The state is not testable

[mahozad]

Hey! Thanks for the great library.

I have encountered some difficulties in unit tests.
I want to place the textState in a viewModel/stateHolder or whatever it's called and be able to test it.

The first problem is that the RichTextState is not immutable as mentioned in below issue:

• Support Immutable Data Structure #84

So, I cannot enforce the users of my state holder to change the textState only through the methods of my state holder.

The next problem is that I have the following code which is working as intended in the app but my test gives false positive (the textState.textAlign in test is Left):

val textState = RichTextState().apply {
    toggleParagraphStyle(
        currentParagraphStyle.copy(
            textAlign = TextAlign.Start
        )
    )
}

Next, being notified/reacting to textState changes is not easy which makes tests need the workaround mentioned in below issues:

• RichTextEditor needs an onValueChange() method #179
• Bring signature of RichTextEditor more inline with normal TextFields #95
• A way to get notified when currentParagraphStyle and currentSpanStyle change #99

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Side problem:

Can you please provide a way to add link to the current selection (like how bold and italic work)?

[MohamedRejeb]

Hi, Sorry for the late reply.

Thanks for your feedback. I will work on providing those missing APIs.

[mahozad]

Thank you.