Parship Chowdhury 120793f69f fix: block self-impersonation in admin panel (#21130)
## Issue
- From Settings -> Admin Panel -> Workspace -> Members, impersonating
the currently logged-in user still issued an impersonation login token.
Token exchange produced invalid impersonation JWTs
(`impersonatorUserWorkspaceId === impersonatedUserWorkspaceId`). JWT
validation then failed with `User cannot impersonate themselves`,
leaving the app in an endless loading state until cookies were cleared.
- Closes #21086

## Approach
I was first thinking of to only hide the impersonate button for the
logged-in user in the admin, since they can not click what isn’t shown
(as I thought it was just a frontend issue).

But that was not enough:
- The `impersonate` mutation can still be called directly (GraphQL
client, scripts, devtools).
- Before this fix, the mutation could succeed and only fail later at JWT
validation, which led to invalid tokens and a broken session.

So the PR does both:
- Frontend: hide/disable self-impersonation in the UI and avoid
reloading on failed token exchange (UX).
- Backend: reject self-impersonation in `ImpersonationService` and at
token exchange (enforcement, fail fast before bad tokens).

Hiding the button is the right product behavior; the backend change is
what makes the rule real and safe.

## How to test
Manual:
- Log in as a user with admin impersonation.
- Go to Settings -> Admin panel -> Workspace -> open your workspace ->
members.
- Confirm your row has no Impersonate button; other members still do.
- Open Admin Panel -> User for yourself -> confirm no impersonate
button.
- Open Settings -> Members -> your own member profile -> confirm no
Impersonate action.
- Impersonate another member -> should work as before

Automated: `npx jest impersonation.service.spec`

### Before:
<img width="830" height="413" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-02 122224"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/46f38a74-8bd6-4ffa-b749-500ce18314f1"
/>

### After:
<img width="795" height="369" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-02 122333"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/62ece4a8-d38b-4f91-817f-792ff49b146b"
/>

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Signed-off-by: Parship Chowdhury <parshipchowdhury@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Etienne <45695613+etiennejouan@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-02 13:15:44 +00:00
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