Fix InputMethodServiceInternal lifetime

This is a follow up CL to my recent CL [1], which aimed to consolidate
dependencies on InputMethodService from RemoteInputConnection.

One thing I overlooked was that InputMethodService did not retain a
strong reference to InputMethodServiceInternal object that I
introduced there, which means that the newly instantiated
InputMethodServiceInternal could be garbage-collected even before
InputMethodService became unreachable.

As a result, the following InputConnection APIs could start failing at
some point and would never work without restarting the IME, which is
likely to be the root cause of the recent flakiness in
InputConnectionEndToEndTest discussed in Bug 193822485.

  * InputConnection#requestCursorUpdates()
  * InputConnection#commitContent()

Also, the following functionality might have stopped working at some
point.

  * InputMethodService#dump()
  * InputConnection tracing in IME tracing
  * Updating IME switching order based on user inputs

With this CL, the InputMethodServiceInternal instance is guaranteed to
be instantiated once and remain to be alive until
AbstractInputMethodService becomes unreachable.

 [1]: I2aeeeacd27195ce10059d6590e098a4a969e774d
      a975bfc447b04fe90a5ec9c3d4757810f7d07af1

Fix: 193822485
Fix: 199288389
Test: atest CtsInputMethodTestCases
Test: Manually verified with Imege Keyboard sample IME/app
Change-Id: I7ee0270bad94ed606048bfaf76e8545336715d83

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/core/java/android/inputmethodservice/AbstractInputMethodService.java b/core/java/android/inputmethodservice/AbstractInputMethodService.java
index a6e77023790c..4ecd15e002ef 100644
--- a/core/java/android/inputmethodservice/AbstractInputMethodService.java
+++ b/core/java/android/inputmethodservice/AbstractInputMethodService.java
@@ -66,7 +66,17 @@ import java.io.PrintWriter;
 public abstract class AbstractInputMethodService extends WindowProviderService
         implements KeyEvent.Callback {
     private InputMethod mInputMethod;
-    
+
+    /**
+     * Keep the strong reference to {@link InputMethodServiceInternal} to ensure that it will not be
+     * garbage-collected until {@link AbstractInputMethodService} gets garbage-collected.
+     *
+     * <p>This is necessary because {@link RemoteInputConnection} internally uses
+     * {@link java.lang.ref.WeakReference} to hold {@link InputMethodServiceInternal}.</p>
+     */
+    @Nullable
+    private InputMethodServiceInternal mInputMethodServiceInternal;
+
     final KeyEvent.DispatcherState mDispatcherState
             = new KeyEvent.DispatcherState();
 
@@ -225,7 +235,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractInputMethodService extends WindowProviderService
         if (mInputMethod == null) {
             mInputMethod = onCreateInputMethodInterface();
         }
-        return new IInputMethodWrapper(createInputMethodServiceInternal(), mInputMethod);
+        if (mInputMethodServiceInternal == null) {
+            mInputMethodServiceInternal = createInputMethodServiceInternal();
+        }
+        return new IInputMethodWrapper(mInputMethodServiceInternal, mInputMethod);
     }
 
     /**