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A wart that has long been present inin Zulip's get_messages API is how to request "the latest messages" in the API. Previously, the recommendation was basically to pass anchor=10000000000000000 (for an appropriately huge number). An accident of the server's implementation meant that specific number of 0s was actually important to avoid a buggy (or at least wasteful) value of found_newest=False if the query had specified num_after=0 (since we didn't check). This was the cause of the mobile issue https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/issues/3654. The solution is to allow passing a special value of anchor='newest', basically a special string-type value that the server can interpret as meaning the user precisely just wants the most recent messages. We also add an analogous anchor='oldest' or similar to avoid folks needing to write a somewhat ugly anchor=0 for fetching the very first messages. We may want to also replace the use_first_unread_anchor argument to be a "first_unread" value for the anchor parameter. While it's not always ideal to make a value have a variable type like this, in this case it seems like a really clean way to express the idea of what the user is asking for in the API. |
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