Add new HOC to get policy.connections data
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| // If the policy doesn't have the connections data when it has the accounting connections feature enabled, | ||
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| openPolicyAccountingPage(policy.id); |
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@aldo-expensify, is it accurate to say that the connections object is empty when the user hasn't connected to any accounting software?
If that is the case, this useEffect will keep calling openPolicyAccountingPage indefinitely for workspaces that have the accounting feature enabled but that haven't connected to any accounting software.
Do you have any suggestion on how we can distinguish the situation when the user has connected to the accounting software but the connections object hasn't populated? This is the only situation when we have to call openPolicyAccountingPage.
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@aldo-expensify, is it accurate to say that the connections object is empty when the user hasn't connected to any accounting software?
I just tested and it appears to me that the connections key is completely missing. I guess what you could do is create a local state with useState so you are sure that you only call openPolicyAccountingPage once. Something like
if (!loadedPolicyConnections) {
openPolicyAccountingPage();
setLoadedPolicyConnections(true);
}
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Aldo's plan would work, but it might result in more API requests than necessary.
An alternate thought I wad was that maybe in the policy summaries that get sent to NewDot we could include a new property like connectCount: 2 so that we know how many connections to expect. That way, you could determine the difference between not having any connections configured, and not having the connections loaded in Onyx yet.
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Thank you for the thoughtful and creative ideas, both 😄
For now, I'll go with @aldo-expensify's suggestion as it's easier to implement. As an optimization to mitigate unnecessary API calls, I'll create a GH issue to implement @tgolen's suggestion.
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Created a GH issue to implement Tim's solution: https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/383660
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What about instead of using a local state as I suggested, we use a context with a state, so if we open more pages that require the policy's connection settings, we can see that a different page already loaded it.
This is a sound idea. It addresses @tgolen's concerns about unnecessary API calls to a certain extent.
@tgolen, do you have any other concerns besides unnecessary API calls? I'm interested in understanding the potential issues your solution aims to resolve. 😄
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My main concerns are unnecessary API calls, yes. They do not have a zero cost and I think it is a very naive approach there is a better solution. Whatever you do here is going to put a pattern in place that engineers are going to follow from here on out and I think it's a bad pattern.
It sounds like @aldo-expensify is concerned that a piece of policy data would be complex to keep track of, but this is just like any other piece of policy that exists on the policy and there is nothing more complex that needs to be done here that we aren't doing with all of the other policy data.
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I think we should seek more opinions in engineering-chat, but meanwhile... I don't think the problem of "unnecessary API calls" is big enough to introduce this new piece of data. Why? The only cases that would happen are:
- User navigates to the main Accounting page: if
policy.connectionsis missing, it will trigger a fetch, but just one and will get nothing (there was noconnections). - User navigates to deeper Accounting page when there is no
policy.connections: this can only happen if the user is entering directly using the url, which I think is a rare case.
In cases where there is actually a connection, after we load it, we won't do further calls to the API
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Slack discussion: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C03TQ48KC/p1712185841746469
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We came to the consensus that we should go with the approach to fetch the connections data once.
I'll modify the PR to use a Context as suggested by @aldo-expensify 👍
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I don't get why we return nothing if the connections are false, I try to use it on the workspace profile page but it shows a blank page. Also, I'm curious about what case the HOC will be used.
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I added some comments in the new commit. It explains the usage of the HOC and the context that I also added in that commit.
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I don't get why we return nothing if the connections are false
@mollfpr, @aldo-expensify, should we return LoadingPage instead of null?
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We might be able to leverage this later. The only case I think we should return null is where we want to navigate the page if there are no connections to avoid rendering a component while animating the transition.
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I think we should should a spinner if policy.isLoadingConnections is true, and if policy.isLoadingConnections is false, hmmm 404? 🤷
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@aldo-expensify, @mollfpr, I added a context in the new commit. Please review the PR again 🙇 The context was added to implement this suggestion |
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Reassure test was failing. Merged the main. |
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I feel like the new implementation with |
I completely agree with you, @tgolen! I decided to add a new Onyx collection key called I also removed the fields I added in previous commits 👍 |
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@mollfpr, this PR is ready for another review |
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| }, [hasConnectionsDataBeenFetched, policy]); | ||
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| if (status === 'loading' || !hasConnectionsDataBeenFetched) { |
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This will always show the loader when the policy hasn't enabled the accounting feature. Should we let the OpenPolicyAccountingPage API be called even though the policy hasn't enabled the feature?
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Just to confirm, how is this accessible in the UI if accounting isn't enabled?
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@mollfpr, this page won't be acceesible for users who hasn't enabled the accounting feature.
Also, even if the user somehow be able to access this page, it won't cause the infinite loading state. hasConnectionsDataBeenFetched will be true if the fetch is attempted once (even if there is no data returned from the API call)
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also, just to be clear, the connections field might still be empty even if the user has enabled the accounting feature if the user hasn't connected to any accounting software
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This seems broken. I'm getting infinite loader when I try to visit the page again
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@s77rt similar problem with going offline and then offline: #39132 (comment)
@hayata-suenaga is working on it here #40375
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| import ONYXKEYS from '@src/ONYXKEYS'; | ||
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| function openPolicyAccountingPage(policyID: string) { | ||
| const hasConnectionsDataBeenFetchedKey = `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY_HAS_CONNECTIONS_DATA_BEEN_FETCHED}${policyID}` as const; |
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Why is as const necessary here?
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fix: a084e52
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It looks like you removed it from a different spot. Is it still necessary here?
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The const is necessary here, otherwise the hasConnectionsDataBeenFetchedKey gets string as a type and then OnyxUpdate is not happy with such key:
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haha I definitely moved the const from a different place but it didn't cause the TS error 😆 for this particular one
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| const finallyData: OnyxUpdate[] = [ | ||
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| onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE, | ||
| key: hasConnectionsDataBeenFetchedKey, | ||
| value: true, | ||
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| ]; |
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@hayata-suenaga After playing with this, I think you missed the failureData setting hasConnectionsDataBeenFetched to false or something like that?
If you do:
- Create a workspace
- Enable
Accounting, but don't got to the accounting settings yet - Disable your internet connection
- Open the
Accountingsettings
I would have expected that an Offline blocker would appear since we haven't loaded the policy connections, but it doesn't because hasConnectionsDataBeenFetched is set true even if OPEN_POLICY_ACCOUNTING_PAGE fails
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Here is the PR to fix the issue. Thank you for letting me know of the issue 🙇
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🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/aldo-expensify in version: 1.4.63-0 🚀
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🚀 Deployed to production by https://github.com/mountiny in version: 1.4.63-21 🚀
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cc: @tgolen @aldo-expensify
Details
This PR does two things:
OpenPolicyAccountingPageAPI commandpolicyobjectpolicy.connectionsis setpolicy.connectionsis not set, invoke the new action functionopenPolicyAccountingPageto get data that populatespolicy.connectionspolicy.connectionsis not set and being fetched, return the loading indicator.policy.connectionsis not set and the device is offline, display the offline screenWe also store a boolean value inside Onyx to remember if the connections data for the given policy has been attempted to be fetched in the current user session. If the data is fetched previously but the connections field of the policy object is
nullorundefined, that means that the data doesn't exist on the backend.Fixed Issues
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Tests / Offline Tests / QA Steps
No QA. No test. This PR just adds the HOC component. This PR does not add a code to use the HOC. We can test the HOC in a PR that first uses it.
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