fix: do not escape HTML special chars for an invite's welcomeNote

[akinwale]

Details

This removes the escape operation performed on the welcomeNote.

Fixed Issues

$ #20081
PROPOSAL: #20081 (comment)

Tests

1. Launch the app
2. Navigate to Settings > Workspaces
3. Select any Workspace or create a new one
4. Select Members
5. Click on Invite
6. Select a user with a contact number (user who has contact number as primary contact) and click Next. The contact number should be able to receive SMS / text messages
7. Use the default invite message, or write any message containing an apostrophe. Eg: "This is test's message".
8. Click on Invite
9. Verify that the text message received by the contact number contains the actual apostrophes in the invite message, and not escaped HTML sequences.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

N/A

QA Steps

Same as tests.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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[melvin-bot]

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[0xmiros]

We should wait until backend update is deployed to staging. And for regression test, we should invite both email and phone contacts and check both email and SMS.

[cristipaval]

@akinwale Did you manage to test this? I haven't changed the backend yet, and after the first glance, we might not need to do any changes there.

@0xmiroslav @akinwale Could you also please test this with the other characters that are supposed to be escaped in an HTML string? Let's test all of them for both email and SMS.

[akinwale]

@akinwale Did you manage to test this? I haven't changed the backend yet, and after the first glance, we might not need to do any changes there.

@cristipaval Yes, I did with both an email and SMS recipient. I can include screenshots of the received messages if required.

@0xmiroslav @akinwale Could you also please test this with the other characters that are supposed to be escaped in an HTML string? Let's test all of them for both email and SMS.

Based on the documentation for the escape method, that means we'll test with these characters:
&, <, >, ", the backtick character (trying to escape it breaks formatting), and '.

[akinwale]

@cristipaval @0xmiroslav

Ran the following tests.

Test 1

It appears that HTML tags are being stripped out by the backend for both emails and SMS (anything between the < and >characters inclusive) as can be observed from the message in the email and SMS screenshots attached. Also, for only the SMS, backticks (wrapping the number 10) were converted to single quotes / apostrophes.

Invite message

SMS received (last message in thread)

Email received

Test 2

For the SMS message, backticks were converted to single quotes. All other characters appear to display fine here.

Invite message

SMS received (last message in thread)

Email received

[cristipaval]

Thanks a lot for your testing @akinwale.
I'll close this PR though, please see this for more info.

[cristipaval]

I reopened this after some internal discussions. We want this solution. I'll add a HOLD on this PR because we need a Web-PR deployed before merging this one.

[cristipaval]

FYI: We're close to get the Web-E PR merged.

[cristipaval]

This is off hold. @akinwale Could you please merge latest main into this branch and make it ready for @0xmiroslav to test?

[akinwale]

@cristipaval Done!

[akinwale]

@0xmiroslav This is ready for review. Thanks.

[0xmiros]

Workspace invite message not received from SMS.
@akinwale did you test?

[akinwale]

Workspace invite message not received from SMS. @akinwale did you test?

@0xmiroslav Yes, I did, and I received the SMS messages as expected, as well as the email.
Perhaps it could be due to mobile provider delivery delays or issues.

[cristipaval]

Workspace invite message not received from SMS. @akinwale did you test?

Wait, I think we limited Twilio to some countries only in staging. @0xmiroslav Could you please try in dev?

[0xmiros]

Could you please try in dev?

You mean api point to production?

[cristipaval]

Could you please try in dev?

You mean api point to production?

Sorry, I'm stupid... you don't have access to dev backend.
@0xmiroslav @akinwale Could you both tell me what country codes your phone numbers have?

[akinwale]

Could you please try in dev?

You mean api point to production?

Sorry, I'm stupid... you don't have access to dev backend. @0xmiroslav @akinwale Could you both tell me what country codes your phone numbers have?

@cristipaval US country code for mine.

[cristipaval]

That's why it works for you, @akinwale 👍

[cristipaval]

I can do the sms screenshot for you, @0xmiroslav

[0xmiros]

I can do the sms screenshot for you, @0xmiroslav

Thanks

[0xmiros]

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[0xmiros]

@cristipaval all yours

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[pradeepmdk]

@Pluto0104 I think this bug does not create a regression there. here they are fixing just remove the _.escape keyword.