[HOLD for payment 2023-11-21][$1000] Offline - Create task in a room with admin only

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Login to two accounts, Alice and Bob, in two separate browser tabs.
2. Alice creates a workspace and invites Bob as a non-Admin member.
3. Bob goes to the #announce room for the new workspace.
4. Bob goes offline.
5. Alice goes to the #announce room for the new workspace, opens room settings, and under Who can post, sets Admins only.
6. Since Bob is offline, he does not receive an update that the room has become read-only for non-admins. Therefore, he can still attempt to create a task offline in the #announce room.

Expected result

When Bob comes back online, the task should appear "greyed out" with a "red brick road" error. Any actions Bob attempted to take on that task (such as leaving a reaction), should fail.

Actual Result:

The task appears to have been completed normally for Bob, unless he tries to create a thread with that task as the root, in which case he'll see a 404 page.

Workaround:

Don't do that, Bob!

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: 1.3.39-5
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: @namhihi237
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1689010436307099

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Triggered auto assignment to @isabelastisser (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[kavimuru]

Proposal

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

The task should not be displayed in user B if creation fails or gives an error when back online with room setting admins only

What is the root cause of that problem?

When the user creates a task when offline optimisticData is saved in Onyx with reportAction create a task. But after API returns data with an error after back online, failureData doesn't update the error for this reportAction to explain why the user cannot create a task.

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

• When the back online API create task will be called, after API returns an error failureData should update the error for report action instead of updating pending action is null like this.

    onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
    key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${optimisticTaskReport.reportID}`,
    value: {
        [optimisticTaskCreatedAction.reportActionID]: {
            errors: ErrorUtils.getMicroSecondOnyxError('task.error.genericCreateFailureMessage'),
        }
    },

• we also need to create a new translation for this error.

genericCreateFailureMessage: "Unexpected error create a task, please try again later"

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

[thienlnam]

We should also remove the admins only room from the selector if you are not an admin

[namhihi237]

We should also remove the admins only room from the selector if you are not an admin

@thienlnam I am not clear what you mean, you mean if the user in the room is not an admin then we will remove 'admins only' from the selector

[thienlnam]

Oh I see, the task was created by going offline and not getting the update that it's an admin only room. Nvm in that case

[thienlnam]

Let's also address the split bill case in this issue
https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1689011065028709

EDIT: Split bill case needs some BE updates so we're splitting them into a seperate issue

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