#1838 Ensure that no fatal error is triggered if you try to access a...

#1838 Ensure that no fatal error is triggered if you try to access a merged contact and the contact that it was merged into has been permanently deleted

Move exception capturing into the page layer and extend unit test to cover page function

Update status message as per Mikeý's comment

CRM/Contact/Page/View.php

@@ -311,7 +311,13 @@ class CRM_Contact_Page_View extends CRM_Core_Page {
     }
     if ($isDeleted) {
       $title = "<del>{$title}</del>";
-      $mergedTo = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'getmergedto', ['contact_id' => $contactId, 'api.Contact.get' => ['return' => 'display_name']]);
+      try {
+        $mergedTo = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'getmergedto', ['contact_id' => $contactId, 'api.Contact.get' => ['return' => 'display_name']]);
+      }
+      catch (CiviCRM_API3_Exception $e) {
+        CRM_Core_Session::singleton()->setStatus(ts('This contact was deleted during a merge operation. The contact it was merged into cannot be found and may have been deleted.'));
+        $mergedTo = ['count' => 0];
+      }
       if ($mergedTo['count']) {
         $mergedToContactID = $mergedTo['id'];
         $mergedToDisplayName = $mergedTo['values'][$mergedToContactID]['api.Contact.get']['values'][0]['display_name'];

tests/phpunit/api/v3/ContactTest.php

@@ -4166,6 +4166,30 @@ class api_v3_ContactTest extends CiviUnitTestCase {
     $this->assertEquals($mergedContactIds, array_keys($result));
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Test retrieving merged contacts.
+   *
+   * The goal here is to start with a contact deleted by merged and find out the contact that is the current version of them.
+   *
+   * @throws \CRM_Core_Exception
+   */
+  public function testMergedGetWithPermanentlyDeletedContact() {
+    $this->contactIDs[] = $this->individualCreate();
+    $this->contactIDs[] = $this->individualCreate();
+    $this->contactIDs[] = $this->individualCreate();
+    $this->contactIDs[] = $this->individualCreate();
+
+    // First do an 'unnatural merge' - they 'like to merge into the lowest but this will mean that contact 0 merged to contact [3].
+    // When the batch merge runs.... the new lowest contact is contact[1]. All contacts will merge into that contact,
+    // including contact[3], resulting in only 3 existing at the end. For each contact the correct answer to 'who did I eventually
+    // wind up being should be [1]
+    $this->callAPISuccess('Contact', 'merge', ['to_remove_id' => $this->contactIDs[0], 'to_keep_id' => $this->contactIDs[3]]);
+    $this->callAPISuccess('Contact', 'delete', ['id' => $this->contactIDs[3], 'skip_undelete' => TRUE]);
+    $this->callAPIFailure('Contact', 'getmergedto', ['sequential' => 1, 'contact_id' => $this->contactIDs[0]]);
+    $title = CRM_Contact_Page_View::setTitle($this->contactIDs[0], TRUE);
+    $this->assertContains('civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&gid=7&id=3&snippet=4', $title);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Test merging 2 contacts with delete to trash off.
    *