[Merl 1256] Bug fix. Generate Autosave is missing from Post/Page Previews

[theodesp]

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Description

Fixes missing call to autosave when clicking on the Preview links.

Related Issue(s):

Testing

1. Checkout this branch that includes changes to the faustwp plugin
2. Using the updated faustwp plugin, create a new post & save as draft (do not publish)
3. Observe that both preview links correctly resolve to display draft content.
4. Verify that the draft content is also presented in the headless site.

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[theodesp]

DOM modifications are not allowed under a React managed DOM

[blakewilson]

@theodesp I've tested this and both existing previews and draft previews no longer work for me.

When requesting an existing post preview, the post comes back as null:

When requesting a new draft post, the previewPathname is no longer being added to the URL, which is causing an error on the Faust/Next side to be thrown. Oddly, when hovering over the preview button you can see in the bottom left corner, the URL does include the previewPathname:

But once the link is clicked, it is removed from the URL:

[theodesp]

@blakewilson I've updated the code. It should work now:

Screen.Recording.2023-11-14.at.10.58.26.mp4

[theodesp]

Lint error looks like relevant to this

woocommerce/woocommerce-sniffs#34

Need to investigate

[blakewilson]

@theodesp I've tested this and both existing previews and draft previews no longer work for me.

When requesting an existing post preview, the post comes back as null:

When requesting a new draft post, the previewPathname is no longer being added to the URL, which is causing an error on the Faust/Next side to be thrown. Oddly, when hovering over the preview button you can see in the bottom left corner, the URL does include the previewPathname:

But once the link is clicked, it is removed from the URL:

I've realized this was due to a bug in Faust/Safari, so this may be unrelated.

[blakewilson]

Nice work @theodesp! I've tested locally for published posts and draft posts and both work as expected.

[mindctrl]

Left comment about tests. Also there's a merge conflict now.

[TeresaGobble]

Apologies for accidentally closing this, typing in github and my focus jumped to close with comment.

stale