Launch Composer from Topic Reply at foot of Topic: Draft missing on re-initiate

mcwumbly · July 13, 2025, 1:36am

@davidb can you take a peek at this one?

It sounds similar to what you’re working on here, but I’m not sure it’s the exact same issue:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: load saved draft when clicking reply to post

main ← load-post-draft-from-reply-btn

opened 03:26PM - 09 Jul 25 UTC

dbattersby

+47 -7

In the past we have always relied on automatically opening the composer and auto… loading the existing draft when visiting a topic that has a draft post reply. This is fine to auto load the draft, but when the composer is closed and reopened on the same page then we have an issue. The result is that the draft is then deleted because the draft key is set and the composer body is blank, since it has never been populated when clicking the reply to post button. To solve this we can check for existing drafts when clicking the reply to post button, then load the draft into the composer. _The challenging part of this change is that we have a number of tests that were relying on a false positive. Hence in the specs I have switched some tests to use a fixture that does not have drafts and in some cases kept the same fixture but mocked the response as having no drafts returned._ Internal ref: /t/-/158209

I did a quick test myself, and it does look like the PR fixes this.

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Abandon and Save draft buttons should appear when composing a new reply Feature	2	1743	September 16, 2015
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Launch Composer from Topic Reply at foot of Topic: Draft missing on re-initiate

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