Chat - Creating a new chat with the same email while offline creates duplicate chats

[kbecciv]

If you haven’t already, check out our contributing guidelines for onboarding and email contributors@expensify.com to request to join our Slack channel!

---

Action Performed:

1. Launch New Expensify app.
2. Disconnect network.
3. Create a new chat with a new account.
4. Return to LHN.
5. Tap + icon > Chat.
6. Enter the same email used in Step 3.
7. Tap on the search result.

Expected Result:

User is redirected to the existing chat that is created in Step 3.

Actual Result:

User is redirected to a new chat with the same member. The chat is duplicated.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: v1.3.30-5

Reproducible in staging?: y

Reproducible in production?: n

If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Bug6102567_Screen_Recording_20230622_183921_Chrome.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Slack conversation:

View all open jobs on GitHub

[OSBotify]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open StagingDeployCash deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @youssef-lr (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[mountiny]

We already had this bug in the previous deploy checklist

[youssef-lr]

Is it being worked on @mountiny?

[youssef-lr]

Looks like this was fixed here #21265. Closing in favor of #21184.

[mountiny]

Yep sorry was on mobile so couldnt grab the links fast.