feat: support rendering inside a shadow root and remember the FAB position

[Totremont]

This PR makes ChatAssistant work when it is rendered inside a shadow root, and adds an option to keep the position a user dragged the FAB to across page loads.

Shadow DOM support

• Window lookup: the resize and drag-constraint scripts looked the chat window up in the document, so they could not find it when the component lived inside a shadow root. They now look it up from the component's own root node (getRootNode()), which is the document in a regular page.
• Anchored FAB: an anchored FAB was portaled to document.body, which strips it of the styles scoped to its shadow root. Inside a shadow root it now stays in place and relies on position: fixed alone. Regular pages keep the current behavior.

FAB position memory (new)

• New API: setFabPositionMemory(Duration) / getFabPositionMemory(), and fabPositionMemory in the builder. The FAB keeps the position the user dragged it to, as long as the user comes back within that time after leaving the page. This helps in applications where navigating loads a new page.
• Where it lives: the position is kept per browser tab, in session storage. Assistants on the same origin share it unless they have different ids.
• When it is forgotten: on resetFabPosition(), on setFabPosition(...) and when switching between desktop and mobile mode.
• Default: Duration.ZERO, which keeps it off, so existing applications see no change.

Resizing keeps the FAB's place

The FAB position is now tracked as a proportion of the room it can move in. A FAB dragged to one side stays on that side when the window is resized, instead of being left stranded in the middle.

Compatibility

• No public API is removed or changed; only new methods and a new builder option, documented @since 5.2.0.
• Tests cover the new API's validation and defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Floating action button positions can now be remembered per browser tab for a configurable duration. Position memory is disabled by default and cleared when the button is reset, repositioned, or its mode changes.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved floating button movement and resizing when the chat appears inside a shadow root.
• Chores
  • Updated the project version to 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

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Walkthrough

ChatAssistant adds a builder-configurable FAB position-memory timeout. Frontend movement code stores and restores normalized positions in session storage. FAB placement and overlay lookup now account for shadow-root contexts. The Maven project version changes to 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

Changes

FAB Position Memory

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timeout configuration pom.xml, src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/chatassistant/ChatAssistant.java, src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/chatassistant/ChatAssistantLogicTest.java	The builder accepts an optional Duration. The setter and getter configure the timeout, and tests cover defaults, validation, and client attribute updates.
Normalized position lifecycle src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-movement.js	Movement code saves and restores normalized positions in session storage. Drag, resize, pagehide, and reset operations update position state.

Shadow-Root Support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Root-aware placement and lookup src/main/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/chatassistant/ChatAssistant.java, src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-movement.js, src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-resize.js	Anchored FABs in shadow roots remain in place. Overlay resolution searches from the supplied element’s root.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0703b

The new position-memory feature, which is off by default, can fail to restore a dragged button position after a long stay on the page. It can also restore a stale position after an early reset. Both problems are limited to users who enable the option, so the change is mergeable, but the two issues should be fixed.

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@src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-movement.js:
- Around line 159-162: Update `touch()` to read and validate the saved position
without applying the time-away timeout expiry, then refresh its timestamp;
preserve the existing behavior of ignoring invalid entries.
- Line 398: Update the reset path in setFabPosition so it clears the saved
position memory independently of whether item.__fcMovement has been initialized;
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• pom.xml
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• src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-movement.js
• src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/frontend/fc-chat-assistant-resize.js
• src/test/java/com/flowingcode/vaadin/addons/chatassistant/ChatAssistantLogicTest.java

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Please take a look at the comments and see if fixes are needed.

[Totremont]

Besides the review fixes, testing the demo on Vaadin 25.3 with Aura turned up three existing problems, fixed in their own commits:

• fe6ee1c, message input padding. initializeFooter() set the message input's padding to 0 2px. In Lumo that only tightens the room around its text area, but in Aura and the Vaadin 25 base styles the message input is the field itself, so the field lost its own padding: it shrank to 22px, with the placeholder and the send button pressed against its border. The padding is now left to the theme. Lumo's default also leaves room for the text area's focus ring, which is what the 2px was for. In Lumo the field now has Vaadin's standard spacing around it (60px tall instead of 44px).
• cd38f69, long messages. The 80px cap applied to the whole message input, so a message of several lines grew the text area past it: Lumo cut the text and the send button off, and in Aura they overflowed the field. The cap now applies to the text area, which scrolls once it is reached.
• 328a5ac, demo colors. The FAB icons used --lumo-primary-contrast-color and turned black in Aura; they now use currentColor, the primary button's text color in both themes. The FAB in a box demo's box used Lumo properties only and had no border in Aura; it now uses the base border color and radius, falling back to Lumo on Vaadin 24.

Checked with Playwright on 25.3 with Lumo and Aura, and on 24.8, on a plain page and inside a shadow root: with five lines the text scrolls inside the field and the send button stays in place, and the box and icons render in both themes. In Lumo the send button still drops below the field when the input is narrower than about 300px; that wrap comes from the Lumo message input's own flex-wrap, and the theme's padding only moves the point where it happens (it was about 275px before).

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