It is common in Owl components to have anonymous function as props.
However, since each rendering create a different (but equivalent)
closure, Owl will consider the props different, so will update the child
component, but this is (often) not necessary.
This commit will help reduce the problem by introducing a new `.alike`
prop suffix, that will let Owl know that each version of that specific
prop should be considered the same, so, will be ignored by the props
comparison code.
closes#1360
t-call-context is a feature that's supposed to mask the rendering
context completely, but currently the component remains available
through `this`.
This commit stops treating `this` as a reserved word, so that it's
compiled to a lookup in the rendering context, and adds `this` to the
rendering context when binding the component's rendering function. With
these changes, `this` behaves the same as before when outside a
t-call-context, but when the rendering context is overriden, the
template can no longer access `this`. `this` still represents the
instance of the component inside of the rendering function since it's
needed by owl internally.
A side-effect of this change is that now the rendering context is no
longer the instance of the component by default, but is always an object
with the component in its prototype chain. This was already the case
before in some contexts (eg inside t-foreach, or inside components with
a t-set/t-call anywhere in its template). This can cause issues in rare
cases when a component method was called directly on the rendering
context, as before this change, the method's bound this would be the
component instance (except in a t-foreach, component with a
t-set/t-call, etc), while after this change it is now never the
component instance. When the method only reads on `this` there is no
issue as all the components properties are available on the rendering
contexts, but setting a value on `this` will write on the rendering
context and not the component which is likely a mistake.
While this is a breaking change, simply adding a t-set/t-call to any
template would break components that would be broken by this change,
with this in mind we decided to make this change anyway so that
developers get the error as early as possible in the development cycle
rather than having a seemingly inocuous change break code under them.
Previously, when using a component with a slot within a t-call with
t-call-context, the component would become available again inside the
slot despite the t-call-context. This was caused by the fact that the
capture helper function creates an object with the component as its
prototype which is incorrect. It should just use the previous context as
its prototype.
With the introduction of t-call-context, there is now no guarantee that
the ComponentNode can be found in the rendering context, any attempt to
do so can crash when combined with t-call-context. This commit fixes
that by using `this` instead, which in compiled templates refers to the
component that is being rendered.
When a parent component has an empty child with a t-on
and an event is triggered inside the parent, blockdom
checks if there is an event_catcher to call.
Doing so, an empty child would cause an error.
This commit fixes that.
Before this commit, the generated code for the component directive was
using the current context as the place to look for static informations
(such as the sub components). However, it is not entirely correct, since
the current context may be different than the current component (which
is easily accessed by using the this variable).
Also, while doing this, we fix some issues in the t-set directive, which
as calling lazy values with the wrong this.
Before this commit, using t-on on t-component was not correctly
implemented by owl: when more than one component shared the same
parentelement and have an handler with the same name, the second handler
would override the first (using an internal key). With this commit, we
simply recreate event handler for each instance of a catcher block. Note
that it means that using t-on on components is slightly slower now.
Also, this commit fixes an additional issue that was noticed: the
catcher block would not update its internal handler properly, so it
would not behave properly after being patched.
closes#1199
Before this commit, there were 2 different ways of generating variable
identifiers. And it was possible to have a situation with two different
variable in a template with the same identifier, which caused a crash.
This commit ensures that we go through a unique helper method, so this
cannot occur anymore. Also, the code is slightly simpler.
This means that unrelated ids (eg the id of a template, variable or key)
not longer share the same incrementing counter, meaning that you no
longer see a variable named "v2" unless another variable "v1" was
generated previously, this is also true for block data.
t-out automatically escaped content when it is a string not marked
with the `markup` function
t-out renders the raw content if it is a Block, or if it has been marked
with the `markup` funtion.
t-esc has been kept since it is safe and is optimized to render text nodes.
all t-raw calls are in fact the same as t-out.
This commit reintroduces some tests for the t-set directive and make
them pass. For that, it was necessary to adapt the qweb compiler in
order to get the following behaviors:
A t-set can affect parent contexts (up to the first parent tagged as
boundary) when the key changed is found in one of the parent contexts.
Some context are marked as boundaries in such a way that
- rendering contexts (e.g. components) cannot be modified via a t-set.
- a t-set in a t-call body or in a called template can never change a
context above the t-call context.
Code prettification has been done.
Snapshots have been modified.
We add some test for the t-on directive.
For making them pass, it was necessary to change the code produced by
compileTForeach: the const declaration is not done by using generateId
and there was some conflict with the variable names produced in
captureExpression. Consequently, many snapshots had to be changed.
Code prettification has been done too.
Géry Debongnie