Bug 209380 – Support inserting text or dictation alternative by simulating keyboard input

• Component: WebKit Misc.
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Daniel Bates]

Some web sites, like facebook.com or reddit.com, implement their own text editing system, which listens for DOM keyboard events or the DOM change event. When text corrections or dictation alternatives are inserted the behavior of the editor does not match what it would have done if a user manually typed the correction or alternative. For example, facebook.com listens for a DOM keyup event to hide the placeholder text shown in their fields. Towards having a good user experience, expose an insertion option that when enabled dispatches dummy keyboard and change events when performing a text insertion.

[Daniel Bates]

<rdar://problem/59445102>

[Daniel Bates]

Created attachment 394184 [details]
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[Daniel Bates]

Created attachment 394185 [details]
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[Daniel Bates]

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> Tools/TestWebKitAPI/cocoa/TestCocoa.h:45
> +// This is a template instead of a macro to support passing arguments written in Objective-C

Yikes, this will not preserve original expressions....doesn't look like there is an exposed way  to retrieve stringified values of the passed args in C++. So, going to go back to using a macro for this and just surround the array literals with parens

[Daniel Bates]

Created attachment 394195 [details]
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Now EXPECT_NS_EQUAL is a macro, again

[Daniel Bates]

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[Daniel Bates]

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> Source/WebKit/UIProcess/ios/WKContentViewInteraction.mm:4716
> +    [self _shouldSimulateKeyboardInputOnTextInsertionInternal];

r-, this is wrong.

[Daniel Bates]

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[Darin Adler]

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> Source/WebKit/Shared/Cocoa/InsertTextOptions.h:37
> +    bool simulateKeyboardInput { false };

As you know, Cocoa programming style suggests naming boolean properties in a way that disambiguates from a function that would take action. So shouldSimulateKeyboardInput because simulateKeyboardInput reads like a command that would do something immediately rather than a setting for what should be done.

We should consider that style for the booleans in this structure.

[Daniel Bates]

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[Daniel Bates]

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Thanks for the review.

>> Source/WebKit/Shared/Cocoa/InsertTextOptions.h:37
>> +    bool simulateKeyboardInput { false };
> 
> As you know, Cocoa programming style suggests naming boolean properties in a way that disambiguates from a function that would take action. So shouldSimulateKeyboardInput because simulateKeyboardInput reads like a command that would do something immediately rather than a setting for what should be done.
> 
> We should consider that style for the booleans in this structure.

Renamed.

[Daniel Bates]

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Clearing flags on attachment: 394300

Committed r258873: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/258873>

[Daniel Bates]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.