Tell IMS about missing InputConnection methods.
Summary: This CL introduces a unified mechanism to deal with the situation where the application directly implements InputConnection but some of methods are not implemented. Note that there should be zero overhead when the application extends BaseInputConnection or InputConnectionWrapper. Background: When ever we add a new method to InputConnection, there has been a risk that existing applications that directly implement InputConnection can get java.lang.AbstractMethodError exception at runtime, because older SDKs do not require the application developer to implement the methods that are newly added in later SDKs. Because of this we strongly discouraged developers to directly implement InputConnection interface, and encouraged them to subclass BaseInputConnection or InputConnectionWrapper instead. That said, as requested in Bug 26945674, there is a certain demand to be able to implement InputConnection without depending on BaseInputConnection. The goal of this CL is to provide a reliable and sustainable solution to above missing method scenario in InputConnection. One of the reasons why dealing with missing InputConnection methods is so difficult is that what InputMethodService receives to communicate with the target application is actually a proxy class com.android.internal.view.InputConnectionWrapper that runs in the IME process and immediately returns true for most of methods in InputConnection such as #commitText() and #finishComposingText(). Because of this asynchronous nature, it is too late to change the actual return value that the IME receives when the application receives those one-way asynchronous IPC calls. Solution: To handle those cases, this CL checks the availability of InputConnection methods that did not exist in the initial release before the target application calls startInput(), and let the application to send its availability bits to IMMS so that InputConnectionWrapper running in the IME process can be initialized with such availability bits. Note that we do know that BaseInputConnection and its subclasses support all the InputConnection methods, hence for most of applications we can just assume that all the methods are available without reflection. With such availability bits, InputConnectionWrapper is now able to gracefully return failure code to the IME because the availability of those methods is immutable, except for a tricky case where the application relies on a proxy object that dynamically changes the dispatch target. Here is the list of APIs that we start checking the availability in this CL. [API Level 9+] - InputConnection#getSelectedText(int) - InputConnection#setComposingRegion(int, int) [API Level 11+] - InputConnection#commitCorrection(CorrectionInfo) [API Level 21+] - InputConnection#requestCursorUpdates(int)} [API Level 24+] - InputConnection#deleteSurroundingTextInCodePoints(int, int) - InputConnection#getHandler() Ideas alternatively considered: Default methods in InputConnection We once considered having default methods in InputConnection but abandoned this idea because it does not directly solve the problem about how to tell the that the API does not take effect. Also having default methods would make it difficult for application developers to be aware of newly added methods in InputConnection. Bug: 27407234 Bug: 27642734 Bug: 27650039 Change-Id: I3c58fadd924fad72cb984f0c23d3099fd0295c64
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