IOU-Expense is not deleted in the expense details if there is a comment inside the expense

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: 9.0.33-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4952443
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): testpayment935@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. (User A) - Create two IOUs in a 1:1 conversation to user B
2. (User B) - Create two IOUs in a 1:1 conversation to user A
3. (User A) - Navigate to the IOU transaction thread of the expense submitted by user B
4. (User A) - Send some messages to B's expense
5. (User B) -Navigate to the IOU transaction thread of the expense submitted by user A
6. (User B) - Send some messages to user A's expense
7. (User B) - Go back and open your expense
8. (User B) - Click on the header of your own expense
9. (User B) - Click on Delete Expense

Expected Result:

The expense should be deleted.

Actual Result:

The expense is not deleted.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6600780_1726131268330.bandicam_2024-09-12_11-29-57-634.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @nkuoch (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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Triggered auto assignment to @alexpensify (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.

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[nkdengineer]

This comes from #48055

Proposal

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

The expense is not deleted.

What is the root cause of that problem?

For now, we only get the navigate-back URL in deleteTransaction function

App/src/pages/ReportDetailsPage.tsx

Lines 707 to 711 in ef6a64c

	} else {
	const {urlToNavigateBack} = IOU.prepareToCleanUpMoneyRequest(iouTransactionID, requestParentReportAction, true);
	navigateBackToAfterDelete.current = urlToNavigateBack;
	}

Then here if navigateBackToAfterDelete .current is empty here, we only dismiss the modal without calling the delete expense API.

App/src/pages/ReportDetailsPage.tsx

Lines 813 to 815 in ef6a64c

	if (!navigateBackToAfterDelete.current) {
	Navigation.dismissModal();
	} else {

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

We should move the logic to delete the expense outside the if-else statement above

if (!navigateBackToAfterDelete.current) {
    Navigation.dismissModal();
} else {
    ReportUtils.navigateBackAfterDeleteTransaction(navigateBackToAfterDelete.current, true);
}

setTimeout(() => {
    if (ReportActionsUtils.isTrackExpenseAction(requestParentReportAction)) {
        return;
    };
    IOU.deleteMoneyRequest(iouTransactionID, requestParentReportAction, isSingleTransactionView);
}, CONST.ANIMATED_TRANSITION);

App/src/pages/ReportDetailsPage.tsx

Lines 820 to 824 in ef6a64c

	setTimeout(() => {
	IOU.deleteMoneyRequest(iouTransactionID, requestParentReportAction, isSingleTransactionView);
	}, CONST.ANIMATED_TRANSITION);
	}
	}}

Or we can also call the delete API here without setTimeout

if (!navigateBackToAfterDelete.current) {
    if (!ReportActionsUtils.isTrackExpenseAction(requestParentReportAction)) {
        IOU.deleteMoneyRequest(iouTransactionID, requestParentReportAction, isSingleTransactionView);
    }
    Navigation.dismissModal();
}

App/src/pages/ReportDetailsPage.tsx

Lines 813 to 815 in ef6a64c

	if (!navigateBackToAfterDelete.current) {
	Navigation.dismissModal();
	} else {

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[luacmartins]

@nkdengineer are you available to work on a fix now?