[HOLD] Rebuilding the unread reports without the sequenceNumbers

[mountiny]

Details

Coming from a design doc, this PR is implementing a refactor of unread markers to use reportActionIDs and timestamps instead of the reportActionIDs

Fixed Issues

$ https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/240916

Tests

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

This needs to be tested with internal API change

Offline tests

1. Post messages online
2. go offline
3. post more messages
4. go online and make sure the order of the messages is correct

QA Steps

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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[melvin-bot]

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[mountiny]

@roryabraham This PR implements changes from the design doc section about Unread marker.

There has been couple of changes since the design doc has been written.

There is this scroll to index method used which utilizes the diff of the sequence numbers to get the index to which we should scroll. How should we approach this with reportActionIDs. Would we have to look at the array of all the report actions and look at the index in that array?

Secondly, this entire section has been removed in this PR and there we also added this listener there

I have updated the currentLastSequenceNumber with currentLastReportActionID.

Let me know what you think about these! I assume we have to wait for some backend changes to be ready so put this on hold.

[mountiny]

@sketchydroide offered help with taking this PR over the finish line.

[aimane-chnaif]

@mountiny is this PR ready for review or still in progress? asking since title is labelled as HOLD

[sketchydroide]

very much WIP still, I'm taking over, but need to get a bit more into the stuff @vit already did

[mountiny]

@aimane-chnaif We will let you know once ready to test, there is couple of lines/functions which need to be updated yet. thanks!

[marcaaron]

There is this scroll to index method used which utilizes the diff of the sequence numbers to get the index to which we should scroll. How should we approach this with reportActionIDs. Would we have to look at the array of all the report actions and look at the index in that array?

heads up I think we are reverting this change here

[puneetlath]

I'm handling in a separate PR, so closing this one.

[puneetlath]

The functionality is built and I've gotten some initial feedback in the PR. The next steps are:

1. Address the feedback
2. Get tests working