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error-invalid-room

error-invalid-room

Error message

Invalid room

What it means

Inside addAllUserToRoomFn, Rooms.findOneById(rid) returned null, so the room id passed to addAllUserToRoom does not exist. Ordering matters: the permission and user-limit checks run first, then this lookup, then beforeAddUserToRoom and the per-user join loop - so a caller hitting this error already passed 403 and the limit check.

Source

Thrown at apps/meteor/server/meteor-methods/rooms/addAllUserToRoom.ts:50

	}

	const userFilter: {
		active?: boolean;
	} = {};
	if (activeUsersOnly === true) {
		userFilter.active = true;
	}

	const users = await Users.find(userFilter).toArray();
	if (users.length > settings.get<number>('API_User_Limit')) {
		throw new Meteor.Error('error-user-limit-exceeded', 'User Limit Exceeded', {
			method: 'addAllToRoom',
		});
	}

	const room = await Rooms.findOneById(rid);
	if (!room) {
		throw new Meteor.Error('error-invalid-room', 'Invalid room', {
			method: 'addAllToRoom',
		});
	}

	await beforeAddUserToRoom(
		users.map((u) => u.username!),
		room,
	);

	const now = new Date();
	for await (const user of users) {
		const subscription = await Subscriptions.findOneByRoomIdAndUserId(rid, user._id);
		if (subscription != null) {
			continue;
		}
		await callbacks.run('beforeJoinRoom', user, room);
		const autoTranslateConfig = getSubscriptionAutotranslateDefaultConfig(user);
		const { insertedId } = await Subscriptions.createWithRoomAndUser(room, user, {

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Solutions

1. Verify the rid exists first (e.g. GET /v1/channels.info or rooms.info) before the bulk add.
2. Catch error-invalid-room and refresh the room list presented to the operator.
3. For scripts, resolve rid from a stable identifier (room name) at call time instead of hardcoding.

// verify the room exists immediately before the bulk add
const room = await fetch(`/api/v1/channels.info?roomId=${rid}`, { headers }).then((r) => r.json());
if (!room.success) {
	throw new Error(`Room ${rid} not found - refresh the room list`);
}

try {
	await Meteor.callAsync('addAllUserToRoom', rid, activeUsersOnly);
} catch (e: any) {
	if (e?.error === 'error-invalid-room') {
		// rid is stale: re-resolve the room and re-run with the fresh id
	}
}

When it happens

Trigger: Passing a wrong or truncated rid; the room was deleted (or team channel removed) between the client listing rooms and issuing the call.

Common situations: Stale room pickers in admin UIs; deletion races during room cleanup; hand-built scripts with typos in room ids.

Related errors

• error-invalid-user
• error-invalid-room
• error-invalid-room
• error-invalid-room
• Room id not found

AI-assisted analysis of RocketChat/Rocket.Chat@b2c16d5842 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c24169514ab4a4b3. Report an issue: GitHub.