Excessive HTTP requests and therefore API calls when navigating in list view

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Checklist:

• I've searched in the docs and FAQ for my answer: https://bit.ly/argocd-faq.
• I've included steps to reproduce the bug.
• I've pasted the output of argocd version.

Describe the bug

It seems that when navigating in list view, the ArgoCD UI make several requests for each resource even if it's not necessary.
For example if exec is enabled, every resource is checked if exec is allowed, even if it's not a pod.

On tree view this happens only when clicking on the 3 dots.
On list view this happens in the overview.

The following endpoints are called too many times:

1. /api/v1/settings
2. /api/v1/applications/guestbook/resource/actions?appNamespace=argocd&namespace=default&resourceName=guestbook-ui-56c646849b-2qsm5&version=v1&kind=Pod
3. /api/v1/applications/guestbook/resource/links?name=guestbook-ui-56c646849b-2qsm5&appNamespace=argocd&namespace=default&resourceName=guestbook-ui-56c646849b-2qsm5&version=v1&kind=Pod&group=
4. /api/v1/account/can-i/exec/create/default/<resource name>

To Reproduce

• kind create cluster --name argocd
• kubectl create namespace argocd
• kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml
• Create Application
• kubectl scale --replicas 10 -n default deploy guestbook-ui (to better see the extent of the problem)

Expected behavior

1. The endpoints (at least /api/v1/account/can-i/exec/create/default/<resource name>) should only be called when clicking on the 3 dots.
2. The endpoint /api/v1/account/can-i/exec/create/default/<resource name> should only be called when clicking on a pod.

Be careful not to introduce old bugs, see references in Related heading.

Video

list-view.mp4

Version

{
    "Version": "v2.10.4+f5d63a5",
    "BuildDate": "2024-03-18T08:09:23Z",
    "GitCommit": "f5d63a5c77d2e804e51ef94bee3db441e0789d00",
    "GitTreeState": "clean",
    "GoVersion": "go1.21.3",
    "Compiler": "gc",
    "Platform": "linux/amd64",
    "KustomizeVersion": "v5.2.1 2023-10-19T20:13:51Z",
    "HelmVersion": "v3.14.3+gf03cc04",
    "KubectlVersion": "v0.26.11",
    "JsonnetVersion": "v0.20.0"
}

Related

• Bug(ui): Add check execEnabled to avoid extra API call  #16165
• fix(ui): add exec check to avoid API calls #16168