Need a selector traversal API for textContent

[vjeux]

We have a text in a nested figma tree Selector > .Input Message > Text message. figma.textContent('Text message') does not find it. But if we move Text message at the root, then it works.

We were able to solve the issue selecting an instance by moving from .instance(), which is not recursive to using .children() which is. But there doesn't seem to be a recursive version of .textContent()

Error message doesn't work when nested

Error message works when not nested

figma.connect(
 XDSSelector,
 'https://www.figma.com/design/qHKLpmJo1s50sJPJLiRM3C/XDS-Web-Library-(Copy)?node-id=160332-120780&m=dev',
 {
   props: {
     style: figma.enum('Style', {
       Input: 'input',
     }),
     size: figma.enum('Size', {
       Compact: 'compact',
     }),
     leftIcon: figma.instance('Left Icon'),
     isLabelHidden: figma.boolean('labelIsHidden', {
       true: true,
     }),
     errorMessage: figma.enum('State', {
       Error: figma.textContent('Error message'),
     }),
     warningMessage: figma.enum('State', {
       Warning: figma.textContent('Warning message'),
     }),
     successMessage: figma.enum('State', {
       Success: figma.textContent('Success message'),
     }),
     isDisabled: figma.enum('State', {
       Disabled: true,
     }),
   },
   example: props => (
     <XDSSelector
       value="<VALUE>"
       onChange={() => {
         /* onChange set value */
       }}
       buttonSize={props.size}
       buttonUse={props.style}
       buttonIcon={props.leftIcon}
       isDisabled={props.isDisabled}
       isLabelHidden={props.isLabelHidden}
       errorMessage={props.errorMessage}
       warningMessage={props.warningMessage}
       successMessage={props.successMessage}
     />
   ),
 },
);

[ptomas-figma]

Hi @vjeux thanks for the feature request! The team has been thinking on ways to improve the API to select children nodes and properties (and make it consistent across the different methods) so hopefully we'll have a good solution for this soon. Will keep you posted!

[vjeux]

Awesome, thanks for the update! Happy to help review any API and give feedback.