This makes the "more topics" option which appears below the list of
known topics in the left sidebar appear only when it's possible there
are actually more topics to be displayed. Two specific cases it
resolves completely include:
* Newly created realms; this widget was a common source of confusion
for new organization administrators.
* Newly created streams.
There are still some corner cases this doesn't handle, e.g. if you
just joined a private stream with protected history, but there isn't
as easy a fix for those.
Essentially rewritten by tabbott to fix code duplication and comment
extensively.
Fixes#10265.
Even though there are only ever zero or one active
topic widgets in our current sidebar, it's almost the
same amount of code to just manage them with a Dict.
Also, we can more easily do possible future features
like setting streams to be always-open.
This fixes the most core data structures inside of
muting.js. We still use stream names for incoming
data to set_muted_topics and outgoing data from
get_muted_topics.
This will make us more resilient to stream name changes.
Before, if you were logged on when a stream rename
occured, topics that were muted under that stream would
appear to be unmuted. (You could fix it with a reload,
but it can be jarring to have a bunch of unread messages
appear in your feed suddenly.)
Fixes#11033
This allows several modules to no longer need
to import `narrow` (or, in our current pre-import
world, to not have to use that global).
The broken dependencies are reflected in the node
tests, which should now run slightly faster.
This run_test helper sets up a convention that allows
us to give really short tracebacks for errors, and
eventually we can have more control over running
individual tests. (The latter goal has some
complications, since we often intentionally leak
setup in tests.)
This commit prefixes stream names in urls with stream ids,
so that the urls don't break when we rename streams.
strean name: foo bar.com%
before: #narrow/stream/foo.20bar.2Ecom.25
after: #narrow/stream/20-foo-bar.2Ecom.25
For new realms, everything is simple under the new scheme, since
we just parse out the stream id every time to figure out where
to narrow.
For old realms, any old URLs will still work under the new scheme,
assuming the stream hasn't been renamed (and of course old urls
wouldn't have survived stream renaming in the first place). The one
exception is the hopefully rare case of a stream name starting with
something like "99-" and colliding with another stream whose id is 99.
The way that we enocde the stream name portion of the URL is kind
of unimportant now, since we really only look at the stream id, but
we still want a safe encoding of the name that is mostly human
readable, so we now convert spaces to dashes in the stream name. Also,
we try to ensure more code on both sides (frontend and backend) calls
common functions to do the encoding.
Fixes#4713
We now use a template to render the "more topics" link.
We also remove an unnecessary conditional and an unnecessary
attribute.
Finally, our unit tests are a bit more granular now.
Despite a few warts, we are going forward with getting topic
history from the server when you click "more topics." This
commit simplifies the code by removing the feature flag
checks.
Until we have an easy way to consistently determine whether a
stream has more topics than have been loaded already, we err
on the side of showing a "more topics" link. This in some ways
leads to a more consistent experience where you can zoom in on
any stream, even one that's really new.
We no longer use real jQuery to test topic_list. This changes
the nature of the tests to be higher level checks on how the DOM
is constructed. The actual details of how templates get
rendered should be in templates.js.
This commit introduces a per-stream topic_history class
inside of topic_data.js to better encapsulate how we store topic
history.
To the callers, nothing changes here. (Some of our non-black-box
node tests change their way of setting up data, though, since the
internal data structures are different.)
The new class has the following improvements:
* We use message_id instead of timestamp as our sorting key.
(We could have done this in a prep commit, but it wouldn't
have made the diff much cleaner here.)
* We use a dictionary instead of a sorted list to store the
data, so that writes are O(1) instead of O(NlogN). Reads
now do sorts, so they're O(NlogN) instead of O(N), but reads
are fairly infrequent. (The main goal here isn't actually
performance, but instead it just simplifies the
implementation.)
* We isolate `topic_history` from the format of the messages.
This prepares us for upcoming changes where updates to the
data structure may come from topic history queries as well
as messages.
* We split out the message-add path from the message-remove
path. This prepares us to eventually get rid of the "count"
mechanism that is kind of fragile and which has to be
bypassed for historical topics.
This new module tracks the recent topic names for any given
stream.
The code was pulled over almost verbatim from stream_data.js,
with minor renames to the function names.
We introduced a minor one-line function called stream_has_topics.
We now have all of our callers into recent_topics code just
receive a list of topic names from get_recent_topic_names().
This is more encapsulated than handing off tiny little
structures to the three callers, two of whom immediately
mapped the objects to names, and one of whom needlessly
used the now defunct name canon_subject field.
The consolidation here removes some "subject" references, and
now all lookup are by stream id, not stream name.
The diff here is a bit daunting, but it's mostly simplification
of tests and calling code. Two of the callers now need to look
up stream ids, but they are otherwise streamlined.
The main change here is to stream_data.js, and we replace the
`canon_subject` and `subject` fields with `name`.
This commit changes the key for recent_topics to be a
stream id. For streams that have been renamed, we will now
get accurate data on recent topics and active streams as
long as stream_data.get_stream_id(stream_name) returns a
valid value.
* In most cases, eslint --fix with the right comma-dangle settings was
able to update the code correctly.
* The exceptions were cases where the parser incorrectly treated the
arguments to functions like `assert_equal` as arguments; we fixed
these manually. Since this is test code, we can be reasonably
confident that just fixing the failures suffices to correct any bugs
introduced by making changes automatically.
The widget that gets built in topic_list.build_widget()
now knows how to add itself to its parent element and expose
an interface to retrieve the parent.
This moves one method over from stream_list.js. There's still a
lot of boilerplate here, unfortunately, as topic lists have a lot
of dependencies on other parts of the system--narrowing state,
muting state, jQuery, handlebars, etc.
Anders Kaseorg
Challa Venkata Raghava Reddy
Steve Howell
Steve Howell
Rishi Gupta
Tim Abbott
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