Web - Chat - Pasted message not always displays no hyperlink format w… #55932

prakashbask · 2025-01-29T09:38:02Z

Explanation of Change

Removed AnchorTag regex check in ContextMenuActions.tsx so that markdown is copied to Clipboard. This will solve the problem in another issue
Update logic for parsing markdown and convert to plain text in the sequence markdown -> html -> plain text. This change is done in useHtmlPaste/index.ts

Fixed Issues

$ #53718 , #53832
PROPOSAL: #53718 (comment) , #53832 (comment)

Tests

Test Scenario 1

At any chat, type hello and send message
Click three dots of message action menu
Click "Copy to clipboard"
At compose box, right click mouse and select "Paste as plain text"
Send message
Repeat 3 times from step 2 to step 6
All steps should paste the content in plain text format

Test Scenario 2

At any chat, type # Heading1 or ~~strike~~ or italic or bold and send message
Click "Copy to clipboard"
Go to Android Hybrid App
At any chat in compose box, paste from clipboard
Markdown should be preserved in the pasted content

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

NA

QA Steps

Same as Tests

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Android: Native

androidHybrid.mov

Android: mWeb Chrome

androidChrome.mp4

iOS: Native

iOS: mWeb Safari

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

macOSSafari.mp4

MacOS: Desktop

macOSDesktop.mp4

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Pujan92 · 2025-01-31T08:26:12Z

@prakashbask Please merge branch with the latest main and consider checking on this once.

prakashbask · 2025-01-31T08:35:49Z

@prakashbask Please merge branch with the latest main and consider checking on this once.

@Pujan92 I don't have access to Slack as it has not been provided yet.

Pujan92 · 2025-01-31T08:37:41Z

Ok, let's merge main and if we found those bad commits then follow this slack thread.

Thanks for your patience everyone! We can resume merging E/App PRs now. :greenlight:
Furthermore, we had to do a force-push on main to get rid of a bad commit. This means that many of you may experience that your main appears to be ahead of the remote by 67 commits. Should you encounter that, please address it by running:
git fetch origin main
git reset --hard origin/main

# note that git pull will not work. You need to do the reset --hard, or delete the branch and recreate it from the remote
If you have a feature branch that was built on top of the deleted version of main, you'll also see those 67 commits appear in your PR. It is CRITICAL that even if there's no errant diff in your PR that these commits ARE NOT MERGED.
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Apologies again for the inconvenience. If you are confused or stuck, I'm happy to help :slightly_smiling_face: (edited)

…hen paste as plain text

prakashbask · 2025-01-31T09:18:35Z

@Pujan92 Ok. I was able to sync and pull to my main without any issues as my main was behind. Hence, I have rebased my feature branch and pushed it again.

Pujan92 · 2025-02-03T13:49:05Z

@prakashbask I see an issue with copying from native and pasting it to a web(bcoz it will fall into handlePastePlainText case).

issue.webm

prakashbask · 2025-02-04T15:51:25Z

@prakashbask I see an issue with copying from native and pasting it to a web(bcoz it will fall into handlePastePlainText case).

issue.webm

@Pujan92 Yes. This is an issue from native -> web pasting. We may have to set a context here to preserve the original text.

App/src/libs/Clipboard/index.native.ts

Line 8 in bfb97c5

Clipboard.setString(text);

    const textToCopy = {
         preserveOriginal: true,
         content: text
    }
   Clipboard.setString(JSON.stringify(textToCopy));

This preserveOriginal flag will then be used in handlePastePlainText to determine if conversion to plain text is required or fallback to default case.

Any other suggestions?

Pujan92 · 2025-02-05T08:59:29Z

This preserveOriginal flag will then be used in handlePastePlainText to determine if conversion to plain text is required or fallback to default case.

I am not getting how that context will help here. Bcoz it depends on what paste option the user has selected.

prakashbask · 2025-02-05T15:14:55Z

This preserveOriginal flag will then be used in handlePastePlainText to determine if conversion to plain text is required or fallback to default case.

I am not getting how that context will help here. Bcoz it depends on what paste option the user has selected.

react-native-clipboard/clipboard supports setting the string in text/plain option. There is no text/html option available. Hence, handlePastePlainText function will be called irrespective of the paste option the user has selected.
But I feel this approach of preserveOriginal will not be a good idea as paste outside of the Expensify/App will not work properly.
So my proposal will be to document native -> web paste as a known limitation and look for other clipboard options like expo-clipboard as a separate feature.

Pujan92 · 2025-02-05T16:29:41Z

src/hooks/useHtmlPaste/index.ts

-                paste(plainText);
+            const markdownText = event.clipboardData?.getData('text/plain');
+            if (markdownText) {
+                paste(Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText)));


Suggested change

paste(Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText)));

if(isMobile) {

paste(markdownText);

} else {

paste(Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText)));

}

One option is to check for isMobile, if it is a mobile then don't convert it to the plainText by considering we don't have an option "Paste as plain text" in mobile.

Pujan92 · 2025-02-06T04:59:46Z

src/hooks/useHtmlPaste/index.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import {useCallback, useEffect} from 'react';
 import Parser from '@libs/Parser';
 import CONST from '@src/CONST';
+import isMobile from '@src/utils/isMobile';


Suggested change

import isMobile from '@src/utils/isMobile';

import isMobile from '@libs/Browser';

We can use isMobile from @libs/browser

Pujan92 · 2025-02-06T05:03:56Z

src/hooks/useHtmlPaste/index.ts

-                paste(plainText);
+            const markdownText = event.clipboardData?.getData('text/plain');
+            if (markdownText) {
+                const parsedText = isMobile() ? markdownText : Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText));


Please add a comment about why we need to do this and also provide a link to the issue in the comment

Added comment and mentioned issue number.

Pujan92

LGTM!

@jasperhuangg plz consider checking the change we need to make to fulfill all platforms.

OSBotify · 2025-02-06T17:14:49Z

✋ This PR was not deployed to staging yet because QA is ongoing. It will be automatically deployed to staging after the next production release.

github-actions · 2025-02-06T22:01:46Z

🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/jasperhuangg in version: 9.0.95-0 🚀

platform	result
🤖 android 🤖	success ✅
🖥 desktop 🖥	success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎	success ✅
🕸 web 🕸	success ✅
🤖🔄 android HybridApp 🤖🔄	success ✅
🍎🔄 iOS HybridApp 🍎🔄	success ✅

kavimuru · 2025-02-07T02:53:56Z

Failing in mweb with original bug id #53718
https://platform.applause.com/services/links/v1/external/0472be27f7c042284379f4412bc08f7e9bea9e4e8d478f4c298e56b3bfa1f4fe

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-                paste(Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText)));
+  if(isMobile) {
+      paste(markdownText);
+  } else {
+      paste(Parser.htmlToText(Parser.replace(markdownText)));
+  }

	import isMobile from '@src/utils/isMobile';
	import isMobile from '@libs/Browser';

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