Sadly this function is one of the very hard to test codepaths of the app. We could in the future attempt to extract the content of the function to unit-test it.
When a user sends their first message in a thread we
automatically track the thread in the backend, but we
don't reflect this in the UI until the user re-opens
the thread. This commit fixes that by showing the new
tracking level in the UI.
Chat drawer was using the `DiscourseURL` hook `afterRouteComplete`. This hook suffer from a very poor implementation which makes it very unreliable:
```javascript
if (typeof opts.afterRouteComplete === "function") {
schedule("afterRender", opts.afterRouteComplete);
}
```
This commit attempts to return the promise from `handleURL` to directly use it and have a very reliable after transition hook.
In previous changes we prevented creating a channel to also make users follow the channel. We were forcing recipients to follow the channel on message sent but this was not including the creator of the message itself.
This commit fixes it and also write an end-to-end system spec to cover these cases. The message creator service is currently being rewritten and should correctly test and ensure this logic is present.
This commit also makes changes on the frontend to instantly follow a DM when you open it, this change prevents a green dot to appear for a split second when you send a message in a channel you were previously not following. Only recipients will see the green dot.
Since we create threads in the background regardless of whether
threading is enabled for a channel, we get the unexpected behaviour
of everyone having a lot of unread threads when threading is enabled
for the channel.
To counteract this, when the admin enables threads for a channel
we can just run a high priority background job to mark all threads
as read in the channel for all users, so they are essentially
starting from a clean slate.
Followup to 802fb3b194
We should not hide the replies count if there is only 1 participant
for a thread, because this makes it look like the last reply is the
only reply.
This introduces a PLATFORM_KEY_MODIFIER const that
can be used both client and server side, to determine
whether we should be using the Meta or Ctrl key based
on whether the user is on Windows/Linux or Mac.
Why this change?
Before this commit, there is a chance that we will transition the user
to a different route if the chat thread component has been destroyed
prior to the request for fetching messasges in a chat thread returning.
This commit makes it such that we simply ignore the request if the chat
thread component has been destroyed.
We believe this is the cause of the flaky system tests in plugins/chat/spec/system/navigation_spec.rb
which we've been seeing on CI.
Why this change?
`Faker::Lorem.paragraph` generates a differrent length of string
every time. When a string happens to be long, it can change the UI
across system test runs making it harder to reason about our system
tests across multiple runs since the state is never really consistent.
We will just generate a paragraph with a fixed length going forward so
that the UI remains consistent. This should make certain tests which
relies on the UI being in a certain state to become less flaky.
Why this change?
This change ensures that we scroll to the top of the message when
hovering over a message to ensure that the message actions container
that appears on hover is not hidden in the chat drawer when the content
of the chat message is long.
This commit includes several fixes and improvements to thread
original message handling:
1. When a thread's original message is deleted, the thread no longer
counts as unread for a user
2. When a thread original message is deleted and the user is looking
at the thread list, it will be removed from the list
3. When a thread original message is restored and the user is looking
at the thread list, it will be added back to the list if it was
previously loaded
In specific conditions (generally a small drawer, with a long message) it is possible to have the message’s actions menu to be displayed hover the drawer's header.
This is particularly hard to fix correctly using popper due to our positioning which is slightly at the limit of the container.
The proposed fix targets mostly the specs by ensuring the messages actions will be hidden before attempting to click any header's button.
Why this change?
In CI, we know we're clicking a link to a chat channel's threads list.
However, the threads list is not loaded and we want to add more
assertions here to try and figure out why. By asserting for the current
URL, we will at least know that the transition to the URL is successful.
- Presence needs to be explicitly set on the component now
- We were not checking and testing correctly the presence of the unread indicator in the menu
This commit replaces two existing screens:
- draft
- channel selection modal
Main features compared to existing solutions
- features are now combined, meaning you can for example create multi users DM
- it will show users with chat disabled
- it shows unread state
- hopefully a better look/feel
- lots of small details and fixes...
Other noticeable fixes
- starting a DM with a user, even from the user card and clicking <kbd>Chat</kbd> will not show a green dot for the target user (or even the channel) until a message is actually sent
- it should almost never do a full page reload anymore
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Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <mjrbrennan@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Vidrine <30537603+jordanvidrine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: chapoi <101828855+chapoi@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark VanLandingham <markvanlan@gmail.com>
Without this fix, the following error is raised:
```
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
PG::SyntaxError: ERROR: syntax error at or near ")"
LINE 4: WHERE thread_id IN ()
```
Why this change?
Chat system tests that opens the message actions on mobile have been
flaky on our CI. Those system test usually fails when the message
actions do not show up as expected causing subsequent actions to fail.
In the case of the `Reply to message - channel - mobile when the message has an existing thread replies to the existing thread`
system test, failure screenshot shows that we ended up navigating to the
thread instead of opening the message actions button. To understand why
this happens, we first need to understand that by default Capybara clicks
on the centre of an element. Also, we need to note that the HTML structure of
a chat message is like so:
```
<div class="chat-message-container">
<div class="chat-message">
<div class="chat-message-avatar" />
<div class="chat-message-content" />
<div class="chat-message-thread-indicator" />
</div>
</div>
```
Since `PageObjects::Pages::ChatChannel#expand_message_actions_mobile`
attempts to click on the `.chat-message-contaier`, there is a
possibility that the center of that element is the
`.chat-message-thread-indicator` element which would explain why we
navigated to the thread list instead of opening up the message actions.
This is possible because the content of the original chat message as
well as the message excerpt in the thread is randomly generated where the
length of the message and how the text wraps on mobile can affect the
height of the `.chat-message-content` element as thus its position in
the `.chat-message-container` element. In most cases, the middle of the
`.chat-message-container` happens to be the `.chat-message-content`
which is why this test "flakes" sometimes.
What is the solution?
Instead of clicking on the `.chat-message-container`, we be more
specific and click on the `.chat-message-content` element instead.
* UX: make timestamp font size smaller
* UX: participants use copy instead of avatar
* FIX: Move thread participant count into i18n
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Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <martin@discourse.org>
* DEV: Fix flaky thread nav spec
When we transitioned from the chat thread panel under some conditions
the request for the thread would come back and realise the component
was destroyed, which was trying to do a transition to the channel
itself.
Now we check for the previous route here too and transition to the
correct route.
* DEV: Fix chat transcript spec relying on animation
The on-animation-end modifier is not reliable in system specs
because it fires instantly (we have disabled capybara animations)
so the showCopySuccess boolean can be mutated back to false straight
away.
Better to have a separate boolean tracked with a data-attr that we
can reliably inspect in the system spec.
Why this change?
By ensuring the reset happens in an `ensure` code block, we ensure that
the code will always be run even if code fails or an error is raised.
This helps to prevent leaking custom network condition states and
improves the stability of our system tests.
- Inline mentions on posts
- Inline mentions on chat messages
- The user autocomplete for the composer
- The user autocomplete for chat
- The chat section of the sidebar
This fixes a longstanding TODO to move the contents of the
UpdateUserCountsForChannels job to the ensure_consistency!
method of Chat::Channel, which runs every 15 mins as part of
periodical updates.
This commit also addresses the performance issue of the original,
where we would fetch all channels and do an individual query to
get the count and update the count of each one. Now we do it all
in one query, and only publish the changed channels to the UI.
Followup to 3f1024de76
The ActiveModel::Types.register(:array) call for chat was
called too late in the Zeitwerk load order in production,
causing this error:
> `lookup': Unknown type :array (ArgumentError)
> raise ArgumentError, "Unknown type #{symbol.inspect}"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We need to load the type and register it manually before the rest
of the chat files are loaded via the engine and Zeitwerk.
This will be used when we move the channel creation for DMs
to happen when we first send a message in a DM channel to avoid
a double-request. For now we can just have a new API endpoint
for creating this that the existing frontend code can use,
that uses the new service pattern.
This also uses the new policy pattern for services where the policy
can be defined in a class so a more dynamic reason for the policy
failing can be sent to the controller.
Co-authored-by: Loïc Guitaut <loic@discourse.org>
This has been flagged by our internal system as well and has been
failing on CI. Skip this for now to improve the stability of our system
test runs while we figure out why it is flaky.
Enabling/Disabling threading has been possible through command line until now. This commit introduces two new UIs:
- When creating a channel, it will be available once the category has been selected
- On the settings page of a channel for admins
Whenever a user opens a channel or marks it read, we now
update the last_viewed_at datetime for that channel membership
record. This is so we will be able to show thread unread indicators
in the channel sidebar that clear independently of the main thread
unread indicators. This unread functionality will follow in another
PR.
Addressing TODO about using chatApi in the ChatChannel model,
but since it's a model we cannot easily use the chatApi service.
The model function is only called in one place so we may as well
just move the call there since the component can use chatApi
Followup to c6b43ce68b
We can just use the rich excerpt everywhere since we know
we don't need text_entities -- that introduced security issues
just to fix a spec.
Introduced in cec68b3e2c,
this is flaky because if you click the back button before
the route is fully transitioned to the loaded thread,
we end up going to the history _before_ the thread list,
which ends up being the channel.
We need to make sure that everything is loaded for the
thread first, meaning the skeleton is not there.
Also exclude some noise from the capybara logs (image load failures)
Followup to 1526d1f97d
This commit fixes an N1 for mentions/user status
when querying chat threads. This only happened if
any of the thread OMs had mentions.
* FEATURE: Sort thread list by unread threads first
This commit changes the thread list to show the threads that
have unread messages at the top of the list sorted by the
last reply date + time, then all other threads sorted by
last reply date + time.
This also fixes some issues by removing the last_reply
relationship on the thread, which did not work for complex
querying scenarios because its order would be discarded.
* FIX: Various fixes for thread list loading
* Use the channel.threadsManager and find the channel first rather
than use activeChannel in the threads manager, otherwise we may
be looking at differenct channels.
* Look at threadsManager directly instead of storing result for threads
list otherwise it can get out of sync because of replace: true in
other places we are loading threads into the store.
* Fix sorting for thread.last_reply, needed a resort.
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