ChatClient close method

[sacOO7]

• If ChatClient is not needed or we want to free up all underlying channels before closing the app, browser tab, chatClient.close will release all channels.
• Currently, devs need to iterate over each channel and release it explicitly. This will also include unregistering subscription callbacks.
• Point is, close should free up all those resources in one explicit call.

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[sacOO7]

Feel free to put your thoughts !

[AndyTWF]

free up all underlying channels before closing the app

Do you mean if the app shuts down entirely, or if it simply goes into the background / the chat component is closed? I presume the latter, as in the former case, freeing everything up happens by virtue of quitting the app / closing the browser tab.

Currently, devs need to iterate over each channel and release it explicitly

To be clear, you're referring to each room, as a group of channels pertaining to a chat room, rather than individual realtime channels?

We'll need to think about this one a bit more and its use-case - my preference would be to defer it for now so as to avoid adding complexity to the room lifecycle (notwithstanding any future requests for the functionality).