Message compose: support completion of list of recipients #8994
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Unfortunately, this is on us I guess |
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@ruuzia I know it might be a little bit of extra work, but we would much appreciate if you could take a leap and refactor that file. We're trying to get rid of our remaining java, and it would make a difference! |
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Sure thing @kewisch, I can jump on that! |
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This fixes #5199, which I chose to implement because it was tagged "good first issue".
This PR adds support to the message compose screen for completing entire lists of recipient addresses, rather than just a single address. This way, the user can paste in comma/semicolon delimited address lists. It uses the existing functionality of parsing lists of addresses.
The other way of implementing the feature of pasting in lists of addresses is overriding the paste behavior for the input, and then virtually inserting the pasted characters one by one. However, I considered this method pretty hacky, and I also wanted to use the existing support for parsing lists of addresses.
Unfortunately, this could not be implemented in Kotlin as I was not in the mood to refactor ~2000 lines of Java.
android_thunderbird_compose_paste_list_demo.webm