[HOLD for payment 2022-01-27] [$500] Trim the message up-to a fixed length which can be seen in LHN - Reported By: @parasharrajat

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Action Performed:

• Go to Search page.
• Run the search a few times.
• Console log the Options that being listed in the Searchpage.
• See that Alternative text is massively huge and replicating.

Expected Result:

We should trim the message up-to a fixed length which can be seen in LHN.

Actual Result:

AlternativeText contains text of arbitrary length from the last message which is not really fully visible anywhere.
It unnecessary increase the storage and runtime memory.

Deliverable

We want these things to be fixed here.

• trim the message to a fixed length.
• memory leak which is causing the message to be appended multiple times.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Desktop App
• Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.1.18-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @parasharrajat
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1639049457408900

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @mallenexpensify (AutoAssignerTriage), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4749 for more details.

[MelvinBot]

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

[mallenexpensify]

@Julesssss can you take a look? I don't fully understand this issue nor if an external contributor can work on it

[parasharrajat]

This is purely technical. More details on Slack thread.
Actually, somehow last message is being appended multiple times which is a memory leak.