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Summary

Stacked on #1845. AuthState was one class for every AuthChangeEvent, so its payload rules lived in dartdoc: session is non-null for every event except initialSession and signedOut, and signOutReason is only set on signedOut. Listeners wrote state.session! and read a field that is null for six of the seven events.

Resolves SDK-1876.

The hierarchy

AuthState is sealed with one subtype per event, each carrying exactly the data that event produces:

Subtype session Extra
AuthInitialSession Session?
AuthSignedIn Session
AuthSignedOut always null SignOutReason? reason
AuthTokenRefreshed Session
AuthUserUpdated Session
AuthPasswordRecovery Session
AuthMfaChallengeVerified Session
switch (state) {
  case AuthSignedIn(:final session):
    showHome(session.user);
  case AuthSignedOut(reason: SignOutReason.sessionExpired):
    showSessionExpired();
  ...
}

What stays

AuthChangeEvent, and the event, session and fromBroadcast getters on the base type. The enum still maps to the wire strings the cross-tab broadcast uses, and keeping state.event == AuthChangeEvent.signedIn compiling means most apps only have to move signOutReason to AuthSignedOut.reason. SupabaseClient and the existing tests keep using event unchanged, which is the evidence for that claim.

What breaks

  • AuthState.signOutReason is AuthSignedOut.reason.
  • AuthState has no public constructor; construct the subtype.

Client changes

notifyAllSubscribers builds the state through a private _authStateFor switch over the event. Every local emit already saves the session first (checked each call site, updateUser throws AuthSessionMissingException before it gets there), so the only way to reach a session-carrying event without a session is a malformed cross-tab broadcast. That case is now dropped with a warning instead of emitted, where it used to surface as a signedIn with session: null.

Tests and docs

  • New auth_state_test.dart against MockSupabaseHttpClient: initial, sign in, refresh, user update, sign out and late-subscriber cases assert the subtype, its payload and event, and an exhaustive switch expression over the hierarchy fails to compile if a subtype is added without handling.
  • The three signOutReason assertions use isA<AuthSignedOut>().having(...).
  • MIGRATION.md section with before and after, the AuthState dartdoc carries the same example, and the supabase_flutter README listen snippet shows the switch.
  • The seven subtypes and their members are registered under auth.session.subscribe_auth_events in sdk-compliance.yaml, and auth.session.sign_out_reason points at AuthSignedOut.reason. Symbol, drift and schema checks pass locally against the pinned capability-matrix-v1.9.0.

Full supabase_auth suite (578 with the new file), supabase, supabase_flutter and supabase_test pass. dart analyze and DCM are clean at warning level.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Auth state changes now use event-specific types, enabling exhaustive pattern matching.
    • Sign-out reasons are available through AuthSignedOut.reason.
    • Authenticated events provide session data, while signed-out events have no session.
  • Bug Fixes
    • User-update notifications are suppressed when no session is present.
    • Events requiring a session are no longer emitted without one.
  • Documentation
    • Updated migration guidance and listener examples for the new auth state API.

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Typed Auth Events

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sealed AuthState contract
packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/types/auth_state.dart, packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/types/sign_out_reason.dart
AuthState now uses event-specific subtypes. Session nullability is defined by each subtype. AuthSignedOut.reason replaces AuthState.signOutReason.
Typed event emission
packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/auth_client.dart
AuthClient emits typed states, suppresses session-dependent events without a session, and emits userUpdated only when a session exists.
Migration guidance and validation
MIGRATION.md, packages/supabase_auth/test/*, packages/supabase_flutter/README.md, sdk-compliance.yaml
Migration text, examples, compliance mappings, and tests use subtype matching and validate event payloads and sign-out reasons.

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Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AuthClient
  participant authStateFor
  participant AuthState
  participant onAuthStateChange
  AuthClient->>authStateFor: map AuthChangeEvent
  authStateFor->>AuthState: create typed AuthState subtype
  AuthClient->>onAuthStateChange: emit state
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Malformed session-required broadcast events are ignored without clearing the local session or emitting a misleading auth event.

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Pull request overview

Refactors authentication events into a sealed AuthState hierarchy with event-specific payloads.

Changes:

  • Adds typed states for all authentication events.
  • Updates event construction, tests, documentation, and migration guidance.
  • Registers the new public API in SDK compliance metadata.
File summaries
File Description
sdk-compliance.yaml Registers new auth-state symbols.
packages/supabase_flutter/README.md Updates listener examples.
packages/supabase_auth/test/session_persistence_test.dart Updates sign-out assertions.
packages/supabase_auth/test/refresh_token_race_test.dart Updates sign-out reason assertions.
packages/supabase_auth/test/auth_state_test.dart Tests the sealed hierarchy.
packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/types/sign_out_reason.dart Updates API references.
packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/types/auth_state.dart Defines event-specific state classes.
packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/auth_client.dart Constructs and emits typed states.
MIGRATION.md Documents the breaking migration.
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In `@packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/auth_client.dart`:
- Line 2107: Update the session-required event handling in
_mayStartBroadcastChannel to call _authStateFor(event, session, fromBroadcast:
true) before clearing or assigning _currentSession. Return immediately when
validation yields null; otherwise assign the validated session and notify
subscribers, preserving the existing session for malformed broadcast events.

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Comment thread packages/supabase_auth/lib/src/auth_client.dart
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spydon force-pushed the lukasklingsbo/sdk-sealed-auth-state branch from 10190a6 to 9f774d5 Compare September 17, 2026 10:17
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spydon force-pushed the lukasklingsbo/sdk-sealed-auth-state branch from 9f774d5 to 9c2ab50 Compare September 17, 2026 15:10
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spydon force-pushed the lukasklingsbo/sdk-sealed-auth-state branch from 9c2ab50 to 45dca20 Compare September 17, 2026 15:46
Base automatically changed from lukasklingsbo/sdk-1874-return-session-from-auth-methods to main September 17, 2026 16:37
Each AuthChangeEvent gets its own AuthState subtype: AuthInitialSession,
AuthSignedIn, AuthSignedOut, AuthTokenRefreshed, AuthUserUpdated,
AuthPasswordRecovery and AuthMfaChallengeVerified. The session is
non-nullable on every subtype that guarantees one, AuthSignedOut carries the
SignOutReason as `reason`, and a switch over the state is exhaustive.

AuthState.event and AuthState.session stay on the base type, so listeners
comparing the event keep compiling. AuthState.signOutReason moves to
AuthSignedOut.reason and AuthState loses its public constructor.

A broadcast event from another tab that carries no session for an event that
needs one is dropped with a warning instead of being emitted.
Follow-ups from reviewing the sealed AuthState:

- updateUser only emits userUpdated when the session is still present after
  the request; a sign out that completed during the request has already
  emitted signedOut, and emitting a session event without a session tripped
  the new assert in debug builds.
- notifyAllSubscribers builds the state before broadcasting, so a session
  event with no session is neither emitted locally nor posted to other tabs.
- _authStateFor is one exhaustive switch over the (event, session) record.
- Tests for the dropped event and for fromBroadcast on the new subtypes; the
  onAuthStateChange dartdoc and README examples use the sealed switch.
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