Allow dict ids as target id for Tooltip

docs/content/docs/faq.md

@@ -6,58 +6,6 @@ title: FAQ
 
 This page contains various tips and tricks and answers to frequently asked questions about _dash-bootstrap-components_. If you think something is missing, please submit an [issue][issue] on the GitHub issue tracker.
 
-### How do I use `Tooltip` or `Popover` with pattern-matching callbacks?
-
-Dash 1.11.0 added support for [pattern matching callbacks](https://dash.plotly.com/pattern-matching-callbacks) which allows you to write callbacks that can update an arbitrary or dynamic number of Dash components. To enable this, the `id` of a Dash component can now be a Python dictionary, and the callback is triggered based on a matching rule with one or more of the keys in this dictionary.
-
-However, it is not possible to use a dictionary as the `target` of the `Popover` or `Tooltip` components. The reason for this is explained below. To get around the problem, the best thing to do is to wrap your dynamically created components with a `html.Div` element or similar, and use a string `id` for the wrapper which you then use as the target for the `Tooltip` or `Popover`. For example this example from the Dash documentation
-
-```python
-@app.callback(
-    Output('dropdown-container', 'children'),
-    Input('add-filter', 'n_clicks'),
-    State('dropdown-container', 'children'))
-def display_dropdowns(n_clicks, children):
-    new_dropdown = dcc.Dropdown(
-        id={
-            'type': 'filter-dropdown',
-            'index': n_clicks
-        },
-        options=[{'label': i, 'value': i} for i in ['NYC', 'MTL', 'LA', 'TOKYO']]
-    )
-    children.append(new_dropdown)
-    return children
-```
-
-might become the following
-
-```python
-@app.callback(
-    Output('dropdown-container', 'children'),
-    Input('add-filter', 'n_clicks'),
-    State('dropdown-container', 'children'))
-def display_dropdowns(n_clicks, children):
-    new_dropdown = html.Div(
-        dcc.Dropdown(
-            id={
-                'type': 'filter-dropdown',
-                'index': n_clicks
-            },
-            options=[{'label': i, 'value': i} for i in ['NYC', 'MTL', 'LA', 'TOKYO']]
-        ),
-        id=f"dropdown-wrapper-{n_clicks}"
-    )
-    new_tooltip = dbc.Tooltip(
-        f"This is dropdown number {n_clicks}",
-        target=f"dropdown-wrapper-{n_clicks}",
-    )
-    children.append(new_dropdown)
-    children.append(new_tooltip)
-    return children
-```
-
-The reason `Popover` and `Tooltip` can't support the dictionary-based `id` is that under the hood these components are searching for the `id` using a function called `querySelectorAll` implemented as part of the standard Web APIs. This function can only search for a valid CSS selector string, which is restricted more or less to alphanumeric characters plus hyphens and underscores. Dash serialises dictionary ids as JSON, which contains characters like `{` and `}` that are invalid in CSS selectors. The above workaround avoids this issue.
-
 ### How do I scale the viewport on mobile devices?
 
 When building responsive layouts it is typical to have something like the following in your HTML template

src/components/popover/Popover.js

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import Overlay from '../../private/Overlay';
  * Use the `PopoverHeader` and `PopoverBody` components to control the layout
  * of the children.
  */
+
 const Popover = props => {
   const {
     children,
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ Popover.propTypes = {
   /**
    * ID of the component to attach the popover to.
    */
-  target: PropTypes.string,
+  target: PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.object]),
 
   /**
    * Space separated list of triggers (e.g. "click hover focus legacy"). These

src/components/tooltip/Tooltip.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import Overlay from '../../private/Overlay';
  * Simply add the Tooltip to you layout, and give it a target (id of a
  * component to which the tooltip should be attached)
  */
+
 const Tooltip = props => {
   const {
     id,
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ Tooltip.propTypes = {
   /**
    * The id of the element to attach the tooltip to
    */
-  target: PropTypes.string,
+  target: PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.object]),
 
   /**
    * How to place the tooltip.

src/private/Overlay.js

@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ function useStateRef(initialValue) {
   return [value, setValue, ref];
 }
 
+// stringifies object ids used in pattern matching callbacks
+const stringifyId = id => {
+  if (typeof id !== 'object') {
+    return id;
+  }
+  const stringifyVal = v => (v && v.wild) || JSON.stringify(v);
+  const parts = Object.keys(id)
+    .sort()
+    .map(k => JSON.stringify(k) + ':' + stringifyVal(id[k]));
+  return '{' + parts.join(',') + '}';
+};
+
 const Overlay = ({
   children,
   target,
@@ -40,6 +52,8 @@ const Overlay = ({
 
   const triggers = typeof trigger === 'string' ? trigger.split(' ') : [];
 
+  const targetStr = stringifyId(target);
+
   const hide = () => {
     if (isOpenRef.current) {
       hideTimeout.current = clearTimeout(hideTimeout.current);
@@ -133,9 +147,9 @@ const Overlay = ({
   }, [defaultShow]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    targetRef.current = document.getElementById(target);
+    targetRef.current = document.getElementById(targetStr);
     addEventListeners(targetRef.current);
-  }, [target]);
+  }, [targetStr]);
 
   return (
     <RBOverlay show={isOpen} target={targetRef.current} {...otherProps}>

src/private/__tests__/Overlay.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import {act, fireEvent, render} from '@testing-library/react';
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
+import Tooltip from '../../components/tooltip/Tooltip';
+jest.useFakeTimers();
+
+describe('Tooltip with dict id', () => {
+  // this is just a little hack to silence a warning that we'll get until we
+  // upgrade to 16.9. See also: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14853
+  const originalError = console.error;
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    console.error = (...args) => {
+      if (/Warning.*not wrapped in act/.test(args[0])) {
+        return;
+      }
+      originalError.call(console, ...args);
+    };
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => {
+    console.error = originalError;
+  });
+
+  let div;
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    div = document.createElement('div');
+    div.setAttribute('id', '{"index":1,"type":"target"}');
+  });
+
+  test('renders nothing by default', () => {
+    render(
+      <Tooltip target={{type: 'target', index: 1}}>Test content</Tooltip>,
+      {
+        container: document.body.appendChild(div)
+      }
+    );
+
+    expect(document.body.querySelector('.tooltip')).toBe(null);
+  });
+
+  test('renders a div with class "tooltip"', () => {
+    render(<Tooltip target={{type: 'target', index: 1}} />, {
+      container: document.body.appendChild(div)
+    });
+
+    fireEvent.mouseOver(div);
+    act(() => jest.runAllTimers());
+    expect(document.body.querySelector('.tooltip')).not.toBe(null);
+
+    fireEvent.mouseLeave(div);
+    act(() => jest.runAllTimers());
+    expect(document.body.querySelector('.tooltip')).toBe(null);
+  });
+
+  test('renders its content', () => {
+    render(
+      <Tooltip target={{type: 'target', index: 1}}>Tooltip content</Tooltip>,
+      {
+        container: document.body.appendChild(div)
+      }
+    );
+
+    fireEvent.mouseOver(div);
+    act(() => jest.runAllTimers());
+    expect(document.body.querySelector('.tooltip')).toHaveTextContent(
+      'Tooltip content'
+    );
+  });
+});