Payment due - 30 May [$250] Typing @useraccount and sending it sends `@useraccount@domain.com

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: 1.4.62-5
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @cead22
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1712874830762349

Action Performed:

1. Open any chat
2. Type @applausetester and hit send (Make sure to use "`" to make it a codeblock)

Expected Result:

Appears @applausetester after sending

Actual Result:

Appears as @applausetester@applause.expensifail.com

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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• tienifr | Contributor | 0

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @MitchExpensify (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.

[MitchExpensify]

Reproduced

[MitchExpensify]

Assigning to VSB as low as this is a chat-centric bug that reveals emails

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~0115db0ab43f78ece5

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @shubham1206agra (External)

[sufyan-siddiqui]

I'm not able to reproduce. Any help would be appreciated.

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[shubham1206agra]

@cead22 Can you provide us with a better example, as domains are not the same for everybody?

[kaushiktd]

@cead22 i also can't reproduce it.

[tienifr]

Proposal

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

When we send short hand mention like @ApplauseTester inside backticks, it's appending the private domain into it

Eg. Sending

`@applausetester`

It will appears as @applausetester@applause.expensifail.com

What is the root cause of that problem?

In here, we have a logic where if the current user's private domain is expensify.com, it we tag by short hand, like @tienifr, and there's a tienifr@expensify.com in the personal details list, we'll convert the @tienifr to @tienifr@expensify.com so that it will be treated as a mention.

This is to make users in the same organization able to tag each other by just @shubham, @tienifr, not having to type the full email domain.

However, when we're trying to detect short mention here, we're not taking into account cases like if the mention is in code blocks, code fence, links, ... So even the short-hand mention inside codeblock is still appended with the private domain. And subsequently it will not be considered in the mention detection logic in expensify-common, thus leading to this issue.

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

If we look at the proper logic to detect mentions in expensify-common here and here, we'll see a mention is only valid if:

• It's non inside links, codeblocks, pre, ...
• It's either proceeded by a space, or start and end with a *, _, ~, ', or "
• And a few minor things

We should apply the same when detecting short mentions, basically the only difference between short mention detection and full mention detection is: short mention doesn't require an email domain, the rest should be the same.

We'll need to:

• Modify the Regex for short mentions (similar to for full mention, but do not that for short mention we need to check markdown signs instead of html elements).

We can update this to

SHORT_MENTION: new RegExp(`@[\\w\\-\\+\\'#@]+(?:\\.[\\w\\-\\'\\+]+)*(?![^\`]*\`)`, 'gim'),

So it will not match if the mention is inside backticks ((?![^\`]*\`) added)

• Add logic to check isValidMention similar to here

We'll add here

if (!Str.isValidMention(match)) {
    return match;
}

So if the matched mention is invalid, we'll not replace anything.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Same solution as above, but we can consider centralize it in expensify-common to be DRY.

[tienifr]

@cead22 Can you provide us with a better example, as domains are not the same for everybody?

@shubham1206agra To reproduce this, we need:

• A private domain (if you don't have one, can comment out 'gmail.com', in node_modules/expensify-common/lib/CONST.jsx so that any gmail.com will become a private domain)
• The short mention we're mentioning should be inside personalDetailsList already

[cead22]

So even the short-hand mention inside codeblock is still appended with the private domain. And subsequently it will not be considered in the mention detection logic in expensify-common

@tienifr to clarify, it should not be considered a mention if it's inside backticks, right?

We'll need to:

• Modify the Regex for short mentions (similar to for full mention, but do not that for short mention we need to check markdown signs instead of html elements)

Where/how?

• Add logic to check isValidMention similar to here

Where/how?

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

This looks incomplete

[shubham1206agra]

@tienifr Can you comment on the above?

[tienifr]

@cead22 @shubham1206agra

@tienifr to clarify, it should not be considered a mention if it's inside backticks, right?

Yes, same as when we put full email mention in the backticks

This looks incomplete

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

For the rest, I will add some details within a day.

[tienifr]

I'm back from weekend, will take a loot at the above soon.

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

@MitchExpensify, @shubham1206agra Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[MitchExpensify]

Not overdue, @tienifr is going to have a look soon

[tienifr]

Modify the Regex for short mentions (similar to for full mention, but do not that for short mention we need to check markdown signs instead of html elements).

Add logic to check isValidMention similar to here

@cead22 @shubham1206agra Proposal updated to clarify the 2 points above

[melvin-bot]

@MitchExpensify @shubham1206agra @laurenreidexpensify this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to approving a proposal? If not, what's blocking us from getting this issue assigned? Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[laurenreidexpensify]

@shubham1206agra bump for review thanks

[shubham1206agra]

Lets go with @tienifr's proposal.

🎀 👀 🎀 C+ reviewed

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @robertjchen, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[robertjchen]

👍 to updated proposal

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

This issue has not been updated in over 15 days. @robertjchen, @MitchExpensify, @shubham1206agra, @laurenreidexpensify, @tienifr eroding to Monthly issue.

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[laurenreidexpensify]

@MitchExpensify looks like the payment job on this failed but it's on prod now so should be good to pay on Thurs. Handing back over to you!

[MitchExpensify]

Reminder set to pay tomorrow!

[MitchExpensify]

Payment summary:

• $250 C @tienifr (Paid)
• $250 C+ @shubham1206agra (Waiting on offer acceptance: https://www.upwork.com/nx/wm/offer/102576551)

[shubham1206agra]

@MitchExpensify Accepted

[MitchExpensify]

Paid and contract ended!