fix: handle skipped questions in when with display option by Sakthieswaran-tech · Pull Request #1853 · SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

Sakthieswaran-tech · 2025-10-18T09:24:08Z

Display questions when when returns { ask: false, display: true } without adding to answers.
Fully skip questions when when returns { ask: false, display: false } or false.
Added tests to cover these cases.

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Sakthieswaran-tech · 2025-10-21T17:53:33Z

Hey @SBoudrias , I’ve added more test cases and all checks are passing. Could you take a look when you get a chance and let me know if anything needs changes?

SBoudrias

The PR is a little big, so I didn't review all of it in depth yet. Here's a few early thoughts to streamline the code a little.

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

packages/inquirer/package.json

README.md

packages/inquirer/src/ui/prompt.ts

Sakthieswaran-tech · 2025-10-28T08:12:28Z

Rebased with latest main.
Incorporated all the review changes (including normalization and theme updates).
The reviewed fixes are now part of the existing commits after rebase.

Sakthieswaran-tech · 2025-11-12T17:00:46Z

Hi @SBoudrias , I’ve made the requested changes and resolved the conflicts. Please take a look when you have some time and let me know if I need to make any further changes. Thanks!

Sakthieswaran-tech · 2025-12-03T17:23:24Z

Hi! Just checking in on this PR whenever you get a chance. Let me know if anything else is needed from my side.

SBoudrias

I did a slight refactoring pass on some core changes. Besides that, I think there's still a fair amount of work to properly consider how this works with plugins and how we respect user theme.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:09:52Z

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

+const theme = makeTheme();
+const prefix = typeof theme.prefix === 'string' ? theme.prefix : theme.prefix.idle;


Doing here mean we're only support the default theme, whereas we should match the theme if one is provided by the user.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:10:31Z

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

+};
+
+function renderLine(message: string, answerText: string) {
+  return theme.style.help(`${prefix} ${message} ${answerText}`);


help likely isn't the right theme key to use here; it's not semantically correct. We should add a new key to cover skipped question lines.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:11:40Z

packages/inquirer/inquirer.test.ts

    });
+
+    it('should display skipped question when `when` returns { ask: false, display: true }', async () => {
+      const writeSpy = vi.spyOn(process.stdout, 'write').mockImplementation(() => true);


I think it'll be cleaner here to reuse the BufferedStream from packages/testing/src/index.ts to collect the writes.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:14:12Z

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

+  confirm: (question: TypedQuestion) => {
+    const defaultVal = question.default;
+    const answerText = defaultVal === true ? 'Yes' : defaultVal === false ? 'No' : '';
+    return renderLine(question.message.toString(), answerText);
+  },


I don't have a good suggestion right now, but implementing rendering here while the actual rendering is in other package isn't great...

Ideally rendering should be consistent and provided by each prompt.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:15:15Z

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

+  },
+
+  default: (question: TypedQuestion) => {
+    const answerText = question.default !== undefined ? String(question.default) : '';


Given default handle ALL prompts - not just the core ones within Inquirer, I don't think we can safely assume default can be stringified; for all we know default can be an object or an array.

SBoudrias · 2026-01-10T20:16:03Z

packages/inquirer/src/ui/skipped-renderer.ts

+  },
+
+  editor: (question: TypedQuestion) => {
+    const answerText = question.default !== undefined ? '[Default Content]' : '';


What user value does [Default Content] provide here? (same with PASSWORD SET later.)

Sakthieswaran-tech force-pushed the feature/display-skipped-questions branch 2 times, most recently from fe5866b to 7f04251 Compare October 18, 2025 11:41

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Sakthieswaran-tech force-pushed the feature/display-skipped-questions branch 2 times, most recently from 8e76e3c to 5b30e81 Compare October 28, 2025 08:09

Sakthieswaran-tech and others added 3 commits January 10, 2026 14:19

fix: handle skipped questions in when with display option

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test cases added for all prompts

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refactoring

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SBoudrias force-pushed the feature/display-skipped-questions branch from 219cc1e to 2b9d1b8 Compare January 10, 2026 20:07

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		const theme = makeTheme();
		const prefix = typeof theme.prefix === 'string' ? theme.prefix : theme.prefix.idle;

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