element-web/src/Unread.ts

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import { Room } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/room";
import { MatrixEvent } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event";
import { EventType } from "matrix-js-sdk/src/@types/event";

import { MatrixClientPeg } from "./MatrixClientPeg";
import shouldHideEvent from './shouldHideEvent';
import { haveTileForEvent } from "./components/views/rooms/EventTile";

/**
 * Returns true iff this event arriving in a room should affect the room's
 * count of unread messages
 *
 * @param {Object} ev The event
 * @returns {boolean} True if the given event should affect the unread message count
 */
export function eventTriggersUnreadCount(ev: MatrixEvent): boolean {
    if (ev.sender && ev.sender.userId == MatrixClientPeg.get().credentials.userId) {
        return false;
    }

    switch (ev.getType()) {
        case EventType.RoomMember:
        case EventType.RoomThirdPartyInvite:
        case EventType.CallAnswer:
        case EventType.CallHangup:
        case EventType.RoomAliases:
        case EventType.RoomCanonicalAlias:
        case EventType.RoomServerAcl:
            return false;
    }

    if (ev.isRedacted()) return false;
    return haveTileForEvent(ev);
}

export function doesRoomHaveUnreadMessages(room: Room): boolean {
    const myUserId = MatrixClientPeg.get().getUserId();

    // get the most recent read receipt sent by our account.
    // N.B. this is NOT a read marker (RM, aka "read up to marker"),
    // despite the name of the method :((
    const readUpToId = room.getEventReadUpTo(myUserId);

    // as we don't send RRs for our own messages, make sure we special case that
    // if *we* sent the last message into the room, we consider it not unread!
    // Should fix: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/3263
    //             https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2427
    // ...and possibly some of the others at
    //             https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/3363
    if (room.timeline.length &&
        room.timeline[room.timeline.length - 1].sender &&
        room.timeline[room.timeline.length - 1].sender.userId === myUserId) {
        return false;
    }

    // this just looks at whatever history we have, which if we've only just started
    // up probably won't be very much, so if the last couple of events are ones that
    // don't count, we don't know if there are any events that do count between where
    // we have and the read receipt. We could fetch more history to try & find out,
    // but currently we just guess.

    // Loop through messages, starting with the most recent...
    for (let i = room.timeline.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
        const ev = room.timeline[i];

        if (ev.getId() == readUpToId) {
            // If we've read up to this event, there's nothing more recent
            // that counts and we can stop looking because the user's read
            // this and everything before.
            return false;
        } else if (!shouldHideEvent(ev) && eventTriggersUnreadCount(ev)) {
            // We've found a message that counts before we hit
            // the user's read receipt, so this room is definitely unread.
            return true;
        }
    }
    // If we got here, we didn't find a message that counted but didn't find
    // the user's read receipt either, so we guess and say that the room is
    // unread on the theory that false positives are better than false
    // negatives here.
    return true;
}