[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Fixed notifications reload error (PR #7359)

[Pablo Brasero]

@pablobm commented on this pull request.

Echoing what has already been said, I think that we should not delete the notifications when the original record is gone. There's the mentioned "email trail" issue, but that's not my only concern.

I feel uneasy about coupling notifications with other aspects of the application, at least for the moment. Having `Follow` (for example) being aware of notifications and responsible for cleaning them up smells wrong to me. Not that it could not happen in the future, but that there should be a good reason for it.

So I think we should be showing some sort of "notification was here, but the content was gone, sorry" message, perhaps in a subdued/muted design, and move on. Something like this:

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Incidentally, there shouldn't be "fixup commits" like your second one. For that sort of thing, please fold the commits together to present a clean history, as per the contributor guidelines.

> @@ -59,6 +59,93 @@ class WebNotificationsTest < ApplicationSystemTestCase
     assert_text "This is comment number 10"
   end
 
+  test "follower notification is cleaned up after unfollow" do
+    follower = create(:user, :display_name => "Follower")
+    followed = create(:user)
+
+    follow = create(:follow, :follower => follower, :following => followed)
+    NewFollowerNotifier.with(:record => follow).deliver
+
+    sign_in_as(follower)
+    visit user_path(followed)
+    click_on "Unfollow"
+    assert_text "You successfully unfollowed"

Here you create the notification programmatically, and I see no reason why it should be deleted interactively as that is quite costly in terms of speed of tests. You do the right thing later in the GPX tests.

> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 <turbo-frame id="pagination" target="_top" data-turbo="false">
   <% notifications.items.each do |notification| %>
+    <% next if notification.event.record_type.present? && notification.record.nil? %>

A specific problem with this is that it messes up with the counts. If we show up 20 notifications per page, but one is skipped, then there are 19 notifications on the page. At the moment we are not showing counts, but we will and the problem will compound. Also users will not be able to delete/discard these notifications when this becomes possible.

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