Keep the auth token when the socket reconnects after a transport failure

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Goal

ChatSocket expires the cached token on the State.Disconnected.WebSocketEventLost branch. That state is the
health monitor's reconnect callback, so it is reached on every reconnect attempt, including the retries from
DisconnectedTemporarily, not only when the token is actually the problem. Each attempt clears the token, so the
next SocketFactory.ensureTokenLoaded() calls back into the integrator's TokenProvider.

A customer app saw their token endpoint hit every few minutes, and as often as every 10 seconds while the socket
was flapping, with a JWT still valid for another hour.

Closes AND-1544

Implementation

Drop the expireToken() call from that branch. A missed health event is a transport failure, so the token is kept
and the reconnect reuses it.

The paths that should refresh are untouched: a socket error whose code is an authentication error still expires the
token in onChatNetworkError, DisconnectedPermanently and DisconnectedByRequest still expire it, and
TokenAuthInterceptor still refreshes on TOKEN_EXPIRED.

This matches iOS, which refreshes only when the disconnect carries a token-expired server error and otherwise
reconnects with its stored connect request.

Testing

ChatSocketTokenTest covers the branch from both sides, and both cases fail without the change:

• A reconnect storm driven through the real TokenManagerImpl, CacheableTokenProvider and SocketFactory, counting
  what an integrator actually observes. Five socket failures produce 9 TokenProvider.loadToken() calls before the
  change and 1 after, the initial connect.
• A transport error does not expire the token, while an authentication error still does.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved chat socket reconnection handling so network-related connection failures no longer unnecessarily expire the authentication token.
  • Authentication tokens continue to expire when the server explicitly reports that a token has expired.
  • Prevented repeated token-provider calls during reconnection attempts caused by network failures.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for token expiration and reconnection behavior.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK	Before	After	Difference	Status
stream-chat-android-client	5.26 MB	5.32 MB	0.06 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-offline	5.49 MB	5.54 MB	0.05 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-ui-components	10.64 MB	10.76 MB	0.11 MB	🟢
stream-chat-android-compose	12.87 MB	13.15 MB	0.28 MB	🟡

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Walkthrough

The socket no longer expires tokens after WebSocket loss. New tests verify transport failures, token-expiration errors, and repeated reconnects with both mocked and real token components.

Changes

Socket token handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reconnect token behavior stream-chat-android-client/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/client/socket/ChatSocket.kt	The WebSocketEventLost path closes the socket and requests reconnection without calling token expiration.
Token behavior tests stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/client/socket/ChatSocketTokenTest.kt	Tests verify that NETWORK_FAILED does not expire or reload tokens, while TOKEN_EXPIRED expires the token. Helpers configure mocked and real socket components for reconnect scenarios.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7abcd

The new reconnect-storm test can pass without testing the intended behavior, so a future regression in token reuse may go undetected. Make the test deterministic before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: preserving the authentication token during socket reconnects after transport failures.
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`@stream-chat-android-client/src/test/java/io/getstream/chat/android/client/socket/ChatSocketTokenTest.kt`:
- Around line 145-155: Update the test around connectUser to use runTest virtual
time, drain the initial connection before reading loadTokenCalls, require
socketListener to be non-null, and assert the initial token load count is 1.
Then inject failures through the confirmed listener, advance the scheduler after
each failure, and assert the count remains 1.

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