Hosting Dashboard: Convert the existing “Actions” fields into core DataViews “Actions”

[allilevine]

Convert the existing “Actions” fields into proper core DataViews “Actions”. This means we have bulk selection for free and there’s no table header tools for that column (move left/right controls).

Follow-up to #93503

[youknowriad]

I started looking at this a little bit. There are a two things that are not possible currently in the Actions API and that exist in the Actions dropdown used in the sites dataviews

1- Descriptions or help text for actions

This is probably something we can easily support upstream if needed.

2- Nested drop-down for actions (or "grouping" actions)

While I think it's possible to support potentially by introducing some notion of "group" for actions or something like that. I'm not entirely sure we should support it to be honest. My suggestion would be to remove the nesting and maybe have a single link to Hosting where the user can see all these sections.

WDYT. @jameskoster @davemart-in

[davemart-in]

I think it would be fine to drop both the nested dropdown and the help text.

[youknowriad]

For clarity, myr PR is at the moment blocked by the fact that the /sites endpoint doesn't include features which means that for each "site", we need to perform an extra REST API request to fetch the features before rendering the DataViews.

I know @jsnajdr was looking into iterations on the sites endpoint to address that but it seems a bit complex, so I'm not entirely sure what's the next step here.

[jsnajdr]

The REST endpoint is fixed, it now returns the active features. I have a draft PR for Calypso that removes all the explicit QuerySiteFeatures queries, but it's a big change and will some more work to finish: #94840.

[youknowriad]

Oh I didn't know. Thanks @jsnajdr. Do you think I should wait for your PR to land first or should I update my actions PR (smaller scope) to use the featured directly? Thinking the latter unless you have any reservations

[jsnajdr]

should I update my actions PR (smaller scope) to use the featured directly?

I won't get to work on it again at least until Oct 2, so you might want to use the features directly for now.

Instead of using the siteHasFeature selector, look directly at the site object:

hasFeature = ( state, siteId, feature ) => getSite( state, siteId ).plan.features.active.includes( feature )

If the /me/sites info is loaded at all, then the plan.features.active info will reliably be there.

[youknowriad]

Great Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[Copons]

I think this can be closed now. ✨