am a0fd2b40: am 37872892: Merge "Make onUpdateSelection much more resilient to race conditions." into jb-mr1-dev

* commit 'a0fd2b4053b338576e8e706067b921f8f9c1ee76':
  Make onUpdateSelection much more resilient to race conditions.
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Jean Chalard 2012-09-13 14:11:24 -07:00 committed by Android Git Automerger
commit d666c125bc
2 changed files with 32 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
// we know for sure the cursor moved while we were composing and we should reset
// the state.
final boolean noComposingSpan = composingSpanStart == -1 && composingSpanEnd == -1;
if (!mExpectingUpdateSelection) {
if (!mExpectingUpdateSelection
&& !mConnection.isBelatedExpectedUpdate(oldSelStart, newSelStart)) {
// TAKE CARE: there is a race condition when we enter this test even when the user
// did not explicitly move the cursor. This happens when typing fast, where two keys
// turn this flag on in succession and both onUpdateSelection() calls arrive after

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@ -629,4 +629,34 @@ public class RichInputConnection {
commitText(" " + textBeforeCursor.subSequence(0, 1), 1);
return true;
}
/**
* Heuristic to determine if this is an expected update of the cursor.
*
* Sometimes updates to the cursor position are late because of their asynchronous nature.
* This method tries to determine if this update is one, based on the values of the cursor
* position in the update, and the currently expected position of the cursor according to
* LatinIME's internal accounting. If this is not a belated expected update, then it should
* mean that the user moved the cursor explicitly.
* This is quite robust, but of course it's not perfect. In particular, it will fail in the
* case we get an update A, the user types in N characters so as to move the cursor to A+N but
* we don't get those, and then the user places the cursor between A and A+N, and we get only
* this update and not the ones in-between. This is almost impossible to achieve even trying
* very very hard.
*
* @param oldSelStart The value of the old cursor position in the update.
* @param newSelStart The value of the new cursor position in the update.
* @return whether this is a belated expected update or not.
*/
public boolean isBelatedExpectedUpdate(final int oldSelStart, final int newSelStart) {
// If this is an update that arrives at our expected position, it's a belated update.
if (newSelStart == mCurrentCursorPosition) return true;
// If this is an update that moves the cursor from our expected position, it must be
// an explicit move.
if (oldSelStart == mCurrentCursorPosition) return false;
// The following returns true if newSelStart is between oldSelStart and
// mCurrentCursorPosition. We assume that if the updated position is between the old
// position and the expected position, then it must be a belated update.
return (newSelStart - oldSelStart) * (mCurrentCursorPosition - newSelStart) >= 0;
}
}