feat(android): a name is not a link on a phone, the menu carries it
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Every track, album and artist name in the app navigates through
`utils/explore-link.ts`, and every sentence of how it does that is a
desktop compromise: the navigation is held for one double-click
interval so double-clicking the row can still play it, and the target
is a few characters of text inside a row. On touch that is a delay on
an ambiguous target, and since #63 the row's own tap claims the click
anyway -- so the link was unreachable as well as fiddly.

So below the phone breakpoint a name renders as plain text and the
row's context menu carries the destination instead: `go-to-menu.ts`
draws "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" under exactly the condition the
link is not, using `explore-link`'s own exported routing so an untagged
entity reaches the library page by the same lookup.

Three things this leans on. Suppressing a link with no menu behind it
is not a smaller affordance but a destination the phone cannot reach,
so `keepOnPhone` is the exception for the three surfaces with no row
menu. The items are drawn for a single selection only, which is the
Play item's rule one step on. And there is no "Go to Genre", because
no row renders a genre link to lose -- that would be new navigation
rather than a replacement.

Closes #67
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@@ -13,11 +13,35 @@
* bug, not as a statement about metadata. The only case that still
* renders as text is one we genuinely cannot route (no name at all, or
* nothing in the library by that name).
*
* ## Below the phone breakpoint a name is not a link (#67)
*
* A few characters of text inside a row is not a touch target, and the
* click handling below is explicitly a *desktop* compromise: the
* navigation is held for one double-click interval so double-clicking
* the row can still play it, which means nothing at all on touch. On
* a phone the row's own gesture wins anyway — a claimed `yj-tap` has
* its click swallowed by `utils/touch-gestures.ts`, so the link was
* unreachable as well as fiddly.
*
* So the rule lives here rather than at twenty call sites, which is
* what the Findings on #67 ask for: a name renders as plain text below
* `PHONE_QUERY`, and the row's context menu carries "Go to Artist" /
* "Go to Album" in its place (`goToMenuItems`).
*
* The exception is `keepOnPhone`, and it is not a preference. Three
* surfaces render a name with **no menu to carry the destination** —
* `now-playing-view`, `explore-album-details`' header credit and
* `top-results-row` — so suppressing the link there takes the action
* away entirely rather than moving it, which is what plan 018's "no
* action is unreachable at any supported size" refuses. Each of those
* call sites says so.
*/
import { html, css } from 'lit';
import type { TemplateResult } from 'lit';
import { libraryStore } from '../store/library-store';
import { PHONE_QUERY } from './breakpoints';
/** Shared CSS for explore link styling. Import into component styles. */
export const exploreLinkStyles = css`
@@ -32,6 +56,57 @@ export const exploreLinkStyles = css`
}
`;
/**
* Options every link function takes, for the one case that is not the
* default.
*/
export interface LinkOptions {
/**
* Keep the name navigable at phone width.
*
* For a surface with no context menu to carry the destination —
* see the header of this file. A row must not pass it: the row's
* tap already means "play", and the menu is where the destination
* went.
*/
keepOnPhone?: boolean;
}
/**
* The live phone breakpoint, made once and read per link.
*
* A `MediaQueryList` is live, so one object answers for the life of
* the page and a resize needs nothing from here. The identity check
* is the test seam: this tier's viewport is fixed by the runner, so a
* spec answers the query by replacing `window.matchMedia` (the same
* stub `now-playing-phone.test.ts` installs), and swapping the
* function is what tells us to ask again.
*/
let phoneQuery: MediaQueryList | undefined;
let phoneQuerySource: typeof window.matchMedia | undefined;
/**
* Whether an inline name still navigates.
*
* Exported because the menus that carry the destination in its place
* are drawn under exactly the same condition -- one answer, not two.
*/
export function inlineLinksSuppressed(): boolean {
if (!window.matchMedia) return false;
if (phoneQuerySource !== window.matchMedia) {
phoneQuerySource = window.matchMedia;
phoneQuery = window.matchMedia(PHONE_QUERY);
}
return phoneQuery?.matches ?? false;
}
/** Whether this call site should render plain text rather than a link. */
function plainText(options?: LinkOptions): boolean {
return !options?.keepOnPhone && inlineLinksSuppressed();
}
/** Fire a navigate event from the clicked element. */
function navigate(target: EventTarget, detail: Record<string, unknown>): void {
target.dispatchEvent(
@@ -153,39 +228,19 @@ function singleClick(
* @param mbid - The MusicBrainz artist ID. Empty string = local only.
* @param content - Optional custom content to render inside the link
* (e.g. highlighted search result). Defaults to artistName.
* @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
*/
export function artistLink(
artistName: string,
mbid: string,
content?: TemplateResult | string,
options?: LinkOptions,
): TemplateResult | string {
if (!artistName) return artistName;
if (plainText(options)) return content ?? artistName;
const onClick = singleClick((target) => {
void (async () => {
if (mbid) {
navigate(target, {
view: 'explore-artist-details',
artistMBID: mbid,
artistName,
});
return;
}
const local = await findLocalArtist(artistName);
if (!local) return;
// The caller's row had no MBID, but the library row for the
// same artist may — the grid routes by exactly this field,
// so reading it here is what keeps the two paths agreeing.
navigate(target, {
view: 'explore-artist-details',
artistMBID: local.MBID || '',
artistName,
localArtistId: local.ID,
});
})();
void openArtistPage(target, artistName, mbid);
});
return html`<a
@@ -203,19 +258,22 @@ export function artistLink(
* @param mbid - The MusicBrainz release group ID. Empty = local only.
* @param content - Optional custom content to render inside the link.
* @param artistName - Disambiguates same-named albums in the library.
* @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
*/
export function albumLink(
albumName: string,
mbid: string,
content?: TemplateResult | string,
artistName?: string,
options?: LinkOptions,
): TemplateResult | string {
if (!albumName) return albumName;
if (plainText(options)) return content ?? albumName;
return html`<a
class="explore-link"
@click=${singleClick((target) => {
void openAlbum(target, albumName, mbid, artistName);
void openAlbumPage(target, albumName, mbid, artistName);
})}
title=${mbid ? 'View album on Explore' : 'View album in your library'}
>${content ?? albumName}</a>`;
@@ -232,6 +290,7 @@ export function albumLink(
* @param recordingMBID - The track's MusicBrainz recording ID.
* @param content - Optional custom content (e.g. highlighted text).
* @param artistName - Disambiguates same-named albums in the library.
* @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
*/
export function trackLink(
trackName: string,
@@ -240,14 +299,16 @@ export function trackLink(
recordingMBID: string,
content?: TemplateResult | string,
artistName?: string,
options?: LinkOptions,
): TemplateResult | string {
if (!trackName) return trackName;
if (!albumName) return content ?? trackName;
if (plainText(options)) return content ?? trackName;
return html`<a
class="explore-link"
@click=${singleClick((target) => {
void openAlbum(
void openAlbumPage(
target,
albumName,
releaseGroupMBID,
@@ -262,11 +323,48 @@ export function trackLink(
>${content ?? trackName}</a>`;
}
/**
* Route to an artist page, preferring the catalog and falling back to
* the library copy.
*
* Exported because a menu item goes to the same place a name does, and
* two routings of "go to this artist" is how the two come to disagree
* about an untagged one.
*/
export async function openArtistPage(
target: EventTarget,
artistName: string,
mbid: string,
): Promise<void> {
if (mbid) {
navigate(target, {
view: 'explore-artist-details',
artistMBID: mbid,
artistName,
});
return;
}
const local = await findLocalArtist(artistName);
if (!local) return;
// The caller's row had no MBID, but the library row for the
// same artist may — the grid routes by exactly this field,
// so reading it here is what keeps the two paths agreeing.
navigate(target, {
view: 'explore-artist-details',
artistMBID: local.MBID || '',
artistName,
localArtistId: local.ID,
});
}
/**
* Route to an album page, preferring the catalog and falling back to
* the library copy. `highlight*` marks one track on arrival.
*/
async function openAlbum(
export async function openAlbumPage(
target: EventTarget,
albumName: string,
releaseGroupMBID: string,
@@ -337,23 +435,31 @@ export interface CreditPart {
* @param parts - The credit's parts in position order, if known.
* @param fallbackName - The credit as a single string.
* @param fallbackMbid - The primary artist's MBID.
* @param options - See `LinkOptions`.
*/
export function creditLink(
parts: readonly CreditPart[] | undefined,
fallbackName: string,
fallbackMbid: string,
options?: LinkOptions,
): TemplateResult | string {
// One part is one link, so it is the fallback rather than a special
// case — and a zero-part credit reaching here would otherwise
// render as nothing at all, which is worse than the single-artist
// answer it replaced.
if (!parts || parts.length < 2) {
return artistLink(fallbackName, fallbackMbid);
return artistLink(fallbackName, fallbackMbid, undefined, options);
}
// A decomposed credit is rendered from the same parts either way,
// so the join phrases survive the suppression and the text reads
// as it did — which is `creditText`'s job, and it is the string
// the `title=` beside these already uses.
if (plainText(options)) return creditText(parts, fallbackName);
return html`${parts.map(
(part) =>
html`${artistLink(part.creditedName, part.artistMbid)}${part.joinPhrase}`,
html`${artistLink(part.creditedName, part.artistMbid, undefined, options)}${part.joinPhrase}`,
)}`;
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
/**
* "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album", for the menus that carry a name the
* phone stopped drawing as a link (#67).
*
* `utils/explore-link.ts` renders a plain string below the phone
* breakpoint, because a few characters inside a row is not a touch
* target and the row's own tap already means "play". That takes a
* destination away, so the row's context menu gives it back — which is
* the whole of this issue: the navigation moves, it does not go.
*
* Three things about it are load-bearing.
*
* **It is drawn under exactly the condition the link is not.**
* `inlineLinksSuppressed()` answers both, so a desktop menu is
* untouched (the name beside it is still a link, and a menu that
* repeats what the row already offers is furniture) and a phone menu
* cannot be missing what the row lost.
*
* **It goes where the name went.** `openArtistPage` / `openAlbumPage`
* are `explore-link`'s own routing, exported rather than reimplemented,
* so an untagged artist reaches the library page here for the same
* reason and by the same lookup it does from a link.
*
* **The host says when it is over**, through `onSelect` — every menu in
* this app closes itself and most clear their selection, and both are
* the host's bookkeeping rather than something a shared item may do on
* its behalf. `onHover` is for the four hosts with a playlist submenu,
* which closes on any other item being pointed at.
*/
import { html, nothing } from 'lit';
import type { TemplateResult } from 'lit';
import { inlineLinksSuppressed, openArtistPage, openAlbumPage } from './explore-link';
/**
* The entities one row or card can send you to.
*
* Everything is optional because the hosts differ: a track row knows
* both, an album card knows only its artist, and an artist page's own
* tracklist knows only the album.
*/
export interface GoToTarget {
artistName?: string;
artistMBID?: string;
albumName?: string;
albumMBID?: string;
}
export interface GoToHandlers {
/** Called before navigating: close the menu, clear the selection. */
onSelect?: () => void;
/** Called on hover: close a playlist submenu, where the host has one. */
onHover?: () => void;
}
/**
* The menu items for a target, or nothing at all where the name beside
* them is still a link.
*/
export function goToMenuItems(
target: GoToTarget | undefined,
handlers: GoToHandlers = {},
): TemplateResult | typeof nothing {
if (!target || !inlineLinksSuppressed()) return nothing;
const artist = target.artistName?.trim();
const album = target.albumName?.trim();
if (!artist && !album) return nothing;
return html`
${artist
? html`<wa-dropdown-item
data-testid="go-to-artist"
@click=${(e: Event) => {
handlers.onSelect?.();
void openArtistPage(
e.currentTarget as EventTarget,
artist,
target.artistMBID ?? '',
);
}}
@mouseenter=${() => handlers.onHover?.()}
>
<wa-icon slot="icon" name="user-group"></wa-icon>
Go to Artist
</wa-dropdown-item>`
: nothing}
${album
? html`<wa-dropdown-item
data-testid="go-to-album"
@click=${(e: Event) => {
handlers.onSelect?.();
void openAlbumPage(
e.currentTarget as EventTarget,
album,
target.albumMBID ?? '',
artist,
);
}}
@mouseenter=${() => handlers.onHover?.()}
>
<wa-icon slot="icon" name="compact-disc"></wa-icon>
Go to Album
</wa-dropdown-item>`
: nothing}
`;
}