refactor(llc): rework the reconnect catch-up into SyncManager - #2945
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Replaying a large `/sync` payload through `handleEvent` holds local persistence and state updates long enough to slow down the regular requests that need them. Payloads over 250 events are no longer replayed. On reconnect the synced channels are re-queried in their place, a page at a time, and `lastSyncAt` only advances once that refresh succeeded — dropping the events is safe when their state has been re-fetched, but advancing past a failed refresh would lose them. Mark-all-read events are still applied, since a channel refresh does not carry read state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Moves the `/sync` flow out of `StreamChatClient` into a library-private `SyncManager`, following the shape `stream-chat-swift` (`SyncRepository`) and `stream-chat-android` (`SyncManager`) both use. No behavior change. The lock, the replay limit, the channel page size, and the refresh live with the flow; `StreamChatClient.sync` stays the public entry point and the reconnect handler keeps its call site. `recoverMissedEvents` names what the flow does rather than the endpoint it calls, and returns the refreshed cids instead of a bool, so the reconnect handler can skip channels the sync already covered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_onConnectionStatusChanged` sequenced the catch-up by hand: sync, then a conditional re-query, then the dedup between the two. That is one responsibility, so it moves behind `SyncManager.recoverState`, leaving the client with what it owns — when a reconnect happened, and announcing it. `recoverStateOnReconnect` becomes a plain field so the manager can read the flag it already honoured, and the re-query now goes through the same paged `refreshChannels` as the skip fallback, so consumers with more than 30 active channels get all of them refreshed rather than the first page. Adds a test pinning the order everything keyed off `connectionRecovered` depends on: the sync and the re-query both complete before it fires. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Assembling the active cids and skipping the work when there are none is sync policy, not connection policy, so `recoverState` takes no arguments and reads them itself — the shape `performSync()` and `ActiveChannelIdsOperation` use on Android and iOS. The reconnect handler is left with the two things it owns: recovering, and announcing that it recovered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… paths `_sync` carried three stories at once: fetch and replay, bail out of an oversized payload, and recover from a failed attempt. Each is now its own method, leaving `_sync` with the sequence and the single place the sync pointer is written. Behaviour is unchanged — the pointer still advances only after a skip has refreshed the channels, and the 400 branch still flushes and resets. No test changes; cognitive complexity drops from 33 to 10 against a ceiling of 15. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The events were kept on the grounds that a channel refresh does not carry read state, which is wrong: `queryChannels` returns each channel's `read`, and `unreadCount` is derived from it. Worse, replaying them afterwards regressed it. The handler zeroes every channel's unread count unconditionally, so a mark-all-read from earlier in the payload undid the counts the refresh had just written from the server — visible as 0 unread until the next event arrived. The refresh covers exactly the cids that were synced, so there is nothing left for an account-wide event to add. `stream-chat-swift` and `stream-chat-js` drop skipped payloads whole. `stream-chat-android` keeps `MarkAllReadEvent`, but writes a monotonic `markedAllReadAt` watermark rather than mutating channel state, so it cannot regress a newer count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The branch made the reader hold both paths at once to follow either. Each now exits on its own line, and the sync flow reads as one sequence: fetch, apply, advance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splitting fetch, replay, skip and failure handling across four methods made the flow harder to follow than the branching it removed — reading it meant jumping between them to answer what happens to a payload. They fold back into `_sync`, which now reads top to bottom. The skip path returns on its own rather than pairing with an `else`, at the cost of writing the sync pointer in both exits. `refreshChannels` stays separate because `recoverState` calls it too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Naming and doc fixes only, no behaviour change:
- The class doc claimed the manager is obtained via `StreamChatClient.sync`,
which nothing does — it is created and driven by the client.
- The local holding the cids was named `channels`, which also made the log
line report cids as channels.
- `const {}` reads as a map literal where a set is returned.
- `sortedBy` states the sort key instead of hand-rolling the comparator.
- `sync` returned a value through its `Future<void>` signature.
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`refreshChannelsOnSkip` existed only to keep the public `sync` free of channel queries, at the cost of a worse contract: a direct call that hit an oversized payload dropped every event, advanced `lastSyncAt` past them, and left the caller to notice. That window was then unrecoverable. The refresh now runs for every caller, which is what `stream-chat-swift`, `stream-chat-android` and `stream-chat-js` do — none of them can sync without their fallback. A skip that cannot refresh no longer advances the pointer either, so the window is retried instead of lost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_sync` was reaching for `queryChannels` to make up for the events it
dropped, which is not its job. It now reports the skip and leaves the sync
pointer where it was, and each caller decides what takes the place of those
events before moving past them: `recoverState` refreshes the channels the
payload covered, while a direct `sync` moves on and documents that the
caller must refresh its own state.
The pointer is stamped when it is committed rather than at the newest
skipped event, which the spec allows ("the current time or the newest event
date in the skipped payload").
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`_sync` reported only whether an oversized payload was skipped, which left a failed sync looking the same as a clean replay. Nothing then stood in for the events it never applied — and for apps on `stream_chat_flutter`, where `recoverStateOnReconnect` is `false`, nothing refreshed the channels at all. It now answers one question: did it catch the channels up? A dropped payload and a failed request both answer no, and the channels are refreshed in its place. The pointer still moves past a dropped payload, since it would otherwise be re-fetched forever, and stays put on failure so that window is fetched again. With both reasons to refresh covering the same channels, `recoverState` needs one call rather than two, and `refreshChannels` no longer reports what it refreshed — that existed only to deduplicate them. `stream-chat-swift` and `stream-chat-android` refresh after a failed sync too, since their refresh runs in the same pipeline regardless of the result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`recoverState` is called from a connection listener with no future for the app to catch, so the failure has nowhere to go but a log line. Owning that inside the manager makes it explicit in the signature's contract rather than something every caller has to remember to wrap, which is how `stream-chat-android` writes `onConnectionEstablished`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pointer moved past a discarded window before anything had taken its place, so a refresh that failed afterwards — the connection dropping again mid-recovery, which is the case this whole path assumes — left those events gone from local state with no way to ask for them again. The branches that discard a window now refresh the channels it covered and move the pointer only once that succeeded, keeping it otherwise so the next sync asks for the same range. This is the shape `stream-chat-android` uses in `skipEventReplay` and `skipRefusedEventRange`, whose comment puts it plainly: the checkpoint moving only after a successful refresh "is what makes discarding the payload safe". `_sync` reports whether it refreshed, so the configured reconnect recovery does not query the same channels twice — Android's `alreadyRefreshedCids`, as a bool. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Includes the early-return tidy in `_onConnectionStatusChanged`, the note on `recoverStateOnReconnect` about replay being independent of it, and the Android-shaped `SyncManagerAndroid` kept for comparison. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A page failing aborted the loop, so the channels behind it were left stale even though their request had nothing to do with the one that failed — these are separate requests, and `waitForConnect: false` means they are attempted whether or not the socket is up. Every page is now tried and the first failure is thrown once the rest are done, so the caller's decision about the sync checkpoint is unchanged. Also drops the per-refresh log to `fine`, and fixes the note on `waitForConnect`, which gave the sync lock as the only reason when two of the three callers do not hold it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same API as `SyncManager`, sequenced the way the iOS SDK sequences a reconnect catch-up: refresh first, sync only what is left, re-watch the rest, each step retried through the client's own `RetryPolicy`. Not wired into `StreamChatClient`. The steps report what they did *not* cover rather than what they did, so a step that gives up needs no interpretation at the call site and a mistake falls towards refreshing too much rather than leaving state stale. Committed so it stops being an untracked file that can vanish. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nc-manager # Conflicts: # packages/stream_chat/CHANGELOG.md
`/sync` rejects a request naming more than 255 channel ids, and the reconnect path sent every channel any query had paged through. The 400 was read as stale local state and flushed the entire offline store, so browsing a long channel list and then reconnecting lost the cache. The request is now capped at 100 channels — well under 255, because the endpoint's 2000-event ceiling is shared across every channel asked about. A window older than the 30 days the endpoint can serve is given up on locally rather than spending a request to be refused, and a window that cannot be replayed has its channels refreshed before lastSyncAt moves past it. Extracts the flow from client.dart into SyncManager, which takes the client and a fetch callback and reads the clock through package:clock, so the paths above are testable without driving the whole client. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change introduces ChangesSync and reconnect recovery
Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the reconnect sync overhaul because it changes offline replay, channel refresh, checkpoint recovery, and public client behavior across the Stream Chat SDK. Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to A failed refused-window recovery can permanently skip channel events by advancing the synchronization checkpoint before recovery succeeds. The checkpoint must remain retryable after reset or refresh failures before this is merge-ready. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/client.dart`:
- Around line 614-615: Update the recovery flow around
_syncManager.recoverState() to catch persistence-related or other recovery
errors before emitting EventType.connectionRecovered. Ensure handleEvent still
runs with online: true even when recoverState throws, preserving the
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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/sync_manager.dart`:
- Around line 177-218: Update _performSync to process all requested channel IDs
in pages instead of truncating to _maxSyncCids, calling fetchMissedEvents for
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The 30-day pre-check duplicated `SyncMaxSinceDuration` client-side, and a constant mirroring a server rule silently goes wrong when that rule moves. A stale window is now sent, refused with a 400, and handled by the path that already exists for a refused window — flush, refresh, advance. That costs one round trip, once, since the refusal advances lastSyncAt past the stale range. Both of the server's refusal reasons — a window too old, or one holding more events than it will return — say local state is too far behind to reconcile, so dropping the store and repopulating it is right for either. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`recoverState` and `sync` both document that they never throw, and the reconnect handler relies on it: it awaits `recoverState()` and only then emits `connection.recovered`, which is what the list controllers and the retry queue wait for. Two paths could still escape. `client.persistenceEnabled` reads a user-supplied persistence client's `isConnected`, so a custom implementation can throw before any of the guarded work starts. `recoverState` now guards its body. Applying a replayed event runs the whole event pipeline, so a listener can throw part way through a window. The replay loop now stops on that and leaves lastSyncAt where it was, since the window was only partly applied and the next catch-up should ask for it again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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lastSyncAtafter a failed persistence reset.
DriftChatDatabase.flush()runs its deletes in a rollback-capable transaction. When it fails, the existing rows remain._discardRefusedWindowcatches the failure, ignores refresh failures, and still advanceslastSyncAt, which can make later syncs skip stale events. Advance the checkpoint only afterflush()succeeds.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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What the store holds for those channels is missing every change the skipped events carried, so it is dropped and repopulated from the refresh, the same as a window the server refuses. Flushing takes lastSyncAt with it — drift's flush deletes every table — so the failure branch now writes the old checkpoint back rather than leaving it alone. Without that the next catch-up reads a null lastSyncAt, takes itself for a fresh start, and the preserved window is gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two paths differ only in where the checkpoint lands, so both name it. An oversized window can put it back when the refresh replacing it fails; a refused one has nowhere to go back to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 89-90: Update _flushStore to return whether the persistence flush
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| // A failed page is already logged, and changes nothing here: the checkpoint | ||
| // advances either way. | ||
| final (refreshed, _) = await _refreshPages(cids); | ||
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Do not advance lastSyncAt after a failed refresh.
_refreshPages returns a non-null failure when any queryChannelsOnline page fails, but this line records to unconditionally. A refused window can then advance past events for channels that were neither replayed nor refreshed. A later sync cannot recover those events from the checkpoint.
Record to only after every refresh page succeeds. Preserve a retryable checkpoint when the refresh is partial.
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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/sync_manager.dart` at line 279, Update
the sync flow around _refreshPages and _recordLastSyncAt so lastSyncAt advances
to to only when every refresh page succeeds; when _refreshPages reports a
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`recoverState` passed `state.channels.keys`, which is the order queries paged through them, while the persisted path is ordered by recency and capped at 250 by the dao. Two entry points into the same 100-cid cap, one ordered and one not, so which channels caught up was arbitrary. Both now arrive most recently active first. Recency is read off the channel state rather than through Channel's date getters, which throw for an uninitialized or disposed channel — recoverState must not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A flush that fails leaves every row in place, so the state the skipped events would have updated is still there. Advancing past them left it that way for good. `_flushStore` now reports whether it worked, and an oversized window treats a store that would not drop like a page that would not refresh: the checkpoint goes back and the next reconnect asks for the window again. A refused window still advances either way — its flush already dropped what the events described, and holding a window the server refuses only gets it refused again. Also makes `_sortActiveCidsByRecency` a method: it sorts every channel held in memory, which is more than a getter should imply. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The extraction itself is a clear improvement — the invariants are stronger than the inlined version's, the failure handling is deliberate, and the test suite is genuinely behavioural rather than mock-coupled. dart analyze --fatal-infos and dart format are clean, the 247 tests pass, clock matches the constraint already in melos.yaml, and there's no lock re-entrancy in recoverState → sync → _refreshPages. _sortActiveCidsByRecency reading recency off channelState instead of Channel's throwing date getters is exactly right, and the recency order genuinely matches ChannelDao.cids.
Three things I'd resolve before merging. All are scoped to apps that wire up stream_chat_persistence (the replay path is gated on persistenceEnabled) — which is the audience this PR is for. Detail is inline on the relevant lines; this is just the map:
- An oversized window flushes the whole store but repopulates at most 100 channels —
sync_manager.dart:273. New trigger, and not rare. - The 100-cid cap drops events permanently —
sync_manager.dart:218. Regression for the 101–255 band, which used to be fully covered. - After a flush, the checkpoint write is silently discarded —
sync_manager.dart:72. Pre-existing persistence bug, but the new rollback logic is built entirely on that write, and two green tests assert behaviour production can't produce.
Two pieces of SDK context that turn the first two from theoretical into user-visible, since both inline notes lean on them:
stream_chat_flutter_coresetsclient.recoverStateOnReconnect = falsefor every Flutter SDK app (stream_chat_core.dart:235). The mitigation_maxSyncCidsrelies on — "channels past the cap are left torecoverState" — therefore never runs in a Flutter app. It only helps Dart-only consumers.- The default channel-list refresh on
connectionRecoveredcovers only its first page:defaultChannelPagedLimit = 10×defaultInitialPagedLimitMultiplier = 3= 30 channels. And nothing re-queries an already-materialised channel —StreamChannel._maybeInitChannelonly watchesif (channel.state == null)(stream_channel.dart:847), andmessage_list_corehas no reconnect handling. So stale channel state is visible and persists until the list happens to re-query that page.
| Future<Set<String>> _discardOversizedWindow(List<String> cids, {required DateTime from, required DateTime to}) async { | ||
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Must fix — the destruction scope doesn't match the repopulation scope.
_flushStore() drops every table, but _refreshPages(cids) only ever restores the <=100 cappedCids at messageLimit ?? 25 (client.dart:857). Everything else in the store — messages, members, reads, drafts, reminders, pinned messages, and failed sends that only lived on disk — is deleted with nothing repopulating it.
This is a new trigger: before this PR a full flush only happened on a server 400, and a 300-event window just replayed. It also isn't rare — /sync returns up to 2000 events across the capped channels, so a busy account crosses 250 after a fairly short spell offline, making a whole-DB wipe a routine reconnect outcome.
Two bits of SDK context make it user-visible rather than self-healing: stream_chat_flutter_core sets recoverStateOnReconnect = false for every Flutter app, so the stale branch in recoverState never runs; and the default channel-list refresh on connectionRecovered covers only its first page (defaultChannelPagedLimit = 10 x defaultInitialPagedLimitMultiplier = 3 = 30 channels), while nothing re-queries an already-materialised channel (StreamChannel._maybeInitChannel only watches if (channel.state == null)).
deleteChannels(cids) / deleteMessageByCids(cids) are already on ChatPersistenceClient and would scope the drop to what the refresh actually replaces.
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| // own limit, so leaving them in would spend slots on nothing. | ||
| final cappedCids = cids.toSet().take(_maxSyncCids).toList(); |
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Must fix — the cap drops events permanently, and regresses the 101-255 band.
This caps to 100 cids, and :262 then advances the checkpoint to the newest event of that capped window. lastSyncAt is a single global value (ChatPersistenceClient has no per-channel checkpoint), so once it moves, the events belonging to cids 101+ are never requested again.
Worth flagging that this band used to work: pre-PR all cids went to /sync uncapped and the endpoint accepts up to 255, so an account with 150 channels was fully covered. Now 50 of them silently lose their window. ChannelDao.cids returns up to 250, so the direct client.sync() path reaches this readily.
Nothing compensates in a Flutter app — recoverStateOnReconnect is always false there, the list refresh covers 30, and opening a channel doesn't re-query it. The symptom is stale previews and unread counts outside the first 30 list entries, healing only when the list happens to re-query that page.
Chunking cids.slices(_maxSyncCids) sequentially and advancing the checkpoint only after the last chunk lands keeps the request-size fix without the loss — and plays well with the shared 2000-event ceiling this comment reasons about.
| Future<void> _recordLastSyncAt(DateTime to) async { | ||
| try { | ||
| await _store?.updateLastSyncAt(to); | ||
| } catch (error, stk) { | ||
| logger?.warning('Failed to record lastSyncAt as $to', error, stk); | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Must fix — after a flush, this write is silently discarded.
ConnectionEventDao.updateLastSyncAt is UPDATE connectionEvents ... WHERE id = 1 (connection_event_dao.dart:40), and flush() deletes every table including ConnectionEvents (drift_chat_database.dart:83). A post-flush write therefore matches zero rows and does not throw — the catch never fires and nothing is logged. Only updateConnectionEvent recreates the row, seeding lastSyncAt: connectionInfo?.lastSyncAt, i.e. null.
This is a pre-existing persistence bug (the old 400 path had it too), but the new design leans on this write, so both discard paths are affected:
_discardOversizedWindow's rollback at:284can only matter when the flush succeeded — precisely when the write cannot land.lastSyncAtbecomesnull, the nextsync()takes the fresh-start branch at:124, and the window is never re-requested. The comment at:270-272isn't achievable with the shipped client._discardRefusedWindow's "advances either way" at:295-298is likewise a no-op; the checkpoint goes tonull, not forward.
It's also timing-dependent: health checks call updateConnectionInfo every ~20s, re-inserting row id: 1. Same code, two outcomes depending on whether one falls between the flush and the write.
Making updateLastSyncAt an upsert (mirroring updateConnectionEvent) is probably the smallest fix. Separately, this method can't distinguish a lost write from a successful one — the DAO returns rows-affected but the interface discards it.
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Implements the Sync events limit spec, matching
stream-chat-swift(SyncRepository) andstream-chat-android(SyncManager), and takes the follow-ups that implementing it turned up.Ticket: FLU-756 · supersedes #2934, whose commit is included here.
The spec
Replaying a large
/syncpayload throughhandleEventholds local persistence and state updates long enough to slow down the requests that need them. Payloads over 250 events are no longer replayed; the channels they covered are re-queried withqueryChannelsinstead, andlastSyncAtadvances only once that refresh succeeded — dropping the events is safe when their state has been re-fetched, and advancing past a failed refresh would lose them.The follow-ups
/syncwas sent every known channel id, which the endpoint rejects past 255. Accounts over that many never caught up on missed events at all — every reconnect was refused, and the refusal was read as stale local state and wiped the entire offline database. Now capped at 100, deduplicated first (the server counts duplicates before collapsing them).DefaultChannelsPagerMaxLimit), so a singlequeryChannelsfor 300 cids refreshed 30 of them. It now pages by 30.lastSyncAt, since advancing past a partly-applied window would lose the remainder.client.dartinto a library-privateSyncManager, taking the client and a fetch callback and reading the clock throughpackage:clock. That is what makes the paths above testable at all.The caps are read from the backend rather than guessed:
channel_cidsis validatedmin=1,max=255, and the 2000-event limit is shared across the whole request rather than applied per channel (lib/chat/controller/v1/sync.go).Verification
dart analyze --fatal-infosanddart formatclean. Thestream_chatsuite passes (1735 tests), 34 of them new insync_manager_test.dartcovering the cid cap, the replay limit on both sides of the boundary, both give-up paths, partial-refresh accounting, and the never-throws contract onsyncandrecoverState.Summary by CodeRabbit
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