RocketChat/Rocket.Chat · error · Meteor.Error

error-invalid-user

error-invalid-user

Error message

Invalid user

What it means

The getUserStatusText DDP method refuses to run because Meteor.userId() is null — the connection has no authenticated user. It only checks that some user is logged in; the target userId is passed through to getStatusText unchecked here. The method is deprecated since 9.0.0 in favor of REST /v1/users.presence.

Source

Thrown at apps/meteor/server/meteor-methods/users/getUserStatusText.ts:20

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';

import { methodDeprecationLogger } from '../../lib/deprecationWarningLogger';
import { getUsersHiddenFrom } from '../../lib/statusVisibility/hiddenUsers';
import { getStatusText } from '../../lib/users/getStatusText';

declare module '@rocket.chat/ddp-client' {
	// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
	interface ServerMethods {
		getUserStatusText(userId: string): Promise<string | undefined>;
	}
}

Meteor.methods<ServerMethods>({
	async getUserStatusText(userId) {
		methodDeprecationLogger.method('getUserStatusText', '9.0.0', '/v1/users.presence');
		const currentUserId = Meteor.userId();
		if (!currentUserId) {
			throw new Meteor.Error('error-invalid-user', 'Invalid user', { method: 'getUserStatusText' });
		}

		const hidden = await getUsersHiddenFrom(currentUserId);

		return hidden?.has(userId) ? undefined : getStatusText(userId);
	},
});

View on GitHub (pinned to 2a7de45707)

Solutions

1. Guard the call with Meteor.userId() and only fetch status for authenticated sessions
2. Re-login on this error and retry once
3. Migrate to the REST presence endpoint /v1/users.presence with an authenticated token

Example fix

// before
Meteor.callAsync('getUserStatusText', targetUserId);

// after
if (Meteor.userId()) {
	await Meteor.callAsync('getUserStatusText', targetUserId);
}

if (!Meteor.userId()) {
	return undefined; // anonymous views get no status text
}
return Meteor.callAsync('getUserStatusText', userId);

try {
	await Meteor.callAsync('getUserStatusText', userId);
} catch (err) {
	if ((err as { error?: string }).error === 'error-invalid-user') {
		// session dropped — re-authenticate and retry once
	}
}

When it happens

Trigger: Meteor.callAsync('getUserStatusText', userId) from an anonymous or logged-out DDP connection, or after the resume token expired mid-session.

Common situations: Status components rendered on guest/preview pages; long-open tabs with expired tokens; calls fired during a logout race.

Understand the failure class

Background: error-invalid-user: "Invalid user" errors in Rocket.Chat — what they mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 2 libraries.

Related errors

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AI-assisted analysis of RocketChat/Rocket.Chat@2a7de45707 (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/e1a00d7928270ac5. Report an issue: GitHub.