Tapping/clicking on an empty comment crashes the app

[zachintolinux]

Checklist

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Affected version

0.25.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Search for the video "Tesla can't build a car" by "Louis Rossmann: RANDOM LIVE"
2. Tap/click on the empty comment
3. App should crash
4. Open the app and repeat steps 1-2
5. The error report should appear

Expected behavior

I expected the empty comment to have full text after expanding said comment.

Actual behavior

As I mentioned before, the app crashes when I tap on the empty comment in that video.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: none
• Version: 0.25.0
• OS: Linux Android 13 - 33

Crash log

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=0; index=-1
	at java.lang.String.charAt(Native Method)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.info_list.holder.CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.toggleEllipsize(CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.java:255)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.info_list.holder.CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.lambda$updateFromItem$1(CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.java:145)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.info_list.holder.CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.$r8$lambda$0fvlfbx4UGcHQ9bF6ke9G9oLHSM(CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder.java:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.info_list.holder.CommentsMiniInfoItemHolder$$ExternalSyntheticLambda1.onClick(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:7506)
	at android.view.View.performClickInternal(View.java:7483)
	at android.view.View.-$$Nest$mperformClickInternal(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:29341)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:942)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7879)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
	at com.android.internal.os.ExecInit.main(ExecInit.java:49)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:355)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 13/GrapheneOS

Affected device model

Google Pixel 6a

Additional information

DISCLAIMER: This is the first time I've encountered an issue like this.

Keep that in mind as this could be either a one-time occurrence or one of many randomized occurrences across multiple videos.

[slavalamp]

the comment text missing also seems to have been fixed in the extractor? they got broken because they have hashtags

TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1021

[AudricV]

the comment text missing also seems to have been fixed in the extractor?

In fact, the fix doesn't really fix the issue, but I found how to really fix this.

Anyway, that's outside the scope of this issue: see TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1019.