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Select text inside TextInput only once from onLayout #47902

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j-piasecki Nov 22, 2024
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions ...t-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
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Expand Up @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ public class ReactEditText extends AppCompatEditText {
private boolean mContextMenuHidden = false;
private boolean mDidAttachToWindow = false;
private boolean mSelectTextOnFocus = false;
private boolean hasSelectedTextOnFocus = false;
private @Nullable String mPlaceholder = null;
private Overflow mOverflow = Overflow.VISIBLE;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -250,11 +251,11 @@ public boolean isLayoutRequested() {
@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
onContentSizeChange();
if (mSelectTextOnFocus && isFocused()) {
if (mSelectTextOnFocus && isFocused() && !hasSelectedTextOnFocus) {
// Explicitly call this method to select text when layout is drawn
selectAll();
// Prevent text on being selected for next layout pass
mSelectTextOnFocus = false;
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Are there other cases in Reanimated where props are reapplied multiple times? There are other places where that will cause problems, e.g. for ScrollView setting the contentOffset prop.

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It's not strictly Reanimated reapplying props - it's this part of the code:

react-native/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ShadowNode.cpp

Lines 56 to 62 in d86412d

if (!hasBeenMounted && sourceNodeHasRawProps && props) {
auto& castedProps = const_cast<Props&>(*props);
castedProps.rawProps = mergeDynamicProps(
sourceShadowNode.getProps()->rawProps,
props->rawProps,
NullValueStrategy::Override);
return props;

which relies on the previous node being mounted to apply only the props diff. This assumption is broken by Reanimated at the moment, but it's going to be fixed in the future. I think wrong behavior here was caused by the same field being used to store a prop and the view state at the same time.

hasSelectedTextOnFocus = true;
}
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -630,6 +631,7 @@ public void maybeUpdateTypeface() {
// VisibleForTesting from {@link TextInputEventsTestCase}.
public void requestFocusFromJS() {
requestFocusInternal();
hasSelectedTextOnFocus = true;
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Why do we avoid the onLayout focus here?

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The original PR added this behavior to fix autofocus and selectTextOnFocus not working when used together. Since the focus logic was added to onLayout it may trigger in different cases also, you can see that in the first video (Before in the table), where the input is focused from JS (with no layout) and then layout change causes the text to be selected even though the focus didn't change.

}

/* package */ void clearFocusFromJS() {
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