Restore channel drafts after a restart and keep drafts the composer never showed

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Goal

Keep channel drafts across an app restart, and stop the composer from deleting a draft it never showed.

Closes #6388

Implementation

• Channels returned by the server (query, watch, grouped and the reconnect refresh) put their draft into the global state.
• The composer shows a draft that arrives after it opened while the user hasn't started composing, and deletes a draft on leave only if it showed it and the user emptied it.

Testing

The query listener tests, SyncManagerTest and MessageComposerControllerTests cover each change.

On a device with the XML sample:

• With the offline plugin disabled, a draft comes back in the channel list and the composer after a restart.
• Cold starting straight into a channel, the composer shows the draft once it loads, and going back sends no draft delete.
• Emptying a shown draft and leaving still deletes it, and it stays deleted when the channel is reopened.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Draft messages from loaded and refreshed channels are now synchronized with global state and can appear in the composer.

• Bug Fixes

  • Drafts for other channels or modes no longer affect the current composer.
  • Incoming drafts no longer replace text, replies, or attachments already in use.
  • Removing a displayed draft clears the composer, while closing an empty composer only deletes a draft that was shown.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK	Before	After	Difference	Status
stream-chat-android-client	5.26 MB	5.32 MB	0.06 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-offline	5.49 MB	5.54 MB	0.05 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-ui-components	10.64 MB	10.76 MB	0.12 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-compose	12.87 MB	13.15 MB	0.29 MB	🟡

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Issues
1 New issue
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
87.5% Coverage on New Code
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Walkthrough

Channel query results and recovered channels now update global draft state. The message composer applies matching channel or thread drafts when its current state permits, and handles draft removal and deletion based on whether a draft was displayed.

Changes

Draft synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Populate global drafts from channel queries stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/..., stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/state/global/internal/MutableGlobalState.kt, stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/*Test.kt	Channel query listeners pass returned channels to global state, which updates non-null drafts. Tests cover individual, multi-channel, and grouped query results, including failed single-channel queries.
Update drafts during channel recovery stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/sync/internal/SyncManager.kt, stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/internal/SyncManagerTest.kt	SyncManager updates global drafts from active-query and active-channel recovery results. Tests cover both recovery paths.
Apply drafts in the message composer stream-chat-android-ui-common/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/ui/common/feature/messages/composer/MessageComposerController.kt, stream-chat-android-ui-common/src/test/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/ui/common/feature/messages/composer/MessageComposerControllerTests.kt	The composer filters draft updates by mode and current contents, tracks stored draft IDs, and handles draft removal and deletion. Tests cover channel and thread drafts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to be6ab

A draft deleted elsewhere can erase text someone has since typed in the composer. Preserve those edits before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to be6ab

The change improves draft restoration and protects drafts that were never shown. A delayed refresh could still restore cleared draft data. The supported impact is limited to draft handling; no authorization bypass or broader exposure was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Draft clearing is not reconciled with newly added query and recovery producers. If a response containing the old draft is applied after optimistic deletion removes it, the response can repopulate shared state. Because clearData resets the displayed-draft identity, an empty composer can display that draft again and later save it. This can undo the intended deletion of private, unsent data within the current user's draft scope. Occurrence depends on response ordering; it does not establish cross-user access or automatic message sending.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported exposure is draft content and lifecycle across channels and threads handled by the active user-state instance. Draft deletion remains addressed to the composer's channel, with a thread parent taken from the selected draft. No broader tenant, infrastructure, credential or service authority was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Response draft identifiers determine shared-state keys without a containing-channel ownership check. The composer applies mode and content guards, but these are not ownership validation. Establishing cross-channel or cross-thread abuse would additionally require evidence that an attacker can influence those authoritative response identifiers; that evidence is missing.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The existing deletion listener removes draft state before the network request and does nothing on its result. Client draft operations use the existing retry mechanism. These behaviors predate the new producers and do not establish rollback or ordering guarantees against an older query snapshot.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Reconcile draft ingestion and deletion through a shared per-channel/thread generation or deletion tombstone, with explicit success, failure and recovery behavior. This would let genuinely new drafts arrive without allowing older snapshots to undo a user's clear operation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 15.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 45 functions across 12 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: restoring channel drafts after restart and preventing deletion of drafts that the composer did not show.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the goal, implementation details, linked issue, and testing results. It omits the UI Changes, contributor checklist, reviewer checklist, and GIF sections, but these are non-cr…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #6388 is closed and completed. It provides historical context only. No active directly linked issue remains, so this pull request has no linked-issue coding requirements to assess.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within the stated draft-restoration scope. State and sync code stores drafts from channel, grouped-channel, query, and recovery responses. Composer code handles late drafts and condit…

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📒 Files selected for processing (12)

• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/internal/StatePlugin.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryChannelListenerState.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryChannelsListenerState.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryGroupedChannelsListenerState.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/state/global/internal/MutableGlobalState.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/sync/internal/SyncManager.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/internal/SyncManagerTest.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryChannelListenerStateTest.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryChannelsListenerStateTest.kt
• stream-chat-android-state/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/state/plugin/listener/internal/QueryGroupedChannelsListenerStateTest.kt
• stream-chat-android-ui-common/src/main/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/ui/common/feature/messages/composer/MessageComposerController.kt
• stream-chat-android-ui-common/src/test/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/ui/common/feature/messages/composer/MessageComposerControllerTests.kt

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