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#2930 and #2942 are merged; this PR now sits directly on master and its diff is only the six files below. Merge before #2944, which builds on it.

Replaces #2911, which could not be rebased: 99% of its channel.dart diff (924 of 925 lines) was inside the block #2930 moved into channel_client_state.dart.

Everything this PR touches or adds lives under src/client/channel/ — including channel_event_handler.dart and channel_state_mutations.dart, moved there in their own commit so they sit with the state class they serve.

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Moves the channel event handling out of ChannelClientState into two new internal classes, with no public API changes and one behavior change (below):

  • ChannelEventHandler — validates and routes each WS event from a single subscription (replacing the 36 per-event subscriptions), preserving the original per-subscription execution order via five named dispatch stages. Also owns the side effects an event triggers outside the channel state: member refresh on ban/unban, persisted-message cleanup on truncation, and delivery reconciliation.
  • ChannelStateMutations — owns the state writes, one semantic method per event (onMemberRemoved, onPollVoteCasted, …). The few writes that previously went through private state (typing events, watcher removal, member refresh, user message deletion) stay private on ChannelClientState and are injected as tear-offs, so the state class gains no new members.

One behavior change

Routing every event through a single subscription means each dispatch stage is now wrapped in a guard. Previously a handler that threw left an unhandled error in the root zone, which crash reporters listening on PlatformDispatcher.onError report as fatal; it is now caught and logged at WARNING, and the later stages still run for the same event. The four async handlers (channel.truncated, user.banned, user.unbanned, user.messages.deleted) are outside that guarantee — their futures are discarded, so a failure after the first await still escapes. Both facts are documented on handleEvent, and the containment is the one line this PR adds to the CHANGELOG.

Why these classes exist

Previously, every event listener interleaved three unrelated responsibilities: deciding whether an event applies (payload/identity/cid guards), computing the resulting state (list surgery, poll merges, unread math), and performing side effects (persistence, delivery reconciliation, member re-fetch). A backend payload change and a state-logic change would land in the same method, and none of it could be tested without a full channel lifecycle.

The split separates those along the same lines as the feeds SDK (our newest state architecture — thin event handlers that guard and route, with all mutation logic owned by semantic methods on the state side):

  • Each class now has one reason to change: event-shape concerns live in the handler; domain state rules live in the mutations.
  • The channel state's mutation surface is explicit for the first time — a reviewable list of named methods instead of logic scattered across listener bodies.
  • Write access is enforced structurally: the handler holds no state reference and cannot mutate anything; only the mutations object holds the write capability, including the five injected private paths.
  • Each layer is unit-testable in isolation: routing/guards against mocked mutations, state-write logic against a mocked state.

How this flows into v11

This is the largest subset of the v11 channel refactor achievable without breaking changes, and each piece maps forward:

  • ChannelStateMutations is the embryonic write side of v11's read-only/mutable state split — its method list is the mutation contract the mutable state owner needs, discovered and test-pinned now. The five tear-offs mark, by name, exactly which writes must become first-class members of it.
  • ChannelEventHandler is the embryonic event-bus subscriber. The three-block string-typed dispatch exists only to preserve the legacy subscription order; with v11's sealed domain events, the payload guards migrate into the typed event mapping and the ordering constraint can be consciously re-evaluated.
  • The unified REST/WS write path becomes a local change. The mutation methods take domain payloads (Message, Poll + PollVote, …), not raw events, so routing API responses through the same semantic methods — feeds' single-write-path design, the structural fix for the WS-vs-API dual-write races — only needs new plumbing, not another logic move.
  • The side effects deliberately kept in the handler (persistence cleanup, delivery reconciliation, member refresh) are exactly what becomes independent bus subscribers in v11, so they stay clearly marked in the routing layer rather than buried inside state mutations.

Net effect: v11's breaking release is left with visibility moves (hiding mutators, exposing read-only state, file split) instead of logic untangling.

Testing: the event coverage from #2942 (written against the old implementation) passes unchanged against the new one; this PR adds dedicated unit tests for the handler (80 — routing, guards, delegation, error isolation) and the mutations (54 — state-write logic), including new cases for the partial-count behavior, plus one end-to-end isolation test in channel_client_state_test.dart. That is 135 new tests, taking the stream_chat suite to 1,828. Known latent issues are deliberately preserved, not fixed (e.g. member.added not deduping, the unguarded lastReadAt! in notification.mark_unread).

The handler tests mock ChannelStateMutations and the mutations tests mock ChannelClientState — collaborators rather than the outside-world boundaries the style guide points at. That is deliberate: isolating those two seams is what the split exists to make possible, and handler↔mutations agreement is still covered end-to-end by the #2942 event tests running against the real pair.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved reliability when processing channel events, so an issue with one event no longer prevents unrelated updates from being applied.
    • Improved synchronization for messages, unread counts, reactions, polls, read and delivery status, members, watchers, reminders, shared locations, drafts, and notification preferences.
    • Correctly filters messages that should not appear in a channel and preserves relevant user reactions, poll responses, and delivery information during updates.
    • Fixed duplicate live-location expiration events and WebAssembly platform initialization issues.
    • Channel-event processing errors are now logged as warnings instead of propagating unexpectedly.

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Channel event processing moves from ChannelClientState into ChannelEventHandler and ChannelStateMutations. The change adds staged error isolation, centralized message visibility checks, and tests for event routing and state updates.

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Channel event processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
State mutation implementation
packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations.dart, packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations_test.dart
Adds mutations for messages, reactions, polls, reads, channel data, members, watchers, reminders, locations, and push preferences.
Event dispatch and guards
packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart, packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler_test.dart, packages/stream_chat/CHANGELOG.md
Routes events to mutations, filters incomplete and self-originated events, performs required side effects, logs contained errors with stage names, and continues later stages.
Channel state integration
packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_client_state.dart, packages/stream_chat/test/src/client/channel/channel_client_state_test.dart
Wires the handler and mutations into ChannelClientState, retains typing and watcher callbacks, centralizes message visibility checks, and tests dispatch isolation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChannelClientState
  participant ChannelEventHandler
  participant ChannelStateMutations
  ChannelClientState->>ChannelEventHandler: handleEvent(event)
  ChannelEventHandler->>ChannelStateMutations: dispatch typed event mutation
  ChannelStateMutations->>ChannelClientState: update channel state
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packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations.dart (1)

205-229: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Guard the poll vote id before using !.

onPollAnswerCasted dereferences eventPollVote.id! at Line 213 and Line 219. PollVote.id is nullable, so a payload without an id throws. The handler contains the throw and logs a warning, so the answer is silently dropped instead of being applied. The same pattern exists in onPollVoteCasted (Line 242) and onPollVoteChanged (Line 265).

Return early when the id is missing, or resolve the id in ChannelEventHandler before delegating.

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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations.dart`
around lines 205 - 229, Guard nullable PollVote.id before constructing vote maps
in onPollAnswerCasted, onPollVoteCasted, and onPollVoteChanged; return early
when the event vote lacks an id, then use the validated id without forced
unwrapping so valid poll updates continue unchanged.
packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart (1)

97-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Extract the repeated guard into one helper.

The same try/catch plus logger.warning block appears five times with identical text. A single helper keeps the five regions and removes the duplication.

♻️ Proposed helper
+  void _guard(Event event, void Function() run) {
+    try {
+      run();
+    } catch (error, stackTrace) {
+      _client.logger.warning(
+        'Error handling ${event.type} event',
+        error,
+        stackTrace,
+      );
+    }
+  }

Also applies to: 106-114, 125-131, 134-142, 180-186

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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart`
around lines 97 - 103, Extract the repeated try/catch logging behavior from the
event-handling branches into one private helper in the channel event handler.
Update all five identified regions to use the helper while preserving each
branch’s existing event-processing behavior and the warning message, error, and
stack trace passed to _client.logger.warning.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart`:
- Line 437: Update the asynchronous handlers invoked by handleEvent, including
_onMemberBanned, _onMemberUnbanned, _onChannelTruncated, and
_onUserMessagesDeleted, to catch and log their own failures rather than relying
on handleEvent’s synchronous try/catch. In the member handlers, replace
members.first with firstOrNull and handle an absent member safely while
preserving existing behavior for successful lookups.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart`:
- Around line 97-103: Extract the repeated try/catch logging behavior from the
event-handling branches into one private helper in the channel event handler.
Update all five identified regions to use the helper while preserving each
branch’s existing event-processing behavior and the warning message, error, and
stack trace passed to _client.logger.warning.

In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_state_mutations.dart`:
- Around line 205-229: Guard nullable PollVote.id before constructing vote maps
in onPollAnswerCasted, onPollVoteCasted, and onPollVoteChanged; return early
when the event vote lacks an id, then use the validated id without forced
unwrapping so valid poll updates continue unchanged.

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Went through this as a move-refactor — diffed every old _listen* body against its new handler/mutation pair rather than reading the new files on their own. All 41 event types map 1:1, including the poll merge maps and the copyWith(memberCount:, messageCount:) expression, which are character-identical.

Three things I went looking for and was glad not to find: the ordering is preserved exactly (including that the generic user-merge subscription used to be registered before member.updated), _channel.on() still applies the same cid filter and still lands in _subscriptions, and _removeWatcher keeps the direct _channelState = … write instead of being "cleaned up" into updateChannelState. That last one was the easiest thing in the whole diff to break silently.

Nothing blocking. Two comments below worth a look — the untested ordering constraint on member.updated is the one I'd actually act on.

On the tests: the fixtures are good — a real Logger capturing records, Fakes confined to registerFallbackValue, real Message/Member/User payloads, verifyNever on every drop path. The factoring is where I'd push back. Several tests in channel_event_handler_test.dart bundle independent routing rules — 'poll vote events delegate the poll and vote' covers five event types with five assertions, and 'poll.updated and poll.closed delegate the poll' and 'reminder.created and reminder.updated delegate the reminder' each cover two. TESTING.md asks for one behavior per test precisely so a failure names itself; right now if poll.vote_changed routing breaks you get a red line saying "poll vote events delegate the poll and vote" and have to open the file. Same in the four '… ignore events without a …' tests, which fire two events each. Cheap to split, and a routing table is exactly what you want failing one row at a time.

Also worth naming: the tests mock ChannelStateMutations and ChannelClientState, which are collaborators rather than the outside-world boundaries the style guide points at. Defensible — isolating those seams is the point of the split, and the #2942 event tests still cover handler↔mutations agreement — but better acknowledged than left to wonder about.

Skipping the CHANGELOG looks right to me — the policy gates on "changes package behavior" and this is a move. The only thing that nudges it is that errors which used to escape to the zone are now caught and logged at WARNING. Your call whether that's observable enough for a 🔄 Internal / Non-breaking line.

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case EventType.channelUpdated:
_onChannelUpdated(event);
}
} catch (error, stackTrace) {

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Sounds like a good suggestion, I will re-work it!

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case EventType.channelUpdated:
_onChannelUpdated(event);
}
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Sounds like a good suggestion, I will re-work it!

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In `@packages/stream_chat/lib/src/client/channel/channel_event_handler.dart`:
- Around line 36-52: The asynchronous truncation, ban/unban, and
user-message-deletion paths invoked by handleEvent must be awaited within the
relevant _guard stages, or given equivalent error handling, so failures after an
await are logged through _client.logger.warning and do not become unhandled
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