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The RenderEditable needs to be laid out before hit testing

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Summary

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Instances of RenderEditable must be laid out before processing hit testing. Trying to hit-test a RenderEditable object before layout results in an assertion such as the following:

Failed assertion: line 123 pos 45: '!debugNeedsLayout': is not true.

Context

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To support gesture recognizers in selectable text, the RenderEditable requires the layout information for its text spans to determine which text span receives the pointer event. (Before this change, RenderEditable objects didn't take their text into account when evaluating hit tests.) To implement this, layout was made a prerequisite for performing hit testing on a RenderEditable object.

In practice, this is rarely an issue. The widget library ensures that layout is performed before any hit test on all render objects. This problem is only likely to be seen in code that directly interacts with render objects, for example in tests of custom render objects.

Migration guide

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If you see the '!debugNeedsLayout': is not true assertion error while hit testing the RenderEditable, lay out the RenderEditable before doing so.

Code before migration:

dart
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  test('attach and detach correctly handle gesture', () {
    final RenderEditable editable = RenderEditable(
      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
      offset: ViewportOffset.zero(),
      textSelectionDelegate: FakeEditableTextState(),
      startHandleLayerLink: LayerLink(),
      endHandleLayerLink: LayerLink(),
    );
    final PipelineOwner owner = PipelineOwner(onNeedVisualUpdate: () {});
    editable.attach(owner);
    // This throws an assertion error because
    // the RenderEditable hasn't been laid out.
    editable.handleEvent(const PointerDownEvent(),
        BoxHitTestEntry(editable, const Offset(10, 10)));
    editable.detach();
  });
}

class FakeEditableTextState extends TextSelectionDelegate {
  @override
  TextEditingValue textEditingValue;
  @override
  void hideToolbar() {}
  @override
  void bringIntoView(TextPosition position) {}
}

Code after migration:

dart
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  test('attach and detach correctly handle gesture', () {
    final RenderEditable editable = RenderEditable(
      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
      offset: ViewportOffset.zero(),
      textSelectionDelegate: FakeEditableTextState(),
      startHandleLayerLink: LayerLink(),
      endHandleLayerLink: LayerLink(),
    );
    // Lay out the RenderEditable first.
    editable.layout(BoxConstraints.loose(const Size(1000.0, 1000.0)));
    final PipelineOwner owner = PipelineOwner(onNeedVisualUpdate: () {});
    editable.attach(owner);
    editable.handleEvent(const PointerDownEvent(),
        BoxHitTestEntry(editable, const Offset(10, 10)));
    editable.detach();
  });
}

class FakeEditableTextState extends TextSelectionDelegate {
  @override
  TextEditingValue textEditingValue;
  @override
  void hideToolbar() {}
  @override
  void bringIntoView(TextPosition position) {}
}

Timeline

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Landed in version: 1.18.0
In stable release: 1.20

References

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API documentation:

Relevant issue:

  • Issue 43494: SelectableText.rich used along with TapGestureRecognizer isn't working

Relevant PR:

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