Generate test fixture dates that are serializable and in the future

[gpunto]

Goal

MessageMemberInfoDaoTest is flaky: the same commit goes red and then green on rerun, failing with

com.squareup.moshi.JsonDataException: Non-null value 'updatedAt' was null at $.updatedAt
  at ReminderInfoEntityJsonAdapter.fromJson
  at ReminderInfoConverter.stringToReminderInfo

The cause is in the fixtures. randomDate() was Date(positiveRandomLong()), so dates ran up to year
292278994, while our ISO-8601 writer emits a four digit year on API 26+ and silently truncates the rest:
year 292278994 is written as 2922. Almost every fixture date was past year 9999, so almost every date
persisted through a JSON-backed Room converter came back as a different date, which is invisible to a test
that does not assert on it.

It becomes a failure when the truncation lands on a February 29th whose four digit year is not a leap year,
for example +30000-02-29 written as 3000-02-29. That string is not a real instant, IsoDateAdapter
returns null for it, and Moshi throws on the non-null ReminderInfoEntity.updatedAt. randomMessage
defaults reminder to a randomMessageReminderInfo() holding two non-null dates, so every test in that
class was exposed, as is anything else that round-trips a fixture date through these converters.

Closes AND-1438

Implementation

• Draw generated dates from 3000-01-01 to 9999-12-31. The upper bound is the last instant we can
  serialise. The lower bound keeps them in the future, which callers already relied on: drawing from the
  whole positive Long range put every date millions of years ahead, so code that keeps only future dates
  never saw a fixture date fall behind the clock. Use randomDateBefore(Date()) for a date in the past.
• Add RandomDateTest, covering both properties, in three cases: the future bound, the serializable bound,
  and the serializable bound through randomDateAfter. Each property has now broken once, and because the
  generator is random, breaking either shows up as an unrelated test failing in a fraction of CI runs
  rather than here.
• Add ReminderInfoConverterTest, where the crash surfaced and which had no coverage before.

Pinning reminder = null in the failing tests would have fixed the one test and left every other fixture
date silently corrupting through this path.

Left alone, and worth a separate ticket: IsoDateAdapter.fromJson catches every Throwable and returns
null. That leniency is right for wire data, but on the database path it turns a date we wrote ourselves into
a read-time crash on a non-null column, and into a wrong date on a nullable one.

Testing

• Deterministic repro: Date(884546442123004) is +30000-02-29T01:02:03.004Z. Put on a message reminder
  and read back through MessageDao.select, it throws the exception above on develop.
• Rate through the DAO with fully random messages, exactly as the failing test builds them: 1 crash in
  3,000 round trips on develop, and 0 in 20,000 re-measured on the generator as it now stands, lower
  bound included.
• ReminderInfoConverterTest fails without the fixture change, on its first iteration, on the silent
  corruption case: remindAt=... 275752190 came back as ... 2757. Its 5,000 draws also make the rarer
  crash case very likely to be caught if the fixture regresses, and a second case pins the year 9999
  boundary deterministically.
• Bounding the upper end alone put 0.70% of generated dates in the past (1399 of 200,000), against 0 of
  200,000 before, which broke EventHandlerSequentialTest in the merge queue: MutableGlobalState keeps
  only live locations whose endAt is after now, so a past endAt left the assertion comparing against an
  empty list. Hence the lower bound. EventHandlerSequentialTest then ran 25 times in a row without a
  failure.
• Each RandomDateTest case fails on the state it guards: the future one on the upper-bound-only generator,
  both serializable ones on the original unbounded generator.
• ./gradlew :stream-chat-android-client:testDebugUnitTest :stream-chat-android-core:test and the
  ui-common, ui-components and compose unit tests, plus spotlessCheck detekt apiCheck, green on the
  committed tree, rebased on current develop. The client and core suites were then repeated three times
  with --rerun-tasks, since one green run proves little against a random generator.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK	Before	After	Difference	Status
stream-chat-android-client	6.06 MB	6.06 MB	0.00 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-ui-components	11.36 MB	11.36 MB	0.00 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-compose	12.84 MB	12.84 MB	0.00 MB	🟢

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Walkthrough

The changes bound generated fixture dates to the maximum four-digit ISO-8601 year and add Robolectric tests for reminder date converter round trips, including randomized cases and the maximum serializable instant.

Changes

Date serialization coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bound generated fixture dates stream-chat-android-core/src/testFixtures/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/Mother.kt	Date fixtures now use 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999Z as the maximum for randomDate() and randomDateAfter(date).
Validate reminder converter round trips stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/.../ReminderInfoConverterTest.kt	Robolectric tests cover 5,000 randomized date conversions and the maximum serializable timestamp for nullable and non-null dates.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 275a2

The PR reduces flaky date round-trips and adds converter coverage, but the shared test fixtures still need explicit boundary behavior for dates at or beyond the supported serialization range. This is a minor, localized correctness risk that is mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: aleksandar-apostolov, andremion, kanat

Poem

A rabbit bounds the dates with care,
Four-digit years now fill the air.
Five thousand hops test round-trip flow,
The final instant joins the show.
Safe timestamps neatly land—
Carrot-approved across the land.

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Inline comments:
In
`@stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/client/internal/offline/repository/database/converter/ReminderInfoConverterTest.kt`:
- Around line 51-62: Extend ReminderInfoConverterTest with deterministic
coverage for randomDateAfter: verify an input at LAST_SERIALIZABLE_DATE_MILLIS
returns the same instant, and add a separate assertion for the documented result
when the input exceeds that bound. Reuse the existing date-bound fixture and
test conventions, targeting the randomDateAfter behavior rather than only the
converter round trip.

In
`@stream-chat-android-core/src/testFixtures/kotlin/io/getstream/chat/android/Mother.kt`:
- Around line 776-786: Bound createDate’s generated Calendar result to
MAX_SERIALIZABLE_DATE_MILLIS so default year, month, and date values cannot
produce an out-of-range fixture date. Define randomDateAfter’s behavior when the
input date exceeds that limit, and add tests covering this boundary while
preserving existing safe-input behavior.

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[gpunto]

@andremion heads up, your approval was on a version that turned out to be wrong. It failed in the merge queue and there is a second commit now, so only a325219 needs another look.

What happened. The queue run failed on EventHandlerSequentialTest > GlobalState should be updated with shared locations, which this PR does not touch. That failure was caused by the first commit anyway.

Bounding randomDate() at year 9999 fixed the serialisation crash, but it quietly dropped a property the suite was leaning on. The old generator drew from the whole positive Long range, so every generated date sat millions of years ahead and was never realistically in the past. Compressing the range to year 9999 made "now" a meaningful slice of it: 0.70% of generated dates then landed in the past (1399 of 200,000, against 0 of 200,000 before). MutableGlobalState keeps only live locations whose endAt is still ahead of the clock:

{ location -> location.endAt?.after(Date(now())) ?: false }

and randomLocation() defaults endAt = randomDate(), so a past endAt got filtered out and the assertion compared against an empty list. The CI log shows it: endAt=Tue Sep 11 03:00:28 UTC 1990.

What the second commit does. Dates are now drawn from 3000-01-01 to 9999-12-31. The upper bound keeps them serialisable, the lower bound restores the future-ness callers already relied on. randomDateBefore stays the way to ask for a past date.

It also adds RandomDateTest over both properties, since each has now broken once and neither failure surfaces where the cause is. Each case fails on the state it guards: the future one on the year-9999-only generator, both serialisable ones on the original unbounded generator.

Verification, given one green run proves nothing here. EventHandlerSequentialTest 25 consecutive runs clean, and the client and core suites three times each with --rerun-tasks.

Before re-queueing: I dequeued the PR and disabled auto-merge so a lucky green run could not merge the regression. It is also behind develop now.

[andremion]

Looks good. One nit inline, optional.

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