From e869814f2dc2e34633a9a55342fcbb28164c16dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Baker <dave@matrix.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:14:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't display anything if TextForEvent doesn't give us any
 text. Fixes #253 (catapillar of doom).

---
 src/controllers/organisms/RoomView.js         |  8 ++++----
 src/skins/vector/views/molecules/EventTile.js | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/controllers/organisms/RoomView.js b/src/controllers/organisms/RoomView.js
index c0077bc0b7..f5a8d28f26 100644
--- a/src/controllers/organisms/RoomView.js
+++ b/src/controllers/organisms/RoomView.js
@@ -415,16 +415,16 @@ module.exports = {
                 var mxEv = new Matrix.MatrixEvent(resultList[i].result);
                 if (resultList[i].context.events_before[0]) {
                     var mxEv2 = new Matrix.MatrixEvent(resultList[i].context.events_before[0]);
-                    if (EventTile.supportsEventType(mxEv2.getType())) {
+                    if (EventTile.haveTileForEvent(mxEv2)) {
                         ret.push(<li key={mxEv.getId() + "-1"}><EventTile mxEvent={mxEv2} contextual={true} /></li>);
                     }
                 }
-                if (EventTile.supportsEventType(mxEv.getType())) {
+                if (EventTile.haveTileForEvent(mxEv)) {
                     ret.push(<li key={mxEv.getId() + "+0"}><EventTile mxEvent={mxEv} searchTerm={this.state.searchTerm}/></li>);
                 }
                 if (resultList[i].context.events_after[0]) {
                     var mxEv2 = new Matrix.MatrixEvent(resultList[i].context.events_after[0]);
-                    if (EventTile.supportsEventType(mxEv2.getType())) {
+                    if (EventTile.haveTileForEvent(mxEv2)) {
                         ret.push(<li key={mxEv.getId() + "+1"}><EventTile mxEvent={mxEv2} contextual={true} /></li>);
                     }
                 }
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ module.exports = {
         for (var i = this.state.room.timeline.length-1; i >= 0 && count < this.state.messageCap; --i) {
             var mxEv = this.state.room.timeline[i];
 
-            if (!EventTile.supportsEventType(mxEv.getType())) {
+            if (!EventTile.haveTileForEvent(mxEv)) {
                 continue;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/skins/vector/views/molecules/EventTile.js b/src/skins/vector/views/molecules/EventTile.js
index 6c2f948ca5..c5cb81951b 100644
--- a/src/skins/vector/views/molecules/EventTile.js
+++ b/src/skins/vector/views/molecules/EventTile.js
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ var sdk = require('matrix-react-sdk')
 var EventTileController = require('matrix-react-sdk/lib/controllers/molecules/EventTile')
 var ContextualMenu = require('../../../../ContextualMenu');
 
+var TextForEvent = require('matrix-react-sdk/lib/TextForEvent');
+
 var eventTileTypes = {
     'm.room.message': 'molecules.MessageTile',
     'm.room.member' : 'molecules.EventAsTextTile',
@@ -39,8 +41,13 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
     mixins: [EventTileController],
 
     statics: {
-        supportsEventType: function(et) {
-            return eventTileTypes[et] !== undefined;
+        haveTileForEvent: function(e) {
+            if (eventTileTypes[e.getType()] == undefined) return false;
+            if (eventTileTypes[e.getType()] == 'molecules.EventAsTextTile') {
+                return TextForEvent.textForEvent(e) !== '';
+            } else {
+                return true;
+            }
         }
     },