ChatChannelView don't update live images of channel users

[jmagnier-luna]

What did you do?

If I modify a ChatUser's photo for User A from a device, the ChatChannelController on an other device connected to User B inside a chat with User A will emit a change.

What did you expect to happen?

Live update for imageUrl inside ChatChannelView

What happened instead?

However, MessageContainerView (the default implementation of the ViewFactory) will cache the ChatUser's url in MessageCachingUtils, so the view's body will be recalled, but MessageAvatarView will be provided with the cached url.

GetStream Environment

GetStream Chat version:
GetStream Chat frameworks: StreamChat, StreamChatSwiftUI
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Additional context

[nuno-vieira]

Hi @jmagnier-luna,

This is done on prupose at the moment for performance reasons. Updating the image of a user will trigger a message update for almost every message, which in SwiftUI will cause a performance penalty.

Since updating the image is not a common action, the compromise of not live updating is okay for now. When you open the channel again, it will update.

For now, we do not have plans to change this, but we will re-open the issue if we decide to change this in the future.

Thank you,
Nuno