[$250] Task – .com appears after assignee avatar when create a task manualy

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: v9.0.38-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4983838
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ponikarchuks+118924@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/
2. Log in as a Gmail account
3. Open any chat
4. Enter [] @ and select Expensify user, wright task title and send
   Example:
   [] @applausetester+jpcategory_2@applause.expensifail.com
   New task

Expected Result:

.com not appears after assignee avatar

Actual Result:

.com appears after assignee avatar

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6608501_1726727831321.Task_assignee_com.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @Ollyws

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @mallenexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[IuliiaHerets]

@mallenexpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[CyberAndrii]

Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2024-09-19 12:17:38 UTC.

Proposal

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

Task – .com appears after assignee avatar when create a task manualy

What is the root cause of that problem?

This regex does not handle subdomains in emails correctly

App/src/pages/home/report/ReportFooter.tsx

Lines 126 to 132 in 37bf6b2

	/**
	* Matching task rule by group
	* Group 1: Start task rule with []
	* Group 2: Optional email group between \s+....\s* start rule with @+valid email or short mention
	* Group 3: Title is remaining characters
	*/
	const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@\w+\.\w+)?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;

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

Replace it with this regex:

-const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@\w+\.\w+)?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;
+const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+@([^\s]+)\s*([\s\S]*)/;

Result

49454.mov

[ChavdaSachin]

Proposal

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

• When task is created from composer and assignee's email contains 2 or more (.) in domain name - part for domain name after second (.) moves into task title.

What is the root cause of that problem?

• TaskRegex here is unable to catch such instances of two or more (.)
  

  App/src/pages/home/report/ReportFooter.tsx

  Line 132 in 37bf6b2

  const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@\w+\.\w+)?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;

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

• update TaskRegex

            const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@\w+(\.\w+)+)?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;

and

            const title = match[3] ? match[3].trim().replace(/\n/g, ' ') : undefined;

App/src/pages/home/report/ReportFooter.tsx

Line 138 in 37bf6b2

const title = match[2] ? match[2].trim().replace(/\n/g, ' ') : undefined;

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

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[bernhardoj]

Proposal

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

.com appears as the task title when create task from comment.

What is the root cause of that problem?

This happens because the logic can't handle multiple level of domain of an email, for example, @applause.expensifail.com.

App/src/pages/home/report/ReportFooter.tsx

Line 132 in 8d645bf

const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@\w+\.\w+)?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;

The regex above, specifically (?:@\w+\.\w+) only allows (xx.xx) pattern of the domain. This happens after #39475 to allow create task with short domain by making the domain optional, but somehow also changes the rule of the domain which is not needed which also allows the user to mention an email with the last domain with only 1 character, for example, @example.c. If we use the prev regex, it requires at least 2 character, @example.co.

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

Let's use the old regex and make the domain optional.

const taskRegex = /^\[\]\s+(?:@([^\s@]+(?:@[\w.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,})?))?\s*([\s\S]*)/;

I think we can remove - from the domain regex too.

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021836890784466753823

[melvin-bot]

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

[mallenexpensify]

Unable to repro on staging, Desktop. @Ollyws can you attempt reproduction plz? Some users have default avatars and some have custom)

[MelvinBot]

This has been labelled "Needs Reproduction". Follow the steps here: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/16989

[CyberAndrii]

@mallenexpensify you need to also enter the task title after an email. For example New task

[Ollyws]

@CyberAndrii and @ChavdaSachin both your proposals will break adding a task without a defined user ([] @ taskname should create a task)

@bernhardoj's proposal LGTM.

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed

[melvin-bot]

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

[iwiznia]

Is the regex supposed to only match [] user@email.com and [] @someuser types of texts?
Asking because it also matches things like [] some@thing which I think is invalid and would break things?

[bernhardoj]

The email regex from MDN matches some@thing. Maybe we can use that regex and make the domain optional.

^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*)?$
// simplified
^[\w.!#$%&'*+/=?^`{|}~-]+(@[a-zA-Z\d](?:[a-zA-Z\d-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z\d])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z\d](?:[a-zA-Z\d-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z\d])?)*)?$

[melvin-bot]

@iwiznia, @Ollyws, @mallenexpensify Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[iwiznia]

Maybe we can use that regex and make the domain optional.

That sounds good to me

[bernhardoj]

PR is ready

cc: @Ollyws