From fb0b1af056565ea7b1ff816a1f4280427179b76a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greyson Parrelli <greyson@signal.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 12:17:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow lazy creation of Recipient.self()

---
 .../thoughtcrime/securesms/recipients/LiveRecipientCache.java   | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/recipients/LiveRecipientCache.java b/app/src/main/java/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/recipients/LiveRecipientCache.java
index ea4282ce9..ae4421e5a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/recipients/LiveRecipientCache.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/thoughtcrime/securesms/recipients/LiveRecipientCache.java
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public final class LiveRecipientCache {
       }
 
       if (selfId == null) {
-        throw new MissingRecipientException(null);
+        selfId = recipientDatabase.getAndPossiblyMerge(localAci, localE164, false);
       }
 
       synchronized (localRecipientId) {