Split bill - Duplicated error message when making to split bill request with a user

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: v1.4.45-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): natnael.expensify+3@gmail.com
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Make a split bill request with a new user
2. Make another split bill request the user again

Expected Result:

'There is a previously existing chat between these users' error message shouldn't be duplicated

Actual Result:

'There is a previously existing chat between these users' error message is duplicated

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6396806_1709202810196.Screen_Recording_2024-02-29_at_10.42.37_in_the_morning.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @Gonals (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[izarutskaya]

@Gonals I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[Gonals]

Taking a look after lunch!

[Gonals]

@izarutskaya, why is the error expected in the first place? I don't think asking for a second split should cause an error at all