Swift UI not redrawing NSViewRepresentable wrapped textfield

Question

I created a list-detail view like this. In the detail view, there is some input field that accepts text. The input field is a NSTextField wrapped using NSViewRepresentable. The issue happens in the below scenario.

First, click a row and select person A. Then try to edit another person's properties by selecting a newer person B. But here the update happens of the first person's properties (A's).

struct ContentView: View {
    @State var selectedItem: Person?
    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            List(selection: $selectedItem) {
                ForEach(modelData, id: \.self) {  person in
                    Text(person.firstName)
                }
            }
            .border(.separator, width: 1)
            .listStyle(.plain)
            .padding()
            .frame(width: 200)
            
            VStack {
                if let selectedItem = selectedItem {
                    InformationView(person: PersonModel(person: selectedItem))
                } else {
                    Text("No Item Selected").foregroundColor(Color(NSColor.tertiaryLabelColor))
                }
            }
            .frame(width: 300)
            .padding()
        }
    }
}

InformationView

struct InformationView: View {
    @ObservedObject var person: PersonModel

    var body: some View {
        Form {
            NSTextFieldRepresentable(placeholder: "", text: $person.person.firstName)
            NSTextFieldRepresentable(placeholder: "", text: $person.person.secondName)
            NSTextFieldRepresentable(placeholder: "", text: $person.person.city)
        }
    }
}

NSTextFieldRepresentable

struct NSTextFieldRepresentable: NSViewRepresentable {
    let placeholder: String
    @Binding var text: String
    
    func makeNSView(context: Context) -> NSTextField {
        let view = NSTextField()
        view.delegate = context.coordinator
        return view
    }
        
    func updateNSView(_ nsView: NSTextField, context: Context) {
        nsView.stringValue = text
        nsView.placeholderString = NSLocalizedString(placeholder, comment: "")
    }
    
    func makeCoordinator() -> NSTextFieldCoordinator {
        NSTextFieldCoordinator(textField: self)
    }

    class NSTextFieldCoordinator: NSObject, NSTextFieldDelegate {
        var textField: NSTextFieldRepresentable
        init(textField: NSTextFieldRepresentable) {
            self.textField = textField
        }
        
        func controlTextDidChange(_ obj: Notification) {
            textField.text = (obj.object as? NSTextField)?.stringValue ?? ""
        }
    }
}

Model class

class Person: NSObject, Identifiable {
    
    var id = UUID()
    var firstName: String
    var secondName: String
    var city: String
    
    init (firstName: String, secondName: String, city: String) {
        self.firstName = firstName
        self.secondName = secondName
        self.city = city
    }
}


var modelData: [Person] = [
    Person(firstName: "Lionel", secondName: "Messi", city: "Paris"),
    Person(firstName: "Cristiano", secondName: "Ronaldo", city: "Manchester"),
    Person(firstName: "Sachin", secondName: "Tendulkar", city: "Mumbai"),
    Person(firstName: "Virat", secondName: "Kohli", city: "Delhi")
]

class PersonModel: ObservableObject {
    @Published var person: Person
    init(person: Person) {
        self.person = person
    }
    
}

Answer 1

Here

    init(textField: NSTextFieldRepresentable) {
        self.textField = textField         // << copy !!
    }

self.textField is a copy of view representable, but on binding changed the NSTextFieldRepresentable is not re-created - only updateNSView is called to refresh native part, so coordinator still have value copied on creation. That's the issue.

A possible fix in this design is to update coordinator on binding change as well:

func updateNSView(_ nsView: NSTextField, context: Context) {
    nsView.stringValue = text
    nsView.placeholderString = NSLocalizedString(placeholder, comment: "")

    context.coordinator.textField = self  // << here !!
}

Tested with Xcode 13.4 / macOS 12.4