Hides loading spinner after request

In the pipeline's actions, moves the request
to the component to allow to manage the inner
state properly

app/assets/javascripts/pipelines/components/pipelines_actions.vue

 <script>
 import { GlButton, GlTooltipDirective, GlLoadingIcon } from '@gitlab/ui';
-import { s__, sprintf } from '~/locale';
+import axios from '~/lib/utils/axios_utils';
+import flash from '~/flash';
+import { s__, __, sprintf } from '~/locale';
 import GlCountdown from '~/vue_shared/components/gl_countdown.vue';
+import Icon from '~/vue_shared/components/icon.vue';
 import eventHub from '../event_hub';
-import Icon from '../../vue_shared/components/icon.vue';
 
 export default {
   directives: {
@@ -44,7 +46,24 @@ export default {
 
       this.isLoading = true;
 
-      eventHub.$emit('postAction', action.path);
+      /**
+       * Ideally, the component would not make an api call directly.
+       * However, in order to use the eventhub and know when to
+       * toggle back the `isLoading` property we'd need an ID
+       * to track the request with a wacther - since this component
+       * is rendered at least 20 times in the same page, moving the
+       * api call directly here is the most performant solution
+       */
+      axios
+        .post(`${action.path}.json`)
+        .then(() => {
+          this.isLoading = false;
+          eventHub.$emit('updateTable');
+        })
+        .catch(() => {
+          this.isLoading = false;
+          flash(__('An error occurred while making the request.'));
+        });
     },
 
     isActionDisabled(action) {

app/assets/javascripts/pipelines/mixins/pipelines.js

@@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ export default {
     eventHub.$on('postAction', this.postAction);
     eventHub.$on('retryPipeline', this.postAction);
     eventHub.$on('clickedDropdown', this.updateTable);
+    eventHub.$on('updateTable', this.updateTable);
     eventHub.$on('refreshPipelinesTable', this.fetchPipelines);
   },
   beforeDestroy() {
     eventHub.$off('postAction', this.postAction);
     eventHub.$off('retryPipeline', this.postAction);
     eventHub.$off('clickedDropdown', this.updateTable);
+    eventHub.$off('updateTable', this.updateTable);
     eventHub.$off('refreshPipelinesTable', this.fetchPipelines);
   },
   destroyed() {

changelogs/unreleased/65263-manual-action.yml

+---
+title: Hides loading spinner in pipelines actions after request has been fullfiled
+merge_request:
+author:
+type: fixed

spec/javascripts/pipelines/pipelines_actions_spec.js

 import Vue from 'vue';
-import eventHub from '~/pipelines/event_hub';
+import MockAdapter from 'axios-mock-adapter';
+import axios from '~/lib/utils/axios_utils';
 import PipelinesActions from '~/pipelines/components/pipelines_actions.vue';
 import mountComponent from 'spec/helpers/vue_mount_component_helper';
 import { TEST_HOST } from 'spec/test_constants';
@@ -7,9 +8,15 @@ import { TEST_HOST } from 'spec/test_constants';
 describe('Pipelines Actions dropdown', () => {
   const Component = Vue.extend(PipelinesActions);
   let vm;
+  let mock;
 
   afterEach(() => {
     vm.$destroy();
+    mock.restore();
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mock = new MockAdapter(axios);
   });
 
   describe('manual actions', () => {
@@ -40,6 +47,22 @@ describe('Pipelines Actions dropdown', () => {
 
       expect(dropdownItem).toBeDisabled();
     });
+
+    describe('on click', () => {
+      it('makes a request and toggles the loading state', done => {
+        mock.onPost(actions.path).reply(200);
+
+        vm.$el.querySelector('.dropdown-menu li button').click();
+
+        expect(vm.isLoading).toEqual(true);
+
+        setTimeout(() => {
+          expect(vm.isLoading).toEqual(false);
+
+          done();
+        });
+      });
+    });
   });
 
   describe('scheduled jobs', () => {
@@ -71,26 +94,27 @@ describe('Pipelines Actions dropdown', () => {
         .catch(done.fail);
     });
 
-    it('emits postAction event after confirming', () => {
-      const emitSpy = jasmine.createSpy('emit');
-      eventHub.$on('postAction', emitSpy);
+    it('makes post request after confirming', done => {
+      mock.onPost(scheduledJobAction.path).reply(200);
       spyOn(window, 'confirm').and.callFake(() => true);
 
       findDropdownItem(scheduledJobAction).click();
 
       expect(window.confirm).toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(scheduledJobAction.path);
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        expect(mock.history.post.length).toBe(1);
+        done();
+      });
     });
 
-    it('does not emit postAction event if confirmation is cancelled', () => {
-      const emitSpy = jasmine.createSpy('emit');
-      eventHub.$on('postAction', emitSpy);
+    it('does not make post request if confirmation is cancelled', () => {
+      mock.onPost(scheduledJobAction.path).reply(200);
       spyOn(window, 'confirm').and.callFake(() => false);
 
       findDropdownItem(scheduledJobAction).click();
 
       expect(window.confirm).toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(emitSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(mock.history.post.length).toBe(0);
     });
 
     it('displays the remaining time in the dropdown', () => {