Disabling pull to refresh for specific routes on turbo-ios

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This question is for devs building apps with Turbo-ios.

I want to disable the native “pull-to-refresh” functionality on certain pages.
I found the variable responsible for enabling/disabling the pull to refresh functionality in turbo-ios:

and it looks like I can disable pull to refresh in my VisitableViewController subclass like this:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
  self.visitableView.allowsPullToRefresh = false
}

The problem is that I want to “selectively disable pull to refresh depending on the URL of the page I am on”.

My current solution is to use “path_configuration” like this:

{
  "rules": [
    {
      "patterns": ["/some/page"],
      "properties": {
        "disablePullToRefresh": "true"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Then inside of my navigate function

private func navigate(
    to viewController: UIViewController, action: VisitAction, properties: PathProperties = [:],
    animated: Bool = true, url: URL
  ) {

  // <cliped>

  let disablePullToRefresh = getDisablePullToRefresh(properties)
  if let viewController = viewController as? ApplicationViewController {
      viewController.disablePullToRefresh = disablePullToRefresh
    }

  // <cliped>

}

And in my ApplicationViewController:

class ApplicationViewController: VisitableViewController {
  var disablePullToRefresh: Bool = false
  
  override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    self.visitableView.allowsPullToRefresh = !disablePullToRefresh
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
  }
}

Is there anybody out there who followed a different approach?
It would be better if I could decide from the server if want to allow or disallow pull to refresh… (by using a meta tag for example)

(I don’t want to release a new version to the app store every time I want to disable another page.)

Thank you

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