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Fix #110634 (took 4 years to think on this solution!)

Make ShapeBorder.lerp use reverse interpolation before fallback

Some border pairs can already lerp with each other, but only one side knows how to do it. For example, StarBorder knows how to lerp to RoundedRectangleBorder, but RoundedRectangleBorder does not need to know about StarBorder.

Instead of adding more pair-specific checks like if (b is RoundedRectangleBorder) across shapes (at a certain point I even considered sealed classes), we can make the central lerp smarter. After trying the existing direction:

b.lerpFrom(a, t) ?? a.lerpTo(b, t)

also try the same animation from the opposite direction:

b.lerpTo(a, 1.0 - t) ?? a.lerpFrom(b, 1.0 - t)

So if ShapeBorder.lerp(star, roundedRectangle, t) works, ShapeBorder.lerp(roundedRectangle, star, t) can reuse that same logic on the reversed timeline instead of falling back to the hard switch at t = 0.5.

This keeps the cross-shape behavior centralized in ShapeBorder.lerp and OutlinedBorder.lerp, without changing direct lerpFrom or lerpTo calls.

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This pull request updates ShapeBorder.lerp and OutlinedBorder.lerp to attempt reverse interpolation on a reversed timeline if forward interpolation returns null. It also updates the documentation of ShapeBorder.lerpTo to reference lerpFrom and adds unit tests to verify the new symmetric and reverse interpolation behaviors. There are no review comments, so no additional feedback is provided.

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I want @gspencergoog to review.

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Hey @bernaferrari thanks for tagging me, but I left the Framework team a while ago (a couple of years). I'm still on the Flutter team, but I haven't been looking at the code for a while. Let's let the Framework team pick someone to do the review, and I'll chime in if you all need more info on the original implementation.

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What are you doing now?

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What are you doing now?

https://github.com/flutter/genui

for (final b in borders) {
final ShapeBorder forward = ShapeBorder.lerp(a, b, 0.25)!;
final ShapeBorder reverse = ShapeBorder.lerp(b, a, 0.75)!;
expect(forward.runtimeType, reverse.runtimeType, reason: 'ShapeBorder.lerp($a, $b, 0.25)');

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Maybe the values should be tested for directly rather than just the runtimeType?

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Good point. I updated some tests to compare the returned values directly instead of checking runtimeType and then manually inspecting t. The helper test borders now implement ==, hashCode, and toString, so the asserts validate and produce readable failures.

I left the outlined-border matrix as a type-symmetry smoke test, because stronger value checks there did not fail without this PR.. So I think it makes sense to leave them there. Any thoughts?

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Yeah that seems ok

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Looks like a great change. I thought a fair bit about if this could introduce any discontinuity that didn't exist previously.

lerp docs do say it t < 0 and > 1 are valid, so if the implementations have followed that contract this should be safe as is.

The only nit is about the test

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LGTM

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Trigger google test

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Arghhh I'm not used to the "need re-approval on every commit" thing. Could you trigger google testing again @dkwingsmt ? I rebased on top of main to facilitate google testing/golden (there shouldn't be any diff but it likes to be fresh)/etc. I also refactored tests to be smaller/more readable.

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Always happy to help! :) Trigger google test

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Fix flutter#110634 (took 4 years to
think on this solution!)

Make ShapeBorder.lerp use reverse interpolation before fallback

Some border pairs can already lerp with each other, but only one side
knows how to do it. For example, `StarBorder` knows how to lerp to
`RoundedRectangleBorder`, but `RoundedRectangleBorder` does not need to
know about `StarBorder`.

Instead of adding more pair-specific checks like `if (b is
RoundedRectangleBorder)` across shapes (at a certain point I even
considered sealed classes), we can make the central lerp smarter. After
trying the existing direction:

`b.lerpFrom(a, t) ?? a.lerpTo(b, t)`

also try the same animation from the opposite direction:

`b.lerpTo(a, 1.0 - t) ?? a.lerpFrom(b, 1.0 - t)`

So if `ShapeBorder.lerp(star, roundedRectangle, t)` works,
`ShapeBorder.lerp(roundedRectangle, star, t)` can reuse that same logic
on the reversed timeline instead of falling back to the hard switch at
`t = 0.5`.

This keeps the cross-shape behavior centralized in `ShapeBorder.lerp`
and `OutlinedBorder.lerp`, without changing direct `lerpFrom` or
`lerpTo` calls.
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