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TLDR

• Problem: Bumble's Trust & Safety team reads channels with Channel.getChannel. A soft-deleted channel returns a 404, so they can't review its messages.
• Change: adds includeSoftDeletedChannel to the get-channel request. With it set, the backend returns a soft-deleted channel with deletedAt populated, and its messages page as usual.
• Risk: low. It's a new optional field that's null by default, so existing calls send the same request as before.

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Description of the pull request

Ticket: https://linear.app/stream/issue/CHA-6675/allow-getchannel-to-optionally-return-soft-deleted-channels
Backend: https://github.com/GetStream/chat/pull/20790

• GetChannelRequestData gets an include_soft_deleted_channel field. The Lombok builder exposes it as .includeSoftDeletedChannel(Boolean).
• The backend honours it only on server-side requests. Members of a deleted channel are not returned.
• The new test creates a channel, sends two messages, and soft-deletes the channel. It checks that a plain getChannel still returns a 404, and that includeSoftDeletedChannel(true) returns the channel with deletedAt set and both messages.

Merge order

This SDK's tests run against the live CI app. The new test will fail until chat#20790 is released and deployed to that app's shard. Merge the backend first, then re-run CI here.

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Note

Low Risk
Optional request field defaults to unset, so existing getChannel calls are unchanged; behavior depends on the paired backend release.

Overview
Adds an optional includeSoftDeletedChannel flag on Channel.getChannel request data (serialized as include_soft_deleted_channel). When set, callers can fetch a soft-deleted channel and page its messages instead of getting a 404; the response includes deletedAt, and members are not returned (per backend behavior documented in Javadoc).

A new integration test covers create → message → soft-delete → 404 without the flag → success with includeSoftDeletedChannel(true) and both message IDs.

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