The order of chat direct message groups can sometimes place usernames in an unexpected order, this change tests multiple combinations of usernames and accepts them no matter what order they are in.
When users click a link that points to an existing group chat, we should reopen that chat instead of creating a new group chat so users can more easily continue ongoing conversations.
Prior to this change we would pre-load all the user channels which making initial page load slower. This change will make them be loaded right after initial load. In the past this was not possible as the channels would have to be loaded on each page transition. However since about a year, we made the channels to be cached on the frontend and no other request will be needed.
I have decided for now to not show a loading state in the sidebar as I think it would be noise, but we can reconsider this later.
Note given we don't have the channels loaded at first certain things where harder to accomplish. The biggest UX change of this commit is that we removed all the complex logic of computing the best channel to display when you load /chat. We will now store the id of the last channel you visited and will use this id to decide which channel to show.
Why this change?
We noticed that running `LOAD_PLUGINS=1 rspec --seed=38855 plugins/chat/spec/system/chat_new_message_spec.rb` locally
results in the system tests randomly failing. When we inspected the
request logs closely, we noticed that a `/presence/get` request from a
previous rspec example was being processed when a new rspec example is
already being run. We know it was from the previous rspec example
because inspecting the auth token showed the request using the auth
token of a user from the previous example. However, when a request using
an auth token from a previous example is used it ends up logging out the
same user on the server side because the user id in the cookie is the same
due to the use of `fab!`.
I did some research and there is apparently no way to wait until all
inflight requests by the browser has completed through capybara or
selenium. Therefore, we will add an identifier by attaching a cookie to all non-xhr requests so that
xhr requests which are triggered subsequently will contain the cookie in the request.
In the `BlockRequestsMiddleware` middleware, we will then reject any
requests when the value of the identifier in the cookie does not match the current rspec's example
location.
To see the problem locally, change `Auth::DefaultCurrentUserProvider.find_v1_auth_cookie` to the following:
```
def self.find_v1_auth_cookie(env)
return env[DECRYPTED_AUTH_COOKIE] if env.key?(DECRYPTED_AUTH_COOKIE)
env[DECRYPTED_AUTH_COOKIE] = begin
request = ActionDispatch::Request.new(env)
cookie = request.cookies[TOKEN_COOKIE]
# don't even initialize a cookie jar if we don't have a cookie at all
if cookie&.valid_encoding? && cookie.present?
puts "#{env["REQUEST_PATH"]} #{request.cookie_jar.encrypted[TOKEN_COOKIE]&.with_indifferent_access}"
request.cookie_jar.encrypted[TOKEN_COOKIE]&.with_indifferent_access
end
end
end
```
After which run the following command: `LOAD_PLUGINS=1 rspec --format documentation --seed=38855 plugins/chat/spec/system/chat_new_message_spec.rb`
It takes a few tries but the last spec should fail and you should see something like this:
```
assets/chunk.c16f6ba8b6824baa47ac.d41d8cd9.js {"token"=>"37d995a4b65395d3b343ec70fff915b4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591735}
/assets/chunk.050148142e1d2dc992dd.d41d8cd9.js {"token"=>"37d995a4b65395d3b343ec70fff915b4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591735}
/chat/api/channels/527/messages {"token"=>"37d995a4b65395d3b343ec70fff915b4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591735}
/uploads/default/test_0/optimized/1X/_129430568242d1b7f853bb13ebea28b3f6af4e7_2_512x512.png {"token"=>"37d995a4b65395d3b343ec70fff915b4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591735}
redirects to existing chat channel
redirects to chat channel if recipients param is missing (PENDING: Temporarily skipped with xit)
with multiple users
/favicon.ico {"token"=>"9a75c114c4d3401509a23d240f0a46d4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591736}
/chat/new-message {"token"=>"9a75c114c4d3401509a23d240f0a46d4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591736}
/presence/get {"token"=>"37d995a4b65395d3b343ec70fff915b4", "user_id"=>3382, "username"=>"bruce0", "trust_level"=>1, "issued_at"=>1708591735}
```
Note how the `/presence/get` request is using a token from the previous example.
Co-authored-by: David Taylor <david@taylorhq.com>
This feature adds the functionality to start a new chat directly from the URL using query params.
The format is: /chat/new-message?recipients=buford,jona
The initial version of this feature allows for the following:
- Open an existing direct message channel with a single user
- Create a new direct message channel with a single user (and auto redirect)
- Create or open a channel with multiple users (and auto redirect)
- Redirects to chat home if the recipients param is missing
