fix: don't rewatch a feed on reconnect after stopWatching was called - #310
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds explicit watch-intent updates to watch handlers and FeedsClient call sites. Reconnect reconciliation now distinguishes actively watched feeds from feeds explicitly stopped. Tests cover handler state, synchronization, reconnect behavior, and integration behavior. ChangesWatch intent reconciliation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Connection
participant FeedsClient
participant Feed
participant getOrCreate
Connection->>FeedsClient: dispatch connection.changed online
FeedsClient->>Feed: synchronize watched feeds
Feed->>getOrCreate: refetch when watch intent is true
FeedsClient-->>Feed: skip refetch when watch intent is false
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to An explicit stop can be undone when a reconnect request finishes concurrently, causing the feed to be watched again. Resolve this race before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@packages/feeds-client/src/feeds-client/feeds-client.ts`:
- Line 1233: Update the Feed.getOrCreate()/synchronization flow so a pending
request captured with watch: true cannot restore watch intent after
stopWatchingFeed() invokes handleWatchStopped. Track explicit stop state or
request generation, invalidate it when stopping, and ignore stale completions
before updating last_get_or_create_request_config or calling handleWatchStarted.
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| feeds.forEach((f) => handleWatchStopped.bind(f)()); | ||
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| handleWatchStopped.call(f, { clearWatchIntent: true }), |
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rg -n -C 8 'stopWatchingFeed|recoverOnReconnect|synchronize|getOrCreate|last_get_or_create_request_config|handleWatchStopped' "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- Feed definitions and references ---'
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Prevent a stale reconnect from restoring watch intent. Feed.synchronize() captures a watch: true configuration, and Feed.getOrCreate() writes that request back to last_get_or_create_request_config after awaiting the API response. If stopWatchingFeed() clears the intent while that request is pending, the late completion can call handleWatchStarted and restore watch: true. Track the explicit stop state or a request generation, and ignore stale getOrCreate() completions after the stop.
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In `@packages/feeds-client/src/feeds-client/feeds-client.ts` at line 1233, Update
the Feed.getOrCreate()/synchronization flow so a pending request captured with
watch: true cannot restore watch intent after stopWatchingFeed() invokes
handleWatchStopped. Track explicit stop state or request generation, invalidate
it when stopping, and ignore stale completions before updating
last_get_or_create_request_config or calling handleWatchStarted.
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🎫 Ticket: https://linear.app/stream/issue/RN-428/bug-stopwatching-doesnt-prevent-feed-being-refetched-after-reconnect
Slack: https://getstream.slack.com/archives/C09MAFUR343/p1789671048186849
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💡 Overview
The issue:
feed.getOrCreate({watch: true})feed.stopWatching()feedis refetched as part of the state recovery, even though it shouldn't beThe solution:
last_get_or_create_request_config.watchflag when astopWatchingorgetOrCreate/queryFeedsoccurs📝 Implementation notes
One thing to note:
last_get_or_create_request_configis only defined for feeds fetched viagetOrCreate, fromqueryFeedswe don't set this field (because that endpoint only fetches feed metadata), so a feed fetched viaqueryFeedsonly, isn't refetched (regardless ofwatchflag), this is how it was behaving before the PR, and nothing changes that.queryFeeds+watch: trueonly flipslast_get_or_create_request_config.watchiflast_get_or_create_request_configexists already, meaning the feed was also fetched withgetOrCreate