Channel List is not updated if a message is received in a newly created channel

[Ayush-gupta-josh]

Which packages are you using?

stream_chat_flutter

On what platforms did you experience the issue?

iOS, Android, Web

What version are you using?

4.1.0

What happened?

When a message is received in a newly created channel, the channel list is not updated immediately, I have to manually refresh the page for the new channel to reflect in the channel list. I'm using PagedValueListenableBuilder along with StreamChannelListController

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the chat application using multiple users in different browsers such that they have never sent any message to each other
2. Try sending the message from User A to User B by creating a new channel
3. The channel list at User B's end won't get updated immediately.

Supporting info to reproduce

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Relevant log output

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Flutter analyze output

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Flutter doctor output

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[imtoori]

hey @Ayush-gupta-josh could you show me how do you create the channel?

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[Ayush-gupta-josh]

@imtoori Channel is created on the backend, not on the frontend we use a python client to create a channel.

[adityathakur8929]

@imtoori

This is how channel is being created at the backend, where stream_chat_client is initialized using
stream-chat package for python and its version is 4.3.0

channel = stream_chat_client.channel(
        "messaging",
        str(member.id),
        data=dict(members=channel_members),
    )
    channel.create(user_id=STREAM_BOT_USER_ID)
    return channel

[imtoori]

sorry for the delay guys, I'll take a look at it now

[imtoori]

I'm trying to reproduce this, but I'm not succeeding
Also, I'm getting the channel as soon as I create it, I don't even need to actually send a message.
Do you have anything you think can help me reproduce it? I've been trying using our sample app with two different users and it's working fine

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Without additional information, we are unfortunately not sure how to resolve this issue. We are therefore reluctantly going to close this bug for now. Please don't hesitate to comment on the bug if you have any more information for us; we will reopen it right away! Thanks for your contribution.

[adityathakur8929]

Hi, I am adding the video for the issue that has been reproduced on stream flutter demo app:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t7ZZmPHU72FAtAUk_DBUcULeqR-nKihm/view?usp=sharing

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the stream chat application for an admin stream user and navigate to channel list
2. Create a new user from the backend sdk
3. Refresh the channel list on UI

[xsahil03x]

Thanks @adityathakur8929, I will take a look today

[adityathakur8929]

Also the stream demo app repo link on which the issue is persists is:
https://github.com/GetStream/flutter-samples/tree/main/packages/stream_chat_v1

[xsahil03x]

@adityathakur8929 I tried reproducing it but failed again.

Screen.Recording.2022-08-08.at.5.04.34.PM.mov

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[adityathakur8929]

Okay, I have gone through the video the channel list gets updated in real time if a new channel is added and user is a member of that channel. But if a new channel is added and the user is not a member of that channel but user's role is admin on stream then user has to refresh the list once.

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Without additional information, we are unfortunately not sure how to resolve this issue. We are therefore reluctantly going to close this bug for now. Please don't hesitate to comment on the bug if you have any more information for us; we will reopen it right away! Thanks for your contribution.

[xsahil03x]

@adityathakur8929
Unfortunately, our backend do not send channel.created events to WebSockets due to which this isn't possible at the moment.