feat: resolve an access token per request on the standalone clients

[spydon]

Note

Stacked on #1739. Review that one first; the diff here is only the last commit.

Summary

Gives PostgrestClient, SupabaseStorageClient and FunctionsClient an optional accessToken callback, resolved before every request and sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>.

final functions = FunctionsClient(
  functionsUrl,
  {'apikey': anonKey},
  accessToken: () async => currentJwt,
);

Why

#1739 removes setAccessToken from these three clients. Through SupabaseClient nothing is lost, because AuthHttpClient already resolves the session token per request. @Vinzent03 pointed out on that PR that standalone users of these packages have no such wrapper, and are left with a static constructor header or mutating the header map by hand.

That is the gap the setters were filling, and filling badly: they pinned a value that went stale, which is exactly why they became a footgun once AuthHttpClient landed. A callback resolved per request covers the same need without that failure mode.

This is the same shape supabase/supabase-swift#1233 gives the Swift FunctionsClient.

Behaviour

• Resolved before every request, and again for every retry, so a token that rotates between attempts is picked up. Postgrest's retry loop and storage's upload retry both go through it.
• Returning null sends no bearer token.
• A request that already carries an Authorization header keeps it, so invoke(headers: ...), PostgrestBuilder.setHeader and SupabaseStorageClient.setHeader all still win over the callback.
• Passing both a constructor Authorization header and accessToken asserts, since the header would win on every request and the callback would never run.

Purely additive: the parameter is optional, and the assert can only fire on a combination that was not expressible before this PR.

Implementation

One AccessTokenClient in supabase_common, wrapping the caller's transport. All three clients already funnel every request through a single nullable Client?, so wrapping at construction covers every path including multipart uploads and retries. A null transport still falls back to a one-off client per request, unchanged.

SupabaseClient deliberately does not use this. It wires its sub-clients through AuthHttpClient, which also handles the apikey header and the new-format key rules. Consolidating the two is worth doing separately (SDK-1523 notes it).

Test plan

• New access_token_client_test.dart: per-request resolution, null token, per-request header precedence, error propagation
• Per-client tests for all three: resolution on every request, per-request override winning, and the assert
• dart test: supabase_common (109), postgrest (200), supabase_functions (54), supabase (143), all passing
• dart analyze clean across packages/, dart format -l 80 clean
• Capability matrix: compliance file valid, symbol check clean (no new public symbols; supabase_common is in .sdk-parse-ignore and a parameter is not a symbol)
• supabase_storage shows 21 failures locally from a dirty local stack, identical on clean main; CI runs a fresh stack

Closes SDK-1523

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added dynamic access-token support for Functions, PostgREST, and Storage clients.
  • Tokens are refreshed before each request, including retries.
  • Per-request Authorization headers can override resolved tokens.
  • Requests without a token no longer include an authorization header.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented conflicting static authorization headers and access-token callbacks.

• Documentation

  • Updated migration guidance and SDK capability documentation for token rotation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds per-request accessToken callbacks to Postgrest, Functions, and Storage clients. A shared AccessTokenClient injects bearer tokens, preserves explicit headers, and supports rotating tokens. Tests and migration guidance cover the new behavior.

Changes

Dynamic access-token support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Token-aware HTTP transport packages/supabase_common/lib/src/access_token_client.dart, packages/supabase_common/lib/supabase_common.dart, packages/supabase_common/test/access_token_client_test.dart	Adds AccessTokenClient with per-request token resolution, bearer-header injection, transport delegation, cleanup, and tests.
Client access-token integration packages/postgrest/..., packages/supabase_functions/..., packages/supabase_storage/...	Adds accessToken callbacks to the three clients. Conflicting Authorization headers assert. Tests cover token rotation, null tokens, and per-request overrides.
Migration and compliance guidance MIGRATION.md, sdk-compliance.yaml	Updates guidance for callback-based token resolution, rotating tokens, and explicit header overrides.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 259d1

The PR adds per-request access-token resolution for standalone clients without changing existing callers; only minor formatting and nullable-token documentation follow-up remains, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant AccessTokenClient
  participant HTTPTransport
  Client->>AccessTokenClient: Send request
  AccessTokenClient->>AccessTokenClient: Resolve accessToken callback
  AccessTokenClient->>HTTPTransport: Send request with bearer header when absent
  HTTPTransport-->>Client: Return response

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Pull request overview

Adds per-request access-token resolution to standalone service clients.

Changes:

• Adds shared AccessTokenClient transport wrapper.
• Integrates callbacks into PostgREST, Storage, and Functions clients.
• Adds tests, migration guidance, and compliance documentation.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
sdk-compliance.yaml	Updates authentication capability notes.
MIGRATION.md	Documents migration to token callbacks.
packages/supabase_common/lib/supabase_common.dart	Exports the shared wrapper.
packages/supabase_common/lib/src/access_token_client.dart	Implements token resolution and header precedence.
packages/supabase_common/test/access_token_client_test.dart	Tests shared wrapper behavior.
packages/postgrest/lib/src/postgrest.dart	Adds PostgREST token callback support.
packages/postgrest/test/basic_test.dart	Tests PostgREST integration.
packages/supabase_storage/lib/src/storage_client.dart	Adds Storage token callback support.
packages/supabase_storage/test/basic_test.dart	Tests Storage integration.
packages/supabase_functions/lib/src/functions_client.dart	Adds Functions token callback support.
packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart	Tests Functions integration.

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MIGRATION.md (1)

1354-1356: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document nullable callback behavior in both contract references.

The callback can return null, which omits the bearer token. Document this in both files.

• MIGRATION.md#L1354-L1356: state that null produces an unauthenticated request.
• sdk-compliance.yaml#L1972-L1972: add the same behavior to the compliance note.

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In `@MIGRATION.md` around lines 1354 - 1356, Document that the accessToken
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unauthenticated request, in both MIGRATION.md lines 1354-1356 and
sdk-compliance.yaml line 1972.

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In `@MIGRATION.md`:
- Around line 1354-1356: Document that the accessToken callback may return null,
which omits the bearer token and sends an unauthenticated request, in both
MIGRATION.md lines 1354-1356 and sdk-compliance.yaml line 1972.

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• MIGRATION.md
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• packages/supabase_common/lib/src/access_token_client.dart
• packages/supabase_common/lib/supabase_common.dart
• packages/supabase_common/test/access_token_client_test.dart
• packages/supabase_functions/lib/src/functions_client.dart
• packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the 80-character line limit to both changed documents.

Wrap the changed prose and YAML scalar.

• MIGRATION.md#L1354-L1355: reflow the migration prose and the long example lines.
• sdk-compliance.yaml#L1972-L1972: use a folded scalar and wrap the note.

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In `@MIGRATION.md` around lines 1354 - 1355, Reflow the changed prose and long
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sdk-compliance.yaml#L1972, replace the long scalar with a folded scalar and wrap
its note to the same 80-character limit.

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