I’m dealing with this same problem, though we use the SendbirdUIKitContainer and update the appId that is passed into it, which would ideally update the SendbirdChat instance.
We have a multi-tenant setup with the potential for a single end user to belong to multiple organizations/Sendbird apps. To support this, we have the ability in our app for a user to change their Sendbird app at runtime, similar to changing orgs in Slack.
When the active organization ID changes in our redux store, that triggers a series of hooks to run, including changing the appId that is passed into the SendbirdUIKitContainer. I also call await disconnect() and await connect() in response to changing the org. Logs show that the connect() call succeeds and sdk.connectionState is OPEN. Sendbird’s internal logs also show success here.
However, the UI fragments from @sendbird/uikit-react-native which are mounted in the app have their own network requests running, and the logs start showing [debug] fail api request [SendbirdError: Connection is required.]. I assume this is related to the SDK instance not being updated properly.
(Both of these apps work correctly if I use them to initialize Sendbird on app launch, only switching between them causes the connection error.)
Question:
Is changing the Sendbird app ID supported at runtime in the React Native and JS SDKs? I asked about this scenario before, but no limitation was mentioned.
