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fix(llc): retry a message request the app was closed during (FLU-1136) - #3135
A message stayed stuck forever when the app was closed while it was being sent, for example during an attachment upload. A stored message keeps its state, so it came back still sending. Only failed messages get retried, and the user can't long-press a message that is still sending, so there was no way to retry or delete it. An edit or delete cut off the same way stayed stuck too.
Sending an image on a slow connection, closing the app mid-upload, then reopening it (sample app, Android):
While uploading
Before: after reopening
After: after reopening
What changed (stream_chat)
When a channel's state is created, the messages it starts with are checked, including stored thread replies:
A message still sending or deleting is marked as failed to send or delete, so the existing retry sends it again. Re-sending is safe because message ids are created on the client, and a send the server already stored is marked sent.
A message still updating is marked updated, and the server's copy replaces it on the next fetch. It isn't retried, because a pin or unpin is also an update and a full update would send the wrong change.
Nothing in this channel can be in flight yet at that point. Later updates are untouched, so a request still running in this session is never marked failed. Nothing is copied unless a message needs converting.
How it was verified
channel_interrupted_requests_test.dart:
sending and deleting are marked failed, and deleting keeps its scope;
updating is marked updated and isn't sent again;
messages with nothing in progress stay as they are;
a stored thread reply and a channel message left sending are sent again.
Breaking each conversion fails a test.
The stream_chat (2,057) and stream_chat_flutter_core (406) suites pass. stream_chat_flutter passes apart from the local macOS goldens.
Android emulator against the real backend: before, the message stayed at "Uploaded 0 of 1" after reopening. After, it was re-uploaded and sent once.
Messages interrupted by app closure no longer remain stuck in sending, updating, or deleting states. Sending and deleting messages are marked as failed, while updates are settled as complete.
Interrupted sending messages can be retried, including messages in threads.
Channel initialization now normalizes persisted messages left in sending, updating, or deleting states. Sending messages become failed and remain eligible for retry; updates settle as updated, and deletions become failed while retaining their scope.
Changes: Interrupted message requests
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Summary
Normalize persisted message states packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart, packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/channel/channel_interrupted_requests_test.dart, packages/stream_chat/CHANGELOG.md
Channel messages and loaded thread replies are normalized during initialization. Sending messages become failed with retries enabled, updating messages become updated, and deleting messages become failed with their existing scope. Tests cover these states, unchanged messages, and the absence of update requests for messages settled as updated.
Recovery has bounded edge cases: retries can lose notification preferences, reopening a disposed channel can issue an extra request, and an interrupted edit can be announced as sent without confirmation. These warrant owner awareness and follow-up, but no broad delivery failure or data loss is established.
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Avoid a second send when a dispose interrupts a live request.
A send writes Sending to the channel state before its network call. If the debounced persistence write fires before dispose(), the store keeps that Sending message. ChannelClientState.dispose() cancels only a write that has not fired, and Channel.dispose() does not cancel the in-flight sendMessage call. A later query(preferOffline: true, watch: false) rebuilds the state from the stored message. The new constructor marks it sendingFailed, and retryFailedMessages() queues it. sendMessage has no in-flight check, so a second request with the same message ID can run while the first is still pending.
This needs the first request to stay pending past the 1-second persistence debounce. The duplicate-ID rejection is handled as a completed retry, so the likely cost is one redundant request.
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@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart at line
31:
Prevent retryFailedMessages from issuing a second request for a message whose
send is still in flight: track active sends by message ID and have sendMessage
reuse or skip an already-pending send until it settles. Keep
_failInterruptedRequests behavior for genuinely interrupted sends unchanged.
Add a test for an interrupted deletion retried on initialization.
The deletion test at channel_interrupted_requests_test.dart:54-64 checks only the deletingFailed state and its scope. The sibling test "sends a message left sending again" verifies the retry call, but no test verifies a delete call for a stored deletion. Add a test that:
Uses MockStreamChatClientWithPersistence and stubs getChannelThreads, as the sibling tests do. The retry runs only after that call resolves.
Stores a message in deleting state with remoteCreatedAt set. A message without remoteCreatedAt is deleted locally and makes no endpoint call. The _message helper does not set this field, so the test must pass it.
Stubs the delete endpoint and verifies the call uses the original scope.
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around lines 54 - 64:
Add an initialization-retry test alongside the deleting-state test, using
MockStreamChatClientWithPersistence and stubbing getChannelThreads so the retry
proceeds after it resolves. Store a deleting message with remoteCreatedAt set,
then stub the delete endpoint and verify it is called with the message’s
original deleteForMe scope.
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Review comments at
@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart:
- Around line 82-84: Update the Sending state used by MessageOutgoing to retain
the original skipPush and skipEnrichUrl options, and include them in its
serialization and deserialization. In _failInterruptedRequests, restore those
persisted options when marking an interrupted send as failed so a retry
preserves the original send behavior.
- Line 85: Update the `MessageOutgoing(state: Updating())` handling so an
interrupted edit uses a distinct unconfirmed state instead of
`MessageState.updated`. Ensure that state is not reported as sent and does not
trigger the `updatingFailed` full-message retry path; preserve the existing
behavior for pin and unpin operations that also use `Updating()`.
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Minor comments:
Review comments at
@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart:
- Line 31: Prevent retryFailedMessages from issuing a second request for a
message whose send is still in flight: track active sends by message ID and have
sendMessage reuse or skip an already-pending send until it settles. Keep
_failInterruptedRequests behavior for genuinely interrupted sends unchanged.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/channel/channel_interrupted_requests_test.dart:
- Around line 54-64: Add an initialization-retry test alongside the
deleting-state test, using MockStreamChatClientWithPersistence and stubbing
getChannelThreads so the retry proceeds after it resolves. Store a deleting
message with remoteCreatedAt set, then stub the delete endpoint and verify it is
called with the message’s original deleteForMe scope.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Supported by static analysis
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rg -n 'skipPush|skipEnrichUrl|MessageState\.sending' packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.dart | head -110
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# Message state definitions: Sending and sendingFailed factories and their fields
nl -ba packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.dart | sed -n '1,60p'
nl -ba packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.dart | sed -n '225,300p'
nl -ba packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.dart | sed -n '395,440p'
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# Channel send path: sendMessage, retryMessage, and the failed-state dispatch
nl -ba packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel.dart | sed -n '755,880p'
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# Client-state restore path around the hunk and retryFailedMessages
nl -ba packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart | sed -n '20,130p'
rg -n -F -e 'retryFailedMessages' -e 'skipPush' -e 'skipEnrichUrl' -- packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message.g.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.g.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/db ||test"$?" -eq 1
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# Persistence: whether message state (including send options) is serialized to offline storage
rg -n -F -e 'toJson' -e 'MessageState' -- packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message.dart packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message_state.dart ||test"$?" -eq 1
rg -n -F -e 'state' -- packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/models/message.dart | head -40 ||test"$?" -eq 1
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# Backend-facing request: whether skip_push / skip_enrich_url are sent in the message request body
rg -n -F -e 'skip_push' -e 'skip_enrich_url' -e 'skipPush' -e 'skipEnrichUrl' -- packages/stream_chat/lib/src/api/ packages/stream_chat/lib/src/core/api/ ||test"$?" -eq 1
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Keep the original send options when an interrupted send is retried.
_failInterruptedRequests sets skipPush: false and skipEnrichUrl: false for every interrupted send. The Sending state stores neither option. A send made with skipPush: true that is interrupted and then retried after restart sends a push notification. Persist the send options with the outgoing state, or restore them before the retry.
Why no edit is proposed
A localized edit is not established. Preserving the options needs a change to the OutgoingState.sending model and its serialization, not a one-line change in channel_client_state.dart.
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@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart around
lines 82 - 84:
Update the Sending state used by MessageOutgoing to retain the original skipPush
and skipEnrichUrl options, and include them in its serialization and
deserialization. In _failInterruptedRequests, restore those persisted options
when marking an interrupted send as failed so a retry preserves the original
send behavior.
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Valid, but out of scope for this PR. The Sending state doesn't keep skipPush or skipEnrichUrl, so keeping them through a restart means changing the outgoing state model and how it's stored. The case is narrow (a skipPush send interrupted by the app being killed), so I'm leaving it as is.
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A message stayed stuck forever when the app was closed while it was being sent, for example during an attachment upload. A stored message keeps its state, so it came back still
sending. Only failed messages get retried, and the user can't long-press a message that is still sending, so there was no way to retry or delete it. An edit or delete cut off the same way stayed stuck too.Fixes FLU-1136.
Sending an image on a slow connection, closing the app mid-upload, then reopening it (sample app, Android):
What changed (
stream_chat)When a channel's state is created, the messages it starts with are checked, including stored thread replies:
Nothing in this channel can be in flight yet at that point. Later updates are untouched, so a request still running in this session is never marked failed. Nothing is copied unless a message needs converting.
How it was verified
channel_interrupted_requests_test.dart:stream_chat(2,057) andstream_chat_flutter_core(406) suites pass.stream_chat_flutterpasses apart from the local macOS goldens.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_012vTgFwqhUc2wKCWrw635yC
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