feat: add dispose method to BpmnVisualization

src/component/BpmnVisualization.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import type { BpmnGraph } from './mxgraph/BpmnGraph';
 import type { Navigation } from './navigation';
 import type { GlobalOptions, LoadOptions, ParserOptions, RendererOptions } from './options';
 import type { BpmnElementsRegistry } from './registry';
+import type { Disposable } from './types';
 
 import { htmlElement } from './helpers/dom-utils';
 import { newBpmnRenderer } from './mxgraph/BpmnRenderer';
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ import { BpmnModelRegistry } from './registry/bpmn-model-registry';
  *
  * @category Initialization & Configuration
  */
-export class BpmnVisualization {
+export class BpmnVisualization implements Disposable {
   /**
    * Direct access to the `Graph` instance that powers `bpmn-visualization`.
    * It is for **advanced users**, so please use the lib API first and access to the `Graph` instance only when there is no alternative.
@@ -72,6 +73,8 @@ export class BpmnVisualization {
 
   private readonly rendererOptions: RendererOptions;
 
+  private disposed = false;
+
   constructor(options: GlobalOptions) {
     this.rendererOptions = options?.renderer;
     // graph configuration
@@ -91,9 +94,29 @@ export class BpmnVisualization {
    * @throws `Error` when loading fails. This is generally due to a parsing error caused by a malformed BPMN content
    */
   load(xml: string, options?: LoadOptions): void {
+    if (this.disposed) {
+      throw new Error('Cannot load BPMN diagram: the BpmnVisualization instance has been disposed');
+    }
     const bpmnModel = newBpmnParser(this.parserOptions).parse(xml);
     const renderedModel = this.bpmnModelRegistry.load(bpmnModel, options?.modelFilter);
     newBpmnRenderer(this.graph, this.rendererOptions).render(renderedModel);
     this.navigation.fit(options?.fit);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Dispose the BpmnVisualization instance and release all its resources.
+   *
+   * This is particularly useful when you want to remove the BPMN diagram from the page and free the memory or,
+   * to clean up or unmount a component that uses a BpmnVisualization instance.
+   *
+   * @since 0.48.0
+   */
+  dispose(): void {
+    if (this.disposed) {
+      return;
+    }
+    (this.navigation as unknown as Disposable).dispose();
+    this.disposed = true;
+    this.graph.destroy();
+  }
 }

src/component/navigation.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 import type { BpmnGraph } from './mxgraph/BpmnGraph';
 import type { FitOptions, NavigationConfiguration, ZoomConfiguration, ZoomType } from './options';
+import type { Disposable } from './types';
 import type { mxMouseEvent } from 'mxgraph';
 
 import { debounce, throttle } from 'es-toolkit';
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ export interface Navigation {
  * @internal
  * @since 0.47.0
  */
-export class NavigationImpl implements Navigation {
+export class NavigationImpl implements Disposable, Navigation {
   constructor(
     private readonly graph: BpmnGraph,
     private readonly zoomSupport: ZoomSupport,
@@ -63,6 +64,11 @@ export class NavigationImpl implements Navigation {
     type == 'in' ? this.zoomSupport.zoomIn() : this.zoomSupport.zoomOut();
   }
 
+  dispose(): void {
+    this.zoomSupport.dispose();
+    this.graph.panningHandler.destroy();
+  }
+
   configure(options?: NavigationConfiguration): void {
     const panningHandler = this.graph.panningHandler;
     if (options?.enabled) {
@@ -107,12 +113,15 @@ export function createNewNavigation(graph: BpmnGraph, options?: NavigationConfig
 const zoomFactorIn = 1.25;
 const zoomFactorOut = 1 / zoomFactorIn;
 
+type MouseWheelListener = (event: Event, up: boolean) => void;
+
 /**
  * Call Graph methods and zoom with mouse.
  * @internal
  */
-class ZoomSupport {
+class ZoomSupport implements Disposable {
   private currentZoomLevel = 1;
+  private mouseWheelListeners: MouseWheelListener[] = [];
 
   constructor(private readonly graph: BpmnGraph) {
     this.graph.zoomFactor = zoomFactorIn;
@@ -189,13 +198,24 @@ class ZoomSupport {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * @internal
-   */
   registerMouseWheelZoomListeners(config: ZoomConfiguration): void {
     config = ensureValidZoomConfiguration(config);
-    mxEvent.addMouseWheelListener(debounce(this.createMouseWheelZoomListener(true), config.debounceDelay), this.graph.container);
-    mxEvent.addMouseWheelListener(throttle(this.createMouseWheelZoomListener(false), config.throttleDelay), this.graph.container);
+    this.addMouseWheelListener(debounce(this.createMouseWheelZoomListener(true), config.debounceDelay));
+    this.addMouseWheelListener(throttle(this.createMouseWheelZoomListener(false), config.throttleDelay));
+  }
+
+  private addMouseWheelListener(listener: MouseWheelListener): void {
+    mxEvent.addMouseWheelListener(listener, this.graph.container);
+    this.mouseWheelListeners.push(listener);
+  }
+
+  dispose(): void {
+    if (this.graph.container) {
+      for (const listener of this.mouseWheelListeners) {
+        mxEvent.removeListener(this.graph.container, 'wheel', listener);
+      }
+    }
+    this.mouseWheelListeners = [];
   }
 
   private createMouseWheelZoomListener(performScaling: boolean) {

src/component/types.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2025 Bonitasoft S.A.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * An object that can be disposed to free resources.
+ * @since 0.48.0
+ */
+export interface Disposable {
+  dispose(): void;
+}

test/integration/BpmnVisualization.test.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import type { FitType } from '@lib/component/options';
 
 import {
   type GlobalOptionsWithoutContainer,
+  initializeBpmnVisualization,
   initializeBpmnVisualizationWithContainerId,
   initializeBpmnVisualizationWithHtmlElement,
 } from './helpers/bpmn-visualization-initialization';
@@ -93,4 +94,31 @@ describe('BpmnVisualization API', () => {
       bpmnElementsRegistry.resetStyle('fake_id');
     });
   });
+
+  describe('Dispose', () => {
+    it('Dispose clean the bpmn container in DOM', () => {
+      const bpmnContainerId = 'bpmn-container-to-dispose';
+      const bv = initializeBpmnVisualization(bpmnContainerId);
+      const bpmnContainer = document.querySelector(`#${bpmnContainerId}`);
+      expect(bv.graph.container).toBe(bpmnContainer);
+      expect(bv.graph.container.children).not.toHaveLength(0); // fill by mxGraph
+
+      bv.dispose();
+
+      expect(bv.graph.container).toBeNull();
+      expect(bpmnContainer.innerHTML).toBeEmpty(); // cleaned by mxGraph
+    });
+
+    it('Dispose twice does not throw error', () => {
+      const bv = initializeBpmnVisualization();
+      bv.dispose();
+      bv.dispose();
+    });
+
+    it('Load throws error if already disposed', () => {
+      const bv = initializeBpmnVisualization();
+      bv.dispose();
+      expect(() => bv.load(readFileSync('../fixtures/bpmn/simple-start-task-end.bpmn'))).toThrow('Cannot load BPMN diagram: the BpmnVisualization instance has been disposed');
+    });
+  });
 });