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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%.

Screenshots / Videos

n/a — no UI changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added WebSocket authentication support, per-attempt configuration, 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 and clearer token-error classification.
    • Added enhanced Result fallback and recovery helpers.

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved authentication retries, stale connection handling, socket cleanup, and reconnection decisions.
    • Prevented incorrect retries for failed initial connections and non-recoverable disconnects.

  • Documentation

    • Documented upcoming breaking changes and clarified Dart documentation parameter references.

xsahil03x and others added 18 commits August 19, 2026 11:12
@xsahil03x @claude
feat(llc)!: let a TokenManager switch users
56bf6dc 
`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>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): drop the AuthInterceptor user_id entry from the changelog
84e948e 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): cover the deliberate user_id/token divergence in AuthInter…
8e963f4 
…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>
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): discard a token load invalidated while it was in flight
ed252e8 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
refactor(llc): make token provider mismatches assertable without thei…
a64dbb0 
…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>
@xsahil03x @claude
refactor(llc): drop the redundant prefix from token mismatch messages
64a85e0 
`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>
@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): share one JWT builder across the token tests
07db567 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
refactor(llc)!: remove AuthInterceptor.withProvider
c91b3af 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
style(llc): align with STYLE_GUIDE and TESTING conventions
0d88226 
- 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>
@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): keep the JWT builder local to each test file
b9d1928 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): share one JWT builder, and document the pattern
8f834a4 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(repo): drop the incident detail from the test-fixture rule
500beee 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
refactor(llc): restore the original token mismatch messages
5215424 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
refactor(llc): drop the ArgumentError name argument
df2d4f9 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): drop an inaccurate comment on the token type check
6c5eeca 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): reach the type check now that the user id is validated first
a6bb26c 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
feat(llc): let a TokenManager exist before its user does
1d50f2c 
`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>
@xsahil03x @claude
feat(llc)!: bound and authenticate a connection attempt
1abd7d4 
`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.

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WebSocket connection lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
WebSocket contracts and engine lifecycle
packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/engine/..., packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/engine/..., packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/web_socket_health_monitor_test.dart		 Adds a default connection timeout and updates socket open and close handling. Tests cover handshake, replacement sockets, closure, message encoding, health monitoring, and engine errors.
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/web_socket_authentication_handler_test.dart, packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/web_socket_connection_state_test.dart		 Adds attempt-bound authentication and refusal tracking. Reconnection eligibility, disconnection causes, timeout sources, and authentication-failure sources are centralized.
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 connection attempt, enforces timeouts, awaits disconnection, ignores invalid health-check states, supports asynchronous disposal, and retries only eligible established connections.
Integrated WebSocket validation
packages/stream_core/test/helpers/fake_server.dart, packages/stream_core/test/helpers/web_socket.dart, packages/stream_core/test/helpers/ws_client_tester.dart, packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client_test.dart		 Adds fake server and socket infrastructure. Integrated 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 token-loading 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/connect_user_details_request.dart, packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/connect_user_details_request.g.dart, packages/stream_core/test/user/connect_user_details_request_test.dart		 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 and release notes
STYLE_GUIDE.md, packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md, packages/stream_core/dart_test.yaml, packages/stream_core/test/query/filter_test.dart		 Updates dartdoc guidance and release notes, adds the ws-client test tag, and removes obsolete filter tests and examples.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 37c50

The PR changes connection establishment so authentication gates usability and adds timeout and reconnection behavior, but current-head races can still expose an unauthenticated connection or let stale handshake/authentication callbacks disrupt a newer connection or override a deliberate disconnect. Merge should be blocked until these lifecycle races are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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  participant StreamWebSocketClient
  participant StreamWebSocketEngine
  participant WebSocketAuthenticationHandler
  participant ConnectionRecoveryHandler
  StreamWebSocketClient->>StreamWebSocketEngine: Open with per-attempt options
  StreamWebSocketClient->>WebSocketAuthenticationHandler: Authenticate attempt
  WebSocketAuthenticationHandler->>StreamWebSocketEngine: Send credentials
  StreamWebSocketEngine-->>StreamWebSocketClient: Report state or event
  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

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  1. 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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart Outdated
}

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

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart
if (connectionState.value is Disconnected) return;

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

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart

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

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart Outdated
SystemInitiated() => true,
UserInitiated() => false,
ConnectTimeout() => false,
AuthenticationFailed() => false,

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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.

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/engine/web_socket_options.dart
/// opens but is never established is abandoned once this elapses.
///
/// Defaults to [defaultConnectTimeout].
final Duration connectTimeout;

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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".

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/connect_user_details_request.dart
this.custom,
});

factory ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser(

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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.

xsahil03x and others added 8 commits August 20, 2026 16:59
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): report a wrong-type token as such, not as a wrong user
06747e0 
`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>
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): stop serving a token for a user the manager has dropped
1ed6718 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): keep the token-expired error when there is no user to refre…
7541144 
…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>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): record the behaviour changes raised in review
49f63f3 
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>
@xsahil03x
Merge feat/token-manager-user-switching into feat/ws-connection-lifec…
15e5016 
…ycle

Brings the #159 review fixes under this stacked branch so #160's diff stays
limited to the WebSocket layer.
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc)!: return the result's own type from Result's failure-side he…
64c7af7 
…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>
@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): make a connection going down report why, once, and stay down
705123f 
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>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): document fromUser and record this round of changes
ba79c6a 
`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>
xsahil03x and others added 8 commits August 24, 2026 17:09
@xsahil03x @claude
feat(llc): report an attempt that never opened a socket as its own so…
c8807dc 
…urce

`connect` labelled a failed `open` as `ServerInitiated`, which was only
sometimes true. Nothing was open for a server to close, and the handshake fails
just as often for local reasons: a network that is down, options a socket cannot
be opened with, or a provider that throws before a socket exists.

`ConnectionFailed` carries the cause and stays eligible for automatic
reconnection, which is what `ServerInitiated` with no close code did before, so
recovery behaviour is unchanged — the usual cause clears on its own, and a first
attempt is still never retried for the caller.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@xsahil03x @claude
Revert "feat(llc): report an attempt that never opened a socket as it…
927bdee 
…s own source"

This reverts c8807dc.

`stream-core-swift` has no equivalent case — its `DisconnectionSource` is
`userInitiated`, `timeout(from:)`, `serverInitiated(error:)`, `systemInitiated`
and `noPongReceived`, and `WebSocketClient.webSocketDidDisconnect` maps any
active state to `serverInitiated(error:)` exactly as `onClose` does here. Android
has the concept as `DisconnectCause.WebSocketNotAvailable`, but shaped
differently: it carries no cause, and recoverability lives in the source rather
than being derived from it.

`DisconnectionSource` is public vocabulary these SDKs share, so a case only
Flutter has would leave product code with an arm the other platforms cannot
write. Reconnectability was identical either way, so nothing behavioural is
lost — a failed attempt still reports the error that caused it, which is what
was actually missing before this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): drop a changelog entry for a bug that never shipped, and f…
223d643 
…ix the example

The "recorded as a deliberate close" entry described a regression introduced and
fixed inside this branch, so a reader of the release notes would look for it in
0.4.0 and not find it. What is real against the last release — that the closure
now names the error that failed the handshake — moves into the entry for the
socket leak that introduced it.

The example also named `JsonCodec`, which is a test helper in
`test/helpers/fake_server.dart`, not public API. A consumer brings its own codec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): name the right product, and key the reconnection rules to …
c1f707a 
…their sources

`StreamDioException` was documented as "specific to StreamChat", in the package
video and feeds also depend on. Constructor docs across the interceptors said
Initialize, Initializes a new instance of, and Initialize a new <prose name>;
they all say Creates now, which is the third-person form Effective Dart asks for.

`isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled` carried two five-bullet lists that had to be
kept in sync with a switch in another member. The rules now sit on
`isReconnectable`, beside that switch, as one list keyed by source — so a source
with no line is visible, and the state getter just says it defers.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): share the reconnection rules through a macro
d4c9de2 
`isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled` pointed at `isReconnectable` for the rules,
which meant reading two members to answer one question. Both now render the same
list from one definition beside the switch it describes.

Verified with `dart doc`: the text appears on both pages, nothing is left
unexpanded, and a typo in the name is caught — `warning: undefined macro`.

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style(llc): name the engine exception through the dot shorthand
33deddb 
The source's `error` parameter already fixes the type, so `.new` says what
`WebSocketEngineException(...)` said, in the same shorthand the surrounding
`.serverInitiated` and `.authenticationFailed` use.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): trim the changelog to what a consumer needs
be4bc4a 
43 entries to 35, and half the prose. Dropped eight that describe fixes to API
this same release introduces — `WebSocketAuthenticator` throwing, an
`AuthenticationFailed` landing on a closed connection, a `ConnectTimeout`
replacing a source. Nobody upgrading from 0.4.0 ever saw those broken, so they
are how the new API works, not fixes.

The rest lose their rationale. Why `AuthInterceptor` stopped being a
`QueuedInterceptor`, how the attempt-identity check works, what the previous
`print` calls announced — that belongs in the commits, not in release notes.
Entries that carry a migration keep their second sentence.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): fold the changelog entries that share a cause
dd17dae 
35 entries to 20. Four separate faults in the token-expired retry read as one
entry, as do four in how a connection was opened and closed, and two in
reconnection eligibility — a reader upgrading wants to know the retry and the
close were reworked, not to audit each symptom. The two `StreamApiError`
classification changes, the two `AuthInterceptor` behaviour changes and the two
new disconnection sources likewise go together.

Dropped `WsRequestSender` and the `StateError` on a disposed client as standalone
entries; both are already stated where a reader meets them, on `onAuthenticate`
and on `dispose`.

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Revert "feat(llc): bound a token load so one provider cannot block th…
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…e rest"

This reverts commit 0605c01, keeping the `fake_async` dev dependency it added
since #160 uses it.

The timeout was the wrong instrument. The failure it was meant to address is a
load for the user who is gone blocking the user who replaced them, and its cause
is that `getToken` serialises across identities — not that a load takes too long.
A timeout papers over that by failing everyone once it elapses, including the
caller who did nothing wrong, and imposes a default on a token endpoint whose
timeout the customer already owns: shorter than theirs, and it silently fails
loads that would have succeeded.

The serialisation remains documented on `getToken`, which was what review asked
for as a minimum. The targeted fix, if we want one, is a lock per identity, so a
hang for the departed user cannot hold up the one that replaced them.

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Base automatically changed from feat/token-manager-user-switching to main August 24, 2026 16:05
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Merge branch 'main' into feat/ws-connection-lifecycle
1b0af24 
#159 landed as a squash, so its commits are not the ones this branch carried.
Six files conflicted:

- `token_manager.dart`, `token_provider.dart`, `user_token.dart` — this branch
  never touched them, so main's version wins outright.
- `auth_interceptor.dart` and its test — this branch reworked both. Its version
  covers everything #159 did there: no `withProvider`, `user_id` read off the
  token, and a `canRefresh` guard that subsumes the null check while also
  refusing a retry across a user switch. All eight of main's tests map onto the
  twenty-four here, including the no-identity case.
- `CHANGELOG.md` — main carries #159's trimmed entries, this branch carried the
  untrimmed ones plus its own. Rebuilt from main's, plus this branch's, dropping
  the entries main's folded versions supersede.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): state the engine contract as obligations, not as observations
24fd7a9 
`WebSocketEngine` is an interface, so `open` and `close` describe what an
implementation must do. Both read as descriptions of the one implementation
instead — "an implementation does not close one to make room", "the listener is
told the connection closed" — and both trailed off into things outside the
interface: why a caller wants the rule, and what the client does with a failed
close. That last one is already recorded where it is acted on, in `disconnect`.

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In `@packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 45: Move the “Raised the minimum Dart SDK to ^3.12.0” changelog entry
into the “### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES” section, preserving its wording and removing
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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart`:
- Around line 212-219: Update onOpen and the connection lifecycle to associate
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In `@packages/stream_core/test/user/connect_user_details_request_test.dart`:
- Around line 27-35: Update ConnectUserDetailsRequest serialization so toJson
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In `@packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client_test.dart`:
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test('sends the id alone when details are excluded', () {
const user = User(id: 'user-1', name: 'Bob', image: 'https://example.com/bob.png', custom: {'plan': 'pro'});

final details = ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser(user, includeDetails: false);

expect(details.id, 'user-1');
expect(details.name, isNull);
expect(details.image, isNull);
expect(details.custom, isNull);

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In `@packages/stream_core/test/user/connect_user_details_request_test.dart` around
lines 27 - 35, Update ConnectUserDetailsRequest serialization so toJson omits
null-valued detail fields when includeDetails is false, producing only the id
entry; extend the ID-only test around ConnectUserDetailsRequest.fromUser to
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xsahil03x and others added 8 commits August 24, 2026 18:19
@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): describe the engine's behaviour, not the implementer's duty
d096fe4 
`Sink` in dart:core is the model: indicative for what a member does — "Closes
the sink", "Calling this method more than once is allowed, but does nothing" —
and "must" only where the caller has an obligation, never the implementer. The
previous "Must fail" and "Must notify" addressed whoever writes an engine, who
is not who reads this.

Also drops "rather than closing it to make room", which prescribed how to
satisfy the contract and said nothing "fails when a connection is already open"
does not already imply.

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@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): keep a stale handshake or closure from reporting on its suc…
885a3fa 
…cessor

Both callbacks the engine hands the listener could describe a socket the engine
had already let go of.

`open` returned the handshake future without waiting on it, so a `close` that
landed first did not stop it: the handshake completed against the discarded
socket and reported a connection open. The client would authenticate a socket it
no longer holds, and a send that fails relabels the closure `AuthenticationFailed`
— which never reconnects, so a `ConnectTimeout` that should have been retried is
lost. The awaited handshake now reports only while its own socket is current.

`close` announced its closure unconditionally, even though closing yields and a
new socket can open in that window. The closure of the old socket would then be
recorded against the new one, bringing down a connection that is being
established. It is announced only while nothing has taken its place.

`_subject` in the engine test reuses one socket, so a test about two of them
failed on a stream already listened to rather than on anything the engine
decided; `_subjectWithFreshSockets` gives each `open` its own. That also fixes
"refuses to open a socket while one is still open", which asserted the live
socket was untouched while looking at the socket a second `open` would have
created — now it asserts no second socket exists at all.

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@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): ignore a pong that lands before the credentials go out
c2b7959 
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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): tell a newer refusal from the one being answered by identity
e7c5236 
`_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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(changelog): log the Dart SDK bump as a breaking change
8756fa4 
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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
fix(llc): leave the unset connect details out of the payload
1bb50a4 
`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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
test(llc): cover how a refused request is turned into an exception
61a0045 
`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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): say the connection comments in one line where one will do
a0e5762 
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.

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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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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart` around
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
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.
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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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@xsahil03x
revert(llc): restore the logger files this PR never meant to remove
df49bb8 
`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.
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@xsahil03x @claude
feat(llc): let a disconnection source report what closed the connection
61d45d8 
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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(changelog): say what cause is, not why it exists
385d4b5 
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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
docs(llc): say what cause hands back, not how it is put together
c3050fc 
`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.

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@xsahil03x @claude
style(llc): give the disconnection source getters expression bodies
37c5038 
`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.

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart

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

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/stream_web_socket_client.dart
Comment on lines +276 to +278
// 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;

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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.

Comment thread packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md
- 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

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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.

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