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Liam DeBeasi 4f43d5ce08 fix(menu) menus on the same side are not automatically disabled (#28269)
Issue number: resolves #18974

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## What is the current behavior?
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When multiple menus on the same `side` are registered, all but the most
recent menu are disabled. For example, if a user starts on PageA with a
`start` menu and then navigates to PageB which also has a `start` menu,
then the menu on PageA will be disabled. The problem is that if users
navigates back to PageA they will be unable to open the menu on that
view because it is still disabled. This behavior impacts any Ionic
developer trying to open a menu whether by calling the `open` method on
the menu itself or on the `menuController`.

After discussing with the team, we believe the original intent of this
behavior was to prevent users from accidentally opening the wrong menu
when calling `menuController.open('start')`. This API allows developers
to reference a menu by side, and since it's possible to have multiple
menus on the same side it's also possible to open the wrong menu when
referencing by side only.

However, this API starts to break down pretty quickly in a navigation
scenario.

Sample Repo: https://github.com/liamdebeasi/multiple-menu-bug-repro

## Scenario 1: Referencing Menu by Side

1. On the "home" route click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that the home
page menu opens.
2. Close the menu and click "Go to Page Two".
3. On the "page-two" route click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that the
page two menu opens.
4. Go back to "home".
5. Click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that nothing happens.
6. Click "Enable and Open 'start'" Menu". Observe that the home menu
opens.

## Scenario 2: Referencing Menu by ID

1. On the "home" route click "Open '#menu1' menu". Observe that the home
page menu opens.
2. Close the menu and click "Go to Page Two".
3. On the "page-two" route click "Open '#menu2' menu". Observe that the
page two menu opens.
4. Go back to "home".
5. Click "Open '#menu1' menu". Observe that nothing happens.
6. Click "Enable and Open '#menu1'" Menu". Observe that the home menu
opens.

## Scenario 3: Using 3 or more menus even when enabling menus

1. On the "home" route click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that the home
page menu opens.
2. Close the menu and click "Go to Page Two".
3. On the "page-two" route click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that the
page two menu opens.
4. Close the menu and click "Go to Page Three"
5. On the "page-three" route click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that the
page three menu opens.
6. Go back to "page-two".
8. Click "Open 'start' menu". Observe that nothing happens.
9. Click "Enable and Open 'start' Menu". Observe that nothing happens.

The menu controller attempts to find an enabled menu on the specified
side:
a04a11be35/core/src/utils/menu-controller/index.ts (L79C12-L79C12)

Step 6 is where this breaks down. In this scenario, the menus on "home"
and "page-two" are disabled. This leads menu controller to use its
fallback which tries to get the first menu registered on the specified
side:
a04a11be35/core/src/utils/menu-controller/index.ts (L86)

This means that the menu controller would attempt to open the "home"
menu even though the user is on "page-two" (because the start menu on
"home" was the first to be registered).

## What is the new behavior?
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- Menus are no longer automatically disabled when a new menu on the same
side is registered
- Referencing menus by side when multiple menus with that side exist in
the DOM will cause a warning to be logged

This change has a couple implications:

1. Developers no longer need to manually enable a menu as noted in
https://ionicframework.com/docs/api/menu#multiple-menus. Note that
continuing to manually enable the menus will not cause any adverse side
effects and will effectively be a no-op.
2. Developers using the menuController to open a menu based on "side"
may end up having the wrong menu get opened.

Example before to this change:

1. Start on PageA with a `start` menu. Calling
`menuController.open('start')` opens the menu on PageA.
2. Go to PageB with a `start` menu. Calling
`menuController.open('start')` opens the menu on PageB because the menu
on PageA is disabled.

Example after to this change:

1. Start on PageA with a `start` menu. Calling
`menuController.open('start')` opens the menu on PageA.
2. Go to PageB with a `start` menu. Calling
`menuController.open('start')` attempts to opens the menu on PageA
because both menus are enabled. However, since PageA is hidden nothing
will appear to happen.

## Does this introduce a breaking change?

- [ ] Yes
- [x] No

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## Other information

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I manually verified that removing the Angular Universal code does not
regress the behavior fixed in
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/pull/27814. The menu is
never automatically disabled, so the bug does not happen.

This is a partial fix for
https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/issues/18683. Properly
fixing this requires another change which is out of scope for this work.
2023-10-10 12:13:28 -04:00
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