1275284 - Ensure Twitter code will still work after changes to character limit

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Chat Core :: Twitter, defect)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Background: https://blog.twitter.com/en-gb/2016/coming-soon-express-even-more-in-140-characters

We already request their configuration endpoint (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/help/configuration) and use their JavaScript library to get the character count, so I *hope* there's nothing to be done here. Maybe we need to update our Twitter JS library though.

Comment 1

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

Turns out displaying of the longer tweets gets messed up, for example a tweet might appear as

"First board game night at @liip in a long time. First game of Citadels ever! With Dutch cards ;) Thanks to… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…"

which in its full representation is linked at the end, as it contains an image attachment: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/778660753398198272

The full text reads as "First board game night at @liip in a long time. First game of Citadels ever! With Dutch cards ;) Thanks to @michellesanver @syzer3 and all!"

Comment 2

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Update twitter-text library to 1.14

Let's see if this is enough.

Comment 3

[aleth [:aleth]]

In that blogpost there's also

"Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself: We’ll be enabling the Retweet button on your own Tweets, so you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed."

Is that still correct? If yes, we need another simple patch here.

Comment 4

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

> "Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself: We’ll be enabling the Retweet button on your own Tweets, so you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed."

Yes, you can retweet yourself. You've actually been able to do that since quite some time. The quote retweet shouldn't be a problem, since that's just adding a link to the tweet to the end of the tweet, and you can already copy the link to your own tweets.

Comment 5

[aleth [:aleth]]

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-tweets

Comment 6

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Allow self-retweets

Comment 7

[aleth [:aleth]]

Hmm, a quick glance at the link in comment 5 makes me wonder if other changes are required as well to display "new-style" tweets correctly.

Comment 8

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Comment on attachment 8793497 [details] [diff] [review]
Update twitter-text library to 1.14

Review of attachment 8793497 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I'd be surprised if this is enough since what we're talking about is the displaying end, not the tweeting side...but shouldn't hurt!

Comment 9

[aleth [:aleth]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/7b41f76ddf18b284e860cd741f9c2d02fbea863e
Bug 1275284 - Allow self-retweets. r=clokep

Comment 10

[aleth [:aleth]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/61b68a1406a6db638d49b8686d904d64985b7072
Bug 1275284 - Update twitter-text library to 1.14. r=clokep

Comment 11

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Display extended tweets

I think this should provide basic support, but my test account isn't seeing any extended tweets, so somebody else should test/extend this.

Comment 12

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

I've applied the patch and still see shortened tweets, for example https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780069125934768128 is shortened as it is without the patch to

> «Tarzan»-Star #AlexanderSkarsgård kam mit einem Mega-Hangover zum Interview. Wir päppelten ihn mit einer Innerschwe… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780069125934768128

Comment 13

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Martin Giger [:freaktechnik] from comment #12)
> I've applied the patch and still see shortened tweets, for example
> https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780069125934768128 is shortened as it is
> without the patch to
> 
> > «Tarzan»-Star #AlexanderSkarsgård kam mit einem Mega-Hangover zum Interview. Wir päppelten ihn mit einer Innerschwe… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780069125934768128

Could you add the relevant part of the debug log, or fix the problem? ;)

Comment 14

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

Attachment: twitter-debug-extended-tweet.txt

This tweet is displayed as:
 
> 21:38:33 - donttrythis: RT @propstore_com: There's ONLY  2 DAYS TO GO until the #PropStoreLiveAuction is finally here!! Register and bid now at… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…

Comment 15

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Display extended tweets

Looks like you ran into a RT of an extended tweet.

Comment 16

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Display extended tweets

No longer modifies aTweet, slightly improved logging.

Comment 17

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Display extended tweets

This time modifies the correct if clause... still needs testing though ;)

Comment 18

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Comment on attachment 8794633 [details] [diff] [review]
Display extended tweets

Review of attachment 8794633 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I was able to do some minimal testing. The changes look good, but the new debug logs seem a bit verbose. I suggest we remove them before checking this in.

What's the newText.trim() change about? Seems unrelated.

Comment 19

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Display extended tweets

Extra logging removed.

Comment 20

[aleth [:aleth]]

Attachment: Make debug log more readable

This helps debug logs not look like a solid wall of JSON. The newtext.trim() change is to distinguish between actual data and the keepalives that arrive every few seconds. Strictly speaking this would be for another bug, but it's so minor I'm not sure it's worth it.

Comment 21

[aleth [:aleth]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/8019b72621915032d3477cda86f3b89a98721528
Bug 1275284 - Display extended tweets. r=clokep

https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/e2d3560b44b0e7465229d8d28956b738c75ee1a9
Bug 1275284 - Make debug log more readable. r=clokep

Comment 22

[aleth [:aleth]]

I guess after it's baked on nightlies for a bit we should consider uplifting this to 45?

Comment 23

[aleth [:aleth]]

Comment on attachment 8793497 [details] [diff] [review]
Update twitter-text library to 1.14

[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #): Twitter API change
User impact if declined: Display of truncated tweets
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): By the time this uplifts, people will have had a chance to report regressions
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low

Comment 24

[aleth [:aleth]]

Comment on attachment 8793497 [details] [diff] [review]
Update twitter-text library to 1.14

[Approval Request Comment]
I guess it makes no sense to consider uplifting to 45 without first uplifting to aurora/beta ;)

Comment 25

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Aurora (TB 51):
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/c08bc7f8009991a4d3041f87a05b24af43d5580d
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/91784426c81d58787b095eb3475d625a115e7955
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/a70dd73f2d13be7abbc4babe139c09a7f8ad6075
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/277b70455f1441ccbada9d5bf4dde1c1e61e176b

Comment 26

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Sorry, the second changeset doesn't apply to C-B. There are a heap of changes so I'd rather not try it myself.

Comment 27

[aleth [:aleth]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/cba8e63b8bd77be765549d52ef0a3b0a956b5e37
Bug 1275284 - Allow self-retweets. r=clokep

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/d4134a1be965e2c002454d4341f2a89098c7dc43
Bug 1275284 - Display extended tweets. r=clokep

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/75e7b63716981dfdb764f36dc83fd2fbb28ff3ee
Bug 1275284 - Make debug log more readable. r=clokep

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/88269bbc6b03fc3e7defef871713527f5cb96922
Bug 1275284 - Update twitter-text library to 1.14. r=clokep a=jorgk

Comment 28

[Kent James (:rkent)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr45/rev/85f5e813a77d
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr45/rev/273ed607b04c
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr45/rev/75e34d5e927e
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr45/rev/d6959430a0aa