[$1000] DEV: The characters like < in the description is displayed as &lt in the new money report but is displayed well on the chat report

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to any single chat on web chrome
2. Try to request money and make sure to add any text in description with <
3. Notice that it displays '&lt' in the new money report down the cash text. But if you notice it is displayed well (<) in the chat report

Expected Result:

The characters like < in the description should be displayed as < in the new money report in a similar way how it is displayed on the chat report

Actual Result:

The characters like < in the description is displayed as &lt in the new money report but is displayed well on the chat report

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: Dev
Reproducible in staging?: N/a
Reproducible in production?: N/A
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

date-2023-05-06_13.05.27.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @priya-zha
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1683357783709189

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @isabelastisser (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[Prince-Mendiratta]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

In this issue, we can notice that the description in IOU preview does not decode HTML characters and render it properly.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The comment in the originalMessage on any IOU action is HTML encoded. When rendering the description inside the IOU Preview, we do not decode the HTML for displaying it.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We need to use Str.htmlDecode when displaying the description here:

App/src/components/ReportActionItem/IOUPreview.js

Line 213 in d120f6a

<Text>{lodashGet(props.action, 'originalMessage.comment', '')}</Text>

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

None

[isabelastisser]

Reviewing this now!

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

Current assignee @isabelastisser is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @aimane-chnaif (External)

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @danieldoglas (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[aimane-chnaif]

@isabelastisser are you able to reproduce this on latest staging/production?

I fixed this myself in #18568

[isabelastisser]

Hey @aimane-chnaif, I can no longer reproduce this after I updated my chat. Thanks for the heads up, closing!