"Empty message" when only the photo is

[Lonami]

See https://t.me/telethonofftopic/179050 for an example. This is what Telegram Desktop v1.6.3 shows:

This is what the message actually has:

Message:
  id: 179050
  to_id: PeerChannel: channel_id: 1200633650  
  date: 2019-03-01 13:57:18
  message: 'User Info:\n\nFirst Name: Deleted Account\nUser id: 473862645\nPermanent user link: link\n\nYou have 5 chats in common with this user'
  out: False
  mentioned: False
  media_unread: False
  silent: False
  post: False
  from_scheduled: False
  from_id: 416195206
  reply_to_msg_id: 8
  media: MessageMediaPhoto:
    photo: PhotoEmpty: id: 2035224563527297246      
  entities: 
    - MessageEntityBold:
        offset: 0
        length: 10      
    - MessageEntityCode:
        offset: 49
        length: 9      
    - MessageEntityCode:
        offset: 95
        length: 1

It would be helpful if it showed at least the caption, and ideally (if no photo is shown), indicate that the photo is hidden.

[john-preston]

@Lonami This is an invalid photo, it should not happen really.

[Lonami]

So it's so rare that it's not worth fixing it, you say? I mean I respect that, but I found it funny that some information (caption) is "lost". Search also finds it:

And link previews:

(by the way, while taking those screenshots I edited an old message and it always shows 0:00: recent messages don't show that time at all)

[john-preston]

I'm not sure how such non-existing-image-with-caption should be shown anyway. It's not a valid case, it wasn't in any designs etc.

[Lonami]

Some clients (Telegram for Android?) render the photo blank and the caption below (taken from https://t.me/tgandroidtests/71762):

But yes, we can no longer make the issue happen (perhaps something changed server side and they sent the photo back then).

[SpEcHiDe]

The same empty photo is happening here: https://t.me/ThankTelegram/20916 I think it is because the account is deleted, manually. I hope the caption is shown in similar to how the android client handles it.

[Aokromes]

this issue is still valid?

[Lonami]

Well, the empty messages still show as such in https://t.me/telethonofftopic/179050 and https://t.me/telethonofftopic/178924, so I would think so.

Showing the current date and the empty message below:

[FabianPastor]

A way to reproduce it to be able to check this case on TDesktop.

You need a bot account and a test account.

1) Set a Profile Photo on the test account. 2) Add the bot to a group 3) Add the test account 4) Receive the event of the test account joining the chat. 5) Use the bot api method getUserProfilePhotos with the ID of the test account 6) Send the bot api method sendPhoto with one of the _fileid received by the method above to the group. 7) Test Account should now delete their account Profile Photo 8) Restart TDesktop and enter the group

The empty message will show up.

[penn5]

A way to reproduce it to be able to check this case on TDesktop.

You need a bot account and a test account.

1. Set a **Profile Photo** on the test account.

2. Add the bot to a group

3. Add the test account

4. Receive the event of the test account joining the chat.

5. Use the bot api method **getUserProfilePhotos** with the ID of the test account

6. Send the bot api method **sendPhoto** with one of the _file_id_ received by the method above to the group.

7. Test Account should now delete their account Profile Photo

8. Restart TDesktop and enter the group

The empty message will show up.

I think this exact procedure is happening in normal usage by real users - people running a whois userbot command send the profile pic, and if the account is deleted, the entire message is lost. https://t.me/UserbotTesting/88974

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[SpEcHiDe]

🤒 this issue still exists here.

Links https://t.me/mypersonalchat/95552

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