Two related fixes:
1. A hidden DM's un-hide-on-new-message path only cleared
RoomMembership.hidden_at in the DB -- it never told an already-open
client to refresh. The only existing signal for that room
(unread_update) does setRooms(prev => prev.map(...)), which is a
no-op for a room that isn't in `prev` at all -- exactly what a
hidden DM is. Now broadcasts the same room_added signal a brand new
DM gets (via UPDATE ... RETURNING to know exactly who was
un-hidden), reusing the fix already established for that class of
bug.
2. While debugging #1's test, found the actual root cause behind the
deploy-blocking migrations from earlier this session: every
WebSocket connection shares one AsyncSession for its entire
lifetime, and SQLAlchemy opens a transaction implicitly on first
use. Nothing ever committed it -- not the initial auth lookup, not
any of the several read-then-continue branches in the message loop
(join/message/edit/reaction all check membership this way). A
connection that's just sitting open (which for a real user can be
hours) was holding that transaction open the entire time, which is
exactly what blocked ALTER TABLE twice in production this session
(confirmed both times via pg_stat_activity -- idle in transaction
for 30+ minutes on this exact query shape). Now commits once after
connection setup and once after every frame via a try/finally
wrapping the whole dispatch, so no exit path (including the many
`continue`s) can leave a transaction open while idling on the next
receive_json().
Verified end-to-end in the browser (a hidden DM reappears in an
already-open tab with zero reload when the other person messages
again) and via a new WS-level test reproducing the exact scenario.
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start_dm_endpoint created the room and membership correctly but never
sent the room_added signal every other "you're now in a room" path
(add_member) already sends -- without it, GET /rooms/mine is only
fetched once at app mount, so a DM started against an already-open
client stayed completely invisible until a manual reload. The
recipient still got an offline push/desktop notification (that path
is independent, via _notify_offline_members), just nothing to
actually open when they went looking in an already-loaded session.
Added a test mirroring the existing add_member broadcast test exactly
(recipient connected but never joined any room channel, proving the
signal alone is what tells their client the room exists) -- it failed
before this fix and passes now.
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Every avatar in the app (chat messages, room member list, your own
avatar in the top bar/profile, the admin user list, the room-invite
search) now shows a green/red presence dot. Also adds a global
"Appear offline" toggle in the account menu, letting a user lurk in a
room undetected -- it overrides the real connection state everywhere,
not per-room.
Backend: new GlobalPresence (backend/app/ws/global_presence.py), a
cross-instance Redis-backed connection tracker parallel to the
existing per-room Presence, incremented/decremented on WS connect/
disconnect. A new users.appear_offline column (migration
f0f6e494454a) always wins over actual connection state when computing
displayed status. RoomMemberRead gained a computed `status` field;
add_member/change_member_role/list_room_members all compute it via a
shared _member_status() helper. Connect/disconnect and profile
updates (display_name, avatar, appear_offline) all broadcast
member_updated to every room the user belongs to, reusing the
broadcast infrastructure from the earlier avatar-staleness fix, so
chat surfaces update live with no new WS envelope type needed. A new
GET /api/users/online gives the admin list and user-search a snapshot
(deliberately not live -- see backend/app/routers/users.py) for
surfaces where "accurate as of page load" is good enough.
Frontend: UserAvatar renders an optional status dot; every call site
threads status/appear_offline through from whichever data source it
already has (room members, the current user, or the new online-ids
snapshot for admin/search).
4 new backend tests (backend/tests/test_presence.py); existing
broadcast-adjacent WS tests updated to tolerate the new member_updated
noise on connect. Verified end-to-end in the browser with two real
users: presence dot flips live on connect/disconnect via the existing
room-broadcast channel, and the lurk toggle correctly forces offline
while still connected.
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Another user's new display name or avatar didn't show up until you
reloaded -- update_profile/upload_avatar/remove_avatar never told
anyone. Same root cause and fix shape as #26 (room_added): the
frontend's already-fetched member list had no way to hear about a
change, since nothing ever pushed one.
Reuses the existing per-room broadcast channel (not the per-user one
#26 added, since this only matters for rooms the affected user shares
with someone currently looking at them) -- publishes member_updated to
every room the user belongs to; ChatShellPage refetches members when
it arrives for the currently open room.
Verified end-to-end in the browser: one user's room-info member list
updated live when another user changed their display name from a
separate session, no reload.
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Previously GET /api/rooms/mine was only ever fetched once at app mount,
so a room added mid-session stayed invisible until a full page reload
-- add_member had no way to reach an already-open client at all.
Backend: ConnectionManager and Broadcaster (renamed from RoomBroadcaster)
now support per-user channels alongside the existing per-room ones, so a
signal can reach a user's socket even for a room they haven't joined
(and by definition can't have, until this fires). add_member publishes
a room_added event on the target user's channel.
Frontend: the WebSocket connection is no longer scoped to whichever
room is open -- ChatShellPage now owns one persistent connection for
the whole session (including while no room is open, which is exactly
when this bug showed), and ChatPane joins/leaves rooms on top of it.
A room_added event triggers a room-list refetch with no reload needed.
Verified end-to-end in the browser: a user sitting on the empty room
list saw a newly-added room appear live, then chatted in it normally.
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Splits the WebSocket layer into three pieces so one app instance and many
behave identically: ConnectionManager stays a purely local socket registry;
RoomBroadcaster publishes chat messages to a per-room Redis channel and
every instance (including the publisher) forwards received messages to its
own local sockets via a single psubscribe("room:*") listener started in
main.py's lifespan; Presence is a Redis-backed refcounted hash per room
tracking who's connected across all instances.
Presence replaces the old process-local connected_user_ids check that
Phase 4's offline-push logic used -- without it, a user connected on a
different instance would look offline and get a redundant push. Fixing
this was scoped in beyond the issue's literal ask (message fan-out only)
since it's a real correctness gap in a phase specifically about running
more than one instance; a known limitation (no heartbeat/TTL, so a hard
crash leaks a presence increment) is documented in the README instead of
solved here.
New tests/test_broadcast.py spins up two independent app instances sharing
one Postgres + Redis to prove delivery and presence both actually cross
the Redis boundary, not just work in-process. Manually verified the same
thing against two real uvicorn processes on different ports.
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