userEvent.type breaks when typing JSON

[lynxtaa]

• @testing-library/user-event version: 13.0.0

• Testing Framework and version: jest@26.6.3

Relevant code or config

userEvent.type(input, '{"foo":"bar"}')

What you did: See above

What happened:

Error: Expected key descriptor but found """ in "{"foo":"bar"}"

Problem description:

Possible regression? It worked in user-event@12.8.3

[ph-fritsche]

There is a new implementation for userEvent.type and the added userEvent.keyboard in v13.0.0.

Instead of adding more and more special strings like {arrowleft} the new implementation treats '{' and '[' as special characters and treats the following as a descriptor.

You can work around by escaping { and [.

userEvent.type(input, '{"foo":"bar"}'.replace(/[{[]/g, '$&$&'))

[lynxtaa]

@ph-fritsche Maybe add an option to skip detection of key descriptors? Something like:

userEvent.type(input, '{"foo":"bar"}', { skipSpecialCharacters: true })

[erickbelfy]

is the PR still open for this use case?