Press event called when not passed down to event handler

[DonBrody]

Describe the bug

Hi. I think I'm running into an issue where an onPress event is called even when it is not passed down as a prop, but only when including a wrapper component.

For example, the component below accepts an onPress prop through its interface, but never passes that prop down to its internal Text component:

const _Text = React.forwardRef<Text, TextProps>(({ children }, ref) => (
  <Text ref={ref}>{children}</Text>
))

So we'd expect that the following would fail (and it does fail as expected):

const mockOnPress = jest.fn()

const { getByText } = render(<_Text onPress={mockOnPress}>Test Text</_Text>)

fireEvent.press(getByText('Test Text'))

expect(mockOnPress).toHaveBeenCalled()

But the above will pass if a wrapper component is provided (even a simple one like below):

 const Wrapper: React.FC<React.PropsWithChildren> = ({ children }) => children

const { getByText } = render(
  <_Text onPress={mockOnPress}>Test Text</_Text>,
  { wrapper: Wrapper },
)

Thank you in advance for any help you could provide here!

Expected behavior

The test described above should fail.

Steps to Reproduce

it('should fire onPress callback', () => {
  const mockOnPress = jest.fn()

  const Wrapper: React.FC<React.PropsWithChildren> = ({ children }) => children

  const _Text = React.forwardRef<Text, TextProps>(({ children }, ref) => (
    <Text ref={ref}>{children}</Text>
  ))

  const { getByText } = render(
    <_Text onPress={mockOnPress}>Test Text</_Text>,
    { wrapper: Wrapper },
  )

  fireEvent.press(getByText('Test Text'))

  expect(mockOnPress).toHaveBeenCalled()
  expect(mockOnPress).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
})

Versions

@testing-library/react-native => 12.5.1 jest => 29.7.0 react => 18.3.1 react-native => 0.73.7

npmPackages: react: ^18.2.0 => 18.3.1 react-native: ~0.73.7 => 0.73.7

[mdjastrzebski]

The Fire Event API is invoking event handlers also on composite components due to compatibility reasons. If you want to have more realistic event simulation use User Event API instead.

[DonBrody]

Yup - the User Event API does properly handle this. We'll update our tests. Thanks for your help!