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Explanation of Change

Removed @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion violations from tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts as part of the cleanup for Expensify/App issue #94739.

What changed:

  • Replaced unsafe test-fixture assertions with complete typed fixtures, typed collections, action-specific structural checks, and sequential typed Onyx writes.
  • Preserved the existing falsy-report runtime-guard test with a narrowly adjacent negative type expectation approved for that intentionally invalid input.

Why this approach is safe:

  • The change is limited to one unit-test file and does not modify production code or runtime behavior.
  • All 112 existing scenarios and 188 assertions remain present, and the protected test inventory reports no removed cases, fixtures, or assertions.

Reviewer focus:

  1. Confirm the completed fixtures preserve the original test semantics without displaced assertions.
  2. Confirm the negative type expectation remains adjacent only to the intentional undefined report input.

Safety checks:

  • Canonical bounded verification reduced the target rule count from 35 to 0 and passed format, focused lint, focused Jest, React Compiler applicability, and diff hygiene.
  • Independent scope, type-safety, and regression reviews cleared the exact diff.
  • Trusted Fork CI passed both the reviewed signed commit and the tree-equivalent signed publication projection.

Fixed Issues

$ #94739
PROPOSAL: #94739 (comment)

Count change

Current baseline source:

  • config/eslint/eslint.seatbelt.tsv

Before:

  • tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts: 35 violations

After:

  • tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts: 0 violations

Net reduction:

  • 35 fewer @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion violations.

TSV evidence:

  • Writable lint removed the target row when the count reached zero, or updated it to the exact remaining count.
  • The generated TSV was restored byte-for-byte and is intentionally not included in this PR because Expensify/App post-merge automation tightens the baseline on main.

Tests

  1. Run:

    npm run lint -- --show-warnings tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts
    

    Verify focused lint passes with no target-rule warnings for the edited file.

  2. Run:

    CI=true npm run lint -- --no-cache --show-warnings tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts
    

    Verify the generated seatbelt row reflects 0 violations, then restore config/eslint/eslint.seatbelt.tsv before committing.

  3. Run:

    npm run test -- tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts
    

    Verify the focused test suite passes.

  4. Verification result: Focused Jest passed all 112 SidebarUtils tests. Target lint, writable TSV verification, formatting, React Compiler applicability, and diff hygiene passed on the exact signed revision. Trusted Fork CI also passed.

Offline tests

Not applicable because this is a unit-test-only type-safety cleanup with no production network or offline behavior change.

QA Steps

Not applicable for manual staging or production QA because production and UI code are unchanged; the affected behavior is covered by the focused unit suite and trusted CI.

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Android: Native

Not applicable on Android Native, Android mWeb Chrome, iOS Native, iOS mWeb Safari, and MacOS Chrome/Safari because only unit-test implementation changed and no platform runtime code is modified.

Not applicable because the change has no user-interface, visual, asset, or styling impact.

Android: mWeb Chrome

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Not applicable because the change has no user-interface, visual, asset, or styling impact.

iOS: Native

Not applicable on Android Native, Android mWeb Chrome, iOS Native, iOS mWeb Safari, and MacOS Chrome/Safari because only unit-test implementation changed and no platform runtime code is modified.

Not applicable because the change has no user-interface, visual, asset, or styling impact.

iOS: mWeb Safari

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Not applicable because the change has no user-interface, visual, asset, or styling impact.

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

Not applicable on Android Native, Android mWeb Chrome, iOS Native, iOS mWeb Safari, and MacOS Chrome/Safari because only unit-test implementation changed and no platform runtime code is modified.

Not applicable because the change has no user-interface, visual, asset, or styling impact.

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// discriminated union narrowing issues with originalMessage fields.
const lastAction = {
...createRandomReportAction(2),
const lastAction: ReportAction<typeof CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.POLICY_CHANGE_LOG.ADD_APPROVER_RULE> = {

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🟡 tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts:4837: good fix, but confirm the fixture is still complete after dropping the random factory

This rewrite is the right idea: typing the fixture as ReportAction<typeof CONST.REPORT.ACTIONS.TYPE.POLICY_CHANGE_LOG.ADD_APPROVER_RULE> narrows the discriminated union so originalMessage is correctly typed, which is exactly why the old code needed the as ReportAction cast and the explanatory comment. It also surfaced a real fixture bug:

  • approverAccountID was the number 12345, but the type is string (src/types/onyx/OriginalMessage.ts:683), so '12345' is the correct value now

Two things to confirm: first, you dropped ...createRandomReportAction(2) and replaced it with explicit fields, so the fixture now only carries what is listed. The type annotation guarantees the required fields, but any optional field the factory used to set (and that the LHN last-action assertion might read) is now absent, please confirm the assertion does not depend on one of those.

Second, confirm the approverAccountID number to string change does not alter what the rendered last-action message asserts (it should not, since the type always expected a string, but worth a glance).

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Confirmed.

The removed factory fields (message, avatar, automatic, shouldShow, lastModified, and others) are not read by this test or the ADD_APPROVER_RULE handler. The explicit fixture contains every field used to select and render the handler.

approverAccountID is only checked for truthiness and is not included in the rendered message, so correcting it from 12345 to '12345' does not alter the asserted output.

Comment on lines +1040 to +1041
// @ts-expect-error Intentionally exercise the runtime guard with invalid input.
report: undefined,

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🟢 tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts:1040-1041: @ts-expect-error is the right tool here, flagging for @blimpich

Swapping report: undefined as unknown as Report for a // @ts-expect-error with a description is the correct way to feed a deliberately invalid input into a runtime-guard test: it documents intent and will start failing if the signature ever changes to accept undefined. One note for @blimpich: this technically trades one suppression for another (@ts-expect-error rather than a cast), so if the team wants zero suppressions in these files we should discuss, but for "prove the falsy-report guard returns false" I think it is appropriate.

Nice contrast with getReportsToDisplayInLHN at line 4396, where reports: undefined needed no suppression at all because that param is nullable ✅

},
],
};
} satisfies TransactionViolationsCollectionDataSet;

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🟢 tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts:110, :113, :743, :3308: the type-safe patterns here are exactly right

Calling these out because they are the best examples in the series so far. } satisfies TransactionViolationsCollectionDataSet and } satisfies ReportAction validate the object shape without widening or an unsafe assertion, which is the ideal replacement for as. Typed annotations like const MOCK_TRANSACTIONS: OnyxCollection<Transaction> = {...} instead of {...} as OnyxCollection<Transaction> are the same idea.

And replacing getOriginalMessage<...>(mockIOUAction) as OriginalMessageIOU (plus its eslint-disable) with an if (!originalMessage) throw narrowing removes both the cast and the suppression.

No changes needed, just good to see ✅

[`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${MOCK_REPORT.reportID}` as const]: MOCK_REPORT,
};
} satisfies ReportCollectionDataSet;
const onyxReports: ReportCollectionDataSet = MOCK_REPORTS;

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🟢 tests/unit/SidebarUtilsTest.ts:860 and :950: minor, the onyxReports alias looks redundant

Small one: since MOCK_REPORTS already uses satisfies ReportCollectionDataSet, the extra const onyxReports: ReportCollectionDataSet = MOCK_REPORTS then ...onyxReports in multiSet seems unnecessary, ...MOCK_REPORTS should spread fine given the satisfies guarantees assignability.

Not blocking, just a small simplification if it also works for you locally ✅

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🟢 LGTM

This is a strong PR, the cleanest type-work in the batch (real satisfies, discriminated-union generic, runtime narrowing, and it surfaced a genuine number-versus-string fixture bug). Nothing here blocks.

The one thing I would actually want an answer on is the 🟡 comment: dropping ...createRandomReportAction(2) for a hand-built fixture can quietly drop fields the assertion relied on, so a quick confirm from the author that the explicit fixture is complete is worth getting before we merge.

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🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/blimpich in version: 9.4.46-0 🚀

platform result
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🤖 android 🤖 success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎 success ✅

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