[LiveComponent] Make `live_action` compatible with Twig components

[gremo]

Right now, you cannot directly use the live_action helper to render live attributes because it returns a string. This means the following will not work:

<twig:Button type="button" {{ live_action("foo", { bar: "baz" }) }}>
  Click me!
</twig:Button>

On the other hand, some helpers like stimulus_controller and stimulus_action work because they return an iterable that can be used with the Twig spread operator .....

I don't if why this returns a string instead of the StimulusAttributes instance? What I'm missing?

This would be a great DX addition 👍

I changed LiveComponentRuntime to return the StimulusAttributes instance and the following will work without any problem:

<twig:Button
    type="button"
    content="Click me!"
    {{ ...live_action("foo", { bar: "baz" }) }}
/>

<button type="button" {{ live_action("foo", { bar: "baz" }) }}>
    Click me!
</div>

[smnandre]

This helper is a quick dedicated helper that has no objective to replace the stimulus attributes. Why don't you use stimulus_action here ?

[gremo]

Yes, it is clear to me that the helper is not meant to replace the one from Stimulus 😄 but forgive me for asking: it uses the StimulusAttributes class to create the set of attributes and works in practically the same way... so why return its version as a string, making it incompatible with the components? Wouldn't it have been simpler, first and foremost, to return the StimulusAttributes object instead?

There is something I'm missing: is live_action used elsewhere where a string type is actually required?

[smnandre]

The first and end goal is to render in html

data-action="live#action" data-live-action-param="foo"

.. as any Twig function would do :)

The internal implementation is internal, as we want to keep the possibility to changes StimulusAttributes.

Again, what is the problem you have with the stimulus_action helper (that seems to do what you wan) ?

[gremo]

Nothing special prevents me from doing it 😄 Clearly, I can use stimulus_action, but since live_action is already available, my intention was to use that, even though they are obviously equivalent.

If we want to be precise, using live_action would immediately indicate that an element is calling a Live controller, whereas with stimulus_action, I would be inclined to think that it's a custom Stimulus controller of mine.

Mine was just an observation and a suggestion to make everything more usable and improve the "DX". If you think this change is unnecessary, thank you, and feel free to close this issue.

[smnandre]

I understand the question and i'd be happy to discuss the future implementation / DX (I really do!).

Now we cannot change it either way, as it's released like this.

Or any code expecting a string would break.

[gremo]

Going to close this as it will be never implemented, sadly :(