Not Getting All QRCodes on screen

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

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Bug summary

With latest release, we only get one QRCode, even if there are multiple QRCode in front of camera. Ideally we should either trigger multiple events for each qrcode or send all of them in one callback. Root cause:

guard let results = request.results as? [VNBarcodeObservation],
                       let firstBarcode = results.first,
                       let payloadString = firstBarcode.payloadStringValue
                   else {
                       return
                   }

we only use first from result and discard others, @pushpender-singh-ap can you please update the code accordingly. Thanks

Library version

2.0.1

Environment info

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Steps to reproduce

1. Place multiple QRCode on screen
2. See if you can receive all of the QRCodes in response in callback for startScanning

Reproducible example repository

https://github.com/pushpender-singh-ap/react-native-scanner/issues

[pushpender-singh-ap]

@ravindraguptacapgemini can you please give me the sample repo.

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

@pushpender-singh-ap You can check with the example project with placing multiple QRCodes in front of camera. Also the code I have already highlighted will never pass all the QR code found during a scan session. I would recommend instead of using first object only, use all the result objects

[pushpender-singh-ap]

@ravindraguptacapgemini, could you create a PR for this? Did this happen on both iOS and Android?

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

yes, this is happening for iOS and android both. If you remember in order version 1.x, I provided PR to trigger the Barcode event multiple times for each barcode on single scan result

https://github.com/pushpender-singh-ap/react-native-scanner/pull/8/files

we iterated through the array and trigger the event, which is missing here.

[ravindraguptacapgemini]

for iOS, may be use this code -

` guard let results = request.results as? [VNBarcodeObservation] else { return }

for result in results { guard let firstBarcode = results.first, let payloadString = firstBarcode.payloadStringValue else { continue; }

// Create result dictionary
let result = self.createBarcodeResult(
    barcode: firstBarcode, payloadString: payloadString)

// Invoke callback through the actor for thread safety
await self.callbackActor.invokeCallback(with: result)
print("📤 Callback invoked with barcode data")

} `