feat(realtime): process frame JSON through the client codec - #1753
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe Realtime package now supports shared asynchronous JSON codecs for protocol frames. Realtime JSON codec flow
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR centralizes realtime JSON processing through the shared asynchronous codec while preserving custom hook precedence. Runtime risk is low, but migration documentation still needs correction regarding codec fallback behavior and public accessors. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SupabaseClient
participant RealtimeClient
participant AsyncJsonCodec
participant Serializer
participant WebSocket
SupabaseClient->>RealtimeClient: provide shared jsonCodec
RealtimeClient->>AsyncJsonCodec: encode or decode JSON frame
AsyncJsonCodec-->>RealtimeClient: serialized or decoded value
RealtimeClient->>Serializer: process protocol v2 frame
RealtimeClient->>WebSocket: send encoded frame
WebSocket-->>RealtimeClient: deliver incoming frame
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In `@MIGRATION.md`:
- Around line 503-506: Update the later fallback description in the migration
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Correct the public-accessor statement.
RealtimeClient.jsonCodec is publicly accessible through client.realtime.jsonCodec, including when SupabaseClient creates the codec. The statement that only caller-supplied codecs are accessible is inaccurate.
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-Reading a custom codec back off the client changed accordingly; neither the codec nor the built-in one has a public accessor here,
-so this only applies when you passed your own:
+Read the configured codec from `RealtimeClient.jsonCodec`, or from
+`client.realtime.jsonCodec` when using `SupabaseClient`. The synchronous built-in fallback
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In `@MIGRATION.md` around lines 540 - 541, Correct the public-accessor statement
in the migration guidance: clarify that RealtimeClient.jsonCodec is accessible
through client.realtime.jsonCodec for both caller-supplied and
SupabaseClient-created codecs, and remove the claim that accessibility applies
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Stacked on #1751. Review that one first; this diff is only the realtime part.
#1684 gave realtime asynchronous codec hooks, and #1751 gave the rest and
functions clients an
AsyncJsonCodec. That left two mechanisms for the sameconcern and made the common case (keep large JSON off the calling isolate) the
caller's job for realtime only, through
message.toJson()andRealtimeMessage.fromJsonglue written by hand.RealtimeClientnow takes anAsyncJsonCodectoo, andSupabaseClienthands itthe codec it already gives postgrest and functions. So one
jsonCodec:onSupabase.initializecovers all three clients, andRealtimeClientOptions.encodeand
decodego back to being what their name suggests: hooks for putting adifferent wire format on the socket.
Changes
supabase_realtime:RealtimeClient(jsonCodec:), plusSerializer.encodeWithand
decodeWith, which hand the JSON of a frame to the codec. The packageexports
AsyncJsonCodecso the parameter is reachable.supabase:SupabaseClientpasses its codec to the realtime client.encodeordecodewins, thenthe codec, then the synchronous built-in codec.
MIGRATION.md: the feat(realtime)!: support asynchronous encode/decode codecs #1684 entry no longer teaches the isolate glue, sincejsonCodeccovers it. ItsSupabase.initializesnippet also saidanonKey:, which v3 removed, so that is nowpublishableKey:.sdk-compliance.yaml:RealtimeClient.jsonCodecregistered.What stays on the synchronous path
RealtimeClientbuilt by hand without ajsonCodecbehaves exactly as before, so the existing "the built-in codecwrites without a microtask hop" test still passes unchanged.
than a JSON body, which is the whole point of that frame kind, so they are
built and parsed as before and never reach the codec. There is a test.
The trade-off worth arguing about
For a client that does have a codec, every frame now costs one microtask hop and
goes through the
_pendingWriteand_pendingDispatchchains, where thebuilt-in codec used to write and dispatch synchronously. That is deliberate but
it is the reverse of the note in
realtime_client.dartthat the built-in codecexists to avoid the hop.
Payload size does not change it: the default codec processes anything under
64 KB inline, so an ordinary frame pays a microtask, not an isolate. Ordering is
unaffected, since the async path is the one #1684 built the chains for, and there
is a test that two frames completing out of order still dispatch in arrival
order.
The alternative is a size-gated hybrid: keep the synchronous path for small
frames and hand only large ones to the codec. It preserves the hop-free hot path
but needs the sync path to chain behind anything already pending, or a small
frame overtakes a large one. Happy to build that instead if the microtask matters
more than the simpler control flow.
Verification
dart analyze packages/clean,dart formatclean,dcm analyze packagesclean.
supabase_realtime253 tests (8 new),supabase149 (2 new),supabase_flutter79, all passing.New tests: outgoing frames encoded through the codec on both protocol versions,
binary broadcasts bypassing it, incoming frames decoded through it, arrival order
preserved when decodes complete out of order, custom
encode/decodetakingprecedence, and
SupabaseClienthanding its codec to the realtime client.Summary by CodeRabbit
AsyncJsonCodecfor custom serialization and deserialization.