Group description not loading

Summary

Cannot load group description, there are also reports that links cannot be clicked in group descriptions. I've included the groups description in this card as I suspect they're related; if it turns out not to be please split this into a new card.

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit the Help and Support group
2. Try to see description
3. If you can see it, try to click link in description

Platform information

reported v3.10.1 iOS IPhone XL

replicated S10, Android 9.0. v3.12.0

What is the current bug behavior?

Cannot load group description, there are also reports that links cannot be clicked in group descriptions.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Should load description, and links should be clickable, ideally warning users of navigation away from the app.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Possible fixes

(If you can, link to the line of code that might be responsible for the problem)

Let's try changing mobile so it functions like web and calls api/v1/groups/group

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Hey @benhayward.ben I'm looking at this, currently it's not failing for me (iphone 11 ios 13 sim), may i bother you checking if is failing for you?

Tried differents groups and worked fine for me

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@benhayward.ben can you reverify this as a bug?

Yeah sorry, I had a conversation with Juan about this.

For me, the description does not load at all.

Will add to scheduling after some changes to this card.

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looks like our old friend h&s description is causing some issues.

@juanmsolaro please look into this again, since we can reproduce the behavior internally with Ben

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Hey @brianhatchet, @benhayward.ben! I checked this again. It appears to be the same old problem, endpoint not returning description for that group. I logged the call that get all the groups that user is subscribed to (api/v1/groups/member), this is (part of) what we get:

0:
   guid: "100000000000000681"
   type: "group"
   name: "Help & Support"
   brief_description: ""
1:
   guid: "569521254306951168"
   type: "group"
   name: "Minds Developers (Internal)"
   brief_description: "https://gitlab.com/minds"
2:
   guid: "881442153276985344"
   type: "group"
   name: "Science & Tech & AI"
   brief_description: "Breaking science and technology and artificial intelligence..."

Also checked this same call on the web, and this endpoint is returning brief_description='' for H&S too. The difference is that in the web, when user click on the group to navigate, api/v1/groups/group/ is called, this endpoint does return brief_description and in the app, when user tap on the group to navigate, api/v2/entities/ is called, this endpoint does NOT return brief_description.

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We need to implement a separate loader for groups because api/v2/entities isn't fully hydrating the help and support group. So long we're calling the same endpoints as front, we should get back all

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Taking this one back, because @edgebal has a good plan to fix it with resolvers on the backend

We should add a new Entity Resolver on api/v2/entities that maps urn:group:123123 to the right entity with all the needed values exported correctly without having a different URL for this kind of objects.

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mentioned in issue #1930 (closed)

Related #1921 (closed)

• Links are not working #1930 (closed)
• Links with activity are exiting the app. #1924 (closed)
• Error now on group description #1921 (closed)

I think all of these are related.

@msantang78 @juanmsolaro have you added any error handling in that could have caused something that was previously silently erroring, to now display an error? If so #1921 (closed) may be a duplicate.

Should I label up and schedule both of the others?

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