2
  npmPackages:
    @apollo/client: ^3.4.11 => 3.4.11

[bignimbus]

Hi @viduli-prime 👋🏻 thanks for your patience! This appears to be similar to #8833 so next time we take a fresh look at refetch we'll keep this issue in mind. Again, we really appreciate your patience!

[denis-sokolov]

(Connecting to a related historic ticket for future readers on both sides.)