Allow deleting the first action block of a scene

[Pierre-Gilles]

Implements feature request: https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/scene-supprimer-bloc-1-si-vide/9447

Description

In the scene editor, the delete button of an action block was hidden on the first block, so an empty or unwanted block 1 could never be removed: the only workaround was to move every action of the following blocks up by hand.

The delete button is now displayed on block 1 as soon as another block exists below it. When a block is the only one of its list, no delete button is displayed (same behaviour as today). Concretely, the condition became "hide the delete button on the last block of a list": the last block of a list is always the empty one kept at the end of it, and the only block of a list is also its last one, so both cases are covered.

This applies to the action blocks of the scene, and to the blocks nested in the Then / Else branches of an "if... then... else" and in the Repeat branch of a "while" (same component).

Deleting a block also keeps the scene coherent now, which matters much more once block 1 can be deleted. Scene variables are referenced by block path (e.g. {{1.0.last_value}}), and until now deleting a block only dropped the variables it declared: the variables of the following blocks — which are all shifted one index down — kept their old path, and the references to them in the rest of the scene were left untouched, silently pointing at the wrong action. Deleting a block now shifts those variable paths and rewrites the references to them:

• texts containing variables (message, notification, AI prompt, MQTT message, HTTP body, delay, set value, set variable...),
• the variable and the value to evaluate of each "only continue if" condition,
• in the whole scene, including the actions nested in if / then / else branches.

This is exactly what is already done when a block is inserted, so the rewriting code is now shared between the insertion and the deletion. Two edge cases of that shared code were fixed on the way: a variable appearing several times in the same text was only rewritten once, and a path could be rewritten in the middle of a longer path (1.0 inside 11.0.last_value).

The variables of the deleted block are still removed, and the block index is now compared segment by segment instead of with a startsWith, so deleting block 1 no longer drops the variables of block 10.

Forum

Forum: https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/scene-supprimer-bloc-1-si-vide/9447

Checklist

• Linter and prettier pass on the front (npm run prettier, npm run prettier-check, npm run eslint)
• npm run compare-translations passes (no new i18n key: the button has no label, only an icon)
• npm run build passes
• No server change, so no server test needed
• No undocumented breaking change

Cypress was not run locally (no browser available in this environment). The scene E2E spec (front/cypress/e2e/routes/scene/Scene.cy.js) does not assert on the action block buttons: it targets the scene delete button by its editScene.deleteButton label and the save button by its .btn-success class, while the block delete button is an icon-only .btn-outline-danger, so the extra button should not affect it.

This pull request was opened by an automated Claude Code run and needs a human review before merging. Testing the deletion of block 1 in a real scene with variables shared between blocks would be especially welcome.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed action-group deletion controls so they remain available appropriately, including for groups that are both first and last.
  • Improved scene variable reference updates when action groups are inserted or deleted.
  • Preserved references across text, selectors, and nested actions after group changes.
  • Removed variables associated with deleted groups and adjusted remaining references automatically.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds recursive scene-variable reference rewriting for action-group insertion and deletion. It removes the unused firstActionGroup prop and hides deletion for the permanent last action group.

Changes

Scene action-group updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recursive variable rewriting front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/index.js	New helpers rewrite variable paths across text, selectors, action attributes, conditions, and nested branches. Insertion applies indexed replacements in descending order.
Action-group deletion updates front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/index.js	Deletion removes variables from the deleted group, shifts later paths, and updates references across nested actions.
Action-group delete control front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/ActionGroup.jsx, front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/EditScenePage.jsx, front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/actions/*	The delete button is hidden only for the last action group. Renderers no longer pass firstActionGroup.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f6860

Deleting or inserting scene action blocks can mutate the existing scene state before the corresponding variable updates are committed, which may leave a scene temporarily inconsistent or rewrite references without their matching variables during overlapping updates or failures. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Possibly related PRs

• GladysAssistant/Gladys#2750: Both changes modify ConditionWhile and scene variable-path handling.
• GladysAssistant/Gladys#2863: Both changes update scene variable-reference rewriting.
• GladysAssistant/Gladys#2905: Both changes modify action-group components and variable-reference rewriting.

Suggested labels: type:feature

Suggested reviewers: atrovato

Poem

I hop through groups of scene-bound code,
Rewriting paths along the road.
The last group stays, the rest may flee,
First-group props are history.
— A tidy rabbit, pleased as can be.

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Front-only scene-editor change, and the implementation matches the forum request: the delete button is shown on block 1 as soon as another block exists below it, hidden on the trailing empty group (and therefore also when a list has a single group). The same ActionGroup is used in If Then/Else and While Repeat, so nested lists get the same rule. firstActionGroup is fully removed.

The important part is the variable-path rewrite on delete. Comparing paths segment-by-segment (instead of startsWith) is a real fix — deleting group 1 no longer drops group 10. Sharing the rewrite with insert, sorting replacements by groupIndex, and matching {{prevPath. / prevPath. as a prefix (global split/join, not a single String#replace) also close the two edge cases called out on #2905 (1.0 inside 11.0.last_value, and a variable appearing twice in the same text). Empty block 1 with a block 2 below — the actual pain in the forum thread — should now delete cleanly and shift the following groups.

Not risk:high: editor-only, no server / runtime / auth / DB. Unlike #2750 this does not change scene execution.

Please still do a human click-through (asking atrovato): delete filled block 1 in a scene where later blocks reference its variables, and delete a nested Then/Repeat group the same way. Two residuals are inline; neither should block merge of the empty-block-1 case.

Also: #2905 (duplicate action block) touches the same files and extracts similar helpers. On merge, keep this PR’s rewrite helpers — they are the anchored/global version.

CI is green (front test/build, Cypress, server, Docker, codecov). No DEVICE_FEATURE_* changes. needs:cursor-review was not on the PR.

  

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front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/index.js (1)

74-88: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Rewrite a cloned action tree.

replaceVariablePathsInActions mutates action[attribute] directly. Both call sites pass prevState.scene.actions, so the live previous state changes before immutability-helper returns the next state. A queued update or an exception can expose rewritten action references without the matching variables update. Clone the affected action tree first, rewrite the clone, and return the clone in scene.

Also applies to: 401-404, 490-492

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In `@front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/index.js` around lines 74 - 88, The
replaceVariablePathsInActions flow currently mutates action objects from
prevState.scene.actions; clone the affected action tree before rewriting it,
then return the cloned tree in the scene update so previous state remains
unchanged and action/variables updates stay consistent. Apply this to both call
sites of replaceVariablePathsInActions, including the additional affected
locations, while preserving the existing path-replacement behavior.

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In `@front/src/routes/scene/edit-scene/index.js`:
- Around line 74-88: The replaceVariablePathsInActions flow currently mutates
action objects from prevState.scene.actions; clone the affected action tree
before rewriting it, then return the cloned tree in the scene update so previous
state remains unchanged and action/variables updates stay consistent. Apply this
to both call sites of replaceVariablePathsInActions, including the additional
affected locations, while preserving the existing path-replacement behavior.

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Re-review of f6860be after the insert-path follow-up.

addActionGroupAfter now builds newVariables in a fresh map, same as delete. The previous copy-then-delete drop (variables at 1.0 and 2.0, insert after group 0 → v1 gone) is fixed, and the pass still copies unaffected keys. That was the only code bug from the last review.

The rest still looks right for the forum request: delete is shown on block 1 whenever it is not the last (trailing empty) group of its list, including Then / Else / Repeat. Segment-by-segment path matching still avoids dropping 10 when deleting 1. Shared rewrite helpers still use a prefixed {{prevPath. / prevPath. match and a global split/join, which is the version to keep if this lands next to #2905.

Leaving references to the deleted group in surviving texts is accepted as the existing product behaviour (same class as today’s middle-block delete). Clearing them would be a separate, lossy decision on user-written copy.

Not risk:high: editor-only, no server / runtime / auth / DB. Unlike #2750 this does not change scene execution. No DEVICE_FEATURE_* changes.

Keeping needs:human-review and atrovato: please still click through deleting filled block 1 in a scene where later blocks reference its variables, and the same for a nested Then/Repeat group. CI is green on this head (front test/build, Cypress, server, Docker, codecov). needs:cursor-review was not on the PR.

  

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