Trying to access an attachment directly by URL not working

[ppetrov2c]

For example the URL ​https://example.com/wp-admin/upload.php?item=14
If there are more than 40 attachments, trying to access any attachment page after that 40th entry, will result in a JS error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'set' of undefined

Trying to open any attachment page via URL before and including 40, will work as expected.

A quick look, and it appears that, the problem comes from media-grid JS.

item = library.findWhere( { id: parseInt( query, 10 ) } );

The line above will return undefined, resulting in the attachment page not showing.

I'm attaching a screenshot with a log of the library variable from the media-grid JS file (line 521).

[adamsilverstein]

@ppetrov2c Thanks for the bug report and welcome to WordPress trac!

Testing locally I was not able to reproduce this issue. Can you please try disabling all plugins and also switching to one of the default themes (twentyseventeen for example) to see if the problem persists?

[ppetrov2c]

Replying to adamsilverstein:

@ppetrov2c Thanks for the bug report and welcome to WordPress trac!

Testing locally I was not able to reproduce this issue. Can you please try disabling all plugins and also switching to one of the default themes (twentyseventeen for example) to see if the problem persists?

Forgot to mention, sorry about that - I did the tests on vanilla WordPress 4.9.1, without plugins and the twentyseventeen theme.

[adamsilverstein]

In 42760.diff​ :

Media: ensure item is available before setting skipHistory on load.

@ppetrov2c Thanks for your bug report! I finally was able to work on looking into the issue. Can you please test the attached patch to verify this resolves the issue for you?

Anyone else who wants to test, its important that you:

1. Have more than 40 items in your media library.
2. Click on the 41st or greater item in the media library.
3. Reload the browser window.

Before patch: Media item does not load, library shows instead, JavaScript console error
After patch: Item loads, no errors.

[audrasjb]

Hi,

With 5.4 Beta 3 approaching and the Beta period reserved for bugs introduced during the cycle, this is being moved to Future Release. If any maintainer or committer feels this should be included or wishes to assume ownership during a specific cycle, feel free to update the milestone accordingly.

[ppetrov2c]

@adamsilverstein - hey!

I apologize for the late reply. I managed to test the patch on the same test instance (clean wp 4.9.1, twentyseventeen).

I am happy to report, that the problem is no longer present. The 41st (and so on) item are loading after a browser refresh.

Decided to check if there's a problem in the latest WP (5.8) and there isn't.

[adamsilverstein]

Thanks for checking @ppetrov2c.

Would be great if we had test coverage for this type of thing as well (which I'm not sure we can given our current testing infrastructure)

Decided to check if there's a problem in the latest WP (5.8) and there isn't.

I wonder if that is true when users re-enable infinite scroll? If so, might still be worth fixing, I'll give it a test.

[joedolson]

Just tested this with a few different cases: with infinite scroll re-enabled and default, tested the 41st+ item and also the 81st+ item, since the default collection size was changed in [51643].

In all cases, this appeared to work just fine, matching the test results that @ppetrov2c was observing in comment 7. Closing as worksforme. Feel free to reopen if you're experiencing this error!

Closed as worksforme in Trac.