[HOLD for payment 2025-02-04] [$250] Expense - Edited amount for a paid request does not revert to paid amount when dismiss the error

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Version Number: v9.0.77-6
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com.
2. [User A] Request money from User B.
3. [User A] Open IOU details page > Click Amount.
4. [User B] Pay the request.
5. [User A] Enter a new amount and save it.
6. [User A] Close the error message.

Expected Result:

The amount in IOU details page should revert to the original amount after closing the error message (as in PR #32898)

Actual Result:

The amount in IOU details page does not revert to the original amount after closing the error message. It only reverts after refreshing the app.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

bug.mp4

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• Tony-MK | Contributor | 105631903

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @bfitzexpensify

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Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[mkzie2]

Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2024-12-23 19:30:42 UTC.

Proposal

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

The amount in IOU details page does not revert to the original amount after closing the error message. It only reverts after refreshing the app.

What is the root cause of that problem?

We only update the pending field and error field of transactions in failureData. Then the updated data isn't reverted.

App/src/libs/actions/IOU.ts

Lines 2992 to 3000 in 2458635

	failureData.push({
	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${transactionID}`,
	value: {
	pendingFields: clearedPendingFields,
	isLoading: false,
	errorFields,
	},
	});

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

We should revert to original transaction data and only override the pending field and error field. Or we can simply revert to transaction

failureData.push({
    onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
    key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${transactionID}`,
    value: {
        ...transaction,
        pendingFields: clearedPendingFields,
        isLoading: false,
        errorFields,
    },
});

Or

failureData.push({
    onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
    key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${transactionID}`,
    value: transaction,
});

App/src/libs/actions/IOU.ts

Lines 2992 to 3000 in 2458635

	failureData.push({
	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${transactionID}`,
	value: {
	pendingFields: clearedPendingFields,
	isLoading: false,
	errorFields,
	},
	});

We can check if getUpdateTrackExpenseParams has the same problem and fix it

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

We must create a unit test for one of the update money request APIs, making the request fail. After that we need to verify the transaction data is reverted to the original value before the API is called.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

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[Tony-MK]

Proposal

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

Expense - Edited amount for a paid request does not revert to paid amount when dismissing the error

What is the root cause of that problem?

We are not returning the transaction amount figure back to the original amount and will take the figure from modifiedAmount since it is not empty.

App/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionItem.tsx

Line 79 in a6ea6a1

clearError={Transaction.clearError}

So, we any clear the errors but we don't revert the transaction changes.

App/src/libs/actions/Transaction.ts

Lines 460 to 462 in 2458635

	function clearError(transactionID: string) {
	Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.TRANSACTION}${transactionID}`, {errors: null, errorFields: {route: null, waypoints: null, routes: null}});
	}

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

Create a new function for the clearError prop, over here, to revert the transaction data to the previous values depending on which field was attempted to change while calling Transaction.clearError.

We will revert the transaction values from the report's modified Expense action originalMessage.

clearError={
 (transactionID) => {
  // Revert the transaction values from reportAction.originalMessage
  Transaction.clearError(transactionID)
 }
}

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

Create a unit test for the new function to check if it can restore the previous values of the transaction even with different changes.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Let's update the failureData and add the previous values of the transaction, in this case, the amount, modified amount, etc...

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @hungvu193 (External)

[hungvu193]

Thanks for the proposals, everyone.
Both proposals make sense to me.

As described in the expected result, we should revert the edited amount after closing error message. Because of that I'm aligned with @Tony-MK 's proposal.

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