Snapshot delivery status in message rows so read receipts render immediately

The publish chain was healthy: the store mutates the shared
BitchatMessage and republishes, the .statusChanged fan-out reaches both
mirrored conversations, and PrivateInboxModel fires objectWillChange for
the selected DM under either key. The break was at the row view:
TextMessageView/MediaMessageView stored the reference-typed message and
read deliveryStatus in body, so SwiftUI's structural diff compared the
field by identity - same instance, mutated in place, row body skipped.
The blue tick waited for an unrelated invalidation (proven empirically
with a hosting-view probe).

Rows now snapshot deliveryStatus as a value at init; every republish
rebuilds row values with a fresh enum, the diff sees the change, and
the row re-renders immediately. Also fixes in-place send-progress
updates in media rows. Regression tests cover both mirrored selection
keyings at the feature-model level and the snapshot mechanic itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

bitchat/Views/Components/TextMessageView.swift

@@ -14,8 +14,21 @@ struct TextMessageView: View {
     @EnvironmentObject private var conversationUIModel: ConversationUIModel
 
     let message: BitchatMessage
+    /// Value snapshot of the message's mutable delivery status, captured at
+    /// construction. `BitchatMessage` is a reference type mutated in place by
+    /// `ConversationStore`, and SwiftUI compares reference-typed view fields
+    /// by identity — so a status-only change (e.g. delivered → read) on the
+    /// SAME instance would otherwise compare "unchanged" and this row's body
+    /// would be skipped even though the parent list re-rendered. Snapshotting
+    /// the enum makes the change visible to SwiftUI's structural diff.
+    private let deliveryStatus: DeliveryStatus?
     @State private var expandedMessageIDs: Set<String> = []
 
+    init(message: BitchatMessage) {
+        self.message = message
+        self.deliveryStatus = message.deliveryStatus
+    }
+
     var body: some View {
         VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
             // Precompute heavy token scans once per row
@@ -31,7 +44,7 @@ struct TextMessageView: View {
                 
                 // Delivery status indicator for private messages
                 if message.isPrivate && conversationUIModel.isSentByCurrentUser(message),
-                   let status = message.deliveryStatus {
+                   let status = deliveryStatus {
                     DeliveryStatusView(status: status)
                         .padding(.leading, 4)
                 }

bitchat/Views/Media/MediaMessageView.swift

@@ -13,11 +13,24 @@ struct MediaMessageView: View {
     @EnvironmentObject private var conversationUIModel: ConversationUIModel
     let message: BitchatMessage
     let media: BitchatMessage.Media
+    /// Value snapshot of the message's mutable delivery status, captured at
+    /// construction (see `TextMessageView.deliveryStatus`): `BitchatMessage`
+    /// is a reference type mutated in place, and SwiftUI compares reference
+    /// fields by identity, so without the snapshot a status-only change
+    /// (send progress, delivered → read) would not re-render this row.
+    private let deliveryStatus: DeliveryStatus?
 
     @Binding var imagePreviewURL: URL?
 
+    init(message: BitchatMessage, media: BitchatMessage.Media, imagePreviewURL: Binding<URL?>) {
+        self.message = message
+        self.media = media
+        self.deliveryStatus = message.deliveryStatus
+        self._imagePreviewURL = imagePreviewURL
+    }
+
     var body: some View {
-        let state = mediaSendState(for: message)
+        let state = mediaSendState(for: deliveryStatus)
         let isFromMe = conversationUIModel.isMediaMessageFromCurrentUser(message)
         let cancelAction: (() -> Void)? = state.canCancel ? { conversationUIModel.cancelMediaSend(messageID: message.id) } : nil
 
@@ -27,7 +40,7 @@ struct MediaMessageView: View {
                     .fixedSize(horizontal: false, vertical: true)
                     .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
                 if message.isPrivate && conversationUIModel.isSentByCurrentUser(message),
-                   let status = message.deliveryStatus {
+                   let status = deliveryStatus {
                     DeliveryStatusView(status: status)
                         .padding(.leading, 4)
                 }
@@ -63,10 +76,10 @@ struct MediaMessageView: View {
         .padding(.vertical, 4)
     }
 
-    private func mediaSendState(for message: BitchatMessage) -> (isSending: Bool, progress: Double?, canCancel: Bool) {
+    private func mediaSendState(for deliveryStatus: DeliveryStatus?) -> (isSending: Bool, progress: Double?, canCancel: Bool) {
         var isSending = false
         var progress: Double?
-        if let status = message.deliveryStatus {
+        if let status = deliveryStatus {
             switch status {
             case .sending:
                 isSending = true

bitchatTests/AppArchitectureTests.swift

@@ -298,6 +298,47 @@ struct AppArchitectureTests {
         #expect(inboxModel.messages(for: selectedPeerID).map(\.id) == ["dm-sel-1"])
     }
 
+    @Test("PrivateInboxModel republishes read receipts for the selected DM (ephemeral- and stable-keyed)")
+    @MainActor
+    func privateInboxModelRepublishesReadReceiptsForSelectedConversation() {
+        // A DM's messages can live under BOTH .directPeer(ephemeral) and
+        // .directPeer(stableKey) (mirroring shares one BitchatMessage
+        // instance); the view's read-receipt update must fire no matter
+        // which of the two keys the selection holds.
+        let ephemeralPeerID = PeerID(str: "abcdef1234567890")
+        let stablePeerID = PeerID(str: String(repeating: "ab", count: 32))
+
+        for selectedPeerID in [ephemeralPeerID, stablePeerID] {
+            let store = ConversationStore()
+            let inboxModel = PrivateInboxModel(conversations: store)
+            store.setSelectedPrivatePeer(selectedPeerID)
+
+            // One shared instance mirrored into both direct conversations,
+            // exactly like `mirrorToEphemeralIfNeeded`.
+            let message = makeArchitectureMessage(
+                id: "dm-read-1",
+                isPrivate: true,
+                senderPeerID: ephemeralPeerID
+            )
+            store.append(message, to: .directPeer(ephemeralPeerID))
+            store.upsertByID(message, in: .directPeer(stablePeerID))
+
+            var emissions = 0
+            let cancellable = inboxModel.objectWillChange.sink { _ in emissions += 1 }
+            defer { cancellable.cancel() }
+
+            // ID-only intent — the exact call `ChatDeliveryCoordinator`
+            // makes when a READ ack arrives.
+            let read = DeliveryStatus.read(by: "builder", at: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 100))
+            #expect(store.setDeliveryStatus(read, forMessageID: "dm-read-1"))
+
+            // The fan-out emits .statusChanged for both containing
+            // conversations; exactly the selected one republishes the model.
+            #expect(emissions == 1)
+            #expect(inboxModel.messages(for: selectedPeerID).first?.deliveryStatus == read)
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test("PublicChatModel ignores appends to background conversations")
     @MainActor
     func publicChatModelIsolatesBackgroundConversations() {

bitchatTests/ViewSmokeTests.swift

@@ -629,6 +629,52 @@ struct ViewSmokeTests {
         #expect(playback.progress == 0)
     }
 
+    @Test
+    func messageRows_snapshotDeliveryStatusForSwiftUIDiffing() {
+        // Regression: `BitchatMessage` is a reference type mutated in place
+        // by `ConversationStore.applyDeliveryStatus`, and SwiftUI compares
+        // reference-typed view fields by identity — so a status-only change
+        // (delivered → read) on the SAME instance is invisible to the row's
+        // structural diff and its body gets skipped even when the list
+        // re-renders. The row views must therefore snapshot the status as a
+        // value-typed stored property at init, so a rebuilt row value
+        // compares different and re-renders.
+        func deliveryStatusSnapshot(of row: Any) -> DeliveryStatus? {
+            Mirror(reflecting: row).children
+                .first { $0.label == "deliveryStatus" }?
+                .value as? DeliveryStatus
+        }
+
+        let delivered = DeliveryStatus.delivered(to: "builder", at: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 50))
+        let message = BitchatMessage(
+            id: "dm-status-1",
+            sender: "anon",
+            content: "hello",
+            timestamp: Date(),
+            isRelay: false,
+            isPrivate: true,
+            recipientNickname: "builder",
+            senderPeerID: PeerID(str: "abcdef1234567890"),
+            deliveryStatus: delivered
+        )
+
+        #expect(deliveryStatusSnapshot(of: TextMessageView(message: message)) == delivered)
+
+        // In-place mutation of the shared instance (what the store does on a
+        // READ ack); a freshly built row must carry the new status value.
+        let read = DeliveryStatus.read(by: "builder", at: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 100))
+        message.deliveryStatus = read
+
+        #expect(deliveryStatusSnapshot(of: TextMessageView(message: message)) == read)
+
+        let mediaRow = MediaMessageView(
+            message: message,
+            media: .image(URL(fileURLWithPath: "/tmp/never-loaded.jpg")),
+            imagePreviewURL: .constant(nil)
+        )
+        #expect(deliveryStatusSnapshot(of: mediaRow) == read)
+    }
+
     #if os(iOS)
     @Test
     func cameraScannerView_previewAndCoordinatorSmoke() {