Currently when a user clicks on an edit notification, we use `appEvents` to
notify the topics controller that it should open up the history modal for the
edited post and the appEvents callback opens up the history modal in the next
Ember runloop (by scheduling an `afterRender` callback).
There are 2 problems with this implementation:
1) the callbacks are fired/executed too early and if the post has never been
loaded from the server (i.e. not in cache), we will not get a modal history
because the method that shows the modal `return`s if it can't find the post:
016efeadf6/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/controllers/topic.js (L145-L152)
2) when clicking an edit notification from a non-topic page, you're redirected
to the topic page that contains the edited post and you'll see the history
modal briefly and it'll be closed immediately. The reason for this is because
we attempt to show the history modal before the route transition finishes
completely, and we have cleanup code in `initializers/page-tracking.js` that's
called after every transition and it does several things one of which is
closing any open modals.
The fix in this commit defers showing the history modal until posts are loaded
(whether fresh or cached). It works by storing some bits of information (topic
id, post number, revision number) whenever the user clicks on an edit
notification, and when the user is redirected to the topic (or scrolled to the
edited post if they're already in the topic), the post stream model checks if
we have stored information of an edit notification and requests the history
modal to be shown by the topics controller.
If we don't escape periods, they are interpreted as wildcards and it
becomes impossible to visit profiles of other users whose usernames
match. E.g., if your username was `a.c` and attempted to visit `abc`'s
profile, you would be incorrectly redirected to your own profile.
Using arrow functions changes `this` context, which is undesired in tests, e.g. it makes it impossible to setup things like pretender (`this.server`) in `beforeEach` hooks.
Ember guides always use classic functions in examples (e.g. https://guides.emberjs.com/release/testing/test-types/), and that's what it uses in its own test suite, as do various addons and ember apps.
It was also already used in Discourse where `this` was required. Moving forward, it will be needed in more places as we migrate toward ember-cli.
(I might later add a custom rule to eslint-discourse-ember to enforce this)
In newer Embers jQuery is removed. There is a `find` but it only returns
one element and not a jQuery selector. This patch migrates our code to a
new helper `queryAll` which allows us to remove the global.
We used many global functions to handle tests when they should be
imported like other libraries in our application. This also gets us
closer to the way Ember CLI prefers our tests to be laid out.
This is where they should be as far as ember is concerned. Note this is
a huge commit and we should be really careful everything continues to
work properly.
