GetStream/stream-chat-swift 4.0.0-RC

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⚠️ Breaking Changes from 4.0-beta.11

• JSON Encoding/Decoding for both Network and Database date formatting changed to RFC3339 formats #1403
• ChatMessage.threadParticipants is now an Array instead of Set #1398
• Introduces ChatChannelVC and removes responsibilities of ChatMessageListVC. The latter now is only responsible to render the message list layout, the data is provided by ChatChannelVC or ChatThreadVC. #1314
• Replaces ChatMessageActionsVC.Delegate with ChatMessageActionsVCDelegate #1314
• Renames ChatChannelListRouter.showMessageList() -> showChannel() #1314
• Removal of ComposerVCDelegate #1314
• Replaces ChatMessageListKeyboardObserver with ComposerKeyboardHandler #1314

Understanding ChatChannelVC vs ChatTheadVC vs ChatMessageListVC

• ChatChannelVC:

  • ChatChannelHeaderView
  • ChatMessageListVC
  • ComposerVC

• ChatThreadVC:

  • ChatThreadHeaderView
  • ChatMessageListVC
  • ComposerVC

A new ChatChannelVC is introduced that represents the old ChatMessageListVC, which was responsible to display the messages from a channel. The ChatThreadVC remains the same and it is responsible for displaying the replies in a thread, but now instead of duplicating the implementation from the channel, both use the ChatMessageListVC and configure it for their needs. For this to be possible the ChatMessageListVC has now a ChatMessageListVCDataSource and ChatMessageListVCDelegate. Both ChatChannelVC and ChatThreadVC implement the ChatMessageListVCDataSource and ChatMessageListVCDelegate.

🔄 Changed

• Nuke dependency was updated to v10 #1405

✅ Added

• For non-DM channels, the avatar is now shown as a combination of the avatars of the last active members of the channel #1344
• New DateFormatter methods rfc3339Date and rfc3339DateString #1403
• Add a new isMentionsEnabled flag to make it easier to disable the user mentions in the ComposerVC #1416
• Use remote config to disable mute actions #1418
• Use remote config to disable thread info from message options #1418
• Provide different Objc name for InputTextView #1420
• Add message search support through MessageSearchController #1426

🐞 Fixed

• Fix incorrect RawJSON number handling, the .integer case is no longer supported and is replaced by .number #1375
• Fix message list and thread index out of range issue on tableView(_:cellForRowAt:) #1373
• Fix crash when dismissing gallery images #1383
• Improve pagination efficiency #1381
• Fix user mention suggestions not showing all members #1390
• Fix thread avatar view not displaying latest reply author avatar #1398
• Fix crash on incorrect date string parsing #1403
• Fix threads not showing all the responses if there were responses that were also sent to the channel #1413
• Fix crash when accessing ChatMessage.attachmentCounts on <iOS13 with in-memory storage turned ON
• Fix isCommandsEnabled not disabling the typing commands #1416
• Fix mention suggester now supports options.minimumRequiredCharacters equal to 0 and sorts results with same score consistently
• Fix filters with wrong Date encoding strategy #1420
• Fix message height is now calculated correctly when a message is updated #1424
• Fix ChatMessageReactionData.init not public #1425