[Content management] fix table list flashes table interface when empty (#160650)

Closes https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/159507
Closes https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/148557

Flaky test runner
https://buildkite.com/elastic/kibana-flaky-test-suite-runner/builds/2508

### Test instructions
* Install sample web logs data set
* Delete dashboard that ships with sample data set
* switch to another app, like visualize
* Use debugger tools to throttle network connection to "slow 3g"
* Open dashboard application again
* Verify empty table view is never displayed and there is no flickering
between views.

---------

Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>

packages/content-management/table_list_view/src/table_list_view.tsx

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 import { KibanaPageTemplate } from '@kbn/shared-ux-page-kibana-template';
-import React, { ReactNode, useState } from 'react';
+import React, { ReactNode, useCallback, useState } from 'react';
 import {
   TableListViewTable,
   type TableListViewTableProps,
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ export const TableListView = <T extends UserContentCommonSchema>({
   const [hasInitialFetchReturned, setHasInitialFetchReturned] = useState(false);
   const [pageDataTestSubject, setPageDataTestSubject] = useState<string>();
 
+  const onFetchSuccess = useCallback(() => {
+    if (!hasInitialFetchReturned) {
+      setHasInitialFetchReturned(true);
+    }
+  }, [hasInitialFetchReturned]);
+
   return (
     <PageTemplate panelled data-test-subj={pageDataTestSubject}>
       <KibanaPageTemplate.Header
@@ -115,11 +121,7 @@ export const TableListView = <T extends UserContentCommonSchema>({
           contentEditor={contentEditor}
           titleColumnName={titleColumnName}
           withoutPageTemplateWrapper={withoutPageTemplateWrapper}
-          onFetchSuccess={() => {
-            if (!hasInitialFetchReturned) {
-              setHasInitialFetchReturned(true);
-            }
-          }}
+          onFetchSuccess={onFetchSuccess}
           setPageDataTestSubject={setPageDataTestSubject}
         />
       </KibanaPageTemplate.Section>

packages/content-management/table_list_view_table/src/table_list_view.test.tsx

@@ -1197,10 +1197,23 @@ describe('TableList', () => {
     }
   );
 
-  it('refreshes the list when the bouncer changes', async () => {
+  it('refreshes the list when "refreshListBouncer" changes', async () => {
     let testBed: TestBed;
 
-    const findItems = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ total: 0, hits: [] });
+    const originalHits: UserContentCommonSchema[] = [
+      {
+        id: `item`,
+        type: 'dashboard',
+        updatedAt: 'original timestamp',
+        attributes: {
+          title: `Original title`,
+        },
+        references: [],
+      },
+    ];
+    const findItems = jest
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValue({ total: originalHits.length, hits: originalHits });
 
     await act(async () => {
       testBed = setup({ findItems });
@@ -1215,7 +1228,7 @@ describe('TableList', () => {
       {
         id: `item`,
         type: 'dashboard',
-        updatedAt: 'some date',
+        updatedAt: 'updated timestamp',
         attributes: {
           title: `Updated title`,
         },

packages/content-management/table_list_view_table/src/table_list_view_table.tsx

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ function TableListViewTableComp<T extends UserContentCommonSchema>({
   } = state;
 
   const hasQuery = searchQuery.text !== '';
-  const hasNoItems = !isFetchingItems && items.length === 0 && !hasQuery;
+  const hasNoItems = hasInitialFetchReturned && items.length === 0 && !hasQuery;
   const showFetchError = Boolean(fetchError);
   const showLimitError = !showFetchError && totalItems > listingLimit;
 
@@ -411,10 +411,6 @@ function TableListViewTableComp<T extends UserContentCommonSchema>({
     }
   }, [searchQueryParser, searchQuery.text, findItems, onFetchSuccess]);
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    fetchItems();
-  }, [fetchItems, refreshListBouncer]);
-
   const updateQuery = useCallback(
     (query: Query) => {
       if (urlStateEnabled) {
@@ -800,7 +796,17 @@ function TableListViewTableComp<T extends UserContentCommonSchema>({
   // ------------
   // Effects
   // ------------
-  useDebounce(fetchItems, 300, [fetchItems]);
+  useDebounce(
+    () => {
+      // Do not call fetchItems on dependency changes when initial fetch does not load any items
+      // to avoid flashing between empty table and no items view
+      if (!hasNoItems) {
+        fetchItems();
+      }
+    },
+    300,
+    [fetchItems, refreshListBouncer]
+  );
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!urlStateEnabled) {

test/accessibility/apps/dashboard.ts

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }: FtrProviderContext) {
       await listingTable.clickDeleteSelected();
       await a11y.testAppSnapshot();
       await PageObjects.common.clickConfirmOnModal();
-      await listingTable.searchForItemWithName('');
+      await listingTable.isShowingEmptyPromptCreateNewButton();
     });
   });
 }

test/functional/services/listing_table.ts

@@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ export class ListingTableService extends FtrService {
     await this.testSubjects.click('newItemButton');
   }
 
+  public async isShowingEmptyPromptCreateNewButton(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.testSubjects.existOrFail('newItemButton');
+  }
+
   public async onListingPage(appName: AppName) {
     return await this.testSubjects.exists(`${appName}LandingPage`, {
       timeout: 5000,

x-pack/test/functional/apps/dashboard/group2/sync_colors.ts

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }: FtrProviderContext) {
 
     return colorMapping;
   }
-  // Failing: See https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/148557
-  describe.skip('sync colors', function () {
+
+  describe('sync colors', function () {
     before(async function () {
       await esArchiver.loadIfNeeded('x-pack/test/functional/es_archives/logstash_functional');
       await kibanaServer.importExport.load(