fixed some cypress tests and fixed issue where an invalid date caused the page to constantly reload w/ burnettk

flask-bpmn/src/flask_bpmn/api/api_error.py

@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ def handle_exception(exception: Exception) -> flask.wrappers.Response:
         id = capture_exception(exception)
 
         if isinstance(exception, ApiError):
-            current_app.logger.info(f"Sending ApiError exception to sentry: {exception} with error code {exception.error_code}")
+            current_app.logger.info(
+                f"Sending ApiError exception to sentry: {exception} with error code {exception.error_code}")
 
         organization_slug = current_app.config.get("SENTRY_ORGANIZATION_SLUG")
         project_slug = current_app.config.get("SENTRY_PROJECT_SLUG")

spiffworkflow-backend/bin/spiffworkflow-realm.json

@@ -2876,4 +2876,4 @@
   "clientPolicies" : {
     "policies" : [ ]
   }
-}
+}

spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/routes/process_api_blueprint.py

@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ def permissions_check(body: Dict[str, Dict[str, list[str]]]) -> flask.wrappers.R
                 status_code=400,
             )
         )
-
     response_dict: dict[str, dict[str, bool]] = {}
     requests_to_check = body["requests_to_check"]
 

spiffworkflow-frontend/cypress/e2e/process_instances.cy.js

@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ describe('process-instances', () => {
 
   it('can filter', () => {
     cy.getBySel('process-instance-list-link').click();
+    cy.getBySel('process-instance-list-all').click();
+    cy.contains('All Process Instances');
     cy.assertAtLeastOneItemInPaginatedResults();
 
     const statusSelect = '#process-instance-status-select';
@@ -175,6 +177,7 @@ describe('process-instances', () => {
       if (!['all', 'waiting'].includes(processStatus)) {
         cy.get(statusSelect).click();
         cy.get(statusSelect).contains(processStatus).click();
+        cy.get(statusSelect).click();
         cy.getBySel('filter-button').click();
         // FIXME: wait a little bit for the useEffects to be able to fully set processInstanceFilters
         cy.wait(1000);

spiffworkflow-frontend/cypress/e2e/tasks.cy.js

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ describe('tasks', () => {
     cy.contains('Tasks').should('exist');
 
     // FIXME: this will probably need a better way to link to the proper form that we want
-    cy.contains('Complete Task').click();
+    cy.contains('Go').click();
 
     submitInputIntoFormField(
       'get_user_generated_number_four',

spiffworkflow-frontend/src/components/ProcessInstanceListTable.tsx

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import {
   getProcessModelFullIdentifierFromSearchParams,
   modifyProcessIdentifierForPathParam,
   refreshAtInterval,
+  setErrorMessageSafely,
 } from '../helpers';
 
 import PaginationForTable from './PaginationForTable';
@@ -130,11 +131,11 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceListTable({
   const [endFromTimeInvalid, setEndFromTimeInvalid] = useState<boolean>(false);
   const [endToTimeInvalid, setEndToTimeInvalid] = useState<boolean>(false);
 
-  const setErrorMessage = (useContext as any)(ErrorContext)[1];
+  const [errorMessage, setErrorMessage] = (useContext as any)(ErrorContext);
 
   const processInstancePathPrefix =
     variant === 'all'
-      ? '/admin/process-instances'
+      ? '/admin/process-instances/all'
       : '/admin/process-instances/for-me';
 
   const [processStatusAllOptions, setProcessStatusAllOptions] = useState<any[]>(
@@ -428,8 +429,11 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceListTable({
     }
   };
 
-  // TODO: after factoring this out page hangs when invalid date ranges and applying the filter
-  const calculateStartAndEndSeconds = () => {
+  // jasquat/burnettk - 2022-12-28 do not check the validity of the dates when rendering components to avoid the page being
+  // re-rendered while the user is still typing. NOTE that we also prevented rerendering
+  // with the use of the setErrorMessageSafely function. we are not sure why the context not
+  // changing still causes things to rerender when we call its setter without our extra check.
+  const calculateStartAndEndSeconds = (validate: boolean = true) => {
     const startFromSeconds = convertDateAndTimeStringsToSeconds(
       startFromDate,
       startFromTime || '00:00:00'
@@ -447,29 +451,25 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceListTable({
       endToTime || '00:00:00'
     );
     let valid = true;
-    if (isTrueComparison(startFromSeconds, '>', startToSeconds)) {
-      setErrorMessage({
-        message: '"Start date from" cannot be after "start date to"',
-      });
-      valid = false;
-    }
-    if (isTrueComparison(endFromSeconds, '>', endToSeconds)) {
-      setErrorMessage({
-        message: '"End date from" cannot be after "end date to"',
-      });
-      valid = false;
-    }
-    if (isTrueComparison(startFromSeconds, '>', endFromSeconds)) {
-      setErrorMessage({
-        message: '"Start date from" cannot be after "end date from"',
-      });
-      valid = false;
-    }
-    if (isTrueComparison(startToSeconds, '>', endToSeconds)) {
-      setErrorMessage({
-        message: '"Start date to" cannot be after "end date to"',
-      });
-      valid = false;
+
+    if (validate) {
+      let message = '';
+      if (isTrueComparison(startFromSeconds, '>', startToSeconds)) {
+        message = '"Start date from" cannot be after "start date to"';
+      }
+      if (isTrueComparison(endFromSeconds, '>', endToSeconds)) {
+        message = '"End date from" cannot be after "end date to"';
+      }
+      if (isTrueComparison(startFromSeconds, '>', endFromSeconds)) {
+        message = '"Start date from" cannot be after "end date from"';
+      }
+      if (isTrueComparison(startToSeconds, '>', endToSeconds)) {
+        message = '"Start date to" cannot be after "end date to"';
+      }
+      if (message !== '') {
+        valid = false;
+        setErrorMessageSafely(message, errorMessage, setErrorMessage);
+      }
     }
 
     return {
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceListTable({
       startToSeconds,
       endFromSeconds,
       endToSeconds,
-    } = calculateStartAndEndSeconds();
+    } = calculateStartAndEndSeconds(false);
 
     if (!valid || !reportMetadata) {
       return null;

spiffworkflow-frontend/src/helpers.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_PER_PAGE,
   DEFAULT_PAGE,
 } from './components/PaginationForTable';
+import { ErrorForDisplay } from './interfaces';
 
 // https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/slugify
 export const slugifyString = (str: any) => {
@@ -238,3 +239,17 @@ export const getBpmnProcessIdentifiers = (rootBpmnElement: any) => {
   childProcesses.push(rootBpmnElement.businessObject.id);
   return childProcesses;
 };
+
+// Setting the error message state to the same string is still considered a change
+// and re-renders the page so check the message first to avoid that.
+export const setErrorMessageSafely = (
+  newErrorMessageString: string,
+  oldErrorMessage: ErrorForDisplay,
+  errorMessageSetter: any
+) => {
+  if (oldErrorMessage && oldErrorMessage.message === newErrorMessageString) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  errorMessageSetter({ message: newErrorMessageString });
+  return null;
+};

spiffworkflow-frontend/src/routes/ProcessInstanceList.tsx

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceList({ variant }: OwnProps) {
         <TabList aria-label="List of tabs">
           <Tab
             title="Only show process instances for the current user."
+            data-qa="process-instance-list-for-me"
             onClick={() => {
               navigate('/admin/process-instances/for-me');
             }}
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ export default function ProcessInstanceList({ variant }: OwnProps) {
           <Can I="GET" a={targetUris.processInstanceListPath} ability={ability}>
             <Tab
               title="Show all process instances for all users."
+              data-qa="process-instance-list-all"
               onClick={() => {
                 navigate('/admin/process-instances/all');
               }}