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Commit 013efe17 authored by Svet Ganov's avatar Svet Ganov
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Add support for multiple fill contexts

When saving data filled by the user the platform provides to
an autofill provider the state of the UI allowing the provider
to interpret this state and store relevant information.

A limitation of the current design is that the fill provider
needs to interpret the screen content twice, once handling a
fill request and once handling a save request. To address this
we are introducing a id for each fill request allowing the
autofill provider to associate arbitrary state with each fill
request and store it in the client data bundle later passed
to save.

Another limitation of the current design is that if the screen
changes dynamically while the user interacts with the app the
UI state passed on save represents a static snapshot, therefore
it is not possible to the autofill provider to determine the
context in which the data in the UI was filled. We could
keep the views and have deltas for views being removed/added
/moved/changed but this is not enough as the fill provider
needs to know not only what changed but what changed for every
fill request and in one session there could be multiple fill
requests. To address this we provide a list of fill contexts
on save each of which has the id of the corresponding fill
request. This allows the fill provider to know the exact context
in which the data was popuplated and also use its custom client
state for this fill request if desired.

This change deprecates the old APIs and the new ones delegate
to the old ones. Once the clients migrate to the new APIs we
will remove the old ones.

Test: all autofill CTS tests pass

Change-Id: Idcebcc671aa3c078a305d8c358e225274fccc588
parent 9d2f03ec
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