From e9568b50fcaf67abac7a86b2254c31e4ea1ff959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Goins <josh@redstrate.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 21:09:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] If the message body is empty, say so

Normally if a malformed event is empty it will just be empty space - but
that looks buggy. Instead, we can add a message saying "This event does
not have any content."

BUG: 494093
---
 src/timeline/models/messagecontentmodel.cpp | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/timeline/models/messagecontentmodel.cpp b/src/timeline/models/messagecontentmodel.cpp
index da9745f6a..11281b178 100644
--- a/src/timeline/models/messagecontentmodel.cpp
+++ b/src/timeline/models/messagecontentmodel.cpp
@@ -559,11 +559,19 @@ QList<MessageComponent> MessageContentModel::componentsForType(MessageComponentT
     case MessageComponentType::Text: {
         const auto roomMessageEvent = eventCast<const Quotient::RoomMessageEvent>(event.first);
         auto body = EventHandler::rawMessageBody(*roomMessageEvent);
-        return TextHandler().textComponents(body,
-                                            EventHandler::messageBodyInputFormat(*roomMessageEvent),
-                                            m_room,
-                                            roomMessageEvent,
-                                            roomMessageEvent->isReplaced());
+        if (body.trimmed().isEmpty()) {
+            return TextHandler().textComponents(i18n("<i>This event does not have any content.</i>"),
+                                                Qt::TextFormat::RichText,
+                                                m_room,
+                                                roomMessageEvent,
+                                                roomMessageEvent->isReplaced());
+        } else {
+            return TextHandler().textComponents(body,
+                                                EventHandler::messageBodyInputFormat(*roomMessageEvent),
+                                                m_room,
+                                                roomMessageEvent,
+                                                roomMessageEvent->isReplaced());
+        }
     }
     case MessageComponentType::File: {
         QList<MessageComponent> components;