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NumberControl: commit (and constrain) value on blur event #39186

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Description

Flagged in #33285

Closes #33291

Changes in this PR:

  • the behavior of the InputControl component when losing focus (blur event):
    • previously, the value was committed only if the isPressEnterToChange prop was set to true
    • after the change from this PR, the value is always committed to the internal state reducer
  • NumberControl's internal state reducer constrains the incoming value also when receiving an UPDATE action

This change allows the NumberControl validation (which is already in place) to kick in when the input loses focus.

Testing Instructions

  • On NumberControl:

    • Set min and max values
    • Input a value that is out of the min and max bounds
    • Click outside of the input (or press the tab key to shift focus away from the input)
    • Notice how the value in the input field updates and gets clamped within the min/max boundaries
  • The unit test added in this PR:

    • Check that it passes
    • Undo the changes that this PR makes to InputControl and NumberControl, and notice how the test fails
  • Check, in Storybook, that all usages of InputControl and NumberControl work as expected (eg UnitControl, BoxControl, RangeControl...)

  • Check that all usages of NumberControl in Gutenberg work as expected

  • Make sure that all unit tests continue to pass

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Before:

number-control-before.mp4

After:

number-control-after.mp4

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  • I've tested my changes with keyboard and screen readers.
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  • N/A I've updated all React Native files affected by any refactorings/renamings in this PR (please manually search all *.native.js files for terms that need renaming or removal).
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@ciampo ciampo changed the title InputControl: always commit value to internal state on blur NumberControl: commit (and constrain) value on blur event Mar 3, 2022
@ciampo ciampo marked this pull request as ready for review March 3, 2022 13:18
@ciampo ciampo requested a review from ajitbohra as a code owner March 3, 2022 13:18
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stokesman commented Mar 3, 2022

Thanks for the ping @ciampo. This PR does as advertised but, as I see it, isn't a full fix for the issue. That's because this still calls onChange with the values that are out of range. Regarding the original flagging of the issue, the query block would still have to guard against the out of range values in the onChange it supplies.

In case you'd agree here's a test for the behavior I'm suggesting:
		it( 'should not call onChange callback with invalid values', () => {
			const spy = jest.fn();
			render(
				<NumberControl
					value={ 5 }
					min={ 2 }
					max={ 10 }
					onChange={ ( v ) => spy( v ) }
				/>
			);
			const input = getInput();
			input.focus();
			fireEvent.change( input, { target: { value: 1 } } );
			expect( input.value ).toBe( '1' );
			expect( spy ).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
		} );

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This change is testing well for me manually, just left a small comment on the update action.

the query block would still have to guard against the out of range values in the onChange it supplies.

That's a good question!

I was wondering if there could also be cases where a consuming component should receive onChange calls while the user is typing (to display an error message or warning, or update the UI in some way), so we might not want to completely constrain it?

For consumers like the Query block that need to be that careful about values that are used, it could still be worth those consumers using their own validation for the appropriate values. Looking at the change back in #33285, I'd personally lean toward keeping the guards in the query block's toolbar there as they look like good defensive conditionals to me. But I might be overly wary of relying on component behaviour, so don't feel too strongly about it! 😀

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ciampo commented Mar 8, 2022

Thank you @andrewserong and @stokesman !

I should add, as a preface, that I'm not the original author of the InputControl and NumberControl components, nor I have worked on them much in the past. These components are quite complex with their internal state reducer (to the point that I often wondered if this level of complexity could have been avoided in the first place) and, from what I see from the repo's history, went through several tweaks over the past couple of years. This is to say that I may sometimes miss some nuances, or in general not have a 100% clear picture.

Regarding the firing of onChange with un-clamped values, I think we have 3 alternatives:

  1. Keep the behaviour as-is — this is the current behaviour, and seems to be the vanilla input behaviour as well (see this codesanbox). @andrewserong makes a good point here regarding the fact that consumers of NumberControl may rely on the onChange callback to read the "raw" value and use it for tasks like validation.
    • Idea: To improve the situation, we could add a new property to the second argument of onChange, something like a isValid flag, which consumers of NumberControl could use instead of checking the value manually
  2. Tweak NumberControl so that the onChange callback doesn't fire if the value is out or the min/max range.
    • Idea: we could add a new prop to NumberControl that would enable this new behaviour, so that it becomes an opt-in feature.
  3. Tweak NumberControl so that the onChange callback fires with the clamped value
    • Idea: like for the previous alternative, we could add a new prop to NumberControl that would enable this new behaviour, so that it becomes an opt-in feature.

Personally I think that the best compromise is option is number 1 (with the addition of isValid), but I'm curious to hear your thoughts as well (and @mirka's too!)

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NOTE: I had most of this review pending before e8b3d48 though it applies well enough still.

I took a closer look at this and suspected some unintended behavior. I added a console.log to the Storybook example and here's what I found:

Mar-07-2022 23-14-03

The onChange with the constrained value does not fire until the input gains focus again. I've left a few notes on how to fix it up.

Still, I'm not convinced there is much value in this because constraint of an invalid value on blur is already a given in (typical) controlled contexts. That's because NumberControl intakes the value from props once it's no longer focused (given that valueProp !== value). It looks useful in the Storybook example because, while technically controlled, the wrapping component doesn't limit its own value.

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stokesman commented Mar 8, 2022

Great to see the consideration of the options @ciampo.

Regarding the 1st option and an isValid flag, I'd like to note that it already exists in the more verbose event.target.validity.valid (because the event is part of that second argument). Adding isValid could be convenient though.

The 2nd and 3rd options could also be combined. That is, the onChange could cease fire while the input holds an invalid value and fire with the resolved value on blur. That is what I've tried in my most recent take on this in #39260.

With regards to the excellent point raised by @andrewserong about the need of consuming components to respond to any input. It happens that RangeControl is one such example. When out-of-range numbers are entered in its NumberControl it updates its slider to the min/max limit (and propagates the new value). So if NumberControl were to stop calling onChange with invalid values that would break. An alternative way for consumers to respond to such values is through expanded use of the existing onValidate prop (as in #39260). Not that I am convinced it is the best way.

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mirka commented Mar 8, 2022

Option 1 sounds good to me too! No strong opinion on whether to add a isValid for convenience or use the existing event.target.validity.valid, as long as we clearly document the pattern.

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Thanks for the detailed follow-up @ciampo! These components are particularly tricky, and I know what you mean, it's hard getting into some of the details when we weren't the folks to originally write the code — I'd love it if longer-term we could reduce some of the complexity, too. Thanks for digging in!

Option 1 sounds good to me too! No strong opinion on whether to add a isValid for convenience or use the existing event.target.validity.valid, as long as we clearly document the pattern.

Same, I like option 1, and the addition of an isValid flag in the callback sounds like a good compromise to me — it still gives consumers a clear way to rely on the component for validation if they want to defer validation, as well as the raw value if they want to handle validation within the consuming code.

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ciampo commented Mar 9, 2022

Thank you all for the last round of feedback — I should have fixed the issue with onChange, the callback should now fire also when the value gets clamped on blur.

Regarding the behavior of the onChange, for now I've adopted what we called "option 1", but without adding a new isValid prop — instead, I've updated docs, Storybook examples and unit tests to clearly reference the event.target.validity.valid value (d91e6a4). I think that relying on native browser APIs here may be better on the long term (less custom code to maintain, less conventions).

One thing that we may want to consider, finally, is whether consumers of NumberControl (like RangeControl, UnitControl...) should also expose a similar "validity" flag.

Let me know what you all think!

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This is testing well for me @ciampo, thanks for updating the Storybook example, too! (Tested a few UnitControl components within the editor, and the Storybook examples). ✨

I think that relying on native browser APIs here may be better on the long term (less custom code to maintain, less conventions).

That makes good sense to me!

Just left an optional comment about using the event object directly as the second param in the callback instead of wrapping in an extra object (so folks don't have to remember to destructure it), but I don't feel strongly about it, happy to go with whatever everyone thinks makes most sense here!

The callback receives two arguments:

1. `newValue`: the new value of the input
2. `extra`: an object containing, under the `event` key, the original browser event.
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I think I have a slight (though not at all strong) preference for having the second param be the plain event object rather than nesting it within an extra object. There's a familiarity with having the second param of callbacks be the event object itself, so it might make this component slightly easier for someone new to looking at it if we don't add in this abstraction.

But I'm aware you probably added it in mostly thinking of the isValid flag? I think given the documentation now covers event.target.validity.valid, we'd probably be fine not adding in any additional metadata.

What do you think?

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Chiming in to say the shape of that goes back well before this PR. I've suggested the same #33696 (comment). My feeling is the components are experimental so we have license to make the change as long as we fix up any internal stuff that might break. Good for a separate PR though.

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As @stokesman mentioned, the extra object existed before this PR and is defined in InputControl.

For example, UnitControl extends that extra object by adding a custom data property too (which seems to include extra info about which unit is being selected).

Given the above, I'm not sure what would be the best way to simplify the signature of the onChange callback — but it's definitely something that can be done in a follow-up

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Ah, excellent, thanks for linking the prior discussion, glad I'm not alone there! 😄

Yes, I think that's perfectly fine for a follow-up, not a blocker for me!

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<p>Is valid? { isValidValue ? 'Yes' : 'No' }</p>
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Nice way of visualising this in Storybook 👍

@ciampo ciampo force-pushed the fix/number-control-improve-validation branch from d91e6a4 to 1c01d6d Compare March 10, 2022 14:57
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ciampo commented Mar 10, 2022

Just rebased on top of trunk. I'm going to wait until tomorrow for tests to pass and any further feedback to come through, and otherwise I'll merge

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ciampo commented Mar 15, 2022

As I was giving a final look at the PR after rebasing, I found an issue with the current approach:

Basically, when dragging gestures, the event emitted via the onChange callback by InputControl is a PointerEvent (contrary to what we typed) that doesn't always have the input HTML element as its target — in fact, in my tests it can also be its parent div, the body or even the html element (depending on where is the pointer on the page).

number-control-drag.mp4

This causes 2 issues:

  • our types for InputChangeCallback are wrong:
    • technically the event can be any type of event (KeyboardEvent, PointerEvent...)
    • the event target is not guaranteed to be of type HTMLInputEvent
  • As a consequence, the event.target.validity.valid approach won't work when the event target is not the input element (to the point that the current Storybook example for NumberControl will stop working as soon as the pointer is dragged beyond the story boundaries)

I'm not sure if we can (or want to) change the behaviour of useDrag to only fire events when the input element is the target.

We should probably update our types (and docs) to reflect the correct types for the onChange callbacks.

Regarding the valid flag, I'm not really sure about what's the best approach here:

  • the simpler (but less elegant) solution is to tweak docs and Storybook examples to check first if the validity key is defined on event.target. We could add that, in case of a pointer event, the value can be assumed valid (since the value is already clamped/validated in the NumberControl reducer)
  • alternatively, we could reconsider adding a isValid convenience flag to NumberControl's onChange callback, and manually check the value in there. This is probably the better solution between the two

Thoughts?

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on top of that, we'd be exposing parts of a third-party library (@use-gesture's gesture state) through the public API of UnitControl, which is something we usually don't do, as we want to have the freedom to easily swap that library for another solution without causing a breaking change

I have to agree it'd be better to expose only what we decide to.

I'm inclined to rollback to my last approach…

Sounds good to me. I'd say feel free to drop my commit right out of history. I would have done so but didn't want to force push on this branch.

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ciampo commented Mar 17, 2022

Thank you, @stokesman! I dropped your commit as agreed.

I believe this PR is ready for a final check

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Re-tested, this is looking good to me @ciampo! Min/max constrained values are working correctly, both in Storybook examples, and in the editor (specifically looked at the Spacer height control since we were already looking at that separately). And the tests are passing 👍

LGTM!

@ciampo ciampo merged commit 15218a8 into trunk Mar 21, 2022
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* `InputControl`: always commit value to internal state on `blur`

* `NumberControl`: constain value also on the `UPDATE` action

* CHANGELOG

* Add unit test

* Remove `UPDATE` action from `InputControl` s state reducer

* Add unit test to check that `onChange` gets called when the value is clamped on `blur`

* Fix input control blur logic, so that `onChange` is called after clamping the value

* Comments

* Use `event.target.validity.valid` in docs, storybook and unit tests

* README

* Add docs and update example about input validity

* Update `onChange` event type

* Override `event.target`, update types

* Revert docs and Storybook changes about `target.visibility` potentially not being defined
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