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yellowjacket/e2e/specs/back-navigation.spec.ts
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logan 4f47c85208 test(e2e): cover global back/forward, including the launch entry
Five journeys the control has to get right: nothing offered at the root
in either direction, walking both ways with the availability changing
as it goes, reaching the detail view a tab click left behind (which is
the report), the forward list being dropped when the user navigates
from the middle, and the control standing down below 900px.

The first fails on the build before the launch entry was fixed --
enabled, and doing nothing when pressed. It is the assertion that pins
that defect, which otherwise has no visible symptom on desktop at all.
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import { test, expect } from '../support/fixtures.js';
/**
* Back is the platform's, and the app has to have somewhere for it to
* go (reported from a device: "the Android back button does not
* navigate back in the app").
*
* The scaffold's `MainActivity.onBackPressed` asks `webView.canGoBack()`
* and finishes the activity otherwise. This app never touched
* `history`, so that was always false and back quit from any depth. A
* navigation is a history entry now, which is why this is assertable
* here at all: `page.goBack()` is the same `popstate` the phone's
* gesture produces, so the browser tier can answer a question that
* otherwise needs a device.
*
* What it cannot answer is whether Android's *gesture* reaches the
* WebView, which is between the OS and the scaffold.
*
* **And `data-active-view` is not the behaviour.** Every assertion here
* used to be that attribute, which the shell sets on every path
* including `_isBack` — so this file was green throughout #72, in
* which both navs highlighted the view the user had just *left*. The
* shell's own bookkeeping was the one thing that was already right;
* what a person sees is `aria-current`, and that is asserted below as
* well. This is the same trap `layout-overflow.spec.ts` set for #69: a
* spec named for the behaviour, measuring the plumbing.
*/
type Page = import('@playwright/test').Page;
const activeView = (page: Page) =>
page.getByTestId('main-content');
/** A common phone, where the bottom bar is the primary navigation. */
const PHONE = { width: 390, height: 844 };
/**
* The nav item for a destination, in whichever navigation is on screen.
*
* Both navs carry a button named `Albums`, and only one of them is ever
* in the accessibility tree — the other is `display: none` — so the
* role query resolves to the one the user can see at this viewport.
* That is the point: the highlight has to be right in both, and #72 was
* two different-looking symptoms of one cause.
*/
const navItem = (page: Page, label: string) =>
page.getByRole('button', { name: label, exact: true });
/**
* `aria-current="page"` is the accessible fact and the assertion worth
* making; `.active` is a class and could be restyled without breaking
* anything real.
*/
async function expectHighlighted(page: Page, label: string): Promise<void> {
await expect(navItem(page, label)).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'page');
}
async function expectNotHighlighted(page: Page, label: string): Promise<void> {
await expect(navItem(page, label)).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'false');
}
/**
* Open an artist's detail view, which is the deepest ordinary route.
*
* A library artist opens `explore-artist-details` -- the catalog panel
* standing in for a library one, as `explore-link.ts` describes -- and
* the view name follows the component, not the source of the click.
*/
async function openAnArtist(app: Page): Promise<void> {
await app.getByTestId('nav-artists').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'artists');
// A card, by the name on it: the grid is virtualized and positioned
// by transform, so a click at coordinates is a click at whatever
// happens to be there.
await app.locator('artists-view').getByText('Aurora Fields').first().click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute(
'data-active-view',
'explore-artist-details',
);
}
/**
* The global back/forward control (#6).
*
* It is desktop chrome — hidden below 900px, where the sidebar has
* already given up its labels — so these set a desktop viewport
* explicitly rather than trusting the runner's default.
*/
const DESKTOP = { width: 1280, height: 800 };
const backButton = (page: Page) =>
page.locator('nav-history').getByRole('button', { name: 'Back' });
const forwardButton = (page: Page) =>
page.locator('nav-history').getByRole('button', { name: 'Forward' });
test.describe('global back and forward', () => {
test.beforeEach(async ({ app }) => {
await app.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
});
test('offers nothing at launch, in either direction', async ({ app }) => {
// The launch entry is *replaced*, not pushed, so there is nothing
// of ours behind it — and a Back button that is live at the root
// is a press that does nothing on desktop and, on Android, the
// press that should have exited the app (#142). This assertion is
// what pins that: it failed before the launch navigation stopped
// recording two entries.
await expect(backButton(app)).toBeDisabled();
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeDisabled();
});
test('walks the history in both directions, and says which are available', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-albums').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
await expect(backButton(app)).toBeEnabled();
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeDisabled();
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
await backButton(app).click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
// Standing in the middle of the list: both directions live, which
// is the state a single depth counter cannot express.
await expect(backButton(app)).toBeEnabled();
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeEnabled();
await forwardButton(app).click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeDisabled();
});
test('reaches the detail view a tab click left behind', async ({ app }) => {
// The report, exactly: the album is one entry away the whole time,
// and before this control the only way back to it was a button
// that had gone off screen with the view it belonged to.
await app.getByTestId('nav-artists').click();
await openAnArtist(app);
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
await backButton(app).click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute(
'data-active-view',
'explore-artist-details',
);
});
test('drops the forward list when the user navigates from the middle', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-albums').click();
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await backButton(app).click();
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeEnabled();
// A browser truncates here, and so does this: what was ahead is no
// longer reachable, and a Forward button still offering it would
// be pointing at an entry that has been overwritten.
await app.getByTestId('nav-genres').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'genres');
await expect(forwardButton(app)).toBeDisabled();
await expect(backButton(app)).toBeEnabled();
});
test('is absent below the desktop band, where nothing needs it', async ({
app,
}) => {
// Alt+Left/Right survive at every width, the detail views keep
// their own back buttons and the phone has the platform's gesture
// — so this is a control standing down, not an action becoming
// unreachable. It is hidden at 899 because the top bar is what
// runs out of room first below 900 (#143).
await app.setViewportSize({ width: 899, height: 600 });
await expect(app.locator('nav-history')).toBeHidden();
await app.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
await expect(app.locator('nav-history')).toBeHidden();
});
});
test.describe('the back gesture', () => {
test('leaves a detail view for the view it was opened from', async ({
app,
}) => {
await openAnArtist(app);
await app.goBack();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'artists');
});
test('walks back through primary views, one press per navigation', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
await app.getByTestId('nav-albums').click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
await app.goBack();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
// Forward is free once back works, and it is what proves the entry
// was restored rather than the view merely re-rendered.
await app.goForward();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
});
test('leaves the nav highlighting the view it landed on, not the one it left', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-albums').click();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Albums');
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Tracks');
await app.goBack();
// #72, and the half of it the report did not describe: this is
// desktop, and before the shell published the active view *both*
// navs stayed on Tracks. An absent highlight reads as a glitch; a
// confident wrong one is worse, and any back across two primary
// views produced it.
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Albums');
await expectNotHighlighted(app, 'Tracks');
});
test('keeps the parent destination lit while a detail view is open', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-artists').click();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Artists');
await openAnArtist(app);
// A detail view is not a destination in either nav, and the user is
// still inside Artists. `app-sidebar` did this by accident -- it
// guarded on its own item list, so an unmatched name left the
// highlight alone -- and that accident is why the sidebar looked
// right on a detail view while the tab bar lit nothing. This test
// therefore passed before the fix and is here to keep the rule from
// being lost while the others are made to pass; the *tab bar's*
// half of it is the phone test below, which did not.
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Artists');
await app.goBack();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Artists');
});
test('the tab bar survives the same journey on a phone', async ({ app }) => {
await app.setViewportSize(PHONE);
// The reported shape: Albums, open an album, press back. The tab
// bar had a highlight, then no highlight at all, and never got it
// back — `bottom-nav` took the detail view's name, matched it
// against no tab, and lit nothing.
await navItem(app, 'Albums').click();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Albums');
await app.locator('cover-grid').getByText('Glass Harbour').first().click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute(
'data-active-view',
'explore-album-details',
);
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Albums');
await app.goBack();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'albums');
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Albums');
});
test('the drawer sidebar opens on the page you are standing on', async ({
app,
}) => {
await app.setViewportSize(PHONE);
await navItem(app, 'Tracks').click();
await expectHighlighted(app, 'Tracks');
// A third symptom of the same cause, found while measuring #72 and
// not in the report: `bottom-nav` mounts its `<app-sidebar>` when
// the drawer opens, so that copy had heard no `navigate` at all and
// showed its own default — Home, from any page in the app. An event
// has no answer for a listener that was not there; a store does.
await navItem(app, 'More').click();
// The element carrying the testid is the `wa-drawer` host, which
// always reports hidden -- what is visible is the `<dialog>` in its
// shadow root -- so the drawer being open is asserted of the
// sidebar it holds rather than of itself.
const drawer = app.getByTestId('nav-drawer');
await expect(drawer.locator('app-sidebar')).toBeVisible();
await expect(drawer.getByTestId('nav-tracks')).toHaveAttribute(
'aria-current',
'page',
);
await expect(drawer.getByTestId('nav-home')).toHaveAttribute(
'aria-current',
'false',
);
});
test('an in-app back button consumes exactly one entry', async ({ app }) => {
await app.getByTestId('nav-tracks').click();
await openAnArtist(app);
// The detail view's own back button and the phone's gesture are the
// same press: if each popped its own stack, this would land two
// navigations back instead of one.
await app
.locator('explore-artist-details')
.getByRole('button', { name: 'Back to explore' })
.click();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'artists');
await app.goBack();
await expect(activeView(app)).toHaveAttribute('data-active-view', 'tracks');
});
});