History state is empty, even though it shouldn't

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Hi guys,

I’m having a problem with getState() method from history in Jira. Even though my link contains required data it doesn’t work from time to time - getState() resolves with and empty string. I tried both calling it directly from AP.history.getState() and AP.require(['history']), (history) => (history.getState()}. Any ideas what might be the problem?

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Hi @IgorPasieczny,

A couple of questions to help me reproduce this:

  1. Are calling the AP.history functions in a Admin page, General page, Configure page or User profile page? Only these pages support the AP.history module.
  2. Are you calling AP.history.pushState(…) before calling AP.history.getState(...)?

Regards,
Dugald

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@dmorrow thanks for your reply.

I’m not sure which type of page is that, I’m entering Epics Map (HeroCoder’s add-in) page, which is under: /projects/IC?selectedItem=com.atlassian.plugins.atlassian-connect-plugin:com.herocoders.plugins.jira.epicsmap__epics-map-page#!selectedQuickFilters=2

As you can see I’m passing the state I want to read, to set some pre-selected options on that page. Unfortunately there is a race condition - sometimes I can read getState() properly, but sometimes it’s empty, even though the state is passed in the url. I’ve added a button, to log the state after the page loads and it works fine - the state is there, even though the initial render didn’t read it.

Best,
Igor

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Hi @IgorPasieczny,

OK, that’s a project page which is a type of general page. I think I understand your scenario. If I misunderstand, please let me know (I’m making a couple of assumptions):

  1. Some action causes a navigation to a project page with state encoded in the hash fragment of the URL.
  2. The project page waits for a DOMContentLoaded event <- assumption (if not, might be worth trying)
  3. The project page app iframe calls AP.history.getState(callback).

Expected result:

At step 3, the callback is reliably passed the state encoded in the hash fragment of the URL.

Actual result:

At step 3, the callback is intermittently passed an empty or undefined state.

Regards,
Dugald

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@dmorrow great advice, thanks so much! I had to do a tiny change and it seems to be working fine. Initially I thought that add-in code is triggered only when everything else is ready, but I’ve added some logs and realized that it runs earlier - I moved some initial state variables to functions and triggered them later and that did the trick. Thanks again!

Best,
Igor

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Dugald,
unfortunately moving rendering after DOMContentLoaded didn’t solve the problem. It doesn’t happen on my browser, but others still have the same problem… :confused:

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Best
Igor

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I can confirm the problem is there and it looks like a race condition.

In Firefox, on average, every second attempt (page reload or pasting the URL to a new window), fails.
In Chrome, it fails more often - only 20% of attempts succeed. If I open devtools (it slows down the browser I think), then all attempts succeed.

So, it looks like AP.history.getState() does not work consistently.
We have confirmed the problem in another of our apps.

@dmorrow, should we report an ACJIRA bug, or do you want to confirm the problem on your side first?

Thanks,
Jack

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Hi @jack and @IgorPasieczny,

Thanks for your further comments. I have created [ACJS-1155] - Ecosystem Jira to capture this. You may like to review the description of the issue , comment and vote as you see fit.

Regards,
Dugald

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