Always call OpenPublicProfilePage API

[kmbcook]

Details

ProfilePage now calls openPublicProfilePage regardless of value of hasMinimumDetails.

Fixed Issues

$ #36610
PROPOSAL: #36610 (comment)

Tests

1. Go to a room chat.
2. Click on the user avatar to open profile page.
3. Check console messages or network inspector to verify that openPublicProfilePage API call has been made.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

This issue is only relevant when online.

QA Steps

1. User A and User B do not know each other.
2. User A goes to a public room.
3. User B goes to the same public room. (Go to the same URL as User A.)
4. User B posts a message.
5. User A notices that the message was posted.
6. User B goes to Profile and changes Display name.
7. User A clicks on avatar of User B, which shows profile page of User B.
8. Verify that User A's view of profile page of User B shows newly updated name.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

Android-1.mp4

Android-2.mp4

Android: mWeb Chrome

AndroidChrome.mp4

iOS: Native

IOS-1.mp4

IOS-2.mp4

iOS: mWeb Safari

IOSSafari.mp4

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

MacSafari.mp4

MacOS: Desktop

MacDesktop.mp4

[melvin-bot]

@cubuspl42 Please copy/paste the Reviewer Checklist from here into a new comment on this PR and complete it. If you have the K2 extension, you can simply click: [this button]

[cubuspl42]

As commented here, we'll be moving the review to this PR and @kmbcook will close #37180.

[cubuspl42]

Please move the tests related to dev inspector to the "Tests" section. This is too technical for QA, I think.

Regarding the actual QA Steps, it would be awesome to find an actual case when this brings user-observable benefit.

See: #36610 (comment)

There are scenarios where personal details don't get pushed from the back-end (e.g with public room users you don't know). So I think it makes sense to call the API when we open the page, just like we call the OpenReport API every time you open a chat.

Could you explore this lead and find reproducible, reasonably minimal QA testing steps?

[kmbcook]

I moved those test steps to Tests.

With regard to scenarios where changes to personal details don't get pushed from the back-end, what do you think of the following course of events?

We specify to QA that they test for one of those scenarios, call it scenario A. They do so for some time, with no problems. Each time they test, personal details are current because of this PR. Later, another code change ensures that in scenario A changes to personal details are indeed pushed from the back-end, making it so scenario A no longer needs this PR. Another of these scenarios, call it scenario B, still relies on this PR. Later, another code change inadvertently negates the effect of this PR. When that happens, QA tests using scenario A, and the test succeeds. According to the test we have given QA, the API is still always being called, but it isn't. And because it isn't, all other scenarios of this kind fail, because the change in this PR has been negated. In order for QA to have an effective test of this type it would need to test every possible manifestation of not calling the API, both now and in the future.

[cubuspl42]

@kmbcook

Uh, this got a bit philosophical.

From my perspective, I just wanted to find a manual test that...

• fails on main (avatar gets outdated in a specific scenario, it can be a corner case)
• succeeds on this PR branch (avatar is always kept up-to-date)

Regarding being future-proof, not all QA Steps end up being a regression test. Still, don't overthink it. It's just a good practice to find some steps that prove that the changes actually improved something.

Give it a try. If we find out this is too difficult, we'll move on without it. The fact that an internal engineer explicitly requested this change will be a good enough reason.

[kmbcook]

OK, I did it.

[cubuspl42]

We're 3000 commits behind main, please merge it in

[cubuspl42]

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

always-call-api-android-compressed.mp4

Android: mWeb Chrome

always-call-api-android-web-compressed.mp4

iOS: Native

always-call-api-ios-compressed.mp4

iOS: mWeb Safari

always-call-api-ios-web-compressed.mp4

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

always-call-api-web-converted.mp4

MacOS: Desktop

[cubuspl42]

Please merge main

[kmbcook]

Merged main and tested.

[cubuspl42]

@stitesExpensify Friendly bump

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