[navigation-refactor] Use minimal action to navigate inside RHP

contributingGuides/NAVIGATION.md

@@ -70,3 +70,74 @@ Using [react-freeze](https://github.com/software-mansion/react-freeze) allows us
 
 - To keep the navigation state that was present before changing the layout, we save the state on every change and use it for the `initialState` prop.
 Changing the layout means that every component inside `NavigationContainer` is mounted anew.
+
+## Why we need to use minimal action in the `linkTo` function
+
+### The problem 
+Let's assume that the user wants to navigate like this:
+
+```
+1. Settings_root - navigate > Profile
+2. Profile - UP > Settings_root
+3. Settings_root - navigate > About 
+4. About - browser back button > Settings_root
+```
+
+Without minimal action, expected behavior won't be achieved and the final screen will be `Profile`.
+
+Broken behavior is the outcome of two things:
+1. Back button in the browser resets the navigation state with the state saved in step two.
+
+2. `Navigation.navigate` creates action with `getActionFromState` dispatched high in the hierarchy. 
+
+The reason why `getActionFromState` provided by `react-navigation` is dispatched high in hierarchy is that it doesn't know about current navigation state, only about desired one.
+
+In this example it doesn't know if the `RightModalNavigator` and `Settings` are already mounted.
+
+
+The action for the first step looks like that: 
+```json
+{
+    "type": "NAVIGATE",
+    "payload": {
+        "name": "RightModalNavigator",
+        "params": {
+            "initial": true,
+            "screen": "Settings",
+            "params": {
+                "initial": true,
+                "screen": "Profile",
+                "path": "/settings/profile"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+
+That means, the params for the `RightModalNavigator` and `Settings` (also a navigator) will be filled with the information that we want to navigate to the `Profile` screen.
+
+This information will stay here even if we pop the `Profile` screen and navigate to `About` screen. 
+
+Later on, when the user presses the browser back button expecting that the `Settings_root` screen will appear, the navigation state will be reset with information about the `Profile` screen in the params and this will be used as a source of truth for the navigation. 
+
+### The solution
+
+If we can create simple action that will only push one screen to the existing navigator, we won't fill any params of the navigators. 
+
+The `getMinimalAction` compares action generated by the `getActionFromState` with the current navigation state and tries to find a simpler action.
+
+The action for the first step created with  `getMinimalAction` looks like this:
+
+```json
+{
+    "type": "NAVIGATE",
+    "payload": {
+        "name": "Settings_Profile"
+    },
+    "target": "Settings-stack-key-xyz"
+}
+```
+
+### Deeplinking 
+There is no minimal action for deeplinking directly to the `Profile` screen. But because the `Settings_root` is not on the stack, pressing UP will reset the params for navigators to the correct ones.

src/libs/Navigation/AppNavigator/Navigators/RightModalNavigator.js

@@ -2,106 +2,87 @@ import React from 'react';
 import {createStackNavigator} from '@react-navigation/stack';
 
 import * as ModalStackNavigators from '../ModalStackNavigators';
-import defaultModalScreenOptions from '../defaultModalScreenOptions';
+import RHPScreenOptions from '../RHPScreenOptions';
 
 const Stack = createStackNavigator();
 
 function RigthModalNavigator() {
     return (
-        <Stack.Navigator>
+        <Stack.Navigator screenOptions={RHPScreenOptions}>
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Settings"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.SettingsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="NewChat"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.NewChatModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="NewGroup"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.NewGroupModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Search"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.SearchModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Details"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.DetailsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Profile"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.ProfileModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Report_Details"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.ReportDetailsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Report_Settings"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.ReportSettingsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Report_WelcomeMessage"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.ReportWelcomeMessageModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Participants"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.ReportParticipantsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="MoneyRequest"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.MoneyRequestModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="NewTask"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.NewTaskModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Task_Details"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.TaskModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="EnablePayments"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.EnablePaymentsStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="SplitDetails"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.SplitDetailsModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="AddPersonalBankAccount"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.AddPersonalBankAccountModalStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Wallet_Statement"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.WalletStatementStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Select_Year"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.YearPickerStackNavigator}
             />
             <Stack.Screen
                 name="Flag_Comment"
-                options={defaultModalScreenOptions}
                 component={ModalStackNavigators.FlagCommentStackNavigator}
             />
         </Stack.Navigator>

src/libs/Navigation/AppNavigator/defaultModalScreenOptions.js → src/libs/Navigation/AppNavigator/RHPScreenOptions.js

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import {CardStyleInterpolators} from '@react-navigation/stack';
 import styles from '../../../styles/styles';
 
-const defaultModalScreenOptions = {
+const RHPScreenOptions = {
     headerShown: false,
-    animationEnabled: true,
+    animationEnabled: false,
     gestureDirection: 'horizontal',
     cardStyle: styles.navigationScreenCardStyle,
     cardStyleInterpolator: CardStyleInterpolators.forHorizontalIOS,
 };
 
-export default defaultModalScreenOptions;
+export default RHPScreenOptions;

src/libs/Navigation/linkTo.js

@@ -5,6 +5,43 @@ import linkingConfig from './linkingConfig';
 import getTopmostReportId from './getTopmostReportId';
 import getStateFromPath from './getStateFromPath';
 
+/**
+ * Motivation for this function is described in NAVIGATION.md
+ *
+ * @param {Object} action action generated by getActionFromState
+ * @param {Object} state The root state
+ * @returns {{minimalAction: Object, targetName: String}} minimal action is the action that we should dispatch and targetName is the name of the target navigator.
+ * targetName name is necessary to determine if we are going to use REPLACE for navigating between RHP flows.
+ */
+function getMinimalAction(action, state) {
+    let currentAction = action;
+    let currentState = state;
+    let currentTargetKey = null;
+    let targetName = null;
+
+    while (currentState.routes[currentState.index].name === currentAction.payload.name) {
+        if (!currentState.routes[currentState.index].state) {
+            break;
+        }
+
+        targetName = currentState.routes[currentState.index].name;
+        currentState = currentState.routes[currentState.index].state;
+
+        currentTargetKey = currentState.key;
+
+        // Creating new smaller action
+        currentAction = {
+            type: currentAction.type,
+            payload: {
+                name: currentAction.payload.params.screen,
+                params: currentAction.payload.params.params,
+            },
+            target: currentTargetKey,
+        };
+    }
+    return {minimalAction: currentAction, targetName};
+}
+
 export default function linkTo(navigation, path, type) {
     if (navigation === undefined) {
         throw new Error("Couldn't find a navigation object. Is your component inside a screen in a navigator?");
@@ -29,8 +66,8 @@ export default function linkTo(navigation, path, type) {
         if (action.payload.name === NAVIGATORS.CENTRAL_PANE_NAVIGATOR && getTopmostReportId(root.getState()) !== getTopmostReportId(state)) {
             action.type = 'PUSH';
 
-            // If this action is navigating to the RightModalNavigator and the last route on the root navigator is also RightModalNavigator
-            // then we want to replace the current RHP state with new one
+            // If the type is UP, we deeplinked into one of the RHP flows and we want to replace the current screen with the previous one in the flow
+            // and at the same time we want the back button to go to the page we were before the deeplink
         } else if (type === 'UP') {
             action.type = 'REPLACE';
 
@@ -40,6 +77,18 @@ export default function linkTo(navigation, path, type) {
         }
     }
 
+    if (action.payload.name === NAVIGATORS.RIGHT_MODAL_NAVIGATOR) {
+        const {minimalAction, targetName} = getMinimalAction(action, navigation.getRootState());
+        if (minimalAction) {
+            // If the target name is RHP that means this action is responsible for changing flow within the RHP e.g. from settings to search. In that case we want to use REPLACE.
+            if (targetName === NAVIGATORS.RIGHT_MODAL_NAVIGATOR) {
+                minimalAction.type = 'REPLACE';
+            }
+            root.dispatch(minimalAction);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
     if (action !== undefined) {
         root.dispatch(action);
     } else {