This moves all logic around legacy descriptors to ReactLegacyDescriptor. This
is responsible for the layer that knows that createClass exports a legacy
factory. When passed one of these classes, it unwraps it to be a real class.
If it is passed a non legacy factory, it is assumed to be a non-react component
that needs to be invoked as a plain function.
The semantic change is that a descriptor is now always returned if passed a
legacy factory. Even if that factory is a mock. A mock would previously return
undefined.
For mocks, I treat the factory as the authoritative function. I call it to extract
the instance or fill it with an empty component placeholder.
Additionally, I make the classes take props as the first argument to the
constructor. This is what the new class system will do.
We currently need to set up some internals by calling the internal construct
method. Instead of doing that automatically in the constructor, I now move that
to a second pass so that mocks can get the plain props.
This means that we can assert that a mock has been called once it's mounted
with it's final props. Instead of the descriptor factory being called.
Breaking changes
- key/ref are no longer accessible on props but they are accessible on the
descriptors. This means that parents/owners can access it but not the
component itself.
- Descriptor factories are now plain functions and you can't rely on the
prototype or constructors of descriptors to identify the component type.
Existing descriptor factories are now wrapped in a legacy factory. Currently it
does nothing but it will give us a hook to track callers to factories that are
not using JSX but just invoking the function directly. It also proxies static
methods/properties to the underlying class. The newer factories don't have this
feature.
ReactTextComponent has it's own little factory because it's props is not an
object. This is a detail and will go away once ReactTextComponent no longer
needs descriptors.
This is the first step towards descriptors. This will start cloning the
component when it's mounted instead of mounting the first instance.
This avoids an issue where a reference to the first instance can hang around
in props. Since a mounted component gets mutated, the descriptor changes.
We don't need to clone the props object itself. Mutating the shallow props
object of a child that's passed into you is already flawed. Those cases need to
use cloneWithProps. A props object is considered shallow frozen after it leaves
the render it was created in.
This is part of what Sebastian suggested. We require it into every component that explicitly needs it and inject it as a default mixin for composite components in
the browser environment. This change frees us up to inject everything in ReactComponent.
grep -rl 'Copyright 2013 Facebook' static_upstream | xargs perl -pi -w -e s/Copyright 2013 Facebook/Copyright 2013-2014 Facebook/g;'
Not going to check in a script to do this since it will just change every year.
Closes#1006
This creates a membrane around the React component prototype. It warns if you
try to access properties on the component before it's unmounted. Before it's
mounted, it should be considered a descriptor and not an actual instance.
The workaround, for unknown types, is to access the constructor using
component.type which has static methods on it.
Andreas Svensson
Sebastian Markbage
Cheng Lou
Pete Hunt
Paul O’Shannessy