[$250] Android - Room - Whisper displays 1 mention when 2 mentions are send in specific way

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.12 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4768836 Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch app
2. Tap on a room chat
3. Enter #4856₹&_#7553 and sent the message
4. Note whisper for 2 mentions are shown
5. Enter #gh4h_+&&&-#ehhh & send the message
6. Note whisper for only one mention is shown

Expected Result:

Whisper must display 2 mention when 2 mentions are send

Actual Result:

Whisper displays 1 mention when 2 mentions are send in specific way.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• [x] Android: Native
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Native
• [ ] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @rojiphil

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @kevinksullivan (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.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp

[lanitochka17]

@kevinksullivan FYI 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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@kevinksullivan Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@kevinksullivan Eep! 4 days overdue now. Issues have feelings too...

[kevinksullivan]

@lanitochka17 does this happen with other combinations of room references? I'm sort of confused because both strings are just one line with no spaces, so I am not sure what is supposed to happen here.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

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@kevinksullivan @lanitochka17 this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to a solution? Let's make sure we're treating this as a top priority. Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!

[kevinksullivan]

Bump @lanitochka17

[lanitochka17]

@kevinksullivan According steps in TR https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4768836 step 5 is fail when create whisper with new room. Expected resault: Verify an actionable whisper asking the user if they want to create the room is triggered.

[lanitochka17]

Issue is still reproducible

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4c461993-9e30-4063-a30d-ed1090525887

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[brad-isbell]

Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2023-10-05T13:46:00Z.

Proposal

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

Whisper displays 1 mention when 2 mentions are send in specific way.

What is the root cause of that problem?

the issue is in this regular expression. It restricts the characters after the # to lowercase letters (\p{Ll}), digits (0-9), and hyphens (-) (eg: this group(#[\p{Ll}0-9-]{1,80})). This causes it to stop matching when it encounters characters like _, + or &.

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

i included those characters (_, +, &) into the old regular expression, so it becomes:

(?<![^ \n*~_])(#[\p{Ll}0-9_+\-&]{1,80})(?![^<]*(?:<\/pre>|<\/code>|<\/a>))

Result:

the "#gh4h_+&&&-" is matched.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

if you want to match mentions separated using the dash character "-" this regex will serve the need :

(?<![^ \n*~_-])(#[\p{Ll}0-9_+&-]{1,80}[^-#])(?=|[^<]*(?:<\/pre>|<\/code>|<\/a>))

Result:

these are matched as separate mentions: #gh4h_+&&& and #ehhh.

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[brad-isbell]

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[NJ-2020]

Proposal

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

Android - Room - Whisper displays 1 mention when 2 mentions are send in specific way

What is the root cause of that problem?

When we type #gh4h_+&&&-#ehhh we mention 2 user by splitting with minus -, but in our expensify-common we do not include the - minus we only include the underscore _ https://github.com/Expensify/expensify-common/blob/d11466167bc562447d2dfdad624145040153efae/lib/ExpensiMark.ts#L298-L303

So when we add the comment the reportComment params is not correct

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

We can add minus - to the regex From: /(?<![^ \n*~_])(#[\p{Ll}0-9-]{1,80})(?![^<]*(?:<\/pre>|<\/code>|<\/a>))/gimu To: /(?<![^ \n*~_-])(#[\p{Ll}0-9-]{1,80})(?![^<]*(?:<\/pre>|<\/code>|<\/a>))/gimu

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[brad-isbell]

Proposal

Updated

[brad-isbell]

Contributor details Your Expensify account email: morteprhimi@gmail.com Upwork Profile Link: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01e11da7d5ef514a1c

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[brad-isbell]

Contributor details Your Expensify account email: mohamediyedrhimita@gmail.com Upwork Profile Link: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01e11da7d5ef514a1c

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@rojiphil, @kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[rojiphil]

Well! This seems tricky to handle. If the expectation from message #gh4h_+&&&-#ehhh is to identify #gh4h and #ehhh, then would it not be fair to expect the same output for another message #4856₹&#7553? So, it seems like while the specific issue here can be resolved by adding - to negative lookbehind, maybe we need to find a holistic solution to this problem. Tagging @rlinoz to weigh-in here on the expected output due to involvement in the mentions-v2 here

[NJ-2020]

Also we don't need to update/fix the react-native-live-markdown because it already synced with the expensify-common, we just need to update to the latest version of the expensify-common inside the react-native-live-markdown and build it again

[melvin-bot[bot]]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

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@rojiphil, @kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[rojiphil]

Well! This seems tricky to handle. If the expectation from message #gh4h_+&&&-#ehhh is to identify #gh4h and #ehhh, then would it not be fair to expect the same output for another message #4856₹&#7553?

@kevinksullivan I just noticed that @rlinoz is OOO this week. Meanwhile, what do you think of the expected behavior for the above-mentioned comment?

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@rojiphil, @kevinksullivan, @lanitochka17 Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

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📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸