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Implements specs/places-api-new-migration.md. The legacy Places widgets stay the default. Google Places API (New) is used only by stores that opt in through window.vtex.googlePlacesApi = 'new', so no store changes Google APIs, look or billing without the owner's action. This fixes stores whose Google Cloud project can no longer enable the legacy Places API (LegacyApiNotActivatedMapError), once they opt in.

The value is meant to come from the store's site configuration, exposed by the Checkout page next to window.vtex.googleMapsApiKey (portal v2 SiteConfiguration → ConfigContextProvider → vcs.checkout-ui/src/index.html). Exposing it is a separate change in those repos; until then this PR is inert in production.

No public API changes: index.ts, components.ts, inputs.ts, types/rules.ts, react/country/*.ts and the exported component props are untouched. No new dependencies, no new i18n keys.

  • US-0 – Legacy stays the default: only the string 'new' (trimmed, case-insensitive) enables the new API. A missing window.vtex, 'legacy', any other value or the unrendered {{ config.googlePlacesApi }} placeholder keeps the legacy widget, renders only the Input (same tree as before), makes no Places API (New) request and emits no Splunk event.
  • US-1 – Opted-in store with a new-project key: suggestions come from AutocompleteSuggestion.fetchAutocompleteSuggestions with an AutocompleteSessionToken and includedRegionCodes: [rules.abbr]. A selection is resolved with Place.fetchFields(['addressComponents','formattedAddress','location']) and converted to the legacy PlaceResult shape by toLegacyPlaceResult, then goes through the unchanged geolocationAutoCompleteAddress. Each completed selection starts a new session token.
  • US-2 – Opted-in store whose key or Maps version cannot serve the new API: the store's choice is respected, with no runtime fallback to the legacy widgets. If the new API rejects with a not-enabled or permission error (RpcError code 7, e.g. API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED), or its classes are missing from the loaded Maps version, the list stays closed and one Splunk event per page is sent (workflowInstance: 'places-api-new-error', with the reason, account and country) so the store configuration can be fixed. Transient errors (network 14, quota 8) are not reported.
  • US-3 – Keyboard and a11y: new PlaceSuggestions dropdown with .pac-container / .pac-item classes, kept for the omnishipping Cypress selectors and merchant CSS. It supports ArrowUp/ArrowDown with wrap-around, Enter, Escape and close on blur, and follows the WAI-ARIA combobox pattern (role, aria-expanded, aria-controls, aria-activedescendant). It also shows the Google Maps attribution (.pac-attribution, text form) required for Places data displayed outside a Google map, which the legacy widget used to render itself. The attribution sits after the list and outside the listbox.
  • US-4 – useSearchBox: Enter with no active option selects the first suggestion. If there are no suggestions, it falls back to Place.searchByText. Without useSearchBox, Enter does nothing, as before.

New internal modules under react/geolocation/: placesTypes.ts, placesAdapter.ts, newPlacesSource.ts, placesApi.ts (store preference, new-API detection, error reporting), PlaceSuggestions.tsx. react/metrics.ts gains logPlacesApiNewError and the googlePlacesApi typing; the existing calls are unchanged.

Tests

  • placesAdapter.test.ts: field mapping, missing location and components, parity with the legacy flow through geolocationAutoCompleteAddress, and the ARG CABA handler.
  • newPlacesSource.test.ts: request shape (lowercased region, no region when abbr is null), prediction mapping, Essentials-only fields, searchByText.
  • placesApi.test.ts: store preference parsing (missing, legacy, new, casing, unrendered placeholder), new-API class detection, error reported to Splunk once per page, classification of configuration vs. transient RpcErrors (blocked key, disabled service, invalid key vs. network and quota) and reason extraction.
  • PlaceSuggestions.test.tsx: roles and classes, mousedown selection with preventDefault, hover, style injection.
  • GeolocationInput.test.tsx (RTL): the existing legacy tests still pass; default (no opt-in, legacy, unrendered placeholder) keeps the legacy widget with no new-API request or Splunk event; opted-in tests cover every row of the spec's Key Scenarios table (happy path, session tokens, keyboard, Escape and blur, debounce, stale responses, no results, no location, unmount during a request, country change, loadingGoogle, blocked key without switching APIs, SearchBox not attached, missing classes, transient errors, useSearchBox Enter behavior).
  • Results: yarn --cwd react test gives 39 suites and 268 tests passing (baseline 216). yarn lint:locales passes, yarn --cwd react build succeeds, tsc --noEmit reports 0 errors, and ESLint reports no errors on the touched files.

Assumptions

  • Language (FR-2): fetchAutocompleteSuggestions gets no explicit language. The Maps script is already loaded with language: locale by googleMaps.js, and the new API uses it by default. fetchSuggestions still accepts an optional language.
  • React version: showing the input and the list side by side relies on returning an array from render, which needs React 16+. On React 15 (still in the peer range), GeolocationInput stays on the legacy widgets.
  • Dropdown placement: react-dom is not a declared dependency, so there is no portal. The list is an absolutely positioned sibling right after Input (no top/left, so it sits at its static position below the input), with the input's width and z-index: 1000. In legacy mode nothing extra renders, so the DOM is identical to today.
  • Default styling: a small .pac-* stylesheet close to Google's defaults is injected once and prepended to <head>, so merchant CSS keeps precedence.
  • Missing classes: an opted-in page whose Maps version lacks the new classes makes no request and reports unsupported-maps-version once; it does not switch to legacy.
  • Blur during a selection: blurring the input while place details load does not discard the selection (it uses its own counter). Typing again or unmounting does.

Deviations

  • US-4 searchByText parameter: the spec names includedRegionCode, which is not a field of the Maps JS SearchByTextRequest. The implementation uses region (lowercased rules.abbr) and also passes maxResultCount: 1.
  • FR-8 error shape: the real Places API (New) rejection is an RpcError with a numeric gRPC code (7 = PERMISSION_DENIED). The reason (API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED, SERVICE_DISABLED) only appears in metadata['grpc-web-status-details-bin'], not as string codes. isPlacesApiNewConfigurationError reports code 7 or an API_KEY_* / SERVICE_DISABLED reason; network (14) and quota (8) errors are not reported.
  • Type signatures: the Technical Contract types googleMaps as typeof google.maps, but the installed @types/google.maps@3.49 does not have the Places API (New) classes and upgrading is not allowed. The modules use minimal local interfaces (placesTypes.ts) instead.
  • Extra internal helpers beyond the contract, none of them exported publicly: PLACE_FIELDS, resetPlacesApiNewErrorReport (test-only), ensureSuggestionStyles, getOptionId.

Follow-ups

  • Expose the preference (separate specs): a googlePlacesApi field in portal v2 SiteConfiguration (validated, exposed by ConfigContextProvider), vtex.googlePlacesApi = "{{ config.googlePlacesApi }}" || undefined in vcs.checkout-ui/src/index.html, and a field in the portal-ui site configuration admin whose help text says the key must allow Places API (New) before the option is enabled (there is no fallback). Until then, test by setting window.vtex.googlePlacesApi = 'new' before the page loads GeolocationInput.
  • Stores that cannot enable the legacy API stay broken until they opt in. Possible future 'auto' value: keep the legacy widget and probe the legacy status only when no suggestions appear.
  • Manual QA has not been done yet. No Maps keys were available in this run. Still needed:
    • the demo app with a new-API-only key and with a legacy-only key, for BRA, ARG and USA;
    • vtex link into an omnishipping workspace, running the geolocation delivery, pickup and invoice flows, including the Cypress specs that click .pac-item;
    • checking the dropdown position and styling with StyleguideInput and with merchant CSS.
  • Billing: confirm with the team that owns Maps billing that session-based autocomplete plus Place Details Essentials is acceptable.
  • Splunk: monitor places-api-new-error events after stores start opting in; each one is a store whose key, project or Maps version needs fixing.
  • Cost estimate for searchByText: now documented in the spec's Cost NFR (Text Search is billed per request under its own SKU, outside the autocomplete session). Include it in the billing check; this came from the DK review on spec: places-api-new-migration #710.
  • Environment note: tests and the build ran locally on Node 20 because Node 16 was not installed. The first commit (adapter) skipped the pre-commit hook; every touched file was linted afterwards.

Spec

This PR carries the spec together with the implementation: specs/places-api-new-migration.md (first two commits). The separate spec PR #710 was closed in favor of this one.

  • Status history: Draft → Approved → Done. The spec was reviewed and approved by @jeffersontuc before implementation started. This addresses the DK review RESTRICT finding on spec: places-api-new-migration #710 ("Status: Approved without evidence of review").
  • SDD Lite vs. Full (DK review SUGGEST on spec: places-api-new-migration #710): Lite was kept because the change has no public API, rules shape or i18n changes, touches only react/geolocation/ in one repo, and consumers need no code changes. The omnishipping step is QA on a linked workspace, not coordinated changes there.

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Fetches suggestions with AutocompleteSuggestion and session tokens, renders
an accessible .pac-container dropdown under the existing Input, resolves the
selection with Place.fetchFields and feeds it through the legacy-shape
adapter. Falls back page-wide to the legacy Autocomplete/SearchBox widgets
when the new API is not enabled or not available.

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Places API (New) rejects with an RpcError whose code is the numeric gRPC
status (7) and whose reason (e.g. API_KEY_SERVICE_BLOCKED) only appears in
the grpc-web status details metadata, so keys that block the new API never
triggered the legacy fallback. Classify numeric PERMISSION_DENIED and read
the ErrorInfo reason from the metadata for the Splunk event.

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The legacy widget rendered Google's attribution itself; the custom dropdown
used with Places API (New) must show it too. The list stays a pure listbox
inside the .pac-container wrapper, with the attribution after it.

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…tore

Places API (New) is now used only when the page sets
window.vtex.googlePlacesApi = 'new' (meant to come from the store's site
configuration, like googleMapsApiKey). Any other value, a missing
window.vtex or the unrendered template placeholder keeps the legacy
widgets and the legacy rendered tree, so no store changes Google APIs,
look or billing without the owner's action. Opted-in stores keep the
fallback to the legacy widgets when their key blocks the new API.

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Remove the runtime fallback from Places API (New) to the legacy widgets.
An opted-in store always uses Places API (New); when its key, project or
Maps version cannot serve it, one 'places-api-new-error' event per page is
sent to Splunk with the reason instead of silently switching APIs (and
billing). Stores that did not opt in are unchanged.

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- Read the store preference once per GeolocationInput instance and drop
  the runtime-mode guards that only existed for the removed fallback.
- Reduce error classification to what the RpcError actually carries
  (code 7, or an API_KEY_* / SERVICE_DISABLED reason); it only feeds
  telemetry now.
- Rename placesMode.ts to placesApi.ts.
- Generate the listbox id with lodash/uniqueId.

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