feat(llc)!: rework the error layer around a sealed StreamException root

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Description

Reworks stream_core's error layer from scratch around one sealed root. Every failure the SDK reports is a StreamException of exactly four kinds, named for what the caller should do about them:

• StreamApiException — the server answered with an error (carries statusCode, a typed StreamErrorCode, unrecoverable, retryAfter).
• StreamNetworkException — the server was never heard from, outcome unknown (isCancelled, isTimeout, closeCode).
• StreamAuthenticationException — credentials could not be produced or sent.
• StreamClientException — the SDK itself failed.

The full contract — including the errors-vs-exceptions rule (misuse throws Error, runtime conditions become StreamException) and the retry decision procedure — lives in the new ERROR_LAYER.md, with a contributor-facing summary added to STYLE_GUIDE.md.

Highlights

• StreamErrorCode: an extension type over the backend's error-code registry (43 constants, verified against the backend source), with predicates like isTokenExpired (code 40) vs isTokenNotYetValid (41/42, clock skew) that name the fix, not just the code.
• One normalization idiom at every boundary: StreamException.tryFrom(error) + a kind-specific fallback, and runApiSafely as the HTTP call seam guaranteeing every failure that reaches a caller is classified.
• The WebSocket engine reports raw truth in Results; the client is the single normalization seam. Disconnected states carry StreamException?, and reconnect/no-reconnect decisions read the exception's facts.
• TokenManager failures are StreamAuthenticationException end to end, preserving the provider's own error as cause.
• objectRuntimeType utility (assert-gated, minification-safe toStrings), and Effective Dart's documentation guide vendored as EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md with the rulebooks pointing at it.

Breaking changes are itemized in packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md.

The attachment/ sources are at main's state here on purpose; they adopt the layer in #170.

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• New Features

  • Added a unified, typed exception hierarchy for API, network, authentication, and client failures.
  • Added structured error codes with token, credential, and rate-limit classifications.
  • Added safe API execution that preserves failure details and retry timing.
  • Improved WebSocket failure handling and reconnection decisions.
  • Added runtime type utilities.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved API error decoding for varied detail formats.

• Documentation

  • Added comprehensive error-handling and Dart documentation guidance.

• Breaking Changes

  • Replaced legacy error types and retry policy APIs with the new exception model.

FLU-752

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Walkthrough

This change adds a sealed Stream error model, typed API error codes, and Dio-to-Stream conversion. It updates token and WebSocket failure paths to use typed exceptions, revises reconnection rules, and refreshes the related docs, changelog, and tests.

Changes

Typed error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository guidance and docs ERROR_LAYER.md, STYLE_GUIDE.md, CLAUDE.md, EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md, packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md	Adds the vendored Dart documentation guide, updates icon guidance, restates error naming and exception rules, and rewrites changelog label guidance.
Error model and codes packages/stream_core/lib/src/errors/*, packages/stream_core/lib/src/utils/*, packages/stream_core/test/errors/*, packages/stream_core/test/utils/*	Adds the sealed StreamException hierarchy, StreamErrorCode, and updated API error decoding. Removes legacy error exports and aligns the related tests.
API mapping and token boundaries packages/stream_core/lib/src/api/*, packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_manager.dart, packages/stream_core/test/api/*, packages/stream_core/test/user/*	Maps Dio failures into Stream exceptions, adds runApiSafely, and reports token-provider failures as StreamAuthenticationException.
WebSocket failure propagation and reconnection packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/*, packages/stream_core/test/ws/client/*	Carries typed exceptions through authentication, connection, closure, sending, and reconnection logic. Removes WebSocketEngineException and updates the tests.
Tests and changelog packages/stream_core/CHANGELOG.md, packages/stream_core/test/...	Updates the package changelog and test expectations for the new exception and retry behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9c1e5

The PR centralizes failures into typed exceptions and changes WebSocket recovery decisions, but it should receive owner attention before merge because a retryable API timeout can stop recovery of an established connection and malformed fractional server codes can acquire authentication or retry semantics; documentation and test-contract inconsistencies remain bounded follow-up items.

Suggested reviewers: brazol

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DioException
  participant DioExceptionMapping
  participant StreamException
  participant TokenManager
  participant Result
  participant StreamWebSocketClient
  DioException->>DioExceptionMapping: toStreamException()
  DioExceptionMapping->>StreamException: classify response, timeout, cancellation, or embedded error
  TokenManager->>Result: runSafely(provider.loadToken)
  Result-->>TokenManager: preserve raw failure for StreamAuthenticationException
  StreamWebSocketClient->>StreamException: normalize authentication, send, close, and socket failures

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ERROR_LAYER.md (1)

10-16: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Label the ASCII diagram fences.

markdownlint reports MD040 for the opening fences at Line 10 and Line 56. Add text to both fences so the diagram blocks have an explicit language.

Also applies to: 56-64

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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md` around lines 10 - 16, Update both fenced ASCII diagram blocks
in ERROR_LAYER.md, including the block beginning with the StreamException
hierarchy and the one near the second referenced section, to label their opening
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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md`:
- Around line 79-87: Update the StreamApiException guidance and the example
around showError so product UI uses product-owned text selected by the exception
code, not the raw message; retain message only for developer diagnostics. Ensure
the table no longer instructs displaying message verbatim and align the
example’s user-facing error handling with the code-keyed behavior.
- Around line 149-164: Align ERROR_LAYER.md with the implemented helper
contracts: refer to runApiSafely where that is the API boundary, and accurately
document whether runApiSafely and runSafely catch or propagate Error values. If
retaining the current behavior, state that decoding TypeError is wrapped as
StreamClientException and add StateError coverage for both helpers’ selected
behavior; otherwise update both implementations and tests consistently so
propagation seams let Error values escape.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/errors/stream_error_code.dart`:
- Line 16: Update StreamErrorCode.fromJson to reject fractional and non-finite
numeric values before conversion, while accepting integer-valued doubles and
preserving the existing integer code mapping.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/errors/stream_exception.dart`:
- Around line 192-193: Update the props getter on StreamException to include an
equality representation of the retained apiError state, ensuring payload
differences affect equality and hashing. Add a regression test covering
exceptions whose payloads differ only in retained apiError fields.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/user/token_manager.dart`:
- Around line 205-217: Update _loadFrom so every provider.loadToken failure is
wrapped in StreamAuthenticationException, including errors already represented
as StreamException; preserve the original error as cause and retain the captured
stack trace. Add a test using a custom TokenProvider that throws a
StreamException and verify getToken() returns StreamAuthenticationException.

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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md`:
- Around line 10-16: Update both fenced ASCII diagram blocks in ERROR_LAYER.md,
including the block beginning with the StreamException hierarchy and the one
near the second referenced section, to label their opening fences with text.
Leave the diagram contents unchanged.

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199-207: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the no-response path in the transport test.

The _failure call supplies body and statusCode: 401, so this is a response-bearing DioException. The test therefore verifies StreamApiException mapping, not transport-failure mapping. Use a no-response fixture and assert StreamNetworkException, or rename the test to describe server-response mapping.

Suggested test adjustment

-    test('maps a transport failure onto the exception it represents', () async {
+    test('maps a no-response failure onto the exception it represents', () async {
       final result = await runApiSafely<void>(
-        () => throw _failure(body: _errorBody(), statusCode: 401),
+        () => throw _failure(message: 'connection refused'),
       );

       expect(
         result.exceptionOrNull(),
-        isA<StreamApiException>().having((it) => it.code, 'code', 40),
+        isA<StreamNetworkException>(),
       );

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In `@packages/stream_core/test/api/stream_core_dio_exception_test.dart` around
lines 199 - 207, Update the transport-failure test around runApiSafely and
_failure to use a no-response fixture without body or statusCode, then assert
that result.exceptionOrNull() is a StreamNetworkException. Preserve the existing
response-bearing test separately or rename it to accurately describe
server-response mapping.

ERROR_LAYER.md (1)

138-140: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the StateError contract.

Line [140] says SDK bugs never appear inside a Result, but Lines [167-168] say runApiSafely wraps a StateError in StreamClientException and returns it through the operation failure. State that a raw StateError is not the top-level failure type, but it can appear as the cause of a StreamClientException.

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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md` around lines 138 - 140, Update the StateError contract in the
error hierarchy and runApiSafely sections: clarify that StateError is not
returned as the top-level Result failure, but runApiSafely may wrap it in
StreamClientException and expose it as that exception’s cause. Keep the
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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md`:
- Around line 124-125: Update the StreamApiException handling example so the
code passed to copyFor has an explicit fallback when the destructured code is
null. Preserve the rate-limited retry case and continue using copyFor for
non-null codes.

In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart`:
- Around line 276-279: In the AuthenticationFailed retry documentation, replace
the word “indicts” with “indicates” while leaving the surrounding explanation
unchanged.

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In `@ERROR_LAYER.md`:
- Around line 138-140: Update the StateError contract in the error hierarchy and
runApiSafely sections: clarify that StateError is not returned as the top-level
Result failure, but runApiSafely may wrap it in StreamClientException and expose
it as that exception’s cause. Keep the distinction between direct SDK misuse
errors and their safe-operation wrapper explicit.

In `@packages/stream_core/test/api/stream_core_dio_exception_test.dart`:
- Around line 199-207: Update the transport-failure test around runApiSafely and
_failure to use a no-response fixture without body or statusCode, then assert
that result.exceptionOrNull() is a StreamNetworkException. Preserve the existing
response-bearing test separately or rename it to accurately describe
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97-99: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the scope of “Nothing is thrown.”

Lines [139-141] state that SDK misuse throws StateError and ArgumentError. State that expected operation failures are returned in Result, while programming errors still throw Dart errors.

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-  Nothing is thrown.
+  Expected operation failures are returned in `Result`; SDK misuse still throws Dart
+  `StateError`/`ArgumentError`.

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In `@packages/stream_core/lib/src/ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart`:
- Line 318: Update the reconnect decision logic in the StreamApiException
status-code matching to handle statusCode 408 explicitly as retryable before the
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Verified locally on feat/error-layer: dart analyze --fatal-infos clean, 714/714 tests pass. No stale references to the removed ClientException, HttpClientException, WebSocketEngineException, or the old StreamApiError predicates anywhere in the monorepo. EFFECTIVE_DART_DOC.md carries proper CC BY 4.0 attribution.

Overall a strong, well-argued rework — the sealed root, the single tryFrom(e) ?? <kind fallback> idiom, and moving isReconnectable from close-code guessing to reading the exception's facts are all clear improvements.

Findings are left as inline comments:

1. The AuthenticationFailed reconnect carve-out is unreachable in practice — every producer normalizes unknown errors to StreamAuthenticationException, so a transient token-fetch failure leaves the socket down for good. This is the one I think matters. (web_socket_connection_state.dart:304)
2. objectRuntimeType collides with Flutter's — confirmed ambiguous_import for any consumer importing foundation.dart alongside stream_core.dart. (utils/object.dart:10)
3. The user-id mismatch went from Error to Exception, against the rulebook this PR adds to STYLE_GUIDE.md. (token_manager.dart:181)
4. Smaller: a 408 contradiction between ERROR_LAYER.md's retry table and isReconnectable; a dartdoc bullet that misses the error == null case; runApiSafely having no in-package consumer yet; a props nit on StreamApiException.

Checked and found correct: the stale-attempt guard in WebSocketAuthenticationHandler.authenticate means the "abandoned before credentials were sent" StreamNetworkException can never reach _onFailure, so it can't force-disconnect a live attempt; _detailsFromJson on the generated fromJson also fixes a missing-details crash (nice, and it's in the CHANGELOG); the previousError narrowing to StreamApiException preserves the old ?.apiError ?? _previousError semantics exactly; sendMessage's StateError → StreamNetworkException mapping is safe because the engine raises StateError there for exactly one condition.

🤖 Review assisted by Claude Code

[renefloor]

Detailed findings are inline. Summary and verification in the comment above.

[renefloor]

This carve-out is unreachable in practice.

The dartdoc above and ERROR_LAYER.md both sell this as "a token endpoint that was briefly unreachable … reconnects". But every producer of AuthenticationFailed normalizes unknown errors away from StreamNetworkException:

• token_manager.dart:206 — tryFrom(error) ?? StreamAuthenticationException(...)
• stream_web_socket_client.dart:95 — same shape

and StreamException.tryFrom only recognizes StreamException and StreamApiError. So an app TokenProvider that throws SocketException, TimeoutException, http.ClientException, or a plain DioException — i.e. essentially every real integration — arrives here as a StreamAuthenticationException and falls to _ => false.

A transient failure fetching the token leaves the WebSocket down until the app calls connect() again.

The carve-out only fires if the provider itself throws stream_core's own types, and nothing in TokenProvider.loadToken's contract says so. The new test at web_socket_connection_state_test.dart:130 asserts that the type reconnects, not that the path can produce it.

Worth picking one:

• classify well-known transient IO in TokenManager._loadFrom (SocketException / TimeoutException / network-type DioException → StreamNetworkException), or
• document on TokenProvider.loadToken that throwing a StreamNetworkException is how a provider says "this was the moment, retry me", and say plainly in ERROR_LAYER.md that the default is no-reconnect.

[xsahil03x]

Picked both halves, since neither alone closes it.

TokenManager now reads a TimeoutException as a StreamNetworkException — dart:async, so it works on web, where SocketException would not have. That covers a provider wrapping its call in Future.timeout without it knowing a single Stream type.

For everything else I went with your second option, as contract rather than as a note: TokenProvider.loadToken now says that what an implementation throws is how it says whether the moment or the credentials were at fault, and isReconnectable no longer sells the reachable-only-in-theory path. Classifying http.ClientException or a bare DioException from user/ would have been guessing at an arbitrary client's error, and StreamNetworkException asserts a fact — the server was never heard from — that we do not have when app code throws something we cannot read.

You were right that the type test proved nothing about the path. Three tests now: the provider mapping, an already-classified failure passing through TokenManager untouched, and the middle link — an authenticator throwing a StreamNetworkException arriving at AuthenticationFailed with its kind intact and reconnecting.

790ee43

[renefloor]

Name collides with Flutter's objectRuntimeType. Confirmed compile error in a file importing both:

error - The name 'objectRuntimeType' is defined in the libraries
'package:flutter/src/foundation/object.dart (via package:flutter/foundation.dart)' and
'package:stream_core/src/utils/object.dart (via package:stream_core/stream_core.dart)'
- ambiguous_import

Nothing in the repo trips it today (material.dart doesn't re-export it, and no file imports both), so this isn't a build break — but any consumer file importing foundation.dart (for kDebugMode, ChangeNotifier, listEquals, @immutable…) alongside stream_core.dart can no longer name it.

Cheapest fix: add it to the existing hide list on the barrel's src/utils.dart export, since it's really a core-internal toString helper — the CHANGELOG currently advertises it as public API.

[xsahil03x]

Took the cheap fix — it is on the barrel's hide list now, alongside SharedEmitterImpl and StateEmitterImpl, and the CHANGELOG line advertising it as public API is gone. STYLE_GUIDE.md says where each side gets it: Flutter code from foundation.dart, stream_core from src/utils/object.dart.

Verified both directions with a throwaway file in stream_core_flutter importing foundation.dart and stream_core.dart and calling objectRuntimeType — clean with the hide, and exactly your ambiguous_import without it.

7f7569b

[renefloor]

This one went from Error to Exception against the rulebook this PR adds.

The seam rule justifies catching whatever app-supplied token code throws — but this isn't that; it's TokenManager detecting that a custom provider violated its contract, which is the textbook "caller misused the API" row of the table added to STYLE_GUIDE.md. It also silently downgrades a security-relevant bug (a provider handing back another user's token) into a handleable runtime condition.

TokenProvider.loadToken's dartdoc still advertises ArgumentError for exactly this case, so the two now disagree either way.

[xsahil03x]

Kept it an exception, and fixed the doc that disagreed instead.

The reason is the built-in path: StaticTokenProvider.loadToken throws ArgumentError for this exact condition, and it goes through _loadFrom → runSafely → wrapped as StreamAuthenticationException. Flipping only the guard in TokenManager would leave the built-in and custom provider paths reporting the same condition as two different things.

It also would not buy the loud crash: product SDKs call getToken() under runApiSafely, which catches Error too, so an ArgumentError here resurfaces one layer up as a StreamClientException — a differently-typed exception, not a crash.

So TokenProvider.loadToken now states what actually happens: an implementation throws ArgumentError for a token that does not belong to the user, and TokenManager normalizes it. The two docs agree on the exception being the reported type.

790ee43

[renefloor]

Minor doc drift: the retry table above has StreamApiException, 408 (code 48) → yes, but isReconnectable returns false for every 4xx including 408. That looks deliberate (302add2, "stop reconnecting on a timeout a socket cannot deliver") — worth one clause saying a socket never sees a 408, rather than leaving the two tables reading as contradictory.

[xsahil03x]

Added the clause. isReconnectable now says it parts from the table on that one row — every 4xx is no-reconnect, 408 included, because a 408 is an HTTP verdict on a request that arrived too slowly and nothing on the connection path produces one; the table's 408 row is for operation retry, where the status can actually arrive.

Left the table row alone: it is right for the question it answers.

ec62b0e

[renefloor]

Nit: this bullet doesn't cover AuthenticationFailed(error: null), which falls to _ => false below. One clause.

[xsahil03x]

Covered — the bullet reads "no, with or without an error" now, and a test pins AuthenticationFailed() with no error falling to no-reconnect.

790ee43

[renefloor]

runApiSafely (and ApiErrorInterceptor) have no in-package consumer — both are only exercised by tests. Fine given #170, but ERROR_LAYER.md's "every call runs through the seam that guarantees it" is a promise nothing in this PR keeps yet; maybe soften it until the adopters land.

[xsahil03x]

Left the promise as it stands. ERROR_LAYER.md is the contract, and #170 is what makes the code match it — softening the doc now would mean writing the divergence down and then having to unwrite it a PR later.

Happy to be wrong if you would rather the line named its adopters, but I would rather the doc stay the thing the code is measured against.

[renefloor]

Nit: props carries apiError and every field derived from it. And for HTTP-derived exceptions cause is a DioException, which has no value equality — so two structurally identical failures compare unequal. Harmless, just a little surprising sitting next to the "compares by what it carries" test.

[xsahil03x]

Leaving it. apiError and its derived fields are redundant but harmless — the derived ones are what a caller actually compares on, and dropping apiError would put back the hole that adding it to props closed.

The DioException in cause is the real one, and it is not fixable here: cause is Object? by design so a boundary can preserve whatever it caught, and value equality for it would mean either dropping cause from props — two different underlying failures then comparing equal — or teaching StreamException about Dio. Worth the surprise, I think.

[renefloor]

Review of the error-layer rework. The direction is right — the four-way partition named for the caller's reaction, sealed + base, and the compiler-checked isReconnectable matrix are all good, and the dartdoc quality is high. Findings below are grouped blocking / important; each is an inline comment.

One finding has no line in the diff to hang off:

packages/stream_core/doc/web_socket.md is now actively misleading. It is the only prose doc packages/stream_core/README.md links, and its "Reconnection Rules" section (:165-175) lists as not reconnectable: "Token invalid/expired errors" and "Client errors (4xx status codes)". isReconnectable now reconnects an expired token, a not-yet-valid token, and a rate limit (a 4xx). A reader following it reasons from inverted rules. (Its other half — required WebSocketOptions options and onConnectionEstablished at :79-97 — was already stale before this PR, but the same edit could fix both.)

Two of the open threads are already fixed at HEAD and just need resolving: the objectRuntimeType collision (7f7569b) and the ERROR_LAYER 408 drift (ec62b0e). And AttachmentUploadException is removed by #170, so it isn't a finding here — though ERROR_LAYER.md:97 states the totality invariant as already true, when it becomes true only once #170 lands.

[renefloor]

Blocking — a response body that fails to decode is reported as "the server was never heard from".

This fallback treats every DioException without a response as a transport failure. But dio never uses DioExceptionType.unknown for real socket trouble — the IO adapter raises connectionTimeout / connectionError / sendTimeout / receiveTimeout / badCertificate. The unknown + response: null bucket is what assureDioException produces (dio 5.9.2, dio_mixin.dart:717-728) when something in dio's own pipeline throws — most notably the default response transformer's unguarded jsonDecode (sync_transformer.dart:74). StreamCoreHttpClient uses the default transformer, so a truncated or non-JSON body on a JSON endpoint surfaces as:

StreamNetworkException: The request failed before the server answered

This contradicts the PR's own contract twice over: ERROR_LAYER.md:156 says decode failures are StreamClientException, and :167 argues a decode failure "indicts the data, not the program". Worse, it inverts the retry semantics — StreamNetworkException is documented as "outcome unknown, the server may have performed the operation", so the retry table says retry it, including writes through an idempotent path. In reality the server answered, performed the write, and will answer identically on retry.

Note the test at stream_core_dio_exception_test.dart:209 ("reports a response that would not decode as an SDK failure") asserts the correct contract, but throws the TypeError from the call closure — the SDK's own model decode. That path is fine. It's the transformer path, which goes through on DioException first, that violates the assertion the test was written to protect.

Suggested fix — branch on the wrapped error before the network fallback:

if (error case FormatException() || TypeError()) {
  return StreamClientException(
    message: 'The response could not be decoded',
    cause: error,
    stackTrace: stackTrace,
  );
}

(Keep the network fallback for the rest — a mid-stream HttpException also lands in unknown.)

[xsahil03x]

Fixed in 4f4343f. Confirmed your read of dio first: _dispatchRequest wraps transformResponse in a try whose catch (e) { throw assureDioException(e, reqOpt); } builds DioException(requestOptions:, error: e) — no response, type defaulting to unknown. A probe with a truncated JSON body gives type=unknown response=null error=FormatException, and that now maps to StreamClientException.

The branch sits after the response block on purpose, so a real response still wins and a 500 with a malformed body stays a bare-status StreamApiException rather than becoming an SDK failure.

One correction to my own first attempt at the comment: I had written that the server "answered and did what was asked". That is not always true — RequestOptions calls Uri.parse(url).normalizePath() while building, so a malformed URL throws a FormatException before anything is sent and lands in the same bucket. StreamClientException is right either way; the message no longer claims a response.

[renefloor]

Blocking — this is the one case both rulebooks use as their flagship "never wrapped" example.

The engine raises exactly one StateError here: StateError('WebSocket is not open. Call open() first.') (engine/stream_web_socket_engine.dart:133). It fires for two different things — a drop that raced the send (a runtime condition) and calling send() before connect() (misuse). send can't tell them apart, so it classifies both as the most retryable kind in the hierarchy.

ERROR_LAYER.md:140 picks that exact case as its anchor for the errors-vs-exceptions rule ("Misusing the SDK — calling send() before connect() … throws Dart's own StateError/ArgumentError … they never appear inside a Result"), and STYLE_GUIDE.md:594 repeats it as "never wrapped, never inside a Result". ERROR_LAYER.md:170-174 is explicit the other way too: "A StateError from a bug under the seam arrives the same way [as StreamClientException]; it is still a bug."

This isn't only a wrong message. The documented authenticator idiom is to propagate a failed WsRequestSender's error, and AuthenticationFailed(error: StreamNetworkException) is the single reconnectable branch of isReconnectable (web_socket_connection_state.dart:307). So an authenticator that sends on a client that was never connected drives a backoff reconnect loop over a plain ordering bug, presented to the app as a network problem.

The clean fix is to stop sniffing the type: have send() check _ws == null (or have the engine return a distinct "not open" fact) so misuse can keep throwing, and let every other StateError become StreamClientException per the contract.

Related: this is also why the StreamNetworkException carve-out under AuthenticationFailed is reachable after all — see my other thread on web_socket_connection_state.dart:305. It fires, but for a closed socket rather than for a briefly-unreachable token endpoint.

[xsahil03x]

Fixed in 275dad5, taking your second option. send now throws a StateError while the client is Initialized, which leaves the engine's StateError meaning only one thing: a connection that was established and has since dropped. So the type sniffing stays, but it is no longer being asked to distinguish two things it cannot.

I checked the gap between "before connect" and "still connecting": in Connecting the engine already holds a socket, so a send there succeeds rather than reporting a phantom drop. Initialized really is the only state with no socket that is not a real drop.

The existing test asserted the old contract, so it split in two — one for the throw, one for a connection that dropped after being established.

[renefloor]

Blocking — a five-second blip on the app's own token endpoint takes realtime down permanently.

_loadFrom classifies by Dart type only: a StreamException passes through, a TimeoutException becomes StreamNetworkException, everything else becomes StreamAuthenticationException. But StreamException.tryFrom (errors/stream_exception.dart:46) knows only StreamException and StreamApiError — not DioException, and a DioException(type: connectionTimeout) is not a TimeoutException.

So the overwhelmingly common real-world provider — (id) async => (await dio.get('/token')).data — hits the _ arm on any transient blip. I traced the whole chain:

1. stream_web_socket_client.dart:95-102 → AuthenticationFailed(error: authException)
2. web_socket_connection_state.dart:305-309 → _ => false, not reconnectable
3. reconnect/connection_recovery_handler.dart:184 → _hasEstablishedConnection = false; _cancelReconnection()
4. _canBeReconnected() (:137) short-circuits on !_hasEstablishedConnection forever

Later NetworkState.connected events call reconnectIfNeeded() and return immediately. Nothing recovers it but an explicit client.connect(), and the only trace is one _logger.w.

The asymmetry is the tell: the identical failure classifies correctly if it travels through runApiSafely. TokenProvider.loadToken's new dartdoc does document the burden on implementers, but nothing enforces it and the default lands in the terminal bucket — so the SDK punishes the common case for a classification it is capable of doing itself.

Suggested fix: give _loadFrom a DioException arm mapping through toStreamException() the way runApiSafely does. Failing that, treat an unclassifiable non-StreamException as retriable-once rather than terminal, and log the terminal decision at warning from the recovery handler — "not reconnecting, credentials were blamed" is the line someone will need at 3am.

[xsahil03x]

Fixed in 73d172c — _loadFrom gained a DioException arm that classifies through toStreamException(), so an unreachable token endpoint indicts the moment and reconnects, while a refusal stays a verdict.

Two notes on the shape. It costs user/ an import of api/, which is the only such edge in the package — I kept it there rather than teaching tryFrom about Dio, because that would put the sealed root of the error layer behind an HTTP client and make errors/ ⇄ api/ a cycle. Worth knowing that only one of the three arms changes SDK behaviour: isReconnectable distinguishes exactly StreamNetworkException, so a DioException carrying a response still reads as not-reconnectable, same as before. It changes what the app sees, not what the SDK does.

Also from your trace of the recovery handler: the terminal decision is still only a _logger.w. I did not add the warning you suggested there, so that half stands.

[renefloor]

Important — this silent catch can disable token refresh with no diagnostic anywhere.

StreamApiError.fromJson is strict on five fields: stream_api_error.g.dart:10-18 does json['code'] as num, json['duration'] as String, json['message'] as String, json['more_info'] as String, (json['StatusCode'] as num). Any one missing or retyped throws a TypeError that is swallowed here without a trace — this file imports no logger at all.

I confirmed the failure mode with a probe against the PR head: a payload of {code, message, more_info, StatusCode} missing only duration throws, gets swallowed, and falls through to the bare-status branch at :79. The caller then gets code: null, so StreamApiException.isTokenExpired is false, so AuthInterceptor.onError (interceptors/auth_interceptor.dart:71) stops refreshing. Every request starts failing with 401 and the SDK has silently stopped trying to fix it. On the WS side the same body leaves _previousError == null (web_socket_authentication_handler.dart:73 requires a StreamApiException), so the authenticator never learns to send a fresh token either.

It also breaks the contract's own promise to app developers: ERROR_LAYER.md:127 says code == null means "a proxy's bare status". After a decode failure it also means "Stream answered and we couldn't parse it" — two very different situations, indistinguishable at the catch site.

This is reachable without any schema drift: receiveDataWhenStatusError: false leaves response.data == null, and ResponseType.bytes/stream on the attachment path hands over a ResponseBody — both take the json is! Map early return.

Worth doing both: log at warning with the raw body and the thrown error before returning null, and relax duration / more_info / exception_fields the way details was already relaxed — the strictest fields here are the ones carrying the least value, while code and message are what callers actually need.

[xsahil03x]

Half fixed, and I want to be explicit about the half that is not.

The strict fields are relaxed in da1dbd8: duration and more_info decode as empty, so your traced payload keeps its code and the refresh still fires. code, message and StatusCode stay strict — the published spec lists all six as required, and those three are the ones a caller actually needs.

I did not add the logging. I wrote it, then took it out: the only tag available at a top-level function is a hardcoded one, and every logging component in core takes an overridable tag that products rebrand — feeds passes SF:Http. A hardcoded SC:Http would emit outside the branch a feeds app filters on, and collide with LoggingInterceptor's own default. LoggingInterceptor.onError already prints the status, URI and full body for a badResponse under the product's tag, so the payload was not actually invisible.

If you would rather have it, the shape that works is a tag threaded to the mapper — happy to do that instead.

[renefloor]

Important — the replacement suite dropped the only test pinning payload-vs-transport precedence.

StreamApiException.fromApiError takes statusCode from the payload (error.statusCode) while retryAfter comes from the response headers. That split is deliberate and load-bearing, and the deleted stream_core_dio_error_test.dart:64-79 was the only thing asserting it:

// "The error and the response deliberately disagree, so each assertion says which one won."
_failure(body: _errorBody(statusCode: 429), statusCode: 500, ...)
expect(exception.statusCode, 429);

In this suite every case has body.StatusCode == response.statusCode (:49, :64, :73, :87, :108, :126). So a refactor to response.statusCode ?? 0 — the obvious "simplification", since the fallback branch right below already does exactly that — passes the whole suite green.

What that would break: StreamApiException.isRateLimited (errors/stream_exception.dart:190) and the WS reconnect branch StreamApiException(:final statusCode) => statusCode < 400 || statusCode >= 500 (ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart:320). A 429-in-payload behind a 500-status edge response would stop reporting as rate-limited and flip its reconnect verdict.

One case where the two disagree, asserting the payload wins for statusCode while the header still wins for retryAfter, restores the guard.

While here, a few other gaps in this area worth a look: _detailsFromJson's own motivating case (the comment names "a moderation rejection (code 73) sends a list of objects"; the test at :69 covers a Map, which exits at if (json is! List) before reaching whereType<num>()), and StreamErrorCode has no test file at all — so fromJson's documented "accepts any num" tolerance is unverified.

[xsahil03x]

Restored in 4f4343f, with the disagreement you described: a 429-in-payload behind a 500 status and a Retry-After header, asserting the payload wins for statusCode while the header wins for retryAfter.

Your other two gaps are covered as well. _detailsFromJson's own motivating case now has a test with a list of objects rather than a Map, and StreamErrorCode has a test file.

While writing them I found a bug in the same function: _parseRetryAfter used Headers.value, which throws when a header arrives twice. That throw happened inside toStreamException, which runApiSafely calls from its own catch — so it escaped the try entirely and reached callers as a raw Exception instead of a Result.failure. Read as a list now, with a test.

[renefloor]

Important — this guarantee does not hold at the seam the SDK actually delivers through.

Failure.error is typed Object (utils/result.dart:42), and Dart requires switch exhaustiveness only for always-exhaustive scrutinee types. I took the flagship example directly above (:120-133), deleted the StreamClientException case, and ran dart analyze against the PR head:

Analyzing probe2.dart...
No issues found!

No error, no warning, no info. The same switch narrowed to a StreamException scrutinee correctly fails with non_exhaustive_switch_expression — so the single biggest thing the sealed hierarchy was meant to buy is unavailable everywhere failures are actually handed to callers.

Cheapest fix that makes the doc true is a narrowing accessor rather than a generic Result<T, E>:

extension StreamResult<T> on Result<T> {
  StreamException? get streamErrorOrNull => switch (this) {
    Failure(:final StreamException error) => error,
    _ => null,
  };
}

Otherwise the guarantee rests on four separate call sites each remembering to call StreamException.tryFrom, and the doc should say "switch on a StreamException you have already narrowed" rather than promising a compile error.

[xsahil03x]

Softened in ca848a0, and your probe was right in a way I initially got wrong.

My first fix changed the example to case Failure(:final StreamException error). That does not compile — the pattern is refutable, so it does not cover every Failure and the outer switch becomes non-exhaustive:

error - The type 'Result<int>' isn't exhaustively matched by the switch cases
        since it doesn't match the pattern 'Failure(error: Object())'

The shipped version narrows inside the case, which compiles and does give the check — removing a branch fails with non_exhaustive_switch_expression on StreamException. I verified both directions rather than trusting it this time.

I went with softening the doc over adding streamErrorOrNull, on the grounds that a new public accessor on Result is more surface than a sentence.

[renefloor]

Important — it parts from the table on three rows, not one.

Comparing the table above (:218-227) against isReconnectable (ws/client/web_socket_connection_state.dart:300-327):

Failure	Table says	isReconnectable
StreamApiException(isTokenExpired: true)	No (:222)	true (:317)
StreamClientException	No — "a bug does not heal on resend" (:227)	true (:324)
408 / other 4xx	Yes (:224)	false (:320) — the one disclosed

Both undisclosed divergences look defensible — a reconnect re-authenticates, so an expired token genuinely can heal on the connection path in a way an operation retry cannot — which is exactly why they deserve a sentence rather than silence. Anyone building a product-SDK retry queue "consistent with the connection path" will diverge from it on two rows without knowing.

Note the {@macro webSocketReconnectionRules} dartdoc at web_socket_connection_state.dart:273-299 gets all three rows right — it is the best doc in the PR and the only place that does. Simplest fix is to drop the "one row" claim here and point at that macro as the authority for the connection path.

Same paragraph, smaller: StreamClientException() => true is live code, not hypothetical — _handleErrorEvent (stream_web_socket_client.dart:346-350) builds exactly that when a server error event can't be read as a StreamApiError. So an undecodable server refusal (a tokenSignatureInvalid the decoder didn't recognise) reconnects forever against a server that will refuse identically, and _previousError never gets set so the credentials are never replaced. Worth separating "the SDK failed" from "the server refused and we couldn't read it".

[xsahil03x]

Fixed in ca848a0 — it now says three rows, and attaches the reason to the row it actually explains. "A reconnect authenticates again where an operation retry cannot" justifies the expired-token row and says nothing about the SDK-failure one, so pretending one sentence covered both was the flaw in my first pass. The macro is named as the authority for the connection path.

On your smaller point: StreamClientException() => true is still live and still reconnects forever. I traced the producers — _handleErrorEvent's undecodable-payload fallback is the only thing that builds ServerInitiated(StreamClientException), which makes flipping that arm to false a precise fix rather than one that would also stop reconnecting after a dropped socket. I have not applied it, since it changes reconnect behaviour and deserves its own decision.

[renefloor]

Important — three breaking changes missing from an otherwise thorough list.

I traced every entry here to the diff and found no phantom entries — the removals of DioException.apiError and WebSocketEngineException.stopErrorCode are correctly folded into broader lines, and nothing shipped is silently gone. Three real gaps:

1. The enclosing extension was renamed too. This line covers the method (toClientException() → toStreamException()), but the extension itself went from StreamDioExceptionExtension (merge-base api/stream_core_dio_error.dart:23) to DioExceptionMapping (api/stream_core_dio_exception.dart:34). That breaks explicit invocation (StreamDioExceptionExtension(e).…) and any show/hide naming it — a compile break for a consumer whose changelog scan found nothing.

2. StreamWebSocketClient.send's failure type changed. In released 0.4.0 it returned _engine.sendMessage(request) verbatim, so its Failure carried a raw StateError or the codec's own error; it now always carries a StreamException (stream_web_socket_client.dart:169-190). The WsRequestSender handed to authenticators changed the same way (web_socket_authentication_handler.dart:116-119, StateError → StreamNetworkException). Given the guidance to propagate a sender's error into AuthenticationFailed, apps matching on StateError there change reconnect behaviour silently rather than failing to compile.

3. StreamDioException no longer defaults stackTrace to StackTrace.current. The old constructor did; the new one passes it through to dio (deliberate, per its dartdoc) — but it is a behavioural change to a public constructor.

Also, one inaccuracy in the Features section: "StreamApiException.retryAfter … read from the Retry-After header on rate-limited responses". _parseRetryAfter runs on every error response carrying the header, including the bare-status branch — a 503 populates it too. The narrow phrasing invites if (isRateLimited) use(retryAfter) and leaves a server-named wait on a 503 unused. (Separately, int.tryParse handles only delta-seconds; RFC 9110's HTTP-date form is dropped silently.)

[xsahil03x]

All three added in ac6e9e1, plus the retryAfter wording — it is read from any error response carrying the header, so a 503 populates it, and only the delta-seconds form is read. I checked the backend on that: the one producer is monolith/budget/middleware.go:399, strconv.FormatInt, so Stream never sends the HTTP-date form.

Thank you for tracing every entry — it turned up two more while I was verifying the CHANGELOG against the backend rather than against the diff. unrecoverable is not Video-only: permissions/v2/errors.go:64 marks every permission denial unrecoverable, so an app following our dartdoc would retry a 403 the server told it not to. And code 113 was missing entirely — the backend added it so clients could branch on it without parsing messages. Both in da1dbd8.

[xsahil03x]

All eight inline threads answered, plus the finding with no line to hang off.

doc/web_socket.md is fixed in ca848a0. Both halves were stale, not just the reconnection rules — it documented required WebSocketOptions options and onConnectionEstablished, neither of which exists. Rather than correcting the rule list I replaced it with a pointer to isReconnectable, since a hand-kept copy of that matrix is what drifted in the first place. It also named AppLifecycleStateProvider, a class that does not exist, in two places — and in ConnectionRecoveryHandler's own dartdoc.

On the two threads already fixed at HEAD — objectRuntimeType and the 408 drift — agreed, nothing more to do.

On ERROR_LAYER.md:97: you are right that the totality invariant reads as already true. I have left it, on the grounds that the document is the contract #170 makes the code match, and softening it now means unwriting it a PR later. Happy to be overruled.

Two things came out of verifying rather than from the review, both worth a look:

1. _parseRetryAfter used Headers.value, which throws when a header arrives twice. It threw from inside the mapper, which runApiSafely calls from its own catch — so it escaped the seam and reached callers as a raw Exception rather than a Result.failure. Fixed with a test.
2. I checked the whole error layer against the backend source. Six doc claims were wrong; the two that matter are in the reply on your CHANGELOG thread.

Still open by choice, both flagged in-thread: the logging half of the _parseApiError finding, and StreamClientException reconnecting forever in _handleErrorEvent.

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