[HOLD for payment 2023-08-17] [$1000] Red dot and [Attachment] shows in LHN even after close error message

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Action Performed:

1. Go to any chat
2. send any corrupted file
3. click on X button in Unexpected error message

Expected Result:

should not show red dot and [Attachment] in LHN

Actual Result:

red dot and [Attachment] shows in LHN

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.50-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @gadhiyamanan
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[c3024]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

On closing the error in reportAction the red dot is not removed and last message is not updated in LHN.

What is the root cause of that problem?

This here

App/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionItem.js

Line 534 in f9d760f

onClose={() => ReportActions.clearReportActionErrors(props.report.reportID, props.action)}

is handler on clicking close on the error.
This method here deletes this attachment report action on clicking the close on attachment uploading error.

App/src/libs/actions/ReportActions.js

Line 10 in f9d760f

function clearReportActionErrors(reportID, reportAction) {

but it does not update the report's lastMessageText, actor, translation key etc.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We should update the report also here when we click close on the error similar to the deleteReportComment

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Lines 960 to 963 in f9d760f

	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${originalReportID}`,
	value: optimisticReport,
	},

So, we replace this

App/src/libs/actions/ReportActions.js

Lines 12 to 15 in f9d760f

	// Delete the optimistic action
	Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${reportID}`, {
	[reportAction.reportActionID]: null,
	});

with something like this

const optimisticReportActions = {
            [reportAction.reportActionID]: null,
        };
        // Delete the optimistic action
        Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${reportID}`, {
            ...optimisticReportActions,
        });
        let optimisticReport = {
            lastMessageTranslationKey: '',
            lastMessageText: '',
            lastVisibleActionCreated: '',
        };
        const {lastMessageText = '', lastMessageTranslationKey = ''} = ReportActionUtils.getLastVisibleMessage(reportID, optimisticReportActions);
        if (lastMessageText || lastMessageTranslationKey) {
            const lastVisibleAction = ReportActionUtils.getLastVisibleAction(reportID, optimisticReportActions);
            const lastVisibleActionCreated = lastVisibleAction.created;
            const lastActorAccountID = lastVisibleAction.actorAccountID;
            optimisticReport = {
                lastMessageTranslationKey,
                lastMessageText,
                lastVisibleActionCreated,
                lastActorAccountID,
            };
        }
        Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${reportID}`, optimisticReport);

Since we are reusing the same logic we might extract this to a separate function in Report or ReportUtils

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[jeet-dhandha]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

• We have two issues here:
  • [Issue 1] - Red dot is still showing in LHN even after we close the error message.
  • [Issue 2] - [Attachment] text shows in LHN even after we close error message.

What is the root cause of that problem?

• [Issue 1] - In OptionsRowLHNData.js below line doesn't get any effect (as we are accessing reportActions directly from onyx listener in SidebarUtils.js) when clearing errors and thus its not updating the Red Dot.

App/src/components/LHNOptionsList/OptionRowLHNData.js

Line 82 in f9d760f

const item = SidebarUtils.getOptionData(fullReport, personalDetails, preferredLocale, policy);

• [Issue 2] - When API fails to upload attachment it should revert last message to given lastMessageText but it isn't doing that.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

• [Issue 1] - We should add a reportActions key to withOnyx HOC and then we can pass it to the useMemo dependency array. This will update the Red Dot when we clear the error.

reportActions: {
    key: (props) => `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${props.reportID}`,
    canEvict: false, // I still don't know what this is used for but I had to pass it to make it run.
},

• [Issue 2] - On backend we should revert last message to given lastMessageText when API fails to upload attachment.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

• N/A

[bernhardoj]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Clearing the error message does not update the last message text.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The real issue here is that, when the attachment upload is failed, we should revert the last message text to the previous text. This issue was previously fixed here #22342, but a new report attribute called lastMessageTranslationKey is introduced.

When we upload an attachment, lastMessageTranslationKey will be optimistically set to common.attachment.

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Line 258 in f9d760f

lastMessageTranslationKey: lodashGet(lastAction, 'message[0].translationKey', ''),

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.js

Line 1524 in f9d760f

translationKey: isAttachment ? CONST.TRANSLATION_KEYS.ATTACHMENT : '',

When the attachment fails to upload, we only revert the lastMessageText of the report, so lastMessageTranslationKey value is still common.attachment.

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Lines 304 to 312 in f9d760f

	const failureReport = {
	lastMessageText: prevVisibleMessageText,
	};
	const failureData = [
	{
	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${reportID}`,
	value: failureReport,
	},

LHN last message will prioritize lastMessageTranslationKey if exist.

App/src/libs/OptionsListUtils.js

Lines 385 to 387 in f9d760f

	if (ReportUtils.isReportMessageAttachment({text: report.lastMessageText, html: report.lastMessageHtml, translationKey: report.lastMessageTranslationKey})) {
	lastMessageTextFromReport = `[${Localize.translateLocal(report.lastMessageTranslationKey || 'common.attachment')}]`;
	} else if (ReportActionUtils.isReportPreviewAction(lastReportAction)) {

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We should also revert the lastMessageTranslationKey. We can basically take the last message revert logic from the delete comment.

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Lines 910 to 922 in f9d760f

	const {lastMessageText = '', lastMessageTranslationKey = ''} = ReportActionsUtils.getLastVisibleMessage(originalReportID, optimisticReportActions);
	if (lastMessageText || lastMessageTranslationKey) {
	const lastVisibleAction = ReportActionsUtils.getLastVisibleAction(originalReportID, optimisticReportActions);
	const lastVisibleActionCreated = lastVisibleAction.created;
	const lastActorAccountID = lastVisibleAction.actorAccountID;
	optimisticReport = {
	lastMessageTranslationKey,
	lastMessageText,
	lastVisibleActionCreated,
	lastActorAccountID,
	};
	}
	}

snippet

let failureReport = {
    lastMessageTranslationKey: '',
    lastMessageText: '',
    lastVisibleActionCreated: '',
};
const {lastMessageText = '', lastMessageTranslationKey = ''} = ReportActionsUtils.getLastVisibleMessage(reportID);
if (lastMessageText || lastMessageTranslationKey) {
    const lastVisibleAction = ReportActionsUtils.getLastVisibleAction(reportID);
    const lastVisibleActionCreated = lastVisibleAction.created;
    const lastActorAccountID = lastVisibleAction.actorAccountID;
    failureReport = {
        lastMessageTranslationKey,
        lastMessageText,
        lastVisibleActionCreated,
        lastActorAccountID,
    };
}

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