Muted user's messages still appear in message list

[srgray]

What did you do?

I muted a user

What did you expect to happen?

I expected not to see new messages from that user

What happened instead?

I still see messages from that user

GetStream Environment

GetStream Chat version: 4.0.1
GetStream Chat frameworks: StreamChat, StreamChatUI

Additional context

[tbarbugli]

@srgray the SDK does not make any assumption on how apps deal with muted users. We'll add a an example snippet just show how hiding muted messages can be done.

[b-onc]

Hello @srgray ,

I'm pasting my answer to #2061 here, since it's basically the same question:
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It's possible although it's tricky.

When you implement your own UI, you'll have to filter on 2 places:

ChannelController.messages -> you'll most probably use this for numberOfItemsInSection, you have to filter out the messages you won't display. This "filtering" logic can create a bottleneck as the number of messages grows
ChannelControllerDelegate.didUpdateMessages delegate callback -> you need to discard updates related to messages you're not displaying
Alternatively, you can fork the SDK and introduce a var messagesPredicate in ChatChannelController, which you can pass to messagesObserver in ChatChannelController.setMessagesObserver. Here's the diff of a quick hack, you'll most probably need to change this:
messageFiltering.patch.zip

Keep in mind that if you go through the predicate route, you won't see performance issues but you won't be able to filter based on extraData since ExtraData is kept as Data in DB, you can't create predicates for them.
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