wp-android send requests for single media item info over and over again

[gfto]

Expected behavior

Send single request for given media item id (wp.getMediaItem) and cache the result.

Actual behavior

wp-android send requests for single id over and over again, hitting the server with multiple requests per second.

web requests (note multiple requests per second): https://gist.github.com/gfto/06895728cf4a6bd722a12ebac0279ba0
xmlrpc payloads (the first number on each line is how many requests with such payload are sent): https://gist.github.com/gfto/0d700b3fe1d23a68bb794a667b45b8cd

Steps to reproduce the behavior

No idea, I only have the logs from the web server.

Tested on [device], Android [version], WPAndroid [version]

The user agent that sends the requests is

"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SM-F936B Build/SP2A.220305.013; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/105.0.5195.136 Safari/537.36 wp-android/20.7"

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[thehenrybyrd]

Hi @gfto thanks for reporting this!
Can you tell us more about when you noticed these web requests? It may be helpful to know who your host is, and other context around the requests.
Do you use the WP Android app yourself? Any further information you can provide would help us narrow down the circumstances when this is happening so we can understand the issue better.

@SiobhyB @twstokes does this look at all familiar to the media upload things you've been digging into recently?

[SiobhyB]

@thehenrybyrd, this looks fairly different to the errors we digged into. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with Android's upload process to speak to whether this is expected behaviour that could be improved or if it signifies a bug.

[gfto]

These are logs from customer site hosted in SiteGround. There is nothing special about them except that we've seen them happen and they looked highly irregular. I personally don't use the Android/iOS WordPress managing app so I can't reproduce the behavior.

[dangermattic]

Thanks for reporting! 👍