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fix(llc): keep a channel usable after the user hides it or is removed from it - #3128
An open channel page crashed when its channel was hidden or the current user was removed from it. Blocking someone triggers the hide too: the backend hides 1-on-1 channels with the blocked user. The client disposed the Channel on channel.hidden and on the current user's member.removed / notification.removed_from_channel. The page kept the disposed instance and threw on its next read: the header's memberCount when going back, and channel.config when long-pressing a message.
Hiding the open channel from a second client signed in as the same user (sample app, Android):
Before
After
After: message actions
After: back to the list
What changed (stream_chat)
The channel stays alive. Hiding or removal now only leaves the channel out of StreamChatClient.state.channels, without disposing it. client.state.channels and channelsStream contain exactly what they did before. channel.deleted still disposes.
One instance per channel.client.channel() and queryChannels look up every live channel, so they return the instance a page already holds instead of creating a second one.
The way back.watch(), a queryChannels result or channel.visible puts the channel back in client.state.channels. A paginated query() doesn't.
Accurate state while it's retained.Channel.hidden now follows channel.hidden and channel.visible, and the current user's membership is cleared when they're removed.
ChannelState.copyWith(membership: null) now clears the membership, as copyWith(draft: null) already did. Leaving membership out still keeps it, and channel updates without a membership still keep the current one.
The iOS, Android and JS SDKs don't dispose a channel on hide or removal either. They update its hidden flag and membership and keep the screen alive.
How it was verified
Unit tests: 25 new stream_chat tests, through client.handleEvent, client.state.channels and client.channel(). They cover hide, removal, deletion of a hidden channel, the way back, one instance per cid, membership, the hidden flag and the copyWith contract. Each of 19 guards was broken on purpose and a test caught it.
Suites:stream_chat (2,097) and stream_chat_flutter_core (416) pass, and melos run analyze is clean. stream_chat_flutter passes apart from the local macOS goldens.
Emulator (Android, sample app):
With a channel open, I hid it from a second client signed in as the same user.
Long-pressing a message still opens the message actions.
Going back doesn't crash, and the channel is gone from the list.
Showing it again puts it back in the list, and it opens normally.
e2e: these tests are un-skipped and run in this PR's E2E workflow:
"app does not crash when the user goes back after being removed from the open channel";
"user blocks the participant in a direct message channel";
"direct message channel disappears when the user blocks the participant".
* test(repo): assert the token date and signature policy (FLU-1083)
The SDK refreshes the token on code 40 only. A token used before its
issue date (42) is reconnected as-is until the server's clock catches
up, and a bad signature (43) is not retried with a new token. The four
tests now assert that instead of a refresh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(repo): tighten the token date and signature tests (FLU-1083)
Keep the invalid window open past the refresh so the refreshed token is
always rejected, count token requests through an env assertion, and fix
the step and file comments to match what the tests assert.
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* test(repo): drop the token signature after login test (FLU-1083)
A signing secret doesn't go bad mid-session, and the test only timed the
SDK's reconnect backoff.
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* test(repo): keep the login error across the loading screen (FLU-1083)
The chooser page is replaced while connecting, so an error it stored
itself was gone by the time the login failed. The auth state now carries
it, and the rebuilt page shows it.
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* fix(ui): keep the footer of a sent message before a failed one (FLU-1090)
A message that failed now starts its own group, so the sent message
before it keeps its timestamp and delivery status. Consecutive failed
messages still group together.
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* docs(ui): describe every failed message in the changelog (FLU-1090)
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… from it (FLU-1085)
Hiding a channel, or the current user being removed from it, disposed the
Channel, so a page still holding it crashed on its next read. The channel now
stays alive and only leaves StreamChatClient.state.channels; a later watch,
query or channel.visible brings it back. Channel.hidden follows the hidden and
visible events, and the current user's membership is cleared on removal.
ChannelState.copyWith(membership: null) now clears the membership.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel_registry.dart:
- Around line 29-31: Update ChannelRegistry.setChannels to reuse the retained
unlisted Channel when an incoming Channel has the same CID, rather than removing
the retained instance and registering its replacement. Ensure the retained
instance remains in the registry so client.dispose() and channel.deleted can
dispose it and it does not continue processing events after displacement;
preserve normal handling for CIDs without a retained Channel.
Review comments at
@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations.dart:
- Line 436: Update onChannelVisibilityChanged so a successful hide with
clearHistory: true also clears the retained channel’s messages in local state;
preserve messages when history clearing was not requested.
Walkthrough
This change updates membership handling and channel visibility events. Hidden and removed channels remain retrievable in memory but are omitted from public channel listings. Related integration tests are enabled.
ChannelState.copyWith distinguishes omitted membership from explicit null. Removal events for the current user clear membership. Channel state updates preserve existing membership when the incoming value is null.
ChannelRegistry retains hidden and removed channel instances while excluding them from public channel listings. Visible events and watched queries can relist channels. Tests cover retention, listing, disposal, and blocking flows; previously skipped integration tests now run.
Retained channels avoid disposal crashes, but history clearing, watch ordering and delayed persistence can leave stale state or restore hidden channels. Resolve these lifecycle issues before merging.
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Correct the comment on when a hidden channel comes back, drop a test that
guarded nothing, mention plain hiding in the UI changelog, and wrap long lines.
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set -e
echo"== client.dart 575-620 =="
sed -n '575,620p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart
echo"== event parse call sites in lib =="
rg -n -F -- 'Event.fromJson' packages/stream_chat/lib ||test"$?" -eq 1
echo"== copyWith user enrichment on events in lib =="
rg -n -F -e 'event.copyWith(' -e '.copyWith(user:' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core ||test"$?" -eq 1
echo"== member field in Event model =="
sed -n '15,30p;96,104p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/event.dart
Repository: GetStream/stream-chat-flutter
Length of output: 4061
Handle a removal notification that has no user.
The new notification.removed_from_channel case uses event.user!. When the payload has no top-level user, the null check throws before onCurrentUserRemoved runs. _guard logs a warning, and membership and read state stay set. Fall back to the current user when event.user is null. Skip the cleanup only when no user is available.
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Review comment at
@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart around
lines 128 - 129:
Update the notificationRemovedFromChannel case to avoid force-unwrapping
event.user: use the established current-user value when event.user is null, and
call _mutations.onCurrentUserRemoved only when either source provides a user.
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sed -n '2920,2965p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart
rg -n -F -e 'channels' -e 'channelsStream' -- packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart | head -n 60
Repository: GetStream/stream-chat-flutter
Length of output: 5699
Do not relist a channel when a hide event arrives during watch().
If channel.hidden unlists the channel while the watch request is in flight, query() relists it when the older response arrives. Track hide events that occur during the request, and skip the relist when one was processed after the request started.
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Review comment at @packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel.dart
around lines 2274 - 2276:
Update the `query()` flow around the `cid` listing check to avoid relisting a
channel when a hide event was processed after the watch request began. Track
whether a hide event occurs during the in-flight request, and use that state to
skip `_client.state.addChannels` for the stale response while preserving normal
listing behavior otherwise.
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set -e
t=packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/client_hidden_and_left_channels_test.dart
f=packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart
echo"== tests 150-220 =="
sed -n '150,220p'"$t"echo"== queryChannels initiation 840-870 =="
sed -n '840,870p'"$f"echo"== unlist/relist 2944-2960 =="
sed -n '2944,2960p'"$f"
Repository: GetStream/stream-chat-flutter
Length of output: 4384
Keep a hidden channel unlisted when its hide or removal happens while a query is in flight.
queryChannels applies the server response after its request and persistence awaits. addChannels then clears the unlisted state for every cid in that response. A hide or removal that arrives during the wait is undone, so the channel can reappear in client.state.channels until the next query.
Do not skip every unlisted cid in _mapChannelStateToChannel. A later query is meant to relist a hidden channel the server returns. The tests "querying channels brings back only the hidden channels the server returns" and "querying channels reuses the instance of a hidden channel" depend on that path.
Record when each cid is unlisted. Capture a sequence value when the query starts. When the response is applied, keep a cid unlisted if it was unlisted after the query started. Relist the other cids as before. Use the same decision for the channels returned in QueryChannelsResult, because the list controller builds its items from that result.
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Review comment at @packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart around lines
1006 - 1009:
Update the queryChannels response flow around _mapChannelStateToChannel and
addChannels to track when each cid becomes unlisted and capture that sequence
when a query starts. When applying the response, preserve unlisted status for
cids unlisted after that query began, while relisting other returned cids as
before; use the same decision when building QueryChannelsResult so its channels
match client.state.channels. Keep later queries able to relist hidden channels
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Relist the channel from event.cid in the channel.visible listener.
The listener relists only when event.channel is present. The channel.visible event object lists channel as optional, so a CID-only event can hide the channel's visibility change while the channel stays out of client.state.channels. Use event.cid as the fallback key.
Suggested fix
--- "a/packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart"+++ "b/packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart"@@ -2648,7 +2648,8 @@
void _listenChannelVisible() {
_eventsSubscription?.add(
_client.on(EventType.channelVisible).listen((event) {
- if (event.channel?.cid case final cid?) _relistChannel(cid);+ final cid = event.cid ?? event.channel?.cid;+ if (cid != null) _relistChannel(cid);
}),
);
}
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if (event.channel?.cid casefinalcid?) _relistChannel(cid);
finalcid = event.cid?? event.channel?.cid;
if (cid !=null) _relistChannel(cid);
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Review comment at @packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart at line 2651:
Update the channel.visible listener so it relists the channel using event.cid
when available, falling back to event.channel?.cid when event.cid is absent;
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Skip removed channels in the global mark-read handler.
The notification.mark_read handler now iterates _channelsController.value, which still holds channels the user was removed from. Setting unreadCount = 0 on such a channel creates a current-user Read and persists it. The removal path clears that entry on purpose, so the handler reintroduces state that removal removed. Limit the loop to channels the user still belongs to, or skip channels whose membership was cleared.
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Review comment at @packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart at line 2688:
Update the `notification.mark_read` handler’s loop over
`_channelsController.value` to skip channels the current user no longer belongs
to, using the existing membership state or a channel collection filtered for
current membership. Preserve mark-read behavior for channels the user still
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Poor tradeoff
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sed -n '75,108p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart
sed -n '650,670p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart
sed -n '2690,2715p' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart
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Skip persisting a channel while it is hidden or unlisted, and make the test wait past the debounce.
The debounced write in channel_client_state.dart:653-663 runs about one second after the last state update. A hidden channel, or a channel the current user was removed from, keeps its Channel instance and still receives state updates. When the write runs, updateChannelState re-inserts the channels row that deleteChannels removed. The offline query path then returns that row, and addChannels lists the cid again.
Cancelling only the write pending at hide time does not stop this. The hide update and later updates to the retained instance each schedule a new write.
Apply one condition to both paths. Check it inside the debounced callback, when the callback runs:
Skip the write while the cid is unlisted by hide or removal.
Record the cid as unlisted before the early return in _unlistChannel (client.dart, around lines 2946-2953). Otherwise an instance that is not in the cached list keeps persisting.
When a cid is relisted, write its current state again. Otherwise its row can stay missing until the next state update.
A check on hidden alone misses removal, and a membership-null check changes unrelated writes.
Keep the regression test. The _hide helper and the channel.hidden deletes the channel from persistence test check only the immediate deleteChannels call. The test should wait past the one-second debounce. It should assert that updateChannelState is not called for a hidden channel. It should also assert that an offline queryChannelStates does not return the hidden cid.
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Update the debounced channel-state write path to skip persistence when a cid is
unlisted by hiding or removal, checking this when the callback runs. Record the
cid as unlisted in `_unlistChannel` before its early return, and ensure
relisting schedules persistence of the channel’s current state; do not use
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…1085)
The listed channels and the ones taken out of the list without being
disposed now live in one `ChannelRegistry`, which `ClientState` forwards
to while exposing the same members as before. The new channel events go
through `_on…` handlers, and `onChannelHiddenChanged` is renamed
`onChannelVisibilityChanged`.
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Reuse the retained Channel when a new instance is watched for its CID.
ChannelRegistry.setChannels drops an unlisted instance when the replacement map has the same CID. A new Channel for that CID, built with the public constructor and then watched, displaces the retained instance. The displaced instance leaves all, so client.dispose() and channel.deleted do not dispose it. It keeps processing events for its CID.
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around lines 29 - 31:
Update ChannelRegistry.setChannels to reuse the retained unlisted Channel when
an incoming Channel has the same CID, rather than removing the retained instance
and registering its replacement. Ensure the retained instance remains in the
registry so client.dispose() and channel.deleted can dispose it and it does not
continue processing events after displacement; preserve normal handling for CIDs
without a retained Channel.
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Clear the retained channel's messages when hide(clearHistory: true) succeeds.
Channel.hide sends clearHistory only to the server. The channel.hidden handler then only sets hidden and never clears messages. An open channel that the user hid with clearHistory: true keeps its old messages in state. These messages stay until a query, watch(), or another state replacement occurs.
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Update onChannelVisibilityChanged so a successful hide with clearHistory: true
also clears the retained channel’s messages in local state; preserve messages
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An open channel page crashed when its channel was hidden or the current user was removed from it. Blocking someone triggers the hide too: the backend hides 1-on-1 channels with the blocked user. The client disposed the
Channelonchannel.hiddenand on the current user'smember.removed/notification.removed_from_channel. The page kept the disposed instance and threw on its next read: the header'smemberCountwhen going back, andchannel.configwhen long-pressing a message.Fixes FLU-1085.
Hiding the open channel from a second client signed in as the same user (sample app, Android):
What changed (
stream_chat)StreamChatClient.state.channels, without disposing it.client.state.channelsandchannelsStreamcontain exactly what they did before.channel.deletedstill disposes.client.channel()andqueryChannelslook up every live channel, so they return the instance a page already holds instead of creating a second one.watch(), aqueryChannelsresult orchannel.visibleputs the channel back inclient.state.channels. A paginatedquery()doesn't.Channel.hiddennow followschannel.hiddenandchannel.visible, and the current user'smembershipis cleared when they're removed.ChannelState.copyWith(membership: null)now clears the membership, ascopyWith(draft: null)already did. Leavingmembershipout still keeps it, and channel updates without a membership still keep the current one.The iOS, Android and JS SDKs don't dispose a channel on hide or removal either. They update its hidden flag and membership and keep the screen alive.
How it was verified
stream_chattests, throughclient.handleEvent,client.state.channelsandclient.channel(). They cover hide, removal, deletion of a hidden channel, the way back, one instance per cid, membership, the hidden flag and thecopyWithcontract. Each of 19 guards was broken on purpose and a test caught it.stream_chat(2,097) andstream_chat_flutter_core(416) pass, andmelos run analyzeis clean.stream_chat_flutterpasses apart from the local macOS goldens.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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