From 634f4a8bb74a060916adead3c3f8407ec3b15293 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Hahn <69474926+EvanHahn-Signal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:38:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix error in `<ConversationListItem>`

---
 ts/components/conversationList/ConversationListItem.tsx | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ts/components/conversationList/ConversationListItem.tsx b/ts/components/conversationList/ConversationListItem.tsx
index 63407ade35..2096ed99d2 100644
--- a/ts/components/conversationList/ConversationListItem.tsx
+++ b/ts/components/conversationList/ConversationListItem.tsx
@@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ export const ConversationListItem: FunctionComponent<Props> = React.memo(
   }
 );
 
-function truncateMessageText(text: undefined | string = ''): string {
+// This takes `unknown` because, sometimes, values from the database don't match our
+//   types. In the long term, we should fix that. In the short term, this smooths over the
+//   problem.
+function truncateMessageText(text: unknown): string {
+  if (typeof text !== 'string') {
+    return '';
+  }
   return text.split('\n', 1)[0];
 }