Crashing of sidebar locate pickers

[xavier7179]

I noticed that if I have two pickers assigned to the sidebar layout, if one is open and I try to open another one, it results in an error. My guess is that it is because pickers like the explorer have the auto_close field set to false. Is there a way to avoid the error? I tried to write a function assigned to the on_show that gets all the pickers (using the picker.get()) to try to close the ones with layout == "sidebar", but it didn't work.

The function I wrote is the following:

local closePickersByLayout = function(active_pickers, layout_name, picker_to_avoid)
	-- Iterate through each active picker
	for _, picker in ipairs(active_pickers) do
		print(picker)
		-- Check if the picker layout matches the specified layout and it is not the one to avoid
		if picker.layout == layout_name and picker ~= picker_to_avoid then
			-- Close the picker
			picker:close()
		end
	end
end

[drowning-cat]

I can provide a patch for the problem, but in return, I need you to create an issue or check if a similar one already exists.

vim.schedule(function()
  local pick = Snacks.picker.pick
  ---@type fun(source?: string, opts?: snacks.picker.Config)
  Snacks.picker.pick = function(source, opts) ---@diagnostic disable-line
    local unwrap = function(opt)
      return type(opt) == 'function' and opt(source) or opt
    end
    local get_opts = vim.tbl_deep_extend('keep', opts or {}, {
      source = source,
    })
    local layout = unwrap(Snacks.picker.config.get(get_opts).layout)
    if unwrap(layout.preset) == 'sidebar' then
      for _, pk in ipairs(Snacks.picker.get { tab = true }) do
        if pk.opts.source ~= source and unwrap(pk.resolved_layout.preset) == 'sidebar' then
          pk:close()
        end
      end
    end
    return pick(source, opts)
  end
end)

[xavier7179]

I was doing so, actually (opening an issue), then I stopped because I rooted the cause and thought it was my fault. The patch means that such behavior was not expected?

[drowning-cat]

In most cases, garbage error = issue.