On database error: show popup, allow user to delete and relaunch

_locales/en/messages.json

@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@
     "description":
       "Shown in the about box for the link to https://signal.org/legal"
   },
+  "copyErrorAndQuit": {
+    "message": "Copy error and quit",
+    "description":
+      "Shown in the top-level error popup, allowing user to copy the error text and close the app"
+  },
+  "databaseError": {
+    "message": "Database Error",
+    "description": "Shown in a popup if the database cannot start up properly"
+  },
+  "deleteAndRestart": {
+    "message": "Delete all data and restart",
+    "description":
+      "Shown in a popup if the database cannot start up properly; allows user to dalete database and restart"
+  },
   "mainMenuFile": {
     "message": "&File",
     "description":

app/global_errors.js

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ const Errors = require('../js/modules/types/errors');
 const { app, dialog, clipboard } = electron;
 const { redactAll } = require('../js/modules/privacy');
 
-// We're using hard-coded strings in this file because it needs to be ready
-//   to report errors before we do anything in the app. Also, we expect users to directly
-//   paste this text into search engines to find the bugs on GitHub.
+// We use hard-coded strings until we're able to update these strings from the locale.
+let quitText = 'Quit';
+let copyErrorAndQuitText = 'Copy error and quit';
 
 function handleError(prefix, error) {
   console.error(`${prefix}:`, Errors.toLogFormat(error));
@@ -15,24 +15,29 @@ function handleError(prefix, error) {
   if (app.isReady()) {
     // title field is not shown on macOS, so we don't use it
     const buttonIndex = dialog.showMessageBox({
-      buttons: ['OK', 'Copy error'],
+      buttons: [quitText, copyErrorAndQuitText],
       defaultId: 0,
-      detail: error.stack,
+      detail: redactAll(error.stack),
       message: prefix,
       noLink: true,
       type: 'error',
     });
 
     if (buttonIndex === 1) {
-      clipboard.writeText(`${prefix}\n${redactAll(error.stack)}`);
+      clipboard.writeText(`${prefix}\n\n${redactAll(error.stack)}`);
     }
   } else {
     dialog.showErrorBox(prefix, error.stack);
   }
 
-  app.quit();
+  app.exit(1);
 }
 
+exports.updateLocale = messages => {
+  quitText = messages.quit.message;
+  copyErrorAndQuitText = messages.copyErrorAndQuit.message;
+};
+
 exports.addHandler = () => {
   process.on('uncaughtException', error => {
     handleError('Unhandled Error', error);

app/sql.js

@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ const path = require('path');
 const mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
 const rimraf = require('rimraf');
 const sql = require('@journeyapps/sqlcipher');
+const { app, dialog, clipboard } = require('electron');
+const { redactAll } = require('../js/modules/privacy');
+const { remove: removeUserConfig } = require('./user_config');
+
 const pify = require('pify');
 const uuidv4 = require('uuid/v4');
-const { map, isString, fromPairs, forEach, last } = require('lodash');
+const { map, isObject, isString, fromPairs, forEach, last } = require('lodash');
 
 // To get long stack traces
 //   https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/wiki/API#sqlite3verbose
@@ -670,7 +674,7 @@ let db;
 let filePath;
 let indexedDBPath;
 
-async function initialize({ configDir, key }) {
+async function initialize({ configDir, key, messages }) {
   if (db) {
     throw new Error('Cannot initialize more than once!');
   }
@@ -679,7 +683,10 @@ async function initialize({ configDir, key }) {
     throw new Error('initialize: configDir is required!');
   }
   if (!isString(key)) {
-    throw new Error('initialize: key` is required!');
+    throw new Error('initialize: key is required!');
+  }
+  if (!isObject(messages)) {
+    throw new Error('initialize: message is required!');
   }
 
   indexedDBPath = path.join(configDir, 'IndexedDB');
@@ -705,6 +712,40 @@ async function initialize({ configDir, key }) {
   await updateSchema(promisified);
 
   db = promisified;
+
+  // test database
+  try {
+    await getMessageCount();
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.log('Database startup error:', error.stack);
+    const buttonIndex = dialog.showMessageBox({
+      buttons: [
+        messages.copyErrorAndQuit.message,
+        messages.deleteAndRestart.message,
+      ],
+      defaultId: 0,
+      detail: redactAll(error.stack),
+      message: messages.databaseError.message,
+      noLink: true,
+      type: 'error',
+    });
+
+    if (buttonIndex === 0) {
+      clipboard.writeText(
+        `Database startup error:\n\n${redactAll(error.stack)}`
+      );
+    } else {
+      await close();
+      await removeDB();
+      removeUserConfig();
+      app.relaunch();
+    }
+
+    app.exit(1);
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
 }
 
 async function close() {
@@ -952,7 +993,9 @@ async function getConversationCount() {
   const row = await db.get('SELECT count(*) from conversations;');
 
   if (!row) {
-    throw new Error('getMessageCount: Unable to get count of conversations');
+    throw new Error(
+      'getConversationCount: Unable to get count of conversations'
+    );
   }
 
   return row['count(*)'];

js/background.js

@@ -1328,6 +1328,8 @@
         messageReceiver = null;
       }
 
+      onEmpty();
+
       window.log.warn(
         'Client is no longer authorized; deleting local configuration'
       );

main.js

@@ -651,6 +651,8 @@ app.on('ready', async () => {
     locale = loadLocale({ appLocale, logger });
   }
 
+  GlobalErrors.updateLocale(locale.messages);
+
   let key = userConfig.get('key');
   if (!key) {
     console.log(
@@ -660,7 +662,15 @@ app.on('ready', async () => {
     key = crypto.randomBytes(32).toString('hex');
     userConfig.set('key', key);
   }
-  await sql.initialize({ configDir: userDataPath, key });
+  const success = await sql.initialize({
+    configDir: userDataPath,
+    key,
+    messages: locale.messages,
+  });
+  if (!success) {
+    console.log('sql.initialize was unsuccessful; returning early');
+    return;
+  }
   await sqlChannels.initialize();
 
   try {
@@ -773,6 +783,7 @@ app.on('before-quit', () => {
     readyForShutdown: mainWindow ? mainWindow.readyForShutdown : null,
     shouldQuit: windowState.shouldQuit(),
   });
+
   windowState.markShouldQuit();
 });