🐛 [firebase_messaging] getInitialMessage() returns remoteMessage without clicking on the notification

[zaidalsaied]

Bug report

Describe the bug
Whenever a remoteMessage is received getInitailMessage() returns the remoteMessage even if the user didn't click on the notification. It is expected to return null because the application has not been opened from a terminated state via a remoteMessage, it has been opened by clicking on the app itself.

i'm using: firebase_messaging: ^11.4.2
platform: ios

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Flutter dependencies

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Dart SDK 2.17.3
Flutter SDK 3.0.2
school_ets 2.0.3+25

dependencies:
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- cupertino_icons 1.0.5
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- firebase_core 1.18.0 [firebase_core_platform_interface firebase_core_web flutter meta]
- firebase_messaging 11.4.2 [firebase_core firebase_core_platform_interface firebase_messaging_platform_interface firebase_messaging_web flutter meta]
- flutter 0.0.0 [characters collection material_color_utilities meta vector_math sky_engine]
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- fluttertoast 8.0.9 [flutter flutter_web_plugins]
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- http 0.13.4 [async http_parser meta path]
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- provider 6.0.3 [collection flutter nested]
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dev dependencies:
- flutter_test 0.0.0 [flutter test_api path fake_async clock stack_trace vector_math async boolean_selector characters charcode collection matcher material_color_utilities meta source_span stream_channel string_scanner term_glyph]

transitive dependencies:
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- fake_async 1.3.0 [clock collection]
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- file 6.1.2 [meta path]
- firebase_core_platform_interface 4.4.1 [collection flutter meta plugin_platform_interface]
- firebase_core_web 1.6.5 [firebase_core_platform_interface flutter flutter_web_plugins js meta]
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- path 1.8.1
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- syncfusion_flutter_datepicker 20.1.61 [flutter intl syncfusion_flutter_core]
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[darshankawar]

Thanks for the report @zaid17.
Can you confirm if you are using this commit code which might be leading to the behavior you are seeing ?
If so, can you try to revert that commit and try again to see if expected behavior occurs or not ?

[zaidalsaied]

Thanks for the response @darshankawar.
Yes, I'm using it, and after deleting this statement the expected behavior occurs.
// If remoteNotification exists, it is the notification that opened the app. _initialNotification = [FLTFirebaseMessagingPlugin remoteMessageUserInfoToDict:remoteNotification];

[darshankawar]

Thanks for confirming. Does your code use this already ?

[zaidalsaied]

Yes, my code uses it already.

[darshankawar]

Thanks for the update. I am going ahead and labeling it based on above confirmation.
Same behavior is reported here and here.

[darshankawar]

/cc @russellwheatley