HTMLView failing to update (occasionally)

[jgclark]

A few times now I've had an existing HTMLView window failing to update, but without any errors in the np-out or np-error logs.

More detail: I've had either Dashboard or Project List window open. I've hit update on the window, and all my usual debug logging shows the expected work, up to and including the usual messages about finding the existing window and calling await HTMLView.showWindowWithOptions(). This call seems to return a valid object, as I can read the .customID and .id from it.

The copy of the HTML that I additionally persist to disk is fine.

But the HTMLView does not update at all, instead just stays the same.

This feels related to the as-yet-unidentified-cause of the missing requiredFiles file that occasionally drops .css files. (Reported in ⁠Occasional loss of a Required File)

[jgclark]

It's happening again, so I've been able to record a short video.

html-win-not-drawing.mp4

Note:

• date on the dashboard for 'today' is 2 days old.
• this is after opening laptop in morning. App has updated to use 'light' theme, and the log shows the Dashboard generation picks it up. But the window doesn't update.
• the end of the log shows that it thinks the HTML window has been written to OK.

The copy of the HTML that is then persisted to disk (at ../../jgclark.Dashboard/dashboard.html) looks as expected like this (rendered in Safari):

[jgclark]

The more I think about it, @EduardMe, the more it seems related to #522 -- perhaps showing there's a more general occasional issue than just with 'requiredFiles'.

[jgclark]

And another example today @EduardMe. Quite a few times I refreshed the Dashboard, but it insisted on not updating, and instead kept the view from the day before.
Here is more evidence that the issue is in the app not the plugin:

View from left to right is

• Dashboard, showing the wrong dates and wrong tasks count
• plugin console log showing the dates its actually processing
• copy of the HTML that's saved to disk showing that it has output the correct dates.

I'm raising the priority on this, as it seems to be happening increasingly frequently.

Restarting NP clears the problem, but not just closing the HTMLWindow.

[jgclark]

@ksanderer is finding this as well. I've asked him to post the details he's collected.

[ksanderer]

In the Review plugin folder, dashboard.html is being updated correctly when clicking "Refresh" but it won't re-render in the NotePlan. It looks like some kind of cache at work.

I use CloudKit as a sync engine

refresh.log
task_mark_done.log

@EduardMe @jgclark anything I can check to help with debug?

[EduardMe]

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Does it re-render when you click again on update or it stays no matter how often you click? Maybe it completely refuses to reload it at some point.

[ksanderer]

It doesn't reload no matter many times I clicked “Refresh”

[dwertheimer]

@EduardMe I am seeing this a lot and it's very frustrating. Can you please have a look at how we can fix it?

[EduardMe]

Fixed and uploading a beta, please confirm once it's available to close this.