1020459 - Avoid re-entrancy in requestAutocomplete calls

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[:Paolo Amadini]

If a requestAutocomplete request is already active, we should ensure that the request mechanism itself is not re-entered, so that we don't generate double responses.

The specification draft is still unclear about this case, because it requires an asynchronous "disabled" rAc event to be dispatched in this case, which cannot be distinguished from the event resulting from the first requestAutocomplete call.

Comment 1

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Flagging diamond. Paolo, would you be willing to mentor this one?

Comment 2

[:Paolo Amadini]

(In reply to Mike Hoye [:mhoye] from comment #1)
> Flagging diamond. Paolo, would you be willing to mentor this one?

At present, this bug is not actionable because the infrastructure it depends on is not in place.

We're not keeping track of this using normal dependencies because the project is at its initial stages and the dependencies between individual implementation bugs tend to shift a lot. I believe that all unassigned bugs blocking rAc-one are in a similar state.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to :Paolo Amadini from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mike Hoye [:mhoye] from comment #1)
> > Flagging diamond. Paolo, would you be willing to mentor this one?
> 
> At present, this bug is not actionable because the infrastructure it depends
> on is not in place.
> 
> We're not keeping track of this using normal dependencies because the
> project is at its initial stages and the dependencies between individual
> implementation bugs tend to shift a lot. I believe that all unassigned bugs
> blocking rAc-one are in a similar state.

If this isn't actionable right now, can we remove it from the backlog?

Comment 4

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Removed based on Comment #2.

Comment 5

[:Paolo Amadini]

We should keep the point estimate since this helps us tracking the overall requestAutocomplete "milestone one" effort, which we're tracking here:

https://mnoorenberghe.github.io/rac-bugs/?list=rAc-one&maxdepth=1

Comment 6

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

requestAutocomplete was removed from the HTML specification.