User metadata is empty after app reinstall (React Native)

[dimaportenko]

I’m using user metadata to store some state as it was suggested in I need store another state basically same as CometChat.markAsRead (but it's already used).

But when I do
const metadata = chatUser.getMetadata()
after app reinstall, metadata is empty.

Any ideas what is wrong here?
@mayur.bhandari

    "@cometchat-pro/react-native-calls": "2.0.2-beta1",
    "@cometchat-pro/react-native-chat": "2.3.1-beta1",

[mayur.bhandari]

Hello @dimaportenko,

You are fetching metadata of the logged-in user, right? Can you please share the whole code snippet? Are you facing this issue for all the users or any particular user?

Warm Regards,

CometChat Pro
Mayur Bhandari

[dimaportenko]

@mayur.bhandari

You are fetching metadata of the logged-in user, right?

yes

@mayur.bhandari

Can you please share the whole code snippet?

Basically, code looks like this

  const [chatUser, setChatUser] = useState<CometChat.User | null | undefined>(null);

  const login = async (uid: string) => {
    const loggedUser = await CometChat.login(uid, CometChatConfig.apiKey);
    setChatUser(loggedUser);
  }

  useEffect(() => {
    const metadata = chatUser?.getMetadata() as
      | {[key in 'notiRead']?: {[key in string]: boolean}}
      | undefined;
    if (Object.keys(notificationsReadState).length === 0 && metadata?.notiRead) {
      dispatch(setReadState(metadata.notiRead));
    } else if (Object.keys(notificationsReadState).length > 0) {
      chatUser?.setMetadata({
        notiRead: notificationsReadState,
      });
    }
  }, [chatUser, notificationsReadState]);

@mayur.bhandari

Are you facing this issue for all the users or any particular user?

Any particular user.

[mayur.bhandari]

Hello @dimaportenko,

I have checked this on my end and I am not able to reproduce the issue on our end.

Steps I followed,

1. Updated the metadata of logged-in user using CometChat.updateCurrentUserDetails()
2. Uninstalled the app.
3. Reinstalled the app.
4. In the success of CometChat.login(), I was able to get the metadata. The metadata was the same as what I updated before uninstalling the app.

I have used the following CometChat SDK versions,

"@cometchat-pro/react-native-calls": "2.0.3-beta1",
"@cometchat-pro/react-native-chat": "2.3.2"

The metadata once updated, will be persistent since it is stored in a persistent database.

Can you please share a code snippet of how you are updating the metadata & check if you are clearing the metadata while updating the user?

Also, as I mentioned in my reply on this thread. You should be storing this data inside a @private key inside the metadata. Whatever you store inside the @private key will not be visible to other users (when they fetch the user list). Whatever data you store outside the @private key will be visible to other users (when they fetch the user list).

Warm Regards,

CometChat Pro
Mayur Bhandari

[dimaportenko]

@mayur.bhandari

Updated the metadata of logged-in user using CometChat.updateCurrentUserDetails()

is it just not covered in TS?

[mayur.bhandari]

Hello @dimaportenko,

This is covered in TS as well. You would have to update the SDK to 2.3.1+. The latest SDK version is 2.3.2. The updateCurrentUserDetails() was added in v2.3.1. You can check the changelog here.

Warm Regards,

CometChat Pro
Mayur Bhandari

[dimaportenko]

@mayur.bhandari I’ve done an update of dependencies and use updateCurrentUserDetails. Looks like working good. Thank you for your quick support.