fix(react): complete UI messages across pages

[robelest]

Fixes #193.

A single UI message spans several canonical rows sharing one order — an assistant tool call, its tool result, and the final assistant text — distinguished by stepOrder. When pagination starts partway through such a group, the hook receives only part of it. The persisted rows and the streaming message then key on different (order, stepOrder) pairs, so the finalized row never displaces the streaming one and the UI stays in a streaming state indefinitely.

planOldestOrderCompletion tracks the one split order at the pagination boundary and loads follow-up pages until that order's stepOrder: 0 anchor appears, then stops rather than chasing older boundaries. If a custom query filters the anchor out, or history is exhausted, it gives up instead of looping.

Both hooks, not just one

The fix lives in a shared usePaginatedMessages wrapper that owns the usePaginatedQuery call and the completion effect. useUIMessages and useThreadMessages both use it.

useThreadMessages needs it independently of useUIMessages: its own merge step keys on `${threadId}-${order}-${stepOrder}` and replaces a streaming row with its finalized counterpart only when both match — the exact mechanism #193 breaks. It is also the hook behind toUIMessages(useThreadMessages(...).results), the pattern in docs/messages.mdx and all three example/ui/chat and example/ui/files demos. Fixing only useUIMessages would leave #193 reproducible through the documented path.

usePaginatedQuery now has one call site instead of two.

Behavior change

initialNumItems is a minimum on both hooks, not an exact page size. Completing a split order can return extra rows and briefly report LoadingMore / isLoading: true without the caller requesting it, which may affect spinners or controls gated on pagination status. Both hooks document this on the option.

A caller calling loadMore concurrently with an automatic completion is coalesced into a single page request; whichever fires first sets the page size.

Notes

• Completion state resets on query identity rather than an observed LoadingFirstPage, because Convex can return an already-subscribed query synchronously and skip that status.
• A custom query that removes a stepOrder: 0 row while keeping later steps of the same order cannot be completed; its oldest message is left split. Documented on the wrapper.
• Not covered by tests: the React wiring itself — the effect, the ref, StrictMode, and caller/automatic loadMore coalescing. The package has no @testing-library/react or DOM test environment (vitest runs edge-runtime), so a rendered-hook test would require new dev dependencies. Worth a separate issue.

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Walkthrough

usePaginatedMessages now wraps pagination and keeps the oldest UI message complete across canonical rows. planOldestOrderCompletion evaluates query status and message boundaries before requesting another page. useUIMessages and useThreadMessages use the new wrapper. Tests cover loading decisions, split pages, merged tool calls, stable keys, filtering, exhaustion, and removed orders.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant useUIMessages
  participant usePaginatedMessages
  participant planOldestOrderCompletion
  participant usePaginatedQuery
  useUIMessages->>usePaginatedMessages: Request paginated messages
  usePaginatedMessages->>usePaginatedQuery: Read messages and status
  usePaginatedMessages->>planOldestOrderCompletion: Evaluate oldest order boundary
  planOldestOrderCompletion-->>usePaginatedMessages: Return loadMore decision
  usePaginatedMessages->>usePaginatedQuery: Load another page when required
  usePaginatedQuery-->>usePaginatedMessages: Return additional canonical rows

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #193 by completing split message orders so useUIMessages can merge persisted and streaming rows correctly.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The tests, pagination helper, useUIMessages changes, and related useThreadMessages integration support the linked issue objectives.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: completing UI messages across pagination boundaries.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the pagination-boundary bug, the shared hook fix, affected hooks, and behavior changes.

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[ianmacartney]

What would the risks be if we did this as part of useThreadMessages? That it would load way too many messages? If we could carry through the cursor correctly, it might be nice to have a paginated interface that automatically advances to order boundaries. Assuming here that a single order won't push us over transaction limits?

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In `@src/vercel/react/useUIMessages.ts`:
- Around line 195-198: Update the queryKey construction near getFunctionName to
serialize query arguments with convexToJson before JSON.stringify instead of
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regression coverage for bigint and another encoded Convex value such as
ArrayBuffer, verifying distinct supported query identities produce valid keys.

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Use Convex serialization for queryKey arguments.

JSON.stringify(args) rejects bigint and conflates supported values such as ArrayBuffer, NaN, -0, and their distinct query identities. Build the key from JSON.stringify(convexToJson(args)). Add regression tests for bigint and another encoded Convex value.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@src/vercel/react/useUIMessages.ts` around lines 195 - 198, Update the
queryKey construction near getFunctionName to serialize query arguments with
convexToJson before JSON.stringify instead of JSON.stringify(args) directly,
while preserving the "skip" branch. Add regression coverage for bigint and
another encoded Convex value such as ArrayBuffer, verifying distinct supported
query identities produce valid keys.