Turn off channel updates when message thread shown

Author: martinmitrevski

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ### 🔄 Changed
 - Video and giphy attachments now use `makeMessageViewModifier`
 - Updated scalling of avatar images
+- Turn off channel updates when message thread shown
 
 ### 🐞 Fixed
 - `AttachmentTextView` respects configured body font

Sources/StreamChatSwiftUI/ChatChannel/ChatChannelViewModel.swift

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ open class ChatChannelViewModel: ObservableObject, MessagesDataSource {
             if threadMessageShown == false {
                 threadMessage = nil
             }
+            utils.messageCachingUtils.messageThreadShown = threadMessageShown
         }
     }
 

Sources/StreamChatSwiftUI/ChatChannelList/ChatChannelListViewModel.swift

@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ open class ChatChannelListViewModel: ObservableObject, ChatChannelListController
     }
 
     private func updateChannelsIfNeeded() {
-        if utils.messageListConfig.updateChannelsFromMessageList && ((selectedChannelIndex ?? 0) < 8) {
+        if utils.messageListConfig.updateChannelsFromMessageList
+            && ((selectedChannelIndex ?? 0) < 8)
+            && !utils.messageCachingUtils.messageThreadShown {
             DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.5) { [weak self] in
                 self?.handleChannelAppearance()
             }

Sources/StreamChatSwiftUI/Utils/MessageCachingUtils.swift

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class MessageCachingUtils {
     private var quotedMessageMapping = [String: ChatMessage]()
 
     var scrollOffset: CGFloat = 0
+    var messageThreadShown = false
 
     func authorId(for message: ChatMessage) -> String {
         if let userDisplayInfo = userDisplayInfo(for: message) {
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ class MessageCachingUtils {
     func clearCache() {
         log.debug("Clearing cached message data")
         scrollOffset = 0
+        messageThreadShown = false
         messageAuthorMapping = [String: String]()
         messageAuthors = [String: UserDisplayInfo]()
         messageAttachments = [String: Bool]()