Uploaded draft post differs from local draft

[AndrewFreemantle]

To reproduce:

Edit a draft post, changing some content.
Update content changes (post is still draft).
Once the updating spinner has disappeared, tap the same draft post to edit - the post shows the content 'before' the edit (!)

It appears that refreshing the posts list pulls the changes down.

[App: v3.8.3; self-hosted WP: v3.7.1]

[aerych]

Unable to reproduce this.

Maybe the post list had started syncing before editing the draft, and finished after the draft was edited. @koke thoughts on this?

[AndrewFreemantle]

Thanks for looking this, @aerych. I'm on a really slow connection in Cambodia. The speed test in the Ookla test app reads a ping of 40ms, download of 0.40 mbits and upload of 0.82 mbits :/

(ave of 3 runs)

[koke]

From [Blog mergePosts:]:

        Post *newPost = [Post findOrCreateWithBlog:self andPostID:postID];
        if (newPost.remoteStatus == AbstractPostRemoteStatusSync) {
            [newPost updateFromDictionary:postInfo];
        }

So we won't overwrite a post unless it's synced, but that doesn't check if it's being edited. One possible scenario:

• Sync starts
• Edit starts
• Some edits
• Save and upload
• Sync finishes

So the edit check is not really the problem. We're updating the post with data that is already too old. We probably should start checking date_modified_gmt before updating posts, unless we can have a better system.

[sendhil]

@AndrewFreemantle - have you hit this issue on the latest version of the app (3.9.1)?

[AndrewFreemantle]

@sendhil - yes. I find that refreshing the list of posts is also hit and miss, and I've taken to refreshing the list at least 3 times before I have any level of confidence that the version of any given post (especially Draft ones) matches the version on the server.

Still not working as expected in 4.0.1 - sorry :o/

[sendhil]

Hey @AndrewFreemantle - sorry to hear you are still having problems with this : (. I'll try and take a peek at this later this week.

[AndrewFreemantle]

It might be helpful to know that our WP server is in the UK (timezone set to GMT) and I'm currently in Japan (timezone set local automatically by iOS) - maybe it's a timezone thing?

[sendhil]

Hmmm, @astralbodies didn't you bump into something similar to this a few months back?

[astralbodies]

Closing issue and migrating to new repo.