Fix posting navigation: handle successful responses in error handler #154

Copilot · 2025-10-16T16:21:33Z

Problem

After successfully posting a new topic or appending to an existing topic, the app displays an error message and keeps the user on the editing screen, even though the action was actually successful on V2EX. The expected behavior is to automatically navigate to the topic page after successful posting/appending.

Root Cause

When V2EX successfully creates or appends content, it returns an HTTP redirect (302) to the topic page. The OkHttp client follows this redirect and fetches the topic page HTML. However, due to the redirect handling or HTTP status codes, the RxJava observable triggers the error path instead of the success path.

The error handlers in CreateTopicActivity and AppendTopicActivity were only attempting to parse the response as error page formats:

CreateTopicPageInfo (create page with validation errors)
NewUserBannedCreateInfo (new user posting restriction)
AppendTopicPageInfo (append page with validation errors)

They did not recognize that a valid TopicInfo response in the error handler could indicate a successful operation.

Solution

Modified the handleError() methods in both activities to first check if the response is actually a valid topic page:

Before:

.map(s -> {
    BaseInfo resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, CreateTopicPageInfo.class);
    if (!resultInfo.isValid()) {
        resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, NewUserBannedCreateInfo.class);
    }
    return resultInfo;
})

After:

.map(s -> {
    // First, check if this is actually a successful topic creation
    BaseInfo resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, TopicInfo.class);
    if (resultInfo.isValid()) {
        return resultInfo;  // Success!
    }
    // If not a valid topic, try parsing as error pages
    resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, CreateTopicPageInfo.class);
    if (!resultInfo.isValid()) {
        resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, NewUserBannedCreateInfo.class);
    }
    return resultInfo;
})

The consumer then checks for TopicInfo first and calls the appropriate success handler (onPostSuccess() or onAfterAppendTopic()).

Changes

CreateTopicActivity.java: Modified handleError() to detect successful topic creation
AppendTopicActivity.java: Modified handleError() to detect successful topic appending

Testing

All existing error handling remains intact:

Form validation errors (missing title, no node selected, empty content)
Server-side validation errors (duplicate content, rate limiting, etc.)
New user posting restrictions
Network errors

Impact

✅ Users now correctly navigate to the topic page after successful posting
✅ Users now correctly navigate to the topic page after successful appending
✅ No more confusing error messages when actions actually succeed
✅ Backward compatible - all existing error cases still work as expected

Fixes #[issue_number]

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Fixes #151

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Pull Request Overview

Handles successful topic creation/appending that previously fell into the error path due to HTTP redirects returning the final topic HTML.

Adds TopicInfo parsing first in error handlers to detect success.
Adjusts consumer logic to invoke success callbacks when TopicInfo is detected.
Updates both CreateTopicActivity and AppendTopicActivity error handling flows similarly.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

File	Description
app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/create/CreateTopicActivity.java	Adds TopicInfo parsing before error pages to treat redirected success as success.
app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/append/AppendTopicActivity.java	Mirrors logic to detect successful append via TopicInfo in error handler.

Copilot · 2025-10-16T16:38:26Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/create/CreateTopicActivity.java

+                            if (baseInfo instanceof TopicInfo) {
+                                // Actually a success! Treat it as such
+                                onPostSuccess((TopicInfo) baseInfo);
+                            } else if (baseInfo instanceof CreateTopicPageInfo) {
                                onPostFailure((CreateTopicPageInfo) baseInfo);
                            } else {
                                onBannedCreateTopic((NewUserBannedCreateInfo) baseInfo);


You can simplify the instanceof + cast using Java 17 pattern matching to reduce duplication and improve readability: if (baseInfo instanceof TopicInfo topicInfo) { onPostSuccess(topicInfo); }.

Suggested change

if (baseInfo instanceof TopicInfo) {

// Actually a success! Treat it as such

onPostSuccess((TopicInfo) baseInfo);

} else if (baseInfo instanceof CreateTopicPageInfo) {

onPostFailure((CreateTopicPageInfo) baseInfo);

} else {

onBannedCreateTopic((NewUserBannedCreateInfo) baseInfo);

if (baseInfo instanceof TopicInfo topicInfo) {

// Actually a success! Treat it as such

onPostSuccess(topicInfo);

} else if (baseInfo instanceof CreateTopicPageInfo createTopicPageInfo) {

onPostFailure(createTopicPageInfo);

} else if (baseInfo instanceof NewUserBannedCreateInfo bannedCreateInfo) {

onBannedCreateTopic(bannedCreateInfo);

Copilot · 2025-10-16T16:38:26Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/append/AppendTopicActivity.java

+                        } else if (baseInfo instanceof AppendTopicPageInfo) {
+                            AppendTopicPageInfo pageInfo = (AppendTopicPageInfo) baseInfo;


Leverage pattern matching for instanceof to avoid the explicit cast and local variable reassignment: if (baseInfo instanceof TopicInfo topicInfo) { onAfterAppendTopic(topicInfo); } else if (baseInfo instanceof AppendTopicPageInfo pageInfo) { ... }.

Suggested change

} else if (baseInfo instanceof AppendTopicPageInfo) {

AppendTopicPageInfo pageInfo = (AppendTopicPageInfo) baseInfo;

} else if (baseInfo instanceof AppendTopicPageInfo pageInfo) {

Copilot · 2025-10-16T16:38:26Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/create/CreateTopicActivity.java

+                        // First, check if this is actually a successful topic creation
+                        // (V2EX may return the topic page on success, which triggers error handler due to redirects)
+                        BaseInfo resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, TopicInfo.class);
+                        if (resultInfo.isValid()) {
+                            return resultInfo;
+                        }
+                        // If not a valid topic, try parsing as error pages
+                        resultInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, CreateTopicPageInfo.class);


This success-detection parsing pattern is duplicated in AppendTopicActivity (lines 138-145 there). Consider extracting a shared helper (e.g., parseTopicOrError(html)) to centralize the logic and reduce duplication.

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Pull Request Overview

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

Copilot · 2025-10-17T07:28:24Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/create/CreateTopicActivity.java

+                        // First, check if this is actually a successful topic creation
+                        // (V2EX may return the topic page on success, which triggers error handler due to redirects)
+                        TopicInfo topicInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, TopicInfo.class);
+                        if (isSuccessfulTopicResponse(topicInfo)) {
+                            return topicInfo;
+                        }
+                        // If not a valid topic, try parsing as error pages


New success-detection logic is added but there is no accompanying test to assert that a 302 redirect followed by TopicInfo HTML hitting the error path results in onPostSuccess(). Please add a unit test (e.g., simulate redirected HTML passed to handleError) to ensure future changes do not regress this behavior.

Copilot · 2025-10-17T07:28:24Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/append/AppendTopicActivity.java

+                .map(s -> {
+                    // First, check if this is actually a successful append
+                    // (V2EX may return the topic page on success, which triggers error handler due to redirects)
+                    TopicInfo topicInfo = APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, TopicInfo.class);
+                    if (isSuccessfulTopicResponse(topicInfo)) {
+                        return topicInfo;
+                    }
+                    // If not a valid topic, try parsing as error page
+                    return APIService.fruit().fromHtml(s, AppendTopicPageInfo.class);
+                })


The append flow now treats a TopicInfo parsed in the error path as success; add a test that feeds redirected topic HTML to confirm onAfterAppendTopic() is invoked and no error dialog appears.

Copilot · 2025-10-17T07:28:24Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/create/CreateTopicActivity.java

+    private boolean isSuccessfulTopicResponse(TopicInfo topicInfo) {
+        if (topicInfo == null || !topicInfo.isValid()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        TopicInfo.Problem problem = topicInfo.getProblem();
+        return (problem == null || problem.isEmpty()) && Check.notEmpty(topicInfo.getTopicLink());
+    }


This helper method is duplicated in AppendTopicActivity; consider extracting it to a shared utility (e.g., TopicResponseUtils) or a base activity to avoid divergence if success criteria evolve.

Copilot · 2025-10-17T07:28:24Z

app/src/main/java/me/ghui/v2er/module/append/AppendTopicActivity.java

+    private boolean isSuccessfulTopicResponse(TopicInfo topicInfo) {
+        if (topicInfo == null || !topicInfo.isValid()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        TopicInfo.Problem problem = topicInfo.getProblem();
+        return (problem == null || problem.isEmpty()) && Check.notEmpty(topicInfo.getTopicLink());
+    }


Duplicated success-detection logic; refactor into a shared helper to centralize the definition of a 'successful' TopicInfo response.

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Apply same fix to AppendTopicActivity for consistency

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[Bug Report] 发帖后显示错误，仍停留在编辑界面，但实际上已发帖成功 #151

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