Crash for user with no subscriptions (eg. new bot)

[neiljp]

Currently producing a fresh bot and using the zuliprc in ZT causes a crash, unless some streams are pre-subscribed for it.

This shouldn't be an issue for regular uses, who tend to get subscriptions automatically, but it's possible that a user could lose their subscriptions, so we should avoid this issue in any case.

[avats-dev]

@neiljp can you guide me a bit to resolve this? I would like to contribute.

[neiljp]

I would suggest ensuring you can duplicate this first, which likely should be achievable by creating a bot user and running zulip-term with the matching zuliprc file. I'm guessing the UI code is not resilient to an empty list of streams, but I've not tried reproducing this bug myself recently - you should get a traceback indicating where the error is to some degree.

[avats-dev]

ok, thanks. I will try that and update.

[Abhirup-99]

@avats-dev are you still working on this? I would like to take a stab at it.