Show label when captioning limit has been reached.

// FREEBIE

Signal/translations/en.lproj/Localizable.strings

@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
 /* No comment provided by engineer. */
 "ATTACHMENT" = "Attachment";
 
+/* One line label indicating the user can add no more text to the attachment caption. */
+"ATTACHMENT_APPROVAL_CAPTION_LENGTH_LIMIT_REACHED" = "Message limit reached.";
+
 /* Title for the 'attachment approval' dialog. */
 "ATTACHMENT_APPROVAL_DIALOG_TITLE" = "Attachment";
 

SignalMessaging/attachments/AttachmentApprovalViewController.swift

@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
     private let sendButton: UIButton
     private let textView: UITextView
     private let bottomGradient: GradientView
+    private let lengthLimitLabel: UILabel
 
     // Layout Constants
 
@@ -523,6 +524,7 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
         self.bottomGradient = GradientView(from: UIColor.clear, to: UIColor.black)
         self.textView =  MessageTextView()
         self.textViewHeight = kMinTextViewHeight
+        self.lengthLimitLabel = UILabel()
 
         super.init(frame: CGRect.zero)
 
@@ -560,12 +562,24 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
         // Increase hit area of send button
         sendButton.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 6, left: 8, bottom: 6, right: 8)
 
+        // Length Limit Label shown when the user inputs too long of a message
+        lengthLimitLabel.textColor = .white
+        lengthLimitLabel.text = NSLocalizedString("ATTACHMENT_APPROVAL_CAPTION_LENGTH_LIMIT_REACHED", comment: "One line label indicating the user can add no more text to the attachment caption.")
+        lengthLimitLabel.textAlignment = .center
+
+        // Add shadow in case overlayed on white content
+        lengthLimitLabel.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
+        lengthLimitLabel.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0.0, height: 0.0)
+        lengthLimitLabel.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.8
+        self.lengthLimitLabel.isHidden = true
+
         let contentView = UIView()
         addSubview(contentView)
         contentView.autoPinEdgesToSuperviewEdges()
         contentView.addSubview(bottomGradient)
         contentView.addSubview(sendButton)
         contentView.addSubview(textView)
+        contentView.addSubview(lengthLimitLabel)
 
         // Layout
         let kToolbarMargin: CGFloat = 8
@@ -597,6 +611,12 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
         sendButton.setContentHuggingHigh()
         sendButton.setCompressionResistanceHigh()
 
+        lengthLimitLabel.autoPinEdge(toSuperviewMargin: .left)
+        lengthLimitLabel.autoPinEdge(toSuperviewMargin: .right)
+        lengthLimitLabel.autoPinEdge(.bottom, to: .top, of: textView, withOffset: -6)
+        lengthLimitLabel.setContentHuggingHigh()
+        lengthLimitLabel.setCompressionResistanceHigh()
+
         let bottomGradientHeight = ScaleFromIPhone5(100)
         bottomGradient.autoSetDimension(.height, toSize: bottomGradientHeight)
         bottomGradient.autoPinEdgesToSuperviewEdges(with: .zero, excludingEdge: .top)
@@ -619,6 +639,7 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
         // Because the captioning interface doesn't allow newlines, in practice design pressures users to leave relatively short captions.
         let maxCharacterCount = 2000
         guard textView.text.count + text.count - range.length <= maxCharacterCount else {
+            self.lengthLimitLabel.isHidden = false
             // Accept as much of the input as we can
             let remainingSpace = maxCharacterCount - textView.text.count
             if (remainingSpace) > 0 {
@@ -628,6 +649,7 @@ class CaptioningToolbar: UIView, UITextViewDelegate {
             }
             return false
         }
+        self.lengthLimitLabel.isHidden = true
 
         // Though we can wrap the text, we don't want to encourage multline captions, plus a "done" button
         // allows the user to get the keyboard out of the way while in the attachment approval view.

SignalServiceKit/src/Messages/Interactions/TSOutgoingMessage.m

@@ -416,15 +416,17 @@ NSString *const kTSOutgoingMessageSentRecipientAll = @"kTSOutgoingMessageSentRec
     
     OWSSignalServiceProtosDataMessageBuilder *builder = [OWSSignalServiceProtosDataMessageBuilder new];
     [builder setTimestamp:self.timestamp];
-    
-    
+
+
     if ([self.body lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] <= kOversizeTextMessageSizeThreshold) {
         [builder setBody:self.body];
     } else {
         OWSFail(@"%@ message body length too long.", self.logTag);
         NSMutableString *truncatedBody = [self.body mutableCopy];
         while ([truncatedBody lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] > kOversizeTextMessageSizeThreshold) {
-            DDLogError(@"%@ truncating body which is too long: %tu", self.logTag, [truncatedBody lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
+            DDLogError(@"%@ truncating body which is too long: %tu",
+                self.logTag,
+                [truncatedBody lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
             truncatedBody = [truncatedBody substringToIndex:truncatedBody.length / 2];
         }
         [builder setBody:truncatedBody];