Make shape border lerp symmetric#187282
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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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| 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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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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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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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,
StarBorderknows how to lerp toRoundedRectangleBorder, butRoundedRectangleBorderdoes not need to know aboutStarBorder.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 att = 0.5.This keeps the cross-shape behavior centralized in
ShapeBorder.lerpandOutlinedBorder.lerp, without changing directlerpFromorlerpTocalls.