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Fix the flaky MessageMemberInfoDaoTest by generating only serializable dates - #6653

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MessageMemberInfoDaoTest is flaky: the same commit goes red and then green on rerun, failing with

com.squareup.moshi.JsonDataException: Non-null value 'updatedAt' was null at $.updatedAt
  at ReminderInfoEntityJsonAdapter.fromJson
  at ReminderInfoConverter.stringToReminderInfo

The cause is in the fixtures. randomDate() was Date(positiveRandomLong()), so dates ran up to year
292278994, while our ISO-8601 writer emits a four digit year on API 26+ and silently truncates the rest:
year 292278994 is written as 2922. Almost every fixture date was past year 9999, so almost every date
persisted through a JSON-backed Room converter came back as a different date, which is invisible to a test
that does not assert on it.

It becomes a failure when the truncation lands on a February 29th whose four digit year is not a leap year,
for example +30000-02-29 written as 3000-02-29. That string is not a real instant, IsoDateAdapter
returns null for it, and Moshi throws on the non-null ReminderInfoEntity.updatedAt. randomMessage
defaults reminder to a randomMessageReminderInfo() holding two non-null dates, so every test in that
class was exposed, as is anything else that round-trips a fixture date through these converters.

Closes AND-1438

Implementation

  • Bound randomDate() and randomDateAfter() to the last instant we can serialise,
    9999-12-31T23:59:59.999Z. Pinning reminder = null in the failing tests would have fixed the one test
    and left every other fixture date silently corrupting through this path.
  • Add ReminderInfoConverterTest, where the crash surfaced and which had no coverage before.

Left alone, and worth a separate ticket: IsoDateAdapter.fromJson catches every Throwable and returns
null. That leniency is right for wire data, but on the database path it turns a date we wrote ourselves into
a read-time crash on a non-null column, and into a wrong date on a nullable one.

Testing

  • Deterministic repro: Date(884546442123004) is +30000-02-29T01:02:03.004Z. Put on a message reminder
    and read back through MessageDao.select, it throws the exception above on develop.
  • Rate through the DAO with fully random messages, exactly as the failing test builds them: 1 crash in
    3,000 round trips before, 0 in 20,000 after.
  • ReminderInfoConverterTest fails without the fixture change, on its first iteration, on the silent
    corruption case: remindAt=... 275752190 came back as ... 2757. Its 5,000 draws also make the rarer
    crash case very likely to be caught if the fixture regresses, and a second case pins the year 9999
    boundary deterministically.
  • ./gradlew :stream-chat-android-client:testDebugUnitTest spotlessCheck detekt apiCheck green on the
    committed tree, rebased on current develop.
  • The fixture is shared, so also green: :stream-chat-android-core:test, :stream-chat-android-ui-common,
    :stream-chat-android-ui-components and :stream-chat-android-compose:testDebugUnitTest.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Added coverage for reminder date serialization and deserialization, including nullable dates and the latest supported instant.
    • Expanded randomized testing to validate 5,000 date conversion scenarios.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Constrained generated fixture dates to the supported ISO-8601 range, preventing invalid dates beyond year 9999 from affecting round-trip results.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK Before After Difference Status
stream-chat-android-client 6.02 MB 6.02 MB 0.00 MB 🟢
stream-chat-android-ui-components 11.32 MB 11.32 MB 0.00 MB 🟢
stream-chat-android-compose 12.80 MB 12.80 MB 0.00 MB 🟢

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The changes bound generated fixture dates to the maximum four-digit ISO-8601 year and add Robolectric tests for reminder date converter round trips, including randomized cases and the maximum serializable instant.

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Date serialization coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bound generated fixture dates
stream-chat-android-core/src/testFixtures/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/Mother.kt
Date fixtures now use 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999Z as the maximum for randomDate() and randomDateAfter(date).
Validate reminder converter round trips
stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/.../ReminderInfoConverterTest.kt
Robolectric tests cover 5,000 randomized date conversions and the maximum serializable timestamp for nullable and non-null dates.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 275a2

The PR reduces flaky date round-trips and adds converter coverage, but the shared test fixtures still need explicit boundary behavior for dates at or beyond the supported serialization range. This is a minor, localized correctness risk that is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: aleksandar-apostolov, andremion, kanat

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Four-digit years now fill the air.
Five thousand hops test round-trip flow,
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Inline comments:
In
`@stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/client/internal/offline/repository/database/converter/ReminderInfoConverterTest.kt`:
- Around line 51-62: Extend ReminderInfoConverterTest with deterministic
coverage for randomDateAfter: verify an input at LAST_SERIALIZABLE_DATE_MILLIS
returns the same instant, and add a separate assertion for the documented result
when the input exceeds that bound. Reuse the existing date-bound fixture and
test conventions, targeting the randomDateAfter behavior rather than only the
converter round trip.

In
`@stream-chat-android-core/src/testFixtures/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/Mother.kt`:
- Around line 776-786: Bound createDate’s generated Calendar result to
MAX_SERIALIZABLE_DATE_MILLIS so default year, month, and date values cannot
produce an out-of-range fixture date. Define randomDateAfter’s behavior when the
input date exceeds that limit, and add tests covering this boundary while
preserving existing safe-input behavior.
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