Fix right panel soft crashes chat rooms

src/stores/right-panel/RightPanelStore.ts

@@ -230,11 +230,19 @@ export default class RightPanelStore extends ReadyWatchingStore {
     }
 
     private emitAndUpdateSettings() {
+        if (this.global?.history) {
+            this.global.history = this.global?.history.filter((card)=>this.isCardStateValid(card));
+        }
         const storePanelGlobal = convertToStorePanel(this.global);
         SettingsStore.setValue("RightPanel.phasesGlobal", null, SettingLevel.DEVICE, storePanelGlobal);
 
         if (!!this.viewedRoomId) {
-            const storePanelThisRoom = convertToStorePanel(this.byRoom[this.viewedRoomId]);
+            const panelThisRoom = this.byRoom[this.viewedRoomId];
+            if (panelThisRoom?.history) {
+                // remove all right panel cards that would fail to render (result in a soft crash)
+                panelThisRoom.history = panelThisRoom?.history.filter((card)=>this.isCardStateValid(card));
+            }
+            const storePanelThisRoom = convertToStorePanel(panelThisRoom);
             SettingsStore.setValue(
                 "RightPanel.phases",
                 this.viewedRoomId,
@@ -245,6 +253,52 @@ export default class RightPanelStore extends ReadyWatchingStore {
         this.emit(UPDATE_EVENT, null);
     }
 
+    private isCardStateValid(card: IRightPanelCard) {
+        // this function does a sanity check on the card. this is required because
+        // some phases require specific state properties that might not be available.
+        // This can be caused on if element is reloaded and the tries to reload right panel data from id's stored in the local storage.
+        // we store id's of users and matrix events. If are not yet fetched on reload the right panel cannot display them.
+        // or potentially other errors.
+        // (A nicer fix could be to indicate, that the right panel is loading if there is missing state data and re-emit if the data is available)
+        switch (card.phase) {
+            case RightPanelPhases.ThreadView:
+                if ( !card.state.threadHeadEvent) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing threadHeadEvent in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.threadHeadEvent;
+            case RightPanelPhases.RoomMemberInfo:
+            case RightPanelPhases.SpaceMemberInfo:
+            case RightPanelPhases.EncryptionPanel:
+            case RightPanelPhases.GroupMemberInfo:
+                if ( !card.state.member) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing member in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.member;
+            case RightPanelPhases.SpaceMemberList:
+                if ( !card.state.spaceId) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing spaceId in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.spaceId;
+            case RightPanelPhases.Room3pidMemberInfo:
+            case RightPanelPhases.Space3pidMemberInfo:
+                if ( !card.state.memberInfoEvent) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing memberInfoEvent in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.memberInfoEvent;
+            case RightPanelPhases.GroupRoomInfo:
+                if ( !card.state.groupRoomId) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing groupRoomId in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.groupRoomId;
+            case RightPanelPhases.Widget:
+                if ( !card.state.widgetId) {
+                    console.warn("removed card from right panel because of missing widgetId in card state");
+                }
+                return !!card.state.widgetId;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
     private setRightPanelCache(card: IRightPanelCard, roomId?: string) {
         const history = [{ phase: card.phase, state: card.state ?? {} }];
         this.byRoom[roomId ?? this.viewedRoomId] = { history, isOpen: true };