feat(llc)!: bound and authenticate a connection attempt by xsahil03x · Pull Request #160 · GetStream/stream-core-flutter

xsahil03x · 2026-08-20T11:32:46Z

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Stacked on #159 — review that one first. This PR's base is feat/token-manager-user-switching, so its diff is the WebSocket layer plus the credential path that feeds it.

Description of the pull request

StreamWebSocketClient treated opening the socket as the end of connecting: it called onConnectionEstablished, discarded whatever that returned, and then waited indefinitely for a health check to arrive. Everything below follows from unpicking that, in the guest flow that motivated it.

`options` → `optionsBuilder`

typedef WebSocketOptionsBuilder = WebSocketOptions Function();

Called once per attempt. The options carry values that change over a client's lifetime — the stream-auth-type a connection needs depends on the token it will present, and a client that switches users presents a different one — so a single instance built at construction time describes only the first attempt.

`onConnectionEstablished` → `onAuthenticate`

typedef WsRequestSender = Result<void> Function(WsRequest request);
typedef WebSocketAuthenticator = Future<void> Function(WsRequestSender send, StreamApiError? previousError);

Renamed for what it is called for and when: the socket is open, the state is Authenticating, and the connection is not usable until credentials have been sent.

The signature change is the substantive part. As a void Function() it could not report a failure to send those credentials, and it silently accepted an async callback whose future was then discarded — so a token that failed to load left the connection sitting in Authenticating until something else closed it. It is now awaited, and throwing is how it says the credentials did not go out, whether because sending failed or because it chose not to send them. The connection is then closed with the new AuthenticationFailed source carrying the cause, and is not reconnected.

It is handed a WsRequestSender rather than the client because it runs while the connection is being established — the client cannot hand out an interface that implies the connection is usable. The sender belongs to the attempt it was given to and fails once that attempt is no longer the one in flight, so an authenticator still awaiting a token for an abandoned attempt cannot send it over the connection that replaced it, nor close that one as AuthenticationFailed.

It also fixes the doc example, which never compiled: onConnectionEstablished: () { client.send(...) } is referenced_before_declaration.

`previousError`: telling an authenticator why the last attempt was refused

The second parameter is the error the server closed the previous attempt with. Without it, an authenticator that caches its token has no way to know the token it is about to present is the one just refused, so it offers the same one for the life of the client.

Set only for the attempt directly after a refusal. Cleared once a connection is established, and once the caller disconnects — a caller that takes connecting back may sign a different user in, and a refusal recorded against the user before them says nothing about the credentials they will present. An attempt abandoned before its authenticator finished leaves the refusal behind for the attempt that replaces it, which has yet to answer it.

`connectTimeout` was dead API

Declared on WebSocketOptions and never read. It now bounds the whole attempt rather than just opening the socket, because the attempt that hangs is precisely the one that opens and never receives its first health check — and nothing else watches Authenticating. Abandoning it reports the new ConnectTimeout source.

The field is no longer nullable. Its doc claimed null meant "the platform default", which was never consulted, so null meant no timeout at all; it now defaults to WebSocketOptions.defaultConnectTimeout, 30 seconds.

What reconnects, and what does not

ConnectTimeout is eligible for automatic reconnection — a handshake that was slow once may not be next time. AuthenticationFailed is not: credentials that never went out will not go out on a retry either.

Eligibility is necessary but not sufficient, and this is the part worth reading twice. ConnectionRecoveryHandler recovers only a connection that was established. So a connection that times out on its way back is reconnected, while a first connection that times out is reported through connectionState and left there — making another attempt belongs to whoever called connect. DisconnectionSource.isReconnectable is new and is the whole of isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled; the established-connection gate sits on top of it.

ConnectTimeout being reconnectable is a deliberate divergence from iOS, and worth a reviewer's opinion. stream-core-swift has a timeout(from:) source and returns false for it. Two things differ, though: iOS never produces it from its core WebSocket client — the only construction site across the Swift SDKs is stream-chat-swift/ChatClient.swift:781, a client-level reconnection timeout that also fails token waiters and resets the auth repository — and its core has no per-attempt bound at all. So this is a new mechanism rather than a port, and the established-connection gate already stops a first attempt from being retried, which is the case iOS's false is protecting.

Two reconnection rules were also simply broken: the deliberate-close check compared a Stream error code against 1000 when it needed the WebSocket close code, and isClientError compared the Stream error code against 400..499, a range it never falls in. Neither had ever matched. A rate limit is now reconnectable too, since it clears on its own.

A health check arriving while disconnecting

Pre-existing. A pong was handled the same whether the connection was live or already on its way down, so it set the state back to Connected — which replaced the Disconnecting source. A deliberate UserInitiated disconnect could therefore close as ServerInitiated and be automatically reconnected, the opposite of what the caller asked for. Pongs are now ignored once the state is Disconnecting or Disconnected.

A handshake that failed named no cause

connect reported the connection closed without saying why — onClose() with no arguments, so the source carried a WebSocketEngineException with no error and no close code. An app watching connectionState could see that the attempt failed but not what failed it.

The attempt now hands itself to disconnect with the error the engine reported, which also closes the socket it opened and records the closure even when that close itself fails. Reconnection eligibility is unchanged.

`ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser`

Here because an authenticator builds its auth frame from the client's User, and every product was mapping the same four fields by hand. role and teams are deliberately left out — the server assigns both and ignores them from a client. name comes from originalName, so a user with no name does not have their id sent as one, which the hand-rolled mappings got wrong.

`StreamWebSocketClient.dispose`

The client is now Disposable: dispose closes the connection along with events and connectionState. connect throws a StateError afterwards, in release builds as well as debug — it previously asserted and then returned, so a release build opened a socket nothing could observe or close.

The credential path feeding all of this

AuthInterceptor extends Interceptor rather than QueuedInterceptor. A queue slot is freed only once a handler completes, so the retry sent from onError waited behind the request still holding one and neither finished. TokenManager serialises the token loads, which is the part that needs it. The interceptor now retries a refused request at most once, expires only the token that request actually carried, clones a multipart body whose streams the refused attempt consumed, and refuses to retry a request signed for a user the manager has since been pointed away from — that retry would have performed one user's request as another.
StreamApiError — isTokenExpiredError now means code 40 alone. The codes another token cannot fix (41–43) and a wrong API key (2) are the new isInvalidTokenError. This is the distinction that decides whether reconnecting is worth anything.
DioException.apiError — reads the Stream error from a body Dio decoded or handed over as a string. A token-expired response sent without a JSON content type was previously never retried, while the same body was already read as a string when the error was surfaced to the caller.
Result — getOrElse, getOrDefault, recover and recoverCatching return the result's own type and no longer take a type parameter. The old signatures used an unchecked data as R, which threw at runtime for any R that was not T.

Migration

// before
StreamWebSocketClient(
  options: WebSocketOptions(url: url),
  onConnectionEstablished: () => client.send(authRequest),
);

// after
StreamWebSocketClient(
  optionsBuilder: () => WebSocketOptions(url: url),
  onAuthenticate: (send, previousError) async => send(authRequest).getOrThrow(),
);

Breaking, and stream-video-flutter has two call sites that will need updating when it bumps — it pins stream_core: ^0.4.0, so nothing there breaks today:

coordinator_ws.dart:37 — options: → optionsBuilder:
coordinator_ws.dart:41 — onConnectionEstablished: _authenticateUser → onAuthenticate:, and _authenticateUser (:115) has to change shape from Future<void> Function() to Future<void> Function(WsRequestSender, StreamApiError?)
coordinator_ws.dart:116 — reads _client.options.url for a log line; the options field is gone
sfu_ws.dart:67 — options: → optionsBuilder:
sfu_ws.dart:85 — String get url => _client.options.url; is a public getter on SfuWs, so this one surfaces in video's own API

stream-feeds-flutter pins core to a git ref and its branch already implements the two-parameter authenticator — it moves when the ref moves.

Also removed: WebSocketEngineException.stopErrorCode, replaced by CloseCode.normalClosure.

Behaviour change, not just API

connectTimeout was declared and never read, so every connection previously waited indefinitely for its first health check. It is now abandoned after 30s. Video's two clients pass no timeout today and so inherit that default. A backend slow to send the first health check goes from "connects eventually" to "drops after 30s" — reconnected if the connection had been established before, and reported to the caller if this was its first attempt.

Test plan

dart test in packages/stream_core — 544 pass, up from 383 on the base branch
dart analyze — clean
dart format — clean

StreamWebSocketClient had no test file at all before this, so most of the +161 is new coverage rather than adjusted coverage; the AuthInterceptor suite is the one that was rewritten rather than added to. Most of it drives the real client through a fake socket — the engine, codec, authentication handler, health monitor and recovery handler are all the production ones, so a test drives the client the way an app does and the fake server answers what the client actually sent.

Highlights:

optionsBuilder — called for every attempt, not once per client
onAuthenticate — called once the socket is open while Authenticating, once per attempt, handed a sender that reaches the socket; a throw closes the connection as AuthenticationFailed and is not retried; a sender belonging to an abandoned attempt fails rather than reaching the connection that replaced it
previousError — handed to the attempt after a refusal and no later one, survives a closure the server did not explain, forgotten once a connection is established and once the caller disconnects, and the guest case end to end: refused expired token → fresh token → connected
connect timeout (9, on fake_async) — abandons an attempt that never becomes connected, one whose socket never opens, and one whose authenticator never returns; armed again for a later attempt; honours a timeout given in the options; does not fire once established; does not replace the source of a closure or disconnect that came first
health check while disconnecting (2) — does not report the connection as established again, and leaves the disconnection source intact once the socket closes
recovery — a first attempt that never connected is not retried; one that dropped after being established is; and a retry that fails its handshake keeps the recovery going rather than ending it
reconnection rules — ConnectTimeout and UnHealthyConnection reconnect, AuthenticationFailed and UserInitiated do not, close code 1000 does not, an expired token and a rate limit do, an invalid signature does not
plus closeReason uniqueness across all six sources, dispose, the AuthInterceptor suite rebuilt around one fake backend, and Result's new signatures

Adds fake_async as a dev dependency, used for the timeout tests so a 30s timer does not cost 30s of wall clock.

Also drops test/query/filter_test.dart (16 tests, 287 lines). Thirteen asserted that a constructor stored its arguments, which the serialisation test beside it already covers — a wrong field, operator or value shows up as wrong JSON. The other three re-ran assertions their parts already make. Line coverage of filter.dart is unchanged at 100%.

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n/a — no UI changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added WebSocket authentication, per-attempt configuration, 30-second connection timeouts, asynchronous disposal, and improved connection-state reporting.
- Added user-to-connection request creation with optional details and cleaner JSON output.
- Added API error parsing, clearer token-error classification, and publicly available WebSocket authentication utilities.
Bug Fixes
- Improved authentication retries, token handling, socket cleanup, stale connection handling, and reconnection decisions.
- Prevented inappropriate retries for failed initial connections and non-recoverable disconnects.
- Improved Result fallback and recovery behavior.
Documentation
- Clarified Dart documentation parameter references and WebSocket timeout behavior.

`TokenManager` could only ever serve the user it was constructed with: `userId` was final and the `tokenProvider` setter could not assign, because the field was final too. A flow whose user is only known after an authenticated request — a guest, whose id and token are both issued in exchange for an anonymous one — had no way to adopt the result. - Add `setTokenProvider(userId, tokenProvider:)`, which changes the user and the provider together so the manager can never report one user while holding another's token, and expires the cached token. - Remove the `tokenProvider` setter, superseded by the above. - Discard a token that finishes loading after the manager was pointed at another user, so it cannot be cached for the wrong one. Alongside that, three defects in the same area: - `getToken()` consulted its cache only when a concurrent caller had populated it while waiting for the lock, so a sequential call always reloaded — a dynamic provider was invoked on every request. - `AuthInterceptor` read `user_id` from the manager after awaiting the token, so the two could describe different users. It now takes both from the loaded token. - `DynamicTokenProvider` validated only the token type, so a loader returning someone else's token authenticated every later request as that user. It now checks the `user_id` claim, as the static provider already did. And `UserToken.anonymous` no longer takes a `userId`: anonymous tokens always use `UserToken.anonymousUserId`, any other id was ignored, and `rawValue` is now rejected unless its `user_id` claim matches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The entry claimed a fix this branch does not make. `AuthInterceptor` reads `user_id` from the token manager rather than from the loaded token on purpose: taking it from the token would make every request internally consistent and therefore always accepted, hiding a manager/token divergence instead of surfacing it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ceptor `setTokenProvider` makes it reachable for a request to carry `user_id` for one user and a token for another, when the manager is re-pointed while a token is loading. That is allowed on purpose so the server rejects it; deriving `user_id` from the token would make the request self-consistent and silently act as the token's owner. Pin it with a test so it is not "fixed" the other way, and trim the comment that claimed the opposite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The stale-load guard compared user ids, which let two cases through: `setTokenProvider` with the same user id and a new provider, and a plain `expireToken()` during a load. Both ended up caching the token the caller had just asked to stop using. Loads now carry a generation stamp that `expireToken` bumps, which subsumes the user id case. Also address review feedback: order `DynamicTokenProvider`'s checks so a non-JWT token is reported as the wrong type rather than the wrong user, align `StaticTokenProvider`'s mismatch message with it, and document that `UserToken.anonymous` throws FormatException for an unparsable rawValue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…r text The ordering test matched on the message prose, which means rewording the error breaks the test. Throw ArgumentError.value with a name instead — as UserToken already does — so a test can assert which check failed rather than how it was phrased. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`Invalid argument (authType)` already says what failed, so restating it as "Token type mismatch" left three colons in one line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Three test files each defined their own, and two of them claimed alg HS256 while attaching a base64 blob that is not a signature. Adopt the alg=none builder stream_feeds_test already uses, which is an honest unsigned JWT, and expose both the raw string and the UserToken since both are needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

It existed so callers could swap in a whole new TokenManager once a guest exchange resolved its user id. `setTokenProvider` does that on the manager itself, so the indirection buys nothing and leaves two ways to do one thing. The interceptor file reverts to its pre-#128 state exactly. Never shipped — #128 added it in this same unreleased cycle — so its changelog entry is dropped rather than recorded as a breaking change. Also from review: document the FormatException that `UserToken`'s factories can throw, note that `setTokenProvider` discards an in-flight load, and fix a test comment that restated a guarantee the file's own test contradicts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Use `### 🛑 Breaking / Removals`; the guide lists `### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES` as grandfathered, for existing entries only - Shorten test names to the behaviour and move the rationale into the body, per TESTING.md — a name should be scannable in the runner output - Drop "positional constructor / backwards-compatible API" from a test name; with `withProvider` gone there is only one constructor - Recommend rather than instruct in `setTokenProvider`'s dartdoc, and trim two inline comments to the why Pre-existing and deliberately left: the nested `group('TokenManager')` > `group('getToken')` layout, which the guide would rather see split into files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

STYLE_GUIDE asks tests to embrace duplication and stay self-contained, and `test/helpers/` had no precedent in the repo — those three imports were the only cross-test-file imports that existed. Each file carries its own builder again, all three now the honest alg=none one rather than the two that claimed HS256 over a fake signature. token_provider_test keeps a string variant since it feeds `UserToken.anonymous(rawValue:)` directly. Also keep `### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES`, the form already used three times in this changelog. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Restores test/helpers/user_token.dart as the single definition for the three token test files, and amends STYLE_GUIDE's "Make each test entirely self-contained" to say what it already meant: the rule is about shared state, not pure construction, so a stateless fixture builder may be shared. Written down rather than improvised, because the repo had no precedent for cross-test-file imports and the guide read as forbidding them. The motivating evidence is in the amendment: of the three copies this replaces, two claimed alg HS256 while attaching something that was not a signature. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A style guide outlives the change that prompted it, so the rule keeps the general reason and the specific case stays in the PR that found it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Shortening them was scope creep: the ask was only that tests stop matching the message text. `ArgumentError`'s two-arg form sets `name` while leaving the message verbatim, so the test keeps its structural handle and the wording is unchanged. It also avoids `ArgumentError.value` repeating the value after the message. The only wording change left is the argument order in `StaticTokenProvider`, which review asked for so both providers read the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Plain `ArgumentError(message)`, as before. The check-order test loses its structural handle and goes back to `throwsArgumentError`; ordering the type check first still gives a human a better message, and the comment records why, but nothing asserts it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

It claimed an anonymous token's user id "can never match" the requested one. It can: an anonymous TokenManager requests `!anon`, which is exactly what an anonymous token carries. Checking the type before the identity needs no comment anyway, so restore the file's existing one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

With the user id checked first, the non-JWT test was requesting "user-1" for an anonymous token, so it threw on the id check and the type check had no coverage at all. Requesting `!anon` — the id an anonymous token carries — passes the id check and reaches the type check. Verified by deleting the type check: the test now fails, where before it still passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`TokenManager` required a user id and a provider up front, so it could not represent a client that is constructed before anyone signs in — the shape Chat needs, where `connectUser` arrives after the client, and where `disconnectUser` has to return the manager to having no user at all. The user and the provider now live in one nullable field rather than two, so they cannot disagree: a user without a provider cannot load, and a provider without a user has nothing to load for. `userId` is therefore nullable, and `getToken` fails with a `ClientException` while no identity is configured. Adds `TokenManager.unconfigured` for that starting state and `reset` for returning to it, distinct from `expireToken`, which keeps the identity and only drops the cached token. Moves `anonymousUserId` from `UserToken` to `User`: it is a user id, every call site passes it where one is expected, and `User.anonymous` was hardcoding the literal rather than sharing the constant. `User` now asserts that an anonymous user carries it, matching the validation `UserToken.anonymous` already performs on the claim. `AuthInterceptor` sources the `user_id` query parameter from the loaded token instead of the manager, so the parameter and the token always describe the same user and the server cannot reject the pair as a mismatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`StreamWebSocketClient` treated opening the socket as the end of connecting: it called `onConnectionEstablished`, discarded whatever that returned, and waited indefinitely for a health check to arrive. Four consequences, all reachable in the guest flow that motivated this. `options` becomes `optionsBuilder`, called once per attempt. The options carry values that change over a client's lifetime — the auth type a connection needs depends on the token it will present, and a client that switches users presents a different one — so a single instance built at construction time describes only the first attempt. `onConnectionEstablished` becomes `onAuthenticate`, which is what it is called for and when: the socket is open, the state is `Authenticating`, and the connection is not usable until credentials have been sent. It is now a `WebSocketAuthenticator` — handed a `WsSender` and returning a `Result` — so a failure to send them is observed rather than dropped. A `void Function()` could not report one, and silently accepted an `async` callback whose future was then discarded. On failure the connection is closed with the new `AuthenticationFailed` source, carrying the cause, instead of being left waiting for a reply that cannot come. The sender exists because the authenticator runs while the connection is still being established, so it cannot be handed the client itself. `WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout` was declared and never read. It now bounds the whole attempt rather than just opening the socket, since an attempt that opens but never receives its first health check is exactly the one that hangs — and nothing else watches `Authenticating`. Abandoning it reports the new `ConnectTimeout` source. The field is no longer nullable: "the platform default" was never consulted, so `null` meant no timeout at all, and it now defaults to `WebSocketOptions.defaultConnectTimeout`. Neither new source enables automatic reconnection. A handshake that never completes and credentials the server rejected both fail the same way on a retry, unlike an unhealthy connection, which was established once and may be again. Fixes a health check arriving while disconnecting being treated as one arriving on a live connection: it set the state back to `Connected`, which replaced the `Disconnecting` source. A deliberate `UserInitiated` disconnect could therefore close as `ServerInitiated` and be automatically reconnected — the opposite of what the caller asked for. Pongs are now ignored once the connection is on its way down. Adds `ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser`, since an authenticator builds its auth frame from the client's `User` and every product was mapping the same four fields by hand. `role` and `teams` are deliberately left out: the server assigns both and ignores them from a client. `name` comes from `originalName`, so a user with no name does not have their id sent as one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The pull request updates WebSocket authentication, lifecycle, timeout, disposal, and reconnection behavior. It also updates API error handling, token retries, Result helpers, user request serialization, tests, and release documentation.

Changes

WebSocket connection lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
WebSocket engine and timeout contracts `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/engine/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/engine/...`	Adds a default connection timeout and updates socket opening, closing, encoding, decoding, and engine error behavior.
Authentication and connection-state contracts `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_authentication_handler.dart`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws.dart`, `packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/...`	Adds attempt-bound authentication and refusal tracking. Centralizes disconnection causes and reconnection eligibility.
Client orchestration and recovery `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/reconnect/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/reconnect/...`	Builds options per attempt, enforces timeouts, awaits disconnection, manages disposal, and retries eligible established connections.
Integrated WebSocket validation `packages/stream_core/test/helpers/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/...`	Adds fake server and socket infrastructure. Tests cover authentication, lifecycle, events, timeouts, token handling, recovery, and cleanup.

API authentication and error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
API error contracts and parsing `packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/stream_core_dio_error.dart`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/errors/stream_api_error.dart`, `packages/stream_core/test/api/stream_core_dio_error_test.dart`	Adds shared API-error parsing and separates expired-token, invalid-token, and HTTP client-error classification.
Authentication interceptor retry flow `packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/interceptors/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor_test.dart`	Limits token retries by request and user, protects concurrent refreshes, clones multipart bodies, preserves stack traces, and forwards unrelated errors.

Result and user request APIs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Result and user request behavior `packages/stream_core/lib/src/utils/result.dart`, `packages/stream_core/test/utils/result_test.dart`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/user/...`	Result fallback and recovery methods retain type `T`. `ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser` maps supported fields and omits null values.

Documentation and release metadata

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Documentation, metadata, and cleanup `STYLE_GUIDE.md`, `packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md`, `packages/stream_core/dart_test.yaml`, `packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/interceptors/...`, `packages/stream_core/test/query/filter_test.dart`	Updates dartdoc guidance and release notes, revises interceptor documentation, adds the `ws-client` test tag, and removes obsolete filter tests.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 83949

Connection lifecycle failures can disconnect a newer active connection, expose an unauthenticated socket as usable, or override an intentional disconnect; an optionsBuilder exception can also leave the client permanently stuck while connecting. These bounded correctness and availability risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StreamWebSocketClient
  participant StreamWebSocketEngine
  participant WebSocketAuthenticationHandler
  participant ConnectionRecoveryHandler
  StreamWebSocketClient->>StreamWebSocketEngine: Open with per-attempt options
  StreamWebSocketClient->>WebSocketAuthenticationHandler: Authenticate attempt
  WebSocketAuthenticationHandler->>StreamWebSocketEngine: Send credentials
  StreamWebSocketClient->>ConnectionRecoveryHandler: Report disconnection source
  ConnectionRecoveryHandler-->>StreamWebSocketClient: Schedule or reject recovery

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Reviewed the WS lifecycle changes with the branch checked out; suite is green (387 pass) and dart analyze --fatal-infos is clean. I probed the new lifecycle paths and four of them reproduced — details inline, ordered by how much I'd worry about them.

Worth fixing before merge

An authenticator that throws (rather than returning a failed Result) produces an unhandled async error and leaves the connection stuck in Authenticating. This is the shape almost everyone will write, because TokenManager.getToken() throws. See the comment on _authenticate.
The new connect timer can overwrite a ServerInitiated source and flip isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled from true to false — the same bug class this PR fixes for late pongs, but the guard only went into the pong path. See the comment on disconnect.

Worth a deliberate decision

Whether ConnectTimeout and AuthenticationFailed should really block reconnection, given UnHealthyConnection doesn't. See the comment on isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled.

Pre-existing, but this PR makes it sharper

connect() still doesn't guard Disconnecting, and onClose now cancels the connect timer — so a stale close from an old socket can disarm the new attempt's timeout. Comment on connect has the trace.

What I liked

optionsBuilder is the right call and correctly motivated — stream-auth-type depends on the token an attempt will present, so a single instance built at construction can only ever describe the first attempt. Handing the authenticator a WsSender instead of the client is the right boundary, and it fixes a doc example that genuinely never compiled. connectTimeout was dead API and bounding the whole handshake rather than just the socket open is the correct scope, since nothing watched Authenticating. The pong-while-disconnecting fix is a real bug with a regression test that pins the reconnect consequence rather than just the state. And 25 tests on a class that had none — with fake_async for the timers instead of real waits — is the right way to land this.

One small thing not worth its own comment: connect()'s doc still says it "completes when the connection attempt finishes". It resolves once the socket opens — before authentication, well before Connected. Given this PR is precisely about not treating an open socket as a finished attempt, that sentence should probably say so.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z

+  }
+
+  Future<void> _authenticate() async {
+    final result = await onAuthenticate?.call(send);


An authenticator that throws instead of returning a failed Result isn't handled here, and since _authenticate() is unawaited the error escapes:

Bad state: token load failed stream_web_socket_client.dart 203 StreamWebSocketClient._authenticate stream_web_socket_client.dart 199 StreamWebSocketClient.onOpen state: Authenticating()

Unhandled async error, and the connection sits in Authenticating until the 15s timeout — then reports ConnectTimeout, which carries no error, so the real cause is lost.

This isn't hypothetical. The natural authenticator for the flow this stack exists to serve is:

onAuthenticate: (send) async => send(ConnectRequest(token: await manager.getToken())),

and getToken() throws (ClientException) on an unconfigured/reset manager or a failing provider — that's #159's own contract. The typedef asks for a Result, but the one authenticator everybody will write can't honour it without an explicit try/catch.

Could we route a throw to the same place a failed Result goes?

final result = await Result.guard(() => onAuthenticate!.call(send));

so the cause lands in AuthenticationFailed(error: ...) instead of being lost to a timeout.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z

    if (connectionState.value is Disconnected) return;

+    // Stop the timeout from firing later and replacing this source.
+    _cancelConnectTimeout();


Cancelling the timer here covers the case the test does not replace the source of a disconnect that came first pins — disconnect() ran first, so the timer never fires. But the reverse direction isn't covered, because disconnect() only early-returns on Disconnected, not Disconnecting.

onError (line 239) sets Disconnecting(ServerInitiated) and does not cancel the timer. If onClose doesn't follow promptly:

after onError: Disconnecting(ServerInitiated(...)) after timeout elapsed: Disconnecting(ConnectTimeout()) after onClose: Disconnected(ConnectTimeout()) autoReconnect = false

Without the timer that last state is Disconnected(ServerInitiated) with autoReconnect = **true** (web_socket_connection_state.dart:109-114). So a recoverable socket error becomes a permanent disconnect — which is the same failure this PR fixes for late pongs, just via the timer instead of a pong.

Same shape with lower stakes: if the timeout fires and the authenticator then returns a failure, the source is overwritten (ConnectTimeout → AuthenticationFailed). The engine guards the second close, and both sources are non-reconnectable, so that one is only misreporting:

after timeout: Disconnecting(ConnectTimeout()) engine closes = 1 after late auth failure: Disconnecting(AuthenticationFailed) engine closes = 1

Both fall out of one fix: have disconnect() return early (or at least not replace source) when the state is already Disconnecting. That seems better than adding _cancelConnectTimeout() to each new call site as they appear.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z


-    // Open the connection using the engine.
+    // Open the connection using the engine, with options built for this attempt.
+    final options = optionsBuilder.call();


Pre-existing, but the new timer gives it a sharper edge: connect() guards Connecting/Authenticating/Connected but not Disconnecting, so it proceeds while an old socket is still closing.

after disconnect: Disconnecting after connect() during disconnecting: Authenticating <- new socket opened after the OLD socket's onClose: Disconnected(ServerInitiated)

The stale close kills the new attempt — and because onClose now also calls _cancelConnectTimeout(), it disarms the new attempt's timer. If that socket then opens, we're back in Authenticating with nothing watching it, which is exactly the state the timeout was added for.

Adding Disconnecting to the early-return above would close it. Happy for it to be a follow-up since it predates this PR.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z

        SystemInitiated() => true,
        UserInitiated() => false,
+        ConnectTimeout() => false,
+        AuthenticationFailed() => false,


I'd like to push back on both of these, and it's the PR description's own reasoning that makes me want to.

ConnectTimeout — UnHealthyConnection (no pong on an established connection) is retryable, but a missing first pong isn't. That's the same failure mode, usually a bad network, at a different moment. It also compounds connectTimeout going from "null = no timeout" to a mandatory 15s: a customer whose backend is slow to send the first health check now gets connections dropped where they previously worked, and not retried. A spurious timeout being permanent is a rough edge.

AuthenticationFailed — the description argues "credentials the server rejected fail the same way on a retry", but this source never means the server rejected anything. It fires when the client couldn't load or send credentials. send() failing because the socket died between onOpen and the send is exactly the transient case. A genuine "the server said no" arrives later, as an error frame.

One line either way, so mostly I'd like it decided deliberately rather than by analogy with UserInitiated.

Decided as you asked, and I took your reading on one of the two.

ConnectTimeout is now reconnectable (web_socket_connection_state.dart:120). Your argument is the one that settles it: a first health check that never arrives is the same failure as one that stops arriving, and UnHealthyConnection already retries that.

Worth being explicit about what that does to the customer you raised, since it is a three-way change rather than a two-way one. For a backend slow to send the first health check: before this PR the connection hung indefinitely; with the timeout but non-reconnectable it dropped and stayed down; now it drops and reconnects with the recovery handler's backoff. So the flag turns "stays down" into "retries with backoff" rather than back into "connects eventually" — the 15s bound still applies. If that is the wrong trade for a slow backend, the lever is connectTimeout itself rather than the source, and it is per-attempt now.

AuthenticationFailed stays non-reconnectable, with your distinction written into the code as a comment: it is not the server refusing the credentials — that arrives as an error frame — but the client failing to load or send them, and it will fail the same way on a retry. The transient sub-case you named (the socket dying between onOpen and the send) is real, but it is also covered: that path closes the socket, and the resulting closure is reported by the engine rather than by this source. If it turns out to matter in practice, splitting the source is a smaller change than reversing this default.

Also fixed from your other comments: the throwing authenticator now goes through runSafely so the cause lands in AuthenticationFailed instead of escaping (:245), and disconnect early-returns when the connection is already Disconnecting, so the timer can no longer replace a ServerInitiated source — both with regression tests. The connectTimeout behaviour change is now in the changelog and the PR body, and connect's doc no longer claims its future completes when the attempt finishes.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z

+  /// opens but is never established is abandoned once this elapses.
+  ///
+  /// Defaults to [defaultConnectTimeout].
+  final Duration connectTimeout;


Agreed that the old null doc was a lie (nothing consulted a platform default, so null meant no timeout at all), and that a default is better than dead API.

Worth calling out in the changelog as a behaviour change though, not just an API one: every existing connection now gets abandoned after 15s if the first health check hasn't arrived, where before it waited indefinitely. Paired with ConnectTimeout not being reconnectable, a slow-first-pong backend goes from "connects eventually" to "drops and stays down".

Added in 1b5c90a — folded into the existing entry rather than a second one, since it is the same change:

WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout is now a non-nullable Duration, 30 seconds by default, and is honoured: a connection that does not come up is given up on instead of waited on indefinitely. A connection that drops later is retried for you; a connect that times out is not, so call it again.

Two corrections to the numbers while I was in there: the default is 30 seconds, not 15, and ConnectTimeout is reconnectable — ConnectTimeout() => true in isReconnectable.

But your conclusion holds by a different route. ConnectionRecoveryHandler bails on if (!_hasEstablishedConnection) return false before it ever consults the source, so reconnectability is moot for a connection that has not been up yet. A first connect that times out is not retried — which is the "drops and stays down" you described, just not because of the source. That is the part the entry now says out loud.

renefloor · 2026-08-20T13:25:22Z

    this.custom,
  });

+  factory ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser(


Nit: no doc comment on new public API. The class has none either so it's consistent as-is — but the two decisions worth writing down are the ones a caller can't infer: role/teams omitted because the server assigns them, and name coming from originalName so a user with no name doesn't get their id sent as one. That last part is a good catch; every product was getting it wrong by hand.

`DynamicTokenProvider` checked the identity before the type, so a loader returning an anonymous token for a real user reported "User ID mismatch" — the id an anonymous token carries rather than the reason it was rejected. The test had to request `User.anonymousUserId` to reach the type check at all, which is how the ordering surfaced in review. Checking the type first reports what is actually wrong. The identity check still runs for tokens of the right type, which is the case that matters for security. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Three things `setTokenProvider` and `reset` made reachable. A load that finishes after `reset` handed its token to the caller. `reset` is a logout: the request that started as that user should not go out as them. It now fails with a `ClientException`, which `AuthInterceptor.onRequest` already turns into a rejected request. A `setTokenProvider` during a load still serves the caller that started it — that request began as the previous user and finishing as them is the defensible reading, and a test pins it. The manager now rejects a token whose `user_id` is not the user it was loading for. Both built-in providers check this, but `TokenProvider` is an `abstract interface class`, so a custom one is under no obligation to — and caching another user's token authenticates every later request as them. `setTokenProvider` no longer expires the cached token when handed the identity it already has, restoring the old setter's no-op. A reconnect or resume path that defensively re-sets the same provider was otherwise hitting the token endpoint every time. Providers compare by identity, so this only applies when the same instance is passed again, which is that case. Also documents that loads are serialised, so a provider that never returns blocks every later caller, including one for a different user configured in the meantime. Bounding that needs a timeout policy the SDK has nowhere to configure yet, so for now it is written down rather than fixed. The test fixtures issued tokens whose `user_id` was a version marker rather than the user being managed — something no real provider could return, and which the new check rejects. They now issue tokens for the user under test and tell two loads apart with a `nonce` claim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…sh for `AuthInterceptor.onError` asked `usesStaticProvider` to decide whether a token-expired error was worth retrying. On a manager that has been `reset` that is `false` — correct for the name, wrong for the question — so the interceptor expired the token and retried, the retry's `getToken` failed for want of an identity, and the caller was handed "Failed to load auth token" in place of the token-expired error the server actually sent. It now asks what it means: there must be a user to load a token for, and a provider capable of returning a different one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The anonymous `user_id=!anon` query parameter is wire-visible and was not in the changelog: the value used to come from the `TokenManager`, so it was whatever the caller configured. The server requires the token's claim to be `!anon` and derives the anonymous session itself, so sending it is consistent rather than merely harmless. Adds the entries for this round of review fixes, and makes the `!anon` claim requirement on `UserToken.anonymous(rawValue:)` explicit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ycle Brings the #159 review fixes under this stacked branch so #160's diff stays limited to the WebSocket layer.

…lpers `getOrElse`, `getOrDefault`, `recover` and `recoverCatching` each declared a type parameter of their own and then cast the success value into it — `Success<T>(:final data) => data as R`. Nothing constrains `T` to be a subtype of `R`, so the cast is unsound: with a callback that only throws, `R` infers as `Never` and a *successful* result fails with a type error on the path that has nothing wrong with it. getOrElse THREW on a Success: type '(String, int)' is not a subtype of type 'Never' That makes the natural way to turn a failure into an exception — the shorthand `getOrThrow`'s own doc suggests — unusable. Dart cannot express Kotlin's `T : R` bound, so the type parameter goes and the helpers return `T`. Widening is still available through `fold`, which takes its return type honestly. Source-breaking for callers that relied on widening; none exist in this repo or in `stream-feeds-flutter`. Adds the first tests for `Result`, four of which pin the success path of each helper against a throwing callback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Five things about closing a connection, found while wiring `stream-feeds-flutter` onto this and in review of #160. `disconnect` returned while the socket was still closing, so a `connect` straight afterwards raced it: the engine's `open` closes any existing socket first, both closes ran to completion, and `onClose` fired twice — the second landing on a state of `Connecting` and reporting `ServerInitiated`, which is reconnect-eligible. One `disconnect(); connect();` pair could therefore end up with a spurious reconnect alongside the connection it just opened. The close is now awaited, which costs a socket flush: the returned future resolves when the close frame has been written, not when the peer replies. A failed close left the client reporting `Disconnecting` for good. The engine reports such a failure as a `Result` and skips notifying its listener, so nothing moved the state on. The connection is unusable either way, so it is now reported closed. `disconnect` no longer replaces the source of a closure already under way. `onError` sets `Disconnecting(ServerInitiated)` without cancelling the connect timer, so the timer could overwrite a reconnectable server error with a `ConnectTimeout`; the same shape turned a timeout into a late `AuthenticationFailed`. Whoever asked first describes why. An authenticator that throws now fails the connection instead of escaping. The `WebSocketAuthenticator` typedef asks for a `Result`, but the one authenticator everyone writes awaits a token — and loading one throws. The error escaped unhandled, since nothing observes that future, and the connection sat in `Authenticating` until the timeout reported a cause it does not carry. `ConnectTimeout` is now eligible for automatic reconnection. A first health check that never arrives is the same failure as one that stops arriving, which `UnHealthyConnection` already retries; making it permanent meant a backend slow to send that first check went from connecting eventually to staying down. `AuthenticationFailed` stays ineligible: it means the client could not produce credentials, not that the server refused them, and it will fail the same way on a retry. Adds `dispose`, so the client can be released rather than only closed — `StreamFeedsClient.dispose` had nothing to call, leaving both emitters open for the life of the process. It closes the connection, stops the health monitor and closes `events` and `connectionState`, and is idempotent through `Disposable`. Reporting a state guards on the emitter being closed rather than on disposal, so a close event arriving from the engine afterwards is ignored instead of thrown into a closed emitter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser` shipped in #160 without a dartdoc, against the style guide's own rule for new public code. The two things a caller cannot infer are why `role` and `teams` are absent — the server assigns both and ignores them from a client — and that `includeDetails: false` sends the id alone. Also corrects `connect`'s dartdoc, which claimed its future completes when the connection attempt finishes. It resolves once the socket is open, before authentication and well before the connection is usable — which is precisely what the connect timeout exists to bound. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The engine subscribes to the socket before the handshake completes, so a frame can be decoded and handed to the client while it is still `Connecting`. Acted on, it reports a connection established that has never presented credentials, and the authenticator then runs against a state that already says `Connected`. The two guards below it were untested. Both were written for a late pong, but a close cancels the subscription before the socket yields, so nothing sent through the fake server ever reached them — the existing tests passed on the state not having changed for a reason that had nothing to do with the guards. The new pair call `onMessage` directly, which is how the engine delivers a frame already in its queue when the state flipped, and each fails without the guard it covers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`_previousError` is cleared once the attempt that was handed it returns, so the next attempt does not present credentials the server has already refused. It was cleared by comparing values, and `StreamApiError` is a value type — a second refusal arriving while the authenticator ran compares equal to the first, so the attempt answering the older one spent the newer one too. The attempt after it then had nothing to answer and presented the same refused credentials again. Comparing by identity distinguishes them: the same refusal is the same object, an equal one is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A consumer on an older SDK cannot take this release at all, which is the strongest thing the entry says and is not what "Changed" conveys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser` documents `includeDetails: false` as sending the id alone, and it did not: every other field went out as an explicit null. The server is then asked to tell "no opinion" from "clear this", off a request that meant neither. `includeIfNull: false` drops them, so the wire form matches what the factory says it sends. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`apiError` and `toClientException` had no tests of their own, and the interceptor tests that reach them only ever see one shape of failure. Both pick between the API's account of a failure and the transport's, so each test makes the two disagree — a 429 in the body against a 500 on the response — and names which one won. Asserting on a value both sources would produce is not a test of the choice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Each of these ran to two or three lines to explain a guard whose point fits on one. `// Return early if the emitter is closed.` above `if (isClosed) return` went entirely; it restated the line under it. Two dropped a claim rather than shortening it. `onFailure receives the cause when authentication fails` says no more than the parameter's name and type. The `previousError` paragraph on `onConnectionStateChanged` described when the field is set and cleared, which is documented on the field itself; what the method owes a reader is that every state other than `Connecting` only updates it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_authentication_handler.dart (1)
55-67: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate authentication on a user-requested disconnect.

If an authenticator fails after Disconnecting(source: UserInitiated()), _attempt still matches. _onFailure then changes the completed user disconnection to AuthenticationFailed.

Invalidate the active attempt when a user-requested disconnect begins. Keep timeout behavior unchanged so an authenticator failure can still classify an abandoned timeout attempt when that is intended. Add coverage for a held authenticator that fails after disconnect().
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In
`@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_authentication_handler.dart`
around lines 55 - 67, Update onConnectionStateChanged to invalidate the active
authentication attempt when entering Disconnecting(source: UserInitiated()),
ensuring a later authenticator failure cannot replace the completed user
disconnection with AuthenticationFailed. Leave timeout attempt handling
unchanged, and add coverage for a held authenticator that fails after
disconnect().
packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart (3)
159-159: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle exceptions from optionsBuilder.

If optionsBuilder throws, connect() leaves connectionState at Connecting. No timeout exists yet, so the client stays in that state indefinitely. This also conflicts with the documented contract that connection failures are reported through connectionState.

Catch this failure and transition through disconnect with the captured error.
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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart` at line
159, Update connect() around optionsBuilder.call() to catch exceptions from
optionsBuilder, then invoke disconnect with the captured error so
connectionState reports the failure instead of remaining Connecting.
276-283: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not accept a health check before authentication sends credentials.

onOpen sets Authenticating before the unawaited authenticator sends anything. A server frame received during an asynchronous token load therefore changes the client to Connected and cancels the timeout before credentials are sent.

Track successful attempt-scoped credential submission. Accept a health check only after that submission, while preserving the no-authenticator flow.
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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart` around
lines 276 - 283, Update the WebSocket health-check handling around onOpen and
the connection-state checks to track whether the current connection attempt has
successfully submitted credentials. Ignore health checks received while
authentication is still loading or before credential submission completes, but
preserve immediate acceptance for connections without an authenticator; reset
this attempt-scoped state when starting a new connection.
163-171: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Ignore a failed handshake from a replaced attempt.

A first handshake can fail after disconnect() completes and a later connect() has opened another socket. This continuation then calls disconnect against the current attempt and closes the replacement socket.

Capture an attempt identifier before _engine.open(options). If the identifier is no longer current after the await, ignore the result. Add a regression test with a delayed handshake error after a replacement attempt starts.
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lines 163 - 171, Update the connect flow around _engine.open and disconnect to
capture the current attempt identifier before awaiting the handshake, then
ignore the completed result when that identifier is no longer current so a stale
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for the current attempt, and add a regression test covering a delayed handshake
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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart`:
- Line 159: Update connect() around optionsBuilder.call() to catch exceptions
from optionsBuilder, then invoke disconnect with the captured error so
connectionState reports the failure instead of remaining Connecting.
- Around line 276-283: Update the WebSocket health-check handling around onOpen
and the connection-state checks to track whether the current connection attempt
has successfully submitted credentials. Ignore health checks received while
authentication is still loading or before credential submission completes, but
preserve immediate acceptance for connections without an authenticator; reset
this attempt-scoped state when starting a new connection.
- Around line 163-171: Update the connect flow around _engine.open and
disconnect to capture the current attempt identifier before awaiting the
handshake, then ignore the completed result when that identifier is no longer
current so a stale failure cannot disconnect a replacement socket. Preserve
normal error handling for the current attempt, and add a regression test
covering a delayed handshake error after a replacement connect starts.

In
`@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_authentication_handler.dart`:
- Around line 55-67: Update onConnectionStateChanged to invalidate the active
authentication attempt when entering Disconnecting(source: UserInitiated()),
ensuring a later authenticator failure cannot replace the completed user
disconnection with AuthenticationFailed. Leave timeout attempt handling
unchanged, and add coverage for a held authenticator that fails after
disconnect().

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`fix(llc): ignore a pong that lands before the credentials go out` also deleted `stream_log.dart`, `logger/logger.dart` and `impl/tagged_logger.dart`, which have nothing to do with a pong. They were swept in from a staged deletion that belonged to another branch. Nothing referenced them, so their removal changed no behaviour and broke no public API, but retiring the logger is its own change and does not belong in this PR.

An SDK turning a `Disconnected` state into an exception wants the cause, and had to work it out from the outside: switch over the sources, know that only `ServerInitiated` and `AuthenticationFailed` carry one, and unwrap `ServerInitiated`'s `WebSocketEngineException` to reach the error the socket actually failed with. Anything less specific than that switch also had to end in a wildcard, so a source added later would have its cause silently dropped by every SDK that wrote one. `cause` puts that where `closeReason` already lives, on the sealed base, and its switch is exhaustive: a new source with an error to report fails to compile here, in front of whoever adds it. The unwrapping is what makes it worth having. `ClientException` sets `apiError` only when what it wraps is a `StreamApiError`, so handing it the `WebSocketEngineException` leaves a caller unable to see the refusal the server sent. The exception still stands in when it wraps nothing and carries only a close code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The entry explained that an SDK no longer has to enumerate the sources itself and that a server closure reports the error rather than the exception wrapping it — the reasoning behind the API and the shape of what it unwraps. A reader upgrading wants to know the getter is there and what it holds; the rest belongs on the member, where it already is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`not the WebSocketEngineException wrapping it` and `that stands in only when it wraps nothing` describe how the source stores its error, which is nothing a caller acts on. What they need is which of the two they will be handed, and when. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`cause` arrived with a block body wrapping a single switch, and `closeReason` beside it had the same shape. Both are one expression, so both say so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Re-reviewed at 37c5038. Everything from my last round is addressed — the throwing authenticator goes through runSafely, disconnect no longer lets a later source replace an earlier one, connect guards Disconnecting, ConnectTimeout is reconnectable, and fromUser writes down both of the decisions a caller could not infer. CI is green, and locally dart analyze --fatal-infos is clean and all 565 tests pass.

Two things survived verification. I reproduced both by driving the real client through buildTester with throwaway probe tests, which I have not committed.

The first one has three plausible fixes that pull against an existing test, so I have left the call to you rather than picking one.

Smaller, outside the diff: 55c8f6c trims 287 lines from test/query/filter_test.dart. The reasoning is sound and line coverage is unchanged, but it is unrelated churn in a PR that is already ~5k lines, and it is the kind of thing that is easier to agree with on its own.

Nice catches along the way — isClientError comparing code against 400..499 was a check that could never match, and FormData.clone() on the retry is the sort of thing that usually only surfaces in production.

renefloor · 2026-08-25T11:08:29Z

+
+    // A source that blocks reconnection overwrites one already recorded, or a pending reconnect
+    // fires past it.
+    final forceDisconnect = source is UserInitiated || source is AuthenticationFailed;


A server hang-up while the authenticator is loading a token permanently disables auto-reconnect.

AuthenticationFailed is a forceDisconnect, so it overwrites a closure already recorded. Combined with web_socket_authentication_handler.dart:90, which only treats an attempt as stale once a new Connecting has begun, a closure with no replacement attempt yet does not invalidate the authenticator still running against it:

server hangs up while the token is loading -> Disconnected(ServerInitiated) reconnectable, retry scheduled token arrives, send() hits a dead socket -> authenticator throws -> Disconnected(AuthenticationFailed) NOT reconnectable

Probe output, real client and recovery handler, only the socket stood in for:

after hangUp during auth: Disconnected(ServerInitiated(WebSocketEngineException(Unknown, 0, null))) after the late token load: Disconnected(AuthenticationFailed(Bad state: WebSocket is not open. Call open() first.)) attempts after two minutes: 2

The scheduled reconnect is cancelled and _hasEstablishedConnection goes back to false, so nothing recovers it later either, not even the network returning. The app has to call connect() itself.

This is the case I raised last round. Your answer then — that the path closes the socket and the closure is reported by the engine rather than by this source — was correct when you wrote it; forceDisconnect arrived afterwards and now lets this source overwrite the engine's closure. It is not exotic: the window is the whole token load, and the server closes sockets that have not authenticated, so slow token provider -> server closes -> send fails is the ordinary shape of it.

It pulls against the test at stream_web_socket_client_test.dart:461, which deliberately wants a late failure recorded after a ConnectTimeout, so the two cases want opposite things and I would rather you chose:

(a) Invalidate the attempt on any Disconnected, not only on a new Connecting. Simplest, but it changes that test's premise.

(b) Let AuthenticationFailed overwrite only a ConnectTimeout closure — this attempt's own abandonment — and never a ServerInitiated one. Keeps both behaviours, at the cost of a rule with a special case in it.

(c) Leave it, on the grounds that a token load that failed will fail again. Defensible, but then it is worth saying so where AuthenticationFailed is documented, because "one slow token load ends auto-recovery for good" is not what the current wording suggests.

Happy with any of them; I only want it to be deliberate.

Took (a), in 8394950. A closure now ends the attempt it closed, so an authenticator still loading a token for it can neither send nor report:

- if (state case Connecting()) _attempt++; + if (state case Connecting() || Disconnecting() || Disconnected()) _attempt++;

Why not (b). It would not have fixed it. ConnectTimeout gets overwritten exactly the same way, and that path is the more likely one — a slow token load hits our own 30s timer every time, whereas the server closing needs to land inside the load window. ConnectTimeout is reconnectable, so AuthenticationFailed replacing it cancels the retry and clears _hasEstablishedConnection just as it does for ServerInitiated. (b) would have permitted that.

One correction to the write-up. I went looking for the server closing unauthenticated sockets and could not find it — no read deadline or auth timeout on the WS connect path in the backend, only in video ingress/egress. So I would not call slow token provider → server closes → send fails the ordinary shape. What does reach it is any closure inside the token-load window, from any cause: a deploy, a draining balancer, a network blip. Rarer than the framing suggests, but the consequence is bad out of proportion, which is why it is worth fixing. If you know the server does close unauthenticated sockets promptly, that would move it back to ordinary and is worth confirming.

The behaviour you were protecting is intact. A failure still stops recovery when it belongs to the attempt that is live — the ordinary case — which hands connecting back after a closure it will not act on pins with an immediate throw.

stops retrying once an authenticator gives up needed rewriting, and the reason is worth flagging. It asserted a specific end state after the late failure, but which state that is depends on the jitter in retry_strategy.dart — whether a retry fits inside elapse(defaultConnectTimeout). Both outcomes are legitimate, so once the fix made the second reachable it failed about 4 runs in 5. It now asserts the invariant instead: an abandoned attempt's failure changes nothing. 10 consecutive full-suite runs green.

(a) was the right pick, and your reasoning for skipping (b) is better than my framing of it — I had ConnectTimeout filed as the safe case when it is actually the more likely path to the same overwrite. Verified fixed at d7c793c: the late load leaves ServerInitiated in place and the client recovers to Connected, while a live attempt's failure still stops at one attempt with AuthenticationFailed.

Agreed on the test rewrite too — reading the reached state instead of asserting one is right when the backoff jitter decides it, and it still fails if the fix is reverted, which is the part that matters. One follow-up about where the rule is covered, left on the handler's test file.

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+    // A pong counts only once credentials have gone out. Earlier it would report a connection
+    // established before it was authenticated; later it would overwrite why the connection closed.
+    if (connectionState.value case Connecting()) return;


The comment promises more than the guard delivers. It says a pong counts only once credentials have gone out, but only Connecting is excluded — Authenticating, which spans the entire token load, is open:

state after an unsolicited pong during authentication: Connected(HealthCheckInfo(connection-id, null)) credentials sent by then: []

That is the defect c2b7959's own message describes ("reports a connection established that has never presented credentials"); the fix landed on the narrow window rather than the wide one. Beyond the wrong state, it cancels the connect timeout and marks the connection as established for ConnectionRecoveryHandler, on a connection that never authenticated.

Low severity — a real server will not push connection.ok unprompted. But either the guard should track credential submission, or the comment should stop claiming it does.

Fixed in 3c61b94, though not the way either option suggested — gating on credential submission turns out to be impossible.

WebSocketAuthenticationHandler.authenticate returns immediately when no authenticator is configured, so such a connection sends nothing at all and the server's first pong is the only thing that can ever establish it. Requiring credentials would leave it in Authenticating for good.

So the guard now names the states a pong means something in, rather than the ones to skip:

if (connectionState.value case Authenticating() || Connected()) { ... }

That also moves the decision into onMessage, where what an event is already gets decided, and makes Authenticating visibly deliberate rather than an omission — which is what you read it as, correctly, given the comment.

One behaviour change worth noting: a pong arriving in any other state now falls through and is emitted like any other event, where the handler used to swallow it. Listeners already saw it on the path that acts, so they see it either way now.

Good resolution, and the no-authenticator case is a fair objection I had not accounted for. Making Authenticating a named, deliberate state beats a guard that claimed to check something it did not. One question about the events that now fall through, left on onMessage.

renefloor · 2026-08-25T11:08:30Z

+- Added `DisconnectionSource.cause`, the error that closed the connection, or `null` when the source carries none
+- Added `ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser`, which builds the details a client may send from a `User`
+- Added `StreamWebSocketClient.dispose`, which closes the connection along with `events` and `connectionState`; the client is now `Disposable`, and `connect` throws a `StateError` afterwards
+- `StreamWebSocketClient` now honours `WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout`, no longer nullable and 30 seconds by default, so an attempt that never becomes usable is abandoned


This is under Features, and WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout going Duration? -> Duration is source-breaking: anyone passing a nullable through stops compiling. Worth moving up to the breaking section with the others.

Agreed and moved in 0fd5c2d — it sits with the other StreamWebSocketClient options changes now.

Also reworded to lead with the break rather than the behaviour it enables, since the nullability is the part that stops someone compiling:

WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout is now a non-nullable Duration, 30 seconds by default, and is honoured: an attempt that never becomes usable is abandoned rather than waited on forever

Thanks — and the reword is better than the move on its own. Leading with the nullability puts the part that stops someone compiling first.

`WebSocketOptions.connectTimeout` went from `Duration?` to `Duration`, so anything passing a nullable through stops compiling. That was filed under features, next to the things a reader can safely skip. Reworded to lead with the break rather than the behaviour it enables. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

It said a pong counts only once credentials have gone out. It does not: the guard skips `Connecting`, `Disconnecting` and `Disconnected`, and `Authenticating` — which spans the whole token load — is open. That is deliberate rather than missed. `WebSocketAuthenticationHandler.authenticate` returns immediately when no authenticator is configured, so such a connection sends nothing and the server's first pong is the only thing that can establish it. Requiring credentials would leave it authenticating for good. The comment now says why `Authenticating` is in, which is the part the states themselves do not tell a reader. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The guard listed the states to skip, so anything not listed was accepted — including `Initialized`, and including whatever state gets added next. Naming the two it acts in inverts that: a new state is ignored until someone decides otherwise, which is the safe way round for something that reports a connection established. It also makes `Authenticating` visibly deliberate rather than an omission, which is what the previous comment had to explain. A connection with no authenticator sends nothing, so the server's first pong is the only thing that can establish it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

`connect` and `disconnect` both test `connectionState.value` inline, one guard to a line, with no local standing in for it. This one had introduced a `state` variable for two reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…cided `onMessage` already picks what an event is; whether a pong is worth acting on now sits there with it, rather than inside the handler it dispatches to. The states are named positively — `Authenticating` or `Connected` — so a state added later is ignored until someone decides otherwise, and there is no negation to read the wrong way round. `Authenticating` is one of them because a connection with no authenticator never sends anything, so the server's first pong is the only thing that can establish it. The comment this replaces claimed the guard waited for credentials to go out, which it never did. One behaviour change: a pong arriving in any other state now falls through and is emitted like any other event, where before the handler swallowed it. Listeners already saw it on the path that acts, so they now see it either way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

An attempt was only invalidated when a new one began, so an authenticator still loading a token for an attempt that had since closed could report its failure against whatever closed it. `AuthenticationFailed` overwrites a closure already recorded, and is never reconnected, so: server hangs up mid-token-load -> Disconnected(ServerInitiated) retry scheduled token arrives, send() fails -> Disconnected(AuthenticationFailed) retry cancelled `ConnectionRecoveryHandler` also clears `_hasEstablishedConnection` for a closure it will not act on, so nothing recovered afterwards either — not the network returning, not the app coming back to the foreground. One slow token load ended recovery for the life of the client. A closure now ends the attempt it closed, so a token that outlives its attempt can neither send nor report. A failure still stops recovery when it belongs to the attempt that is live, which is the ordinary case and what the test below it pins. Two tests changed with it. The one asserting a late failure is recorded now asserts the closure keeps the reason it was abandoned for. The recovery test asserted a particular end state, which the jitter in the backoff decides — whether a retry fits inside the elapsed window — so it read as flaky the moment both outcomes became reachable; it now asserts the invariant, that an abandoned attempt's failure changes nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

One conflict, in the changelog, where both sides touched the same region of `### 🔄 Changed`: this branch reworded the `AuthInterceptor` entry to cover the retry it now refuses across a user switch, and #163 added one for `SystemEnvironmentManager.updateEnvironment` two lines below. Kept this branch's wording, which says everything main's did and more, and took main's new entry alongside it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Handle an optionsBuilder failure.

If optionsBuilder throws, the client remains in Connecting. The timeout is not armed, and later connect() calls return early. Report this failure through disconnect so the client reaches Disconnected and can retry.

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-    final options = optionsBuilder.call();
+    late final WebSocketOptions options;
+    try {
+      options = optionsBuilder();
+    } catch (error) {
+      return disconnect(
+        source: .serverInitiated(error: .new(error: error)),
+      );
+    }

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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart` at line
159, Update the connection flow around optionsBuilder.call() to catch builder
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from Connecting to Disconnected and subsequent connect() calls can retry;
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`WebSocketAuthenticationHandler` does not exist on main, so the attempt-staleness rule the entry describes was written and corrected inside this release. Nobody upgrading was ever exposed to it, and reading about a repair to something they never had only asks them to work out whether it affects them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Re-reviewed at d7c793c. Both findings are genuinely fixed — I re-ran my probes against this head rather than taking the diff's word for it.

The late token load (8394950). Confirmed fixed, and confirmed the case you were protecting still holds:

server hangs up mid-load, token arrives late  ->  Disconnected(ServerInitiated)   <- source preserved
                                              ->  recovers, reaches Connected again, 3 attempts
authenticator fails on the live attempt       ->  Disconnected(AuthenticationFailed), 1 attempt, no retry

The pong guard (3c61b94). Authenticating() || Connected() reads much better than a list of states to skip, and putting the decision in onMessage next to the other event dispatch is the right home for it. Naming the states a pong means something in also makes Authenticating deliberate, which is all I was after.

Your point about a connection with no authenticator is a good one and I had not thought it through — though I would call the credential gate not worth the machinery rather than impossible, since the handler does know whether an authenticator was configured. Not worth doing; the guard as written is honest about what it checks, which was the actual complaint.

And you are right that I overstated the server side. I asserted the backend closes unauthenticated sockets promptly; I was reasoning from what I expected a WS gateway to do, not from having looked. You looked and it does not, so any closure inside the token-load window is the correct framing and mine was too strong. Your rarer-but-worse-consequence reading is the right one.

Two small things below, neither blocking. dart analyze --fatal-infos is clean, and I ran the suite ten consecutive times at this head — 587 tests, green every time, so the jitter flake is genuinely gone.

renefloor · 2026-08-25T13:44:00Z

+    expect(authentication.previousError, _expiredToken);
+  });
+
+  group('when another attempt has begun', () {


The rule this group is named for is no longer the rule. 8394950 made a closure end an attempt, so an authenticator can go stale without anything replacing it — which is the entire point of the fix. Every test in here still drives Disconnected(...) immediately followed by Connecting(), so they all describe the old contract.

That is not just a naming quibble: none of them fails if the fix is reverted. I put the line back to if (state case Connecting()) _attempt++; and ran this file:

handler unit tests, fix reverted: +15: All tests passed!

The behaviour is covered — stream_web_socket_client_test.dart:462 and connection_recovery_handler_test.dart:147 both fail without it, which is how I know the fix works. But the unit that owns the rule does not test it, and this is where someone will look before changing that line back.

One test closes it: drive Connecting(), start authenticate(), then a lone Disconnected(...) with no Connecting() after it, and assert nothing is sent and onFailure is never called. A rename to something like when the attempt it belongs to has ended would then cover both shapes.

Confirmed and fixed in 762c7ce. I reverted the line and ran each file, which matches what you saw:

handler unit tests fix reverted -> ALL PASS (no coverage) client tests fix reverted -> FAILS recovery tests fix reverted -> FAILS

Two tests added in the shape you described — Connecting(), start authenticate(), then a lone Disconnected(connectTimeout()) with nothing after it — one asserting nothing is sent, one asserting onFailure never fires. Both fail with the line reverted. Group renamed to when the attempt it belongs to has ended, which now covers both shapes.

Your point about where someone looks before changing that line is the part I had missed. Coverage two levels up told me the fix worked; it did not put the rule anywhere near the code that implements it.

renefloor · 2026-08-25T13:44:00Z

    // If the event is a health check event, handle it.
    if (event.healthCheckInfo case final healthCheckInfo?) {
-      return _handleHealthCheckEvent(event, healthCheckInfo);
+      if (connectionState.value case Authenticating() || Connected()) {


Worth a second thought, or a changelog line. A health check outside these two states now falls through to _events.emit(event), where the old guard swallowed it:

state after a late pong: Disconnected(UserInitiated()) <- unchanged, good events seen by listeners: 1 -> 2 <- the pong now reaches them

Your note says listeners already saw it on the path that acts, which is true, but the two paths do not mean the same thing. On the acting path the client has concluded the connection is up; here it has concluded the opposite and then hands the event over anyway.

Connecting is the reachable one — by your own reasoning in c2b7959, the engine subscribes before the handshake completes. A consuming SDK that reads connection_id off the event stream rather than off connectionState would take a connection id from a socket the client just decided does not count, and feed it to ConnectionIdInterceptor.

Narrow, and possibly what you want for consistency with every other unhandled event. But it is downstream-visible and not in the changelog, so it should be one or the other: keep swallowing a pong the client declined to act on, or record the change.

Agreed — moved the check back inside _handleHealthCheckEvent in 762c7ce, so onMessage returns either way and a declined pong is dropped again. Verified: events seen: 0.

You are right that the two paths do not mean the same thing, and my consistency argument does not survive it. An unhandled event is one the client formed no view on; this is one it decided against, and handing it over anyway is a different act.

On the consumer: feeds sources the id from connectionState rather than the event stream —

ConnectionIdInterceptor(() { if (_ws.connectionState.value case Connected(:final healthCheck)) return healthCheck.connectionId; return null; });

— so nothing was actually broken. But that is feeds happening to do it the safe way, and reading connection_id off events is supported and undocumented as unsafe, so the hazard was real for any SDK we do not control. Swallowing keeps the judgement in one place and needs no changelog entry for something I changed incidentally while moving a guard.

…ess rule where it lives Two things from review, both about 8394950 and 3c61b94. The state check moves back inside `_handleHealthCheckEvent`, so `onMessage` returns either way and a pong the client declined is dropped rather than emitted. Moving it up had let it fall through to `_events.emit`, which reads as consistency with unhandled events but is not the same thing: an unhandled event is one the client formed no view on, where this is one it decided against. An SDK reading `connection_id` off the event stream rather than off `connectionState` would have taken an id from a socket the client had just declined. Feeds reads the state, so nothing was broken, but it was reachable and undocumented. `WebSocketAuthenticationHandler`'s own tests did not cover the rule they are named for: every one drove a closure immediately followed by `Connecting`, so reverting the staleness line left all fifteen passing. The behaviour was covered two levels up, in the client and recovery-handler tests, which is not where someone changing that line will look. Two tests now drive a lone closure with nothing after it, and both fail without the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The entry described the API change and left the consequence out: connections that used to wait indefinitely are now given up on, and a `connect` that times out is not retried for you. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A stray blank line left by the tests added in 762c7ce, which `format:verify` fails on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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previousError: telling an authenticator why the last attempt was refused

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xsahil03x commented Aug 20, 2026 •

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`options` → `optionsBuilder`

`onConnectionEstablished` → `onAuthenticate`

`previousError`: telling an authenticator why the last attempt was refused

`connectTimeout` was dead API

`ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser`

`StreamWebSocketClient.dispose`

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