Draft list is not updated correctly when publishing a post from the Drafts tab

[vanessamaartinstt]

Expected behavior

Draft list should be updated correctly to reflect the number of posts that remains in the Drafts tab.

Actual behavior

When publishing a draft post from Drafts tab, the draft list shows only 3 drafts after publishing. It’s resolved by refreshing the list manually.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to My Site > Posts > Drafts (You need to have five or more draft posts available)
2. Select one of the drafts and tap on ... More > Publish Now > Publish
3. Notice that the list only shows 3 drafts

Tested on [device], iOS [version], WPiOS [version]

Device: Iphone 14 Pro Max
iOs Version: 16.1
WP/JP version: 21.1

RPReplay_Final1667339113.MP4

[alpavanoglu]

I think I have trapped this issue in a small area but I wasn't able to resolve it. Most of the code here is 8 years old and WPTableViewHandler, the possible culprit, seems to be in use throughout the codebase.

What is happening here is this line is being called more than necessary. When a draft post is published, that line is called once which is reasonable. But then it gets called until the remaining number is 3. So if we had 9 draft posts and we publish one (now 8), that line gets called an additional 5 more times so the resulting number is 3.

Also number of items in the resultsController is 3 right when we open this screen rather than the correct number 9. Then it syncs with backend and updates.