Use NumberField instead of TextField for inputs of type number

[just-be-dev]

Changes

Replaces all instances of TextField where type=number with NumberField.

Background

When investigating the fix for #1438, I began investigating our ability to do transformations on text input before form submissions. react-hook-form's docs have a section on transformation and parsing in which they recommend either creating a high order controller component that receives a transform function that can operate via value/onChange or by using register props like valueAsDate, valueAsNumber orsetValueAs. The latter seems closer to what we'd actually want to do, but we're not actually using register. register hangs off of the form object returned via useForm and refactoring our inputs to use that approach would be a larger effort than seems warranted for just this functionality. The Controller component which we're using to define our components has a rules prop that takes arguments intended for register but it explicitly omits the value transformation props . I timed boxed some explorations in seeing if I could have the rules prop resolve the value transformation fields upstream but wasn't able to get to a satisfactory outcome in the time allotted so I decided just to try my hand at a user land implementation.

After that investigation I noticed we were actually doing some userland transformation in the TextField component. It's specifically around the special handling of numbers though, which seemed odd to me given that we have a dedicated NumberField component.

console/app/components/form/fields/TextField.tsx

Lines 146 to 163 in ae8218d

	onChange={(e) => {
	if (type === 'number') {
	if (e.target.value.trim() === '') {
	onChange(0)
	} else if (!isNaN(e.target.valueAsNumber)) {
	onChange(e.target.valueAsNumber)
	}
	// otherwise ignore the input. this means, for example, typing
	// letters does nothing. If we instead said take anything
	// that's NaN and fall back to 0, typing a letter would reset
	// the field to 0, which is silly. Browsers are supposed to
	// ignore non-numeric input for you anyway, but Firefox does
	// not.
	return
	}
	onChange(e.target.value)
	}}

The presence of this normalization logic for numbers makes the implementation of a transformation slightly more complicated than it needs to be and (to me) points to a larger need for changes. Thus I decided to take the first step of untangling the number logic from the TextField by specifically relegating that to the NumberField

Remaining work

• Ensure NumberField has the same input handling logic as was present in TextField
• Remove the number transformation logic from TextField
• Do a UI pass to ensure the changes in field components didn't cause a visual regression

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[just-be-dev]

I don't actually like this change, it's a bit of a contagion. It's used to aid in typing the transform but I suspect there might be a better way to do this.

[just-be-dev]

Supplanted by #1854 and #1926