fix: make allowOneAtATime take a generic

ts/session/apis/open_group_api/opengroupV2/ApiUtil.ts

@@ -142,36 +142,33 @@ const defaultServerPublicKey = 'a03c383cf63c3c4efe67acc52112a6dd734b3a946b9545f4
 const defaultRoom = `${defaultServer}/main?public_key=${defaultServerPublicKey}`;
 
 const loadDefaultRoomsSingle = () =>
-  allowOnlyOneAtATime(
+  allowOnlyOneAtATime('loadDefaultRoomsSingle', async () => {
-    'loadDefaultRoomsSingle',
+    const roomInfos = parseOpenGroupV2(defaultRoom);
-    async (): Promise<Array<OpenGroupV2InfoJoinable>> => {
+    if (roomInfos) {
-      const roomInfos = parseOpenGroupV2(defaultRoom);
+      try {
-      if (roomInfos) {
+        const roomsGot = await getAllRoomInfos(roomInfos);
-        try {
+
-          const roomsGot = await getAllRoomInfos(roomInfos);
+        if (!roomsGot) {
-
+          return [];
-          if (!roomsGot) {
-            return [];
-          }
-
-          return roomsGot.map(room => {
-            return {
-              ...room,
-              completeUrl: getCompleteUrlFromRoom({
-                serverUrl: roomInfos.serverUrl,
-                serverPublicKey: roomInfos.serverPublicKey,
-                roomId: room.id,
-              }),
-            };
-          });
-        } catch (e) {
-          window?.log?.warn('loadDefaultRoomloadDefaultRoomssIfNeeded failed', e);
         }
-        return [];
+
+        return roomsGot.map(room => {
+          return {
+            ...room,
+            completeUrl: getCompleteUrlFromRoom({
+              serverUrl: roomInfos.serverUrl,
+              serverPublicKey: roomInfos.serverPublicKey,
+              roomId: room.id,
+            }),
+          };
+        });
+      } catch (e) {
+        window?.log?.warn('loadDefaultRoomloadDefaultRoomssIfNeeded failed', e);
       }
       return [];
     }
-  );
+    return [];
+  });
 
 /**
  * Load to the cache all the details of the room of the default opengroupv2 server

ts/session/apis/open_group_api/opengroupV2/OpenGroupManagerV2.ts

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export class OpenGroupManagerV2 {
     serverUrl: string,
     roomId: string,
     publicKey: string
-  ): Promise<ConversationModel> {
+  ): Promise<ConversationModel | undefined> {
     const oneAtaTimeStr = `oneAtaTimeOpenGroupV2Join:${serverUrl}${roomId}`;
     return allowOnlyOneAtATime(oneAtaTimeStr, async () => {
       return this.attemptConnectionV2(serverUrl, roomId, publicKey);

ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3FetchFile.ts

@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ export async function sogsV3FetchPreviewAndSaveIt(roomInfos: OpenGroupV2RoomWith
 
   // make sure this runs only once for each rooms.
   // we don't want to trigger one of those on each setPollInfo results as it happens on each batch poll.
-  const oneAtAtimeResult = (await allowOnlyOneAtATime(
+  const oneAtAtimeResult = await allowOnlyOneAtATime(
     `sogsV3FetchPreview-${serverUrl}-${roomId}`,
     () => sogsV3FetchPreview(roomInfos, blinded)
-  )) as Uint8Array | null; // force the return type as allowOnlyOneAtATime does not keep it
+  );
 
   if (!oneAtAtimeResult || !oneAtAtimeResult?.byteLength) {
     window?.log?.warn('sogsV3FetchPreviewAndSaveIt failed for room: ', roomId);

ts/session/apis/seed_node_api/SeedNodeAPI.ts

@@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ export interface SnodeFromSeed {
 }
 
 const getSnodeListFromSeednodeOneAtAtime = async (seedNodes: Array<string>) =>
-  allowOnlyOneAtATime('getSnodeListFromSeednode', () =>
+  allowOnlyOneAtATime('getSnodeListFromSeednode', () => getSnodeListFromSeednode(seedNodes));
-    getSnodeListFromSeednode(seedNodes)
-  ) as Promise<Array<SnodeFromSeed>>;
 
 /**
  * This call will try 4 times to contact a seed nodes (random) and get the snode list from it.

ts/session/utils/Promise.ts

@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ export class TaskTimedOutError extends Error {
 // one action resolves all
 const oneAtaTimeRecord: Record<string, Promise<any>> = {};
 
-export async function allowOnlyOneAtATime(
+export async function allowOnlyOneAtATime<T>(
   name: string,
-  process: () => Promise<any>,
+  process: () => Promise<T | undefined>,
   timeoutMs?: number
-) {
+): Promise<T> {
   // if currently not in progress
   if (oneAtaTimeRecord[name] === undefined) {
     // set lock
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export async function allowOnlyOneAtATime(
         }, timeoutMs);
       }
       // do actual work
-      let innerRetVal;
+      let innerRetVal: T | undefined;
       try {
         innerRetVal = await process();
       } catch (e) {