From 475bc9e2513456e5b282cce239e194c82ea3e42d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pradeepkumar <kongupradeep@live.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:28:48 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] feat: emit real-time messages_read socket event when marking
 conversation as read

---
 src/messages/messages.controller.ts | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/messages/messages.controller.ts b/src/messages/messages.controller.ts
index a387b96..90cf02a 100644
--- a/src/messages/messages.controller.ts
+++ b/src/messages/messages.controller.ts
@@ -215,7 +215,23 @@ export class MessagesController {
     @Param('id') conversationId: string,
     @CurrentUser('id') userId: string,
   ) {
-    return this.messagesService.markMessagesAsRead(conversationId, userId);
+    const result = await this.messagesService.markMessagesAsRead(conversationId, userId);
+
+    // Emit socket event so sender gets real-time blue tick
+    const participants = await this.messagesService.getConversationParticipants(conversationId);
+    if (participants) {
+      const otherUserId = userId === participants.userId
+        ? participants.agentUserId
+        : participants.userId;
+      const readEvent = {
+        conversationId,
+        readBy: userId,
+        readAt: new Date(),
+      };
+      this.messagesGateway.sendToUser(otherUserId, 'messages_read', readEvent);
+    }
+
+    return result;
   }
 
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