Implement Overlay.of with inherited widget #174315
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The google testing failures seem legit too. Looks like you may not be able to call |
yeah I have to migrate them, you are not suppose to look up ancestor chain during initState anyway. I will see how bad it is and may do a migration guide |
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Yes this is unfortunate, but I can't think of a good way to mitigate this. I still plan to make the hard switch, Do you have any other suggestion? |
Maybe leave |
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I am concern about having a different static method that does what Do you think allow looking up ancestor in initstate is a good idea in the first place? Last time I talked with Michael, there is really no good reason that we use findAncestorState any more since we have inherited widget, that means all the .of method should be implement with inherited widget. WDYT? |
I don't think it's the best place to call OverlayEntry APIs. I know there are apps currently doing that, iirc one of them want the OverlayEntry to have the same lifespan as the main widget.
Are you deprecating |
They can and probably should initialize it in didChangeDependencies, and dispose it in
not deprecating entirely, I am pretty sure there will be use case that only findAncestorState can do. e.g. you need to own the ancestor widget in order to migrate findAncestorState to inheritedWidget. instead, avoid using findAncestorState to implement |
| LookupBoundary.getElementForInheritedWidgetOfExactType<_RenderTheaterMarker>(context); | ||
| if (rootOverlay) { | ||
| InheritedElement? walker = element; | ||
| while (walker != null) { |
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it looks like there's already a _rootRenderTheaterMarkerOf method for looking up the root Overlay?
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LGTM with 2 nits.
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