Reuse same widget causes child form field to be overwritten

[Adam-Langley]

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Package/Plugin version

9.1.1

Platforms

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
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Minimal code example

Code sample (pseudocode)

class ChildWidget
{
   ChildWidget(this.name)

   build() => FormBuilderDropdown(name: '${this.name}_dropdown');
}

class MainWidget
{
  build() => FormBuilder(child: Column(children: [ChildWidget(name: "a"), ChildWidget(name: "b")]));
}

Current Behavior

When the FormBuilder.onChanged fires, the FormBuilderState.fields collection contains ONLY the field "b_dropdown" (the last childwidget to build).

A runtime warning is output "flutter: Warning! Replacing duplicate Field for a_dropdown -- this is OK to ignore as long as the field was intentionally replaced"

Expected Behavior

When the FormBuilder.onChanged fires, the FormBuilderState.fields collection should contain BOTH the fields "a_dropdown" and "b_dropdown".

Steps To Reproduce

On any environment, create a widget tree where a child widget (in my example I've called the class ChildWidget) is used multiple times in the same form.
The child widget should contain a FormBuilder form field, but it uses some unique name (i.e passed by argument) to name the field.

It appears that the FormBuilder subsystem is perhaps using the widget tree to identify form fields, because the last ChildWidget to render will have its formfields added to the FormBuilder.fields collection, overwriting the previous ones.

Aditional information

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[deandreamatias]

Hi @Adam-Langley
Maybe this #1451 had something related with this?
Can test with main branch