[HOLD for payment 2024-01-11] [$500] Settings - Invalid contact method revisits not here page

[kbecciv]

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Version Number: 1.4.12.0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
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Action Performed:

1. Open the app
2. Open invalid contact method details URL eg: https://staging.new.expensify.com/settings/profile/contact-methods/invalid@invalid.com/details
3. Reload on Hmm its not here page
4. Click on Go back to contacts page and observe that it again opens Hmm its not here page

Expected Result:

App should not display Hmm its not here page again on click of 'Go back to contacts page'

Actual Result:

App displays Hmm its not here page again on click of 'Go back to contacts page' after reload on any invalid email details page

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6312076_1702492319032.windows_chrome_-_invalid_contact_twice_back_issue.mp4

Bug6312076_1702492318874.mWeb_-_invalid_contact_twice_back_issue.mp4

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[Berndy]

I can't reproduce this issue on Linux/Chrome neither in staging, nor in dev

[kbecciv]

Able to reproduce on Windows/Chrome

Recording.5698.mp4

[FitseTLT]

Proposal

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

Invalid contact method revisits not here page on navigating back

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause of the problem is this line of code

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Line 2014 in bdbfb2a

Navigation.navigate(route, CONST.NAVIGATION.ACTION_TYPE.PUSH);

that was added in this pr to solve a deep linking issue on logout for Android.
So when we manually navigate to a link openReportFromDeepLink is called and inside it we run this line of code after interaction via InteractionManager.runAfterInteractions.

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Line 2014 in bdbfb2a

Navigation.navigate(route, CONST.NAVIGATION.ACTION_TYPE.PUSH);

So this line of code will push an unnecessary additional route (RightModalNavigator) to navigation state adding unnecessary RightModalNavigator route. So when navigating back it will navigate back to the other unnecessarily added RightModalNavigator route added which in this case is not found page.

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

We just need to add a condition here

App/src/libs/actions/Report.js

Line 2014 in bdbfb2a

Navigation.navigate(route, CONST.NAVIGATION.ACTION_TYPE.PUSH);

to check that it is native b/c we only need it to run for native as I explained to fix deep linking problem linked to this pr.
so change it to

if (!willBlurTextInputOnTapOutside) {
                    Navigation.navigate(route, CONST.NAVIGATION.ACTION_TYPE.PUSH);
                }

POC:

2023-12-13.22-36-13.mp4

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[dukenv0307]

Proposal

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

App displays Hmm its not here page again on click of 'Go back to contacts page' after reload on any invalid email details page

What is the root cause of that problem?

When the app is initially loaded, we'll navigate to the initial route here, this is to make sure deeplinking while logged out on various platforms work as expected.

We already have logic here to make sure we don't push that route if the that route is currently the active route. That's exactly so that issues like this don't happen.

However, the logic to check if a route is active here, has a bug.

The getActiveRoute() uses react-navigation built-in getPathFromState method, which will split the path by / and use encodeURIComponent on the route parts (see here for reference), to make sure we operate on the route safely, thus the @ in the /settings/profile/contact-methods/invalid@invalid.com/details route will be in it's encoded format.

Meanwhile the routePath will have the @ as is.

So even if the routes are the same, due to different encoding, they will become not equal, leading to this issue.

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

We should make sure to URI-decode the getActiveRoute() properly here. Calling decodeURIComponent on the getActiveRoute should work, in this way we're making the encoding the same by making sure both are URI decoded before comparison

function isActiveRoute(routePath: Route): boolean {
    // We remove First forward slash from the URL before matching
    return decodeURIComponent(getActiveRoute()).substring(1) === routePath;
}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Encoding the routePath properly here, similar to how getActiveRoute is encoded.

We can use the same logic that react-navigation uses on it's getPathFromState method, a simplified version of it is:

function isActiveRoute(routePath: Route): boolean {
    const encodedRoutePath = routePath.split('/').map(encodeURIComponent).join('/');
    // We remove First forward slash from the URL before matching
    return getActiveRoute().substring(1) === encodedRoutePath;
}

We can consider handling all cases as the react-navigation encoding logic itself, but the simplified version above should be enough to fix this issue.

An alternative suggested here is we can use the currentRoute.path in getActiveRoute instead of the current complex logic we have. I've tested with many related issues (that relate to changes to getActiveRoute over time) and it works fine and doesn't cause regressions. So we can go with this as well but will need to test carefully during PR review.