Send room display name as part of invite link (if needed)

src/components/CreateRoom.vue

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ export default {
         }
         if (room) {
           this.publicRoomLink = this.$router.getRoomLink(
-            room.getCanonicalAlias() || roomId
+            room.getCanonicalAlias(), roomId, room.name
           );
         }
       });

src/components/Join.vue

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
             {{ roomId && roomId.startsWith("@") ? $t("join.title_user") : $t("join.title") }}
           </div>
           <div class="join-title">
-            {{ roomName }}
+            {{ roomDisplayName || roomName }}
           </div>
         </div>
 
@@ -215,6 +215,14 @@ export default {
       let activeLanguages = [...this.getLanguages()];
       return activeLanguages.filter((lang) => lang.value === this.$i18n.locale);
     },
+    roomDisplayName() {
+      // If there is a display name in to invite link, use that!
+      try {
+        return new URL(location.href).searchParams.get('roomName');
+      } catch(ignoredError) {
+        return undefined;
+      }
+    }
   },
   watch: {
     roomId: {

src/components/roomInfoMixin.js

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export default {
     publicRoomLink() {
       if (this.room && this.roomJoinRule == "public") {
         return this.$router.getRoomLink(
-          this.room.getCanonicalAlias() || this.room.roomId
+          this.room.getCanonicalAlias(), this.room.roomId, this.room.name
         );
       }
       return null;

src/plugins/utils.js

@@ -778,6 +778,13 @@ class Util {
         return _browserCanRecordAudio;
     }
 
+    getRoomNameFromAlias(alias) {
+        if (alias && alias.startsWith('#') && alias.indexOf(':') > 0) {
+            return alias.slice(1).split(':')[0];
+        }
+        return undefined;
+    }
+
     getUniqueAliasForRoomName(matrixClient, roomName, homeServer, iterationCount) {
         return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
             var preferredAlias = roomName.replace(/\s/g, "").toLowerCase();

src/router/index.js

@@ -140,8 +140,13 @@ router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
   }
 });
 
-router.getRoomLink = function (roomId) {
+router.getRoomLink = function (alias, roomId, roomName) {
-  return window.location.origin + window.location.pathname + "#/room/" + encodeURIComponent(util.sanitizeRoomId(roomId));
+  if ((!alias || roomName.replace(/\s/g, "").toLowerCase() !== util.getRoomNameFromAlias(alias)) && roomName) {
+    // There is no longer a correlation between alias and room name, probably because room name has
+    // changed. Include the "?roomName" part
+    return window.location.origin + window.location.pathname + "?roomName=" + encodeURIComponent(roomName) + "#/room/" + encodeURIComponent(util.sanitizeRoomId(alias || roomId));
+  }
+  return window.location.origin + window.location.pathname + "#/room/" + encodeURIComponent(util.sanitizeRoomId(alias || roomId));
 }
 
 export default router