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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.

setTokenProvider

void setTokenProvider(String userId, {required TokenProvider tokenProvider})

The user and the provider change together, so the manager can never cache one user's token under another. The cached token is expired and a load already in flight is discarded. The parameter shape matches stream-video-flutter's own setTokenProvider, so call sites read the same in both — video's returns Future<Result<UserToken>> and eagerly loads, this one is void and lets the next getToken do the loading.

The tokenProvider setter is removed — superseded, and it had no callers in core, video or feeds.

AuthInterceptor.withProvider goes too. It existed so a caller 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. auth_interceptor.dart is back to its pre-#128 shape apart from one line — user_id now comes from the loaded token rather than from the manager, described below. It never shipped, so its changelog entry is dropped rather than recorded as a breaking change. stream-feeds-flutter is the only caller and pins core to a git ref, so it is unaffected until that ref moves.

onTokenUpdated also becomes a constructor-only parameter rather than a public field, since nothing needs to read it back. It was added in #156 and has not shipped, so this is not a breaking change for published callers.

Two defects in the same area

  • DynamicTokenProvider validated only the token type. A loader returning someone else's token authenticated every later request as that user. It now checks the user_id claim, as StaticTokenProvider already did. The id is checked before the type, so a token issued for the wrong user is reported as the wrong user whatever its type; the test requests User.anonymousUserId in order to reach the type check at all. Whether the type should be checked first — so a non-JWT token says so instead of reporting a mismatched id — is open, see the review thread.
  • A finished load could repopulate a cache that had just been invalidated. expireToken() — and therefore setTokenProvider — left an in-flight load free to cache its result afterwards: the very token the caller asked to stop using. Loads now carry a generation stamp and are discarded if anything invalidated the cache while they ran. Caught in review by CodeRabbit; both cases have regression tests that fail without the guard.

AuthInterceptor and the user_id query parameter

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. user_id is therefore read from the loaded token rather than from the manager, so the parameter and the credential always describe the same user. Both providers already reject a token whose user_id claim is not the user they were asked for, so the two cannot diverge unless that check is bypassed — which makes the manager the less trustworthy of the two sources, not the more. The test sends the user id of the token it actually sent pins it.

An earlier revision of this PR did the opposite, reading the manager so that a divergent request would be rejected by the server. That is dropped: a request already authorised as one user should not be labelled as another, and the race it surfaced is one the provider checks prevent rather than merely report.

UserToken.anonymous

userId is removed — anonymous tokens always use the new UserToken.anonymousUserId, and any other id was never used. rawValue (added in #156) is now rejected unless its user_id claim matches, which is the only client-supplied identity an anonymous caller can assert.

One wire-visible consequence: anonymous requests now always send user_id=!anon. Before this PR the value came from the manager, so it was whatever the caller constructed — for video's guest bootstrap, a real id.

This also lets a guest bootstrap say what it actually is, rather than labelling an anonymous token with an id that was never used:

final manager = TokenManager(
  userId: User.anonymousUserId,
  tokenProvider: TokenProvider.static(UserToken.anonymous()),
);

// ...once the identity is known
manager.setTokenProvider(userId, tokenProvider: TokenProvider.static(UserToken(rawToken)));

CHANGELOG

The Upcoming entries from #156 are reworded, not re-scoped: ### 🐞 Fixed becomes ### 🐛 Bug Fixes to match every other section in the file, and the longer entries are cut to one line each. The new breaking section keeps ### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES rather than the ### 🛑 Breaking / Removals the style guide prefers — this changelog already uses the former three times and the latter never, so consistency within the file wins. Worth settling if reviewers disagree. #156's tokenProvider setter fix is dropped, since this PR removes the setter it describes — the net effect for a caller in this release is just that the setter is gone, which the breaking-changes entry covers.

STYLE_GUIDE.md

The three token test files each carried their own JWT builder, and two had drifted into claiming alg: HS256 while attaching a base64 blob that is not a signature. They now share one alg: none builder in test/helpers/user_token.dart.

That needed the guide's blessing, because § Make each test entirely self-contained says "embrace code duplication in tests" and the repo had no precedent for cross-test-file imports. The rule's stated rationale is about shared state, though, which a pure builder is not — so the amendment writes that boundary down: a stateless fixture builder may be shared; anything holding state between tests, or arranging a scenario rather than building a value, stays local.

It is 8 lines in one repo-level file and is the only change here outside packages/stream_core. Happy to split it into its own PR if it would rather be reviewed separately.

Migration

// before
manager.tokenProvider = provider;
UserToken.anonymous(userId: someId);

// after
manager.setTokenProvider(userId, tokenProvider: provider);
UserToken.anonymous();

stream-video-flutter calls UserToken.anonymous(userId: id) in its guest bootstrap (coordinator_client_open_api.dart:1730). Deleting the argument is not sufficient on its own. If the paired manager is built as

TokenManager(userId: someId, tokenProvider: TokenProvider.static(UserToken.anonymous(userId: someId)))

then dropping only the inner argument makes loadToken throw ArgumentError: User ID mismatch!anon against someId. That is a runtime failure on the guest bootstrap path rather than a compile error, so the bump will not catch it: TokenManager(userId:) has to become User.anonymousUserId at the same time.

Video pins stream_core: ^0.4.0, so nothing there breaks until it bumps.

Test plan

  • melos run test:dart — 362 pass in packages/stream_core
  • melos run lint:alldart analyze --fatal-infos and dart format both clean

New coverage: 6 setTokenProvider tests (switching users, expiring the previous token, the guest sequence, a load in flight during a user switch, a load in flight during a provider-only switch, usesStaticProvider), expireToken discarding an in-flight load, the DynamicTokenProvider claim check and its error ordering, UserToken.anonymous raw-value validation, the deliberate user_id/token divergence in AuthInterceptor, and what an anonymous token puts on the wire — which nothing covered before.

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n/a — no UI changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Breaking Changes

    • Authentication interceptors now require a direct token manager; provider-based construction is no longer supported.
    • Anonymous tokens must use !anon, now exposed as User.anonymousUserId.
    • The previous UserToken.anonymousUserId constant has been removed.
    • The minimum supported Dart SDK version has increased.
  • New Features

    • Token managers support unconfigured and reset states.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved token validation, identity matching, caching, reset handling, and in-flight request safety.
    • Authentication refresh is skipped when no identity is configured or static credentials are used.

`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>
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The PR standardizes anonymous-user identity, updates token-provider validation, adds unconfigured and reset states to TokenManager, invalidates stale token loads, and makes AuthInterceptor use a direct manager. Tests, fixtures, changelog entries, and test guidance were updated.

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Authentication token consistency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Anonymous token contract
packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/user.dart, packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/user_token.dart, packages/stream_core/test/user/user_test.dart
User.anonymousUserId is the canonical anonymous ID. User enforces this ID for anonymous users. UserToken uses the shared constant.
Provider identity validation
packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_provider.dart, packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart
Static and dynamic providers validate token user IDs and authentication types.
Token-manager lifecycle and invalidation
packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_manager.dart, packages/stream_core/test/user/token_manager_test.dart, packages/stream_core/test/helpers/user_token.dart, packages/stream_core/pubspec.yaml, melos.yaml
TokenManager supports unconfigured and reset states, provider switching, callbacks, cache handling, and generation-based invalidation. Shared JWT fixtures accept nonces.
Interceptor authentication integration
packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor.dart, packages/stream_core/test/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor_test.dart
AuthInterceptor requires a direct TokenManager and derives user_id from the returned token. Expiration handling skips refresh without an identity or with a static provider.
Release documentation and test guidance
packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md, STYLE_GUIDE.md
The changelog records the API and lifecycle changes. Test guidance distinguishes pure fixture builders from shared mutable setup.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4253b

TokenManager switching can still retain credentials from an obsolete provider during same-user swaps or in-flight invalidation, while invalid syntax in the shared test helper prevents dependent tests from compiling. Merge should wait until the authentication-cache behavior and test compilation issues are corrected.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthInterceptor
  participant TokenManager
  participant TokenProvider
  AuthInterceptor->>TokenManager: getToken()
  TokenManager->>TokenProvider: loadToken(userId)
  TokenProvider-->>TokenManager: validated token
  TokenManager-->>AuthInterceptor: token
  AuthInterceptor->>AuthInterceptor: derive user_id from token
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packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_provider.dart (1)

76-80: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the mismatch message with DynamicTokenProvider.

StaticTokenProvider reports the token's user ID as "expected" and the requested user ID as "got". DynamicTokenProvider (lines 112-116) uses the opposite order. Two different meanings for the same message make log triage harder. Use the requested userId as "expected" in both providers.

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     if (_rawToken.userId != userId) {
       throw ArgumentError(
-        'User ID mismatch: expected "${_rawToken.userId}", got "$userId"',
+        'User ID mismatch: expected "$userId", got "${_rawToken.userId}"',
       );
     }
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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_provider.dart` around lines 76 - 80,
Update the mismatch error in StaticTokenProvider to label the requested userId
as “expected” and the token’s user ID as “got”, matching DynamicTokenProvider’s
message semantics.
packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart (1)

8-14: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Three copies of the same JWT test builder. Each test file defines its own base64url JWT builder with an identical body. Extract one helper into a shared test support file and import it in all three files.

  • packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart#L8-L14: replace _fakeJwt with the shared helper.
  • packages/stream_core/test/user/token_manager_test.dart#L23-L31: replace _token with the shared helper wrapped in UserToken.
  • packages/stream_core/test/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor_test.dart#L71-L82: replace _generateTestUserToken with the shared helper.
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In `@packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart` around lines 8 - 14,
Extract the duplicated JWT builder into one shared test-support helper,
preserving its current base64url header, payload, and signature behavior. Update
packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart lines 8-14 to use the
shared helper instead of _fakeJwt; update
packages/stream_core/test/user/token_manager_test.dart lines 23-31 to use it
while wrapping the result in UserToken; and update
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71-82 to replace _generateTestUserToken with the shared helper.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 12: Update the changelog entry for UserToken.anonymous to state that
rawValue must carry the !anon claim, specifically that its user_id must equal
UserToken.anonymousUserId.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_manager.dart`:
- Around line 133-146: Update _loadAndNotify to capture a monotonic load
generation before awaiting _tokenProvider.loadToken, and only cache and notify
when both the generation and loadingFor still match current state. Increment the
generation whenever setTokenProvider or expireToken invalidates in-flight loads,
while preserving the existing user-ID check.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/user_token.dart`:
- Around line 70-71: Update the documentation for the user-token constructor or
factory around the rawValue validation to explicitly state that malformed JWT
segments may throw FormatException, while retaining the existing ArgumentError
cases for invalid tokens or mismatched user_id claims.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_provider.dart`:
- Around line 76-80: Update the mismatch error in StaticTokenProvider to label
the requested userId as “expected” and the token’s user ID as “got”, matching
DynamicTokenProvider’s message semantics.

In `@packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart`:
- Around line 8-14: Extract the duplicated JWT builder into one shared
test-support helper, preserving its current base64url header, payload, and
signature behavior. Update
packages/stream_core/test/user/token_provider_test.dart lines 8-14 to use the
shared helper instead of _fakeJwt; update
packages/stream_core/test/user/token_manager_test.dart lines 23-31 to use it
while wrapping the result in UserToken; and update
packages/stream_core/test/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor_test.dart lines
71-82 to replace _generateTestUserToken with the shared helper.
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xsahil03x and others added 2 commits August 19, 2026 11:19
The entry claimed a fix this branch does not make. `AuthInterceptor` reads
`user_id` from the token manager rather than from the loaded token on
purpose: taking it from the token would make every request internally
consistent and therefore always accepted, hiding a manager/token
divergence instead of surfacing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ceptor

`setTokenProvider` makes it reachable for a request to carry `user_id` for
one user and a token for another, when the manager is re-pointed while a
token is loading. That is allowed on purpose so the server rejects it;
deriving `user_id` from the token would make the request self-consistent
and silently act as the token's owner. Pin it with a test so it is not
"fixed" the other way, and trim the comment that claimed the opposite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment thread packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_manager.dart
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Removed in c91b3af

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The stale-load guard compared user ids, which let two cases through:
`setTokenProvider` with the same user id and a new provider, and a plain
`expireToken()` during a load. Both ended up caching the token the caller
had just asked to stop using. Loads now carry a generation stamp that
`expireToken` bumps, which subsumes the user id case.

Also address review feedback: order `DynamicTokenProvider`'s checks so a
non-JWT token is reported as the wrong type rather than the wrong user,
align `StaticTokenProvider`'s mismatch message with it, and document that
`UserToken.anonymous` throws FormatException for an unparsable rawValue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…r text

The ordering test matched on the message prose, which means rewording the
error breaks the test. Throw ArgumentError.value with a name instead — as
UserToken already does — so a test can assert which check failed rather
than how it was phrased.

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
It existed so callers could swap in a whole new TokenManager once a guest
exchange resolved its user id. `setTokenProvider` does that on the manager
itself, so the indirection buys nothing and leaves two ways to do one
thing. The interceptor file reverts to its pre-#128 state exactly.

Never shipped — #128 added it in this same unreleased cycle — so its
changelog entry is dropped rather than recorded as a breaking change.

Also from review: document the FormatException that `UserToken`'s factories
can throw, note that `setTokenProvider` discards an in-flight load, and fix
a test comment that restated a guarantee the file's own test contradicts.

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

Pre-existing and deliberately left: the nested `group('TokenManager')` >
`group('getToken')` layout, which the guide would rather see split into files.

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

Also keep `### 💥 BREAKING CHANGES`, the form already used three times in
this changelog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restores test/helpers/user_token.dart as the single definition for the three
token test files, and amends STYLE_GUIDE's "Make each test entirely
self-contained" to say what it already meant: the rule is about shared state,
not pure construction, so a stateless fixture builder may be shared.

Written down rather than improvised, because the repo had no precedent for
cross-test-file imports and the guide read as forbidding them. The motivating
evidence is in the amendment: of the three copies this replaces, two claimed
alg HS256 while attaching something that was not a signature.

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shortening them was scope creep: the ask was only that tests stop matching
the message text. `ArgumentError`'s two-arg form sets `name` while leaving the
message verbatim, so the test keeps its structural handle and the wording is
unchanged. It also avoids `ArgumentError.value` repeating the value after the
message.

The only wording change left is the argument order in `StaticTokenProvider`,
which review asked for so both providers read the same way.

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

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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.

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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.

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`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.

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Comment on lines +177 to +179
// `setTokenProvider` or `expireToken` may have run while this loaded, in
// which case the token is the one the caller asked to stop using.
if (loadingGeneration != _generation) return updatedToken;

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Does it still make sense here to return a token we know is not valid anymore?

A request executing as a user the manager no longer has, after what is semantically a logout. For a user switch the current behavior is defensible (the request was started as A, so finishing as A is arguably right — and the test sends the user id of the token it actually sent pins that deliberately). For reset() it isn't: nothing should go out as that user afterwards, and there's no test covering it.

Fix: throw from _loadAndNotify when the generation moved instead of returning the token — onRequest already turns a throw into a rejected request. If you want to keep the permissive behavior for setTokenProvider, at minimum distinguish reset() (e.g. a separate flag, or check _identity == null after the await).

If we keep it this way, we might have an issue with the _onTokenUpdated

Probe: expireToken() mid-load → callback never fires, but that token goes on the wire (user_id=user-1). The doc still says "invoked after every successful token load". A consumer using it to keep the WS token in sync silently misses this one.


final loadingFor = identity.userId;
final loadingGeneration = _generation;
final updatedToken = await identity.provider.loadToken(loadingFor);

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Maybe worth a check on the userId?

if (updatedToken.userId != loadingFor) throw ArgumentError(...);

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A few more things after another pass, on top of what I already left inline. Nothing here changes my view on the direction — deriving user_id from the token claim is a better fix for #128 than withProvider was, and I'm glad that indirection is gone.

The description argues for the opposite of what the code does

This is the one I'd most like fixed, because someone reviewing from the body alone would sign off on behaviour that isn't here:

  • "user_id is deliberately still read from the manager rather than from the loaded token, so that request is rejected… A test pins this so it is not 'fixed' the other way round." The code reads it from the token (auth_interceptor.dart:26), and the test sends the user id of the token it actually sent pins that. So the section argues against the implementation, and the test it cites pins the reverse.
  • "auth_interceptor.dart reverts to its pre-#128 state exactly — git diff against that revision is empty." Not the case. git diff 16fbde5^ -- packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/interceptors/auth_interceptor.dart against this branch is one line — and it's the user_id line, i.e. the only one with behaviour attached.
  • "The type is checked first, so a non-JWT token is reported as the wrong type rather than the wrong user." The user-id check comes first (token_provider.dart:111). The test had to request User.anonymousUserId to reach the type check at all, and its comment says so. Consequence: a dynamic loader returning an anonymous token for a real user reports "User ID mismatch", which hides the actual problem. Fine to just swap the two checks if the described ordering was the intent.
  • Migration snippet says UserToken.anonymousUserId; the API is User.anonymousUserId. (Test count is 362 here, not 352.)

The stream-video migration note is incomplete

"The argument only needs deleting, since its interceptor reads authType and rawValue and never userId" is true of the interceptor, but misses StaticTokenProvider. If the paired manager is built as

TokenManager(userId: someId, tokenProvider: TokenProvider.static(UserToken.anonymous(userId: someId)))

then deleting the argument makes loadToken throw ArgumentError: User ID mismatch!anon against someId. That's a runtime failure on the guest bootstrap path, not a compile error, so it won't be caught by the bump. TokenManager(userId:) has to become User.anonymousUserId at the same time. Worth spelling out, since a silent-until-runtime break is the worst kind to leave in a migration note.

Two smaller code things

Left inline: a hung provider blocking the next user behind the lock, and usesStaticProvider returning false when unconfigured.

///
/// Fails with a [ClientException] when no identity is configured, either
/// because the manager was created with [TokenManager.unconfigured] or
/// because [reset] dropped the previous one.

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Related to the in-flight discussion below, but a separate problem: setTokenProvider doesn't interrupt a load that's already running, and getToken serialises on synchronized. So the new user waits for the old user's load to finish.

Probe — user-1's loader never completes:

setTokenProvider('user-2', …)
getToken() resolved while user-1's load hangs?  false
getToken() resolved after the hung load completed?  true

No timeout and no cancellation, so if the old provider hangs, every subsequent request for the new user hangs with it. It predates this PR, but setTokenProvider is what makes it reachable — and the thing that hangs is usually a customer's own token endpoint, so it's not an exotic case. A timeout around loadToken would bound it; at minimum it's worth saying in the doc that a slow provider blocks later callers.

bool get usesStaticProvider => _tokenProvider is StaticTokenProvider;
/// false if it's dynamic (fetches fresh tokens on each call) or if no
/// identity is configured.
bool get usesStaticProvider => _identity?.provider is StaticTokenProvider;

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false when unconfigured is right for the name, but it makes the interceptor take the wrong branch: AuthInterceptor.onError reads usesStaticProvider to decide whether a token-expired error is worth retrying (auth_interceptor.dart:61). On a manager that's been reset(), it's false, so we expire and retry, the retry's getToken() throws ClientException, and the caller ends up with "Failed to load auth token" instead of the original token-expired error.

Diagnostics only — no loop, and the request fails either way — but the surfaced error is the less useful of the two.


// The cached token belongs to the previous user and provider, so drop it
// and let the next `getToken` call load a fresh one.
expireToken();

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Behaviour change worth a deliberate nod: the old setter had if (_tokenProvider == provider) return;, so re-setting the same provider was a no-op. Now every call expires the cached token, including one that re-sets the identity it already has.

Probably what we want — the generation guard is the point — but a reconnect or resume path that defensively re-sets the same provider will now hit the token endpoint every time instead of reusing the cache.

// query parameter consistent with the identity in the `Authorization`
// header below.
options.queryParameters['user_id'] = _effectiveTokenManager.userId;
options.queryParameters['user_id'] = token.userId;

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Wire-visible change that isn't in the changelog: with UserToken.anonymous pinned to !anon, anonymous requests now always send user_id=!anon. Before this PR the value came from the manager, so it was whatever the caller constructed it with — which for video's guest bootstrap was a real id.

The test sends an anonymous token as an empty Authorization header… pins the new value, so it's clearly intended. Two asks: a changelog line for it, and confirmation that user_id=!anon is actually what the backend wants on an anonymous request, since a test can only tell us we send it consistently, not that it's correct.

Map<String, Object?>? custom,
this.teams = const [],
}) : originalName = name,
}) : assert(

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Worth listing under breaking changes: because this is a const constructor, the assert is a compile-time error in a const context, not just a debug-mode failure. const User(id: 'x', type: UserType.anonymous) stops building rather than throwing at runtime.

The constraint itself is right, and the test covers it — it's just a stricter break than "an assert was added" suggests, and it's not in the changelog at all.

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`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.

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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.

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…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.

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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.

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The no-op guard added for a defensive re-set compared the whole identity record,
which delegates the provider to `TokenProvider.operator ==`. A provider defines
its own equality — `TokenProvider` is an interface, so one may well compare by
value — and a replacement that calls itself equal to the outgoing provider would
be dropped along with the cache invalidation it was meant to trigger, leaving
the manager serving the previous provider's token.

The user id is still compared by value; the provider now by instance, which is
the case the guard exists for: the same instance handed back on a reconnect.
Erring the other way costs a token load that was not needed; erring this way
authenticates as the wrong provider's token.

Also lists the `User` anonymous-id invariant as a breaking change rather than a
behavioural note. Its constructor is `const`, so a mismatch in a const context
does not throw in debug mode — it fails to compile:

    error - Evaluation of this constant expression throws an exception
            const_eval_throws_exception

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# Conflicts:
#	packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md
`getToken` serialises loads through `synchronized`, so a provider that never
returns held the lock for good: every later caller waited with it, including one
for a different user that `setTokenProvider` had since configured. The thing
that hangs is usually a customer's own token endpoint, so it is not an exotic
case — it predates this PR, but `setTokenProvider` is what makes it reachable
for a user who has nothing to do with the hung request.

A load now fails with a `ClientException` after `loadTimeout`, ten seconds by
default and configurable per manager. Dart cannot cancel the provider, so a slow
one keeps running; what changes is that it no longer holds the lock, and the
cache is invalidated as it gives up so whatever the abandoned load eventually
returns is discarded rather than served to a later caller.

Adds `fake_async` as a dev dependency, so the timeout tests do not spend ten
seconds each.

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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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`setTokenProvider` compares provider instances, so whether a `TokenProvider`
defines `==` makes no difference to it — a provider has no reason to implement
equality for the manager's sake, and none can talk it into keeping a token the
replacement was meant to supersede.

Probing both comparisons showed why that is the right way round. Against every
provider that ships the two are indistinguishable, since neither built-in
defines `==`. Where they differ, value equality buys one avoided token load in
the case where the credentials match anyway, and costs a stale token in the case
where they do not: a provider comparing the endpoint it loads from — a perfectly
reasonable thing to write — reports itself equal while carrying a refreshed
token, and the manager would serve the old one.

The test provider is renamed to say what it is for: it claims to equal anything
of its kind, which is the statement the rule has to survive.

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…equality"

Reverts the provider half of c03f7fd, keeping its `User` changelog correction.

Comparing with `identical` second-guessed a type's own equality contract. `==`
means substitutable: a provider that defines it is declaring that a replacement
is the same as what it replaces, and honouring that declaration is the correct
behaviour rather than a hazard. One that defines nothing gets identity, which is
what the record comparison already did. Both branches are right, so there was
nothing to protect against.

It was also inconsistent. Dart honours a type's `==` everywhere else that type
goes — sets, maps, `contains` — so an equality that claims interchangeability
where there is none is a bug that surfaces in all of those, not something for
this one call site to work around. And the consequence here was bounded anyway:
both tokens must belong to the same user or the load throws, so a retained token
either still works or is rejected and refreshed on the next request.

The test now pins the contract rather than its opposite: a provider that reports
itself unchanged keeps the cached token.

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`UserToken` calls the same extraction `userId`; `UserToken.anonymous` called it
`claim`. Same value, same line of code, two names.

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