Android - group - In group chat, creating split expense shows unexpected error

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.43-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch app (use gmail account)
2. Create a group chat with 2 users
3. Create a manual split expense

Expected Result:

In group chat, creating split expense must not show unexpected error

Actual Result:

As gmail user, in group chat, creating split expense shows unexpected error

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @trjExpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[lanitochka17]

@trjExpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[melvin-bot]

@trjExpensify Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

[trjExpensify]

@lanitochka17 in these cases, it's super helpful to have the email address of the tester and an indication of the time/date when it happened to narrow the search. I've found it, but it took me longer than necessary if I had those details.

Participants for reference:

Throw ExpException - 59714ae343639b41a22589f6b07edad1 ~~ message: '400 Invalid participant in split JSON' exceptionMessage: 'Auth CreateIOUSplit returned an error' exceptionFile: '/git/releases/expensify.com/8036ef0/lib/Auth.php' exceptionLine: '132' exceptionCode: '400'

RequestID

...which looks like it's throwing here.

.. looking at the SplitBill command request, it seems like we might have an empty email for accountID 14909571.

Processing 'SplitBill' for 'expensify.com' from '49.37.221.212' ~~ initialReferer: '<REDACTED>' browserGUID: '66fd6e11351ac' command: 'SplitBill' reportID: '1586659735003557' amount: '87797900' splits: '[{"email":"[email protected]","accountID":18418840,"amount":29265966,"taxAmount":0},{"email":"","accountID":14909571,"isOptimisticAccount":false,"amount":29265967,"iouReportID":"6052722910679159","chatReportID":"1368027836275448","transactionID":"7447705160371163702","reportActionID":"5478681928244891158","createdChatReportActionID":"4179653200119164763","createdIOUReportActionID":"4779679985590943370","reportPreviewReportActionID":"8388445612708174433","transactionThreadReportID":"4177248923736814","createdReportActionIDForThread":"5697035918013480567","taxAmount":0},{"email":"[email protected]","accountID":15075387,"isOptimisticAccount":false,"amount":29265967,"iouReportID":"1764700554582682","chatReportID":"6571789036668188","transactionID":"5351388876721267404","reportActionID":"4447484852141798124","createdChatReportActionID":"4585901085599248401","createdIOUReportActionID":"1052459271737372515","reportPreviewReportActionID":"1246776162341504802","transactionThreadReportID":"8595370910338935","createdReportActionIDForThread":"2042612708939164669","taxAmount":0}]' currency: 'INR' comment: '' category: '' merchant: '(none)' created: '2024-10-02' tag: '' billable: 'false' transactionID: '3783263752286064644' reportActionID: '2538530263361927211' chatType: 'group' taxCode: '' taxAmount: '0' pusherSocketID: '776705.10521043' authToken: '<REDACTED>' referer: 'ecash' platform: 'android' api_setCookie: 'false' email: '[email protected]' isFromDevEnv: 'false' appversion: '9.0.43-1' clientUpdateID: '2194246977' partnerName: 'expensify.com' HTTP_CF_BOT_SCORE: '99' HTTP_CF_JA3_HASH: 'f79b6bad2ad0641e1921aef10262856b'

Pulling those out of the above for ease of viewing:

{"email":"[email protected]","accountID":18418840,"`
`{"email":"","accountID":14909571,"`
`{"email":"[email protected]","accountID":15075387

As for the why? I'm not sure. @youssef-lr might know.

[trjExpensify]

Awaiting input from, @youssef-lr.

[youssef-lr]

Dupe of #30140, should be fixed once account creation is moved to Auth, cc @neil-marcellini