test(tst-24): drive the .NET and Python clients against real in-process gRPC servers

TST-24 asked for per-client wire tests against a fake gateway. An audit first
corrected the finding's premise: Go, Rust, and Java already had them — bufconn,
a loopback tonic server, and InProcessServerBuilder respectively — each already
asserting the round trip, the server-observed bearer header, and the ReplayGap
sentinel. The two genuine gaps were .NET (every test substituted the transport
interface; the test project had no server package at all) and Python (stub
monkeypatching everywhere but one opt-in TLS test).

Both now serve mxaccess_gateway.v1.MxAccessGateway over a real transport —
Kestrel h2c and grpc.aio, each on an ephemeral loopback port — and drive the
ordinary public client API against it. Only the gateway's behaviour is canned;
the framing, serialization, metadata, and status codes are genuine. Four shapes
each: full round trip with every reply field asserted, the authorization header
as received by the server (including on the streaming RPC), the ReplayGap
sentinel surfaced as the client's typed signal, and a real PERMISSION_DENIED
mapping to the typed authorization error.

The .NET client was only ever compiled in CI, never tested, so the portable job
gains a dotnet test step.

Fixes a bug the new tests caught on their first run: Python's connect() built the
grpc.aio channel inside asyncio.to_thread, and a grpc.aio channel binds to the
event loop current on the constructing thread, so every non-stub connection
raised 'There is no current event loop in thread'. No mock-based test could see
it, and the test guarding the off-loop behaviour patched create_channel and so
asserted the bug. Split resolve_channel_security (blocking TOFU probe, off-loop)
from create_channel (on-loop); the guard tests now assert both halves.

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: .NET client
         run: dotnet build clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.slnx -c Release
 
+      # The .NET client was previously only compiled here, so its test project — including
+      # MxGatewayClientWireTests, which drives the client against a real loopback gRPC
+      # server (TST-24) — never ran in CI. Every other client job already runs its tests.
+      - name: .NET client tests
+        run: dotnet test clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests.csproj -c Release --no-build
+
       - name: Go client
         working-directory: clients/go
         run: |

archreview/2026-07-12/remediation/00-tracking.md

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Sequence these together rather than piecemeal — several are one change set spa
 
 - Close **CLI-24** and **CLI-34** as `Done` (incidentally fixed; evidence in [../50-clients.md](../50-clients.md)).
 - ~~When CLI-38 lands, close old **CLI-08** with a pointer here.~~ Done 2026-08-07: CLI-38 landed and old CLI-08 is now `Done` in the first-cycle tracker, pointing at [CLI-38](50-clients.md#cli-38--align-netgojava-on-hresult--0-lands-prior-cli-08-cures-the-doc-drift---medium--p1).
-- ~~When WRK-26 lands, its doc section also discharges the WorkerFrameProtocol gap~~ Done 2026-08-07: WRK-26 landed and **IPC-29** is discharged, pointing at [WRK-26](20-worker.md#wrk-26--write-priority-and-overflow-doc-drift-from-the-wrk-07-change---low--p1). ~~When TST-25 lands, revisit old **TST-05** (scheduled live smoke) and **TST-24** (client wire tests), which it unlocks.~~ TST-05 revisited 2026-08-10: `Partially done` in the first-cycle tracker — the `nightly-windev` job closes the scheduled-cadence half, but the finding's coverage-audit half stays open (the live suite reaches all six late-added COM commands and none of the five control commands). TST-24 revisited in the same change.
+- ~~When WRK-26 lands, its doc section also discharges the WorkerFrameProtocol gap~~ Done 2026-08-07: WRK-26 landed and **IPC-29** is discharged, pointing at [WRK-26](20-worker.md#wrk-26--write-priority-and-overflow-doc-drift-from-the-wrk-07-change---low--p1). ~~When TST-25 lands, revisit old **TST-05** (scheduled live smoke) and **TST-24** (client wire tests), which it unlocks.~~ TST-05 revisited 2026-08-10: `Partially done` in the first-cycle tracker — the `nightly-windev` job closes the scheduled-cadence half, but the finding's coverage-audit half stays open (the live suite reaches all six late-added COM commands and none of the five control commands). TST-24 revisited in the same change and closed `Done`: Go/Rust/Java already had real-server wire tests, and the two genuine gaps (.NET, Python) now have them plus a CI step.
 
 ## Change log
 

archreview/2026-07-12/remediation/60-testing-docs-gaps.md

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Independent of the runner count, document the **no-cancel** reality (Gitea 1.26
 
 ## Cross-domain dependencies
 
-- **TST-25 → old TST-05 / old TST-24:** the SSH-driven nightly is where the scheduled live-MXAccess smoke lands (closes old TST-05), and a working CI Windows tier unblocks wiring client wire-behavior tests into CI (old TST-24).
+- **TST-25 → old TST-05 / old TST-24:** the SSH-driven nightly is where the scheduled live-MXAccess smoke lands (closes old TST-05), and a working CI Windows tier unblocks wiring client wire-behavior tests into CI (old TST-24). *Followed up 2026-08-10:* old TST-05 is `Partially done` — the nightly closes the scheduling half, but the live suite still covers none of the five worker **control** commands; old TST-24 is `Done`, and its client wire tests turned out to need no Windows tier at all (they run in the `portable` job). See the first-cycle tracker.
 - **TST-25 ↔ IPC-24/IPC-25:** the nightly windev job is also the natural home for any Windows-side codegen verification the contracts/IPC remediation adds; coordinate job naming so both plans extend the same `windows-x86`/nightly jobs rather than adding parallel ones.
 - **TST-26 ⊂ TST-25:** same commit, by rule.
 - **TST-27:** ships in the cycle's P1 doc-drift batch alongside WRK-26 and CLI-42 (roadmap item 8); its `/browse` residual stays with TST-16 (prior cycle).

archreview/remediation/00-tracking.md

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Full design + implementation for each row lives in the linked domain doc under i
 | TST-21 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | Log rotation configured but minimal |
 | TST-22 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | Config-shape JSON block omits documented keys |
 | TST-23 | Low | P2 | S | — | Done | Bidirectional `Session` RPC never built |
-| TST-24 | Low | P2 | M | TST-03 | Not started | Client wire behaviour has no automated verification. **Gate cleared:** TST-03 CI is Done (live and green 2026-07-10; Windows/x86 tier green 2026-07-13 via the TST-25/TST-26 SSH-driven windev job), so TST-24 is unblocked — deferred by choice now, not CI-gated |
+| TST-24 | Low | P2 | M | TST-03 | Done | Client wire behaviour has no automated verification — closed 2026-08-10. Go/Rust/Java already had real-server wire tests (the finding's premise was stale); the genuine gaps were .NET (transport-interface fake everywhere, no server package) and Python (stub monkeypatch everywhere but one opt-in TLS test). Added `MxGatewayClientWireTests` + `WireFakeGatewayServer` (Kestrel h2c) and `tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py` (`grpc.aio` loopback), plus a `dotnet test` step for the .NET client in the `portable` CI job. Caught a real bug: Python `connect()` built the `grpc.aio` channel inside `asyncio.to_thread` and failed for every non-stub connection |
 
 ## Cross-cutting clusters
 
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ Findings the review flagged as one coordinated design pass — sequence them tog
 
 | Date | Change |
 |---|---|
+| 2026-08-10 | **TST-24 → `Done`: per-client wire tests land for the two clients that lacked them** (branch `feat/tst-24-client-wire-tests`). Audit first corrected the finding's premise: **Go, Rust, and Java already had real-server wire tests** — `newBufconnClient`/`fakeGatewayServer` over `grpc/test/bufconn`, `spawn_fake_gateway` over a loopback `TcpListener` with tonic's `Server`, and `InProcessGateway`/`TestGatewayService` over `InProcessServerBuilder` — each already asserting the round trip, the server-observed `authorization` bearer header, and the `ReplayGap` sentinel. The real gaps were **.NET** (every test substituted `FakeGatewayTransport` for `IMxGatewayClientTransport`, and the test project had no server package) and **Python** (stub monkeypatching everywhere except one opt-in TLS test serving only `OpenSession`). Added `WireFakeGatewayServer` + `MxGatewayClientWireTests` (Kestrel h2c on `127.0.0.1:0` serving `MxAccessGatewayBase`; new `Grpc.AspNetCore.Server` 2.76.0 + `Microsoft.AspNetCore.App` refs on the test project) and `clients/python/tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py` (`grpc.aio` server on `127.0.0.1:0`, no new deps). Four shapes each: full round trip with every reply field asserted, the bearer header **as received by the server** on the streaming RPC too, the `ReplayGap` sentinel surfaced as the client's typed signal, and a genuine `PERMISSION_DENIED` mapping to the typed authorization error. CI: the `portable` job only *built* the .NET client, so a `dotnet test` step was added. **The new tests immediately caught a shipped bug** — Python `GatewayClient.connect()`/`GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect()` constructed the `grpc.aio` channel inside `asyncio.to_thread`, which raises `RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'asyncio_0'` because a `grpc.aio` channel binds to the loop current on the constructing thread; every non-stub connection failed, and the one test guarding the off-loop behaviour (Client.Python-028) monkeypatched `create_channel` and so asserted the bug. Fixed by splitting `resolve_channel_security` (blocking TOFU probe, off-loop) from `create_channel` (on-loop), with the `-028` tests retargeted to assert both halves. Verified: .NET 133 passed/1 skipped (pre-existing live-gateway skip), Python 168 passed/1 skipped plus 6/6 opt-in TLS. Docs: `docs/GatewayTesting.md` § Client Wire Tests, `clients/dotnet/README.md`, `clients/python/README.md`. |
 | 2026-08-10 | **TST-05 revisited under the restored Windows tier → `Partially done`** (branch `feat/tst-24-client-wire-tests`, doc/tracker-only). The finding's **scheduling** half is closed: cycle-2 TST-25's `nightly-windev` job (cron `0 6 * * *`) runs `scripts/ci/run-windev-ci.sh live` → `windev-worker-ci.ps1 -Mode live`, which sets `MXGATEWAY_RUN_LIVE_MXACCESS_TESTS=1`, runs `WorkerLiveMxAccessSmokeTests` on windev after the x86 build/Worker.Tests/full-slnx steps, and files a Gitea issue when red. The **coverage-audit** half is *not* closed, and the audit the design asked for now has a negative answer: the suite's eight `[LiveMxAccessFact]`s cover all six late-added COM commands (`Suspend`, `Activate`, `AuthenticateUser`, `ArchestrAUserToId`, `AddBufferedItem`, `SetBufferedUpdateInterval`) but zero of the five control commands — `MxCommandKind.{Ping,GetSessionState,GetWorkerInfo,DrainEvents,ShutdownWorker}` appear nowhere in `WorkerLiveMxAccessSmokeTests.cs`, so the exact paths the Finding calls masked are still only proven against `FakeWorkerHarness` canned replies while the real implementations live in `Worker/Ipc/WorkerPipeSession.cs`. Residual work (two `[LiveMxAccessFact]`s, windev-only to author and verify) is specified in [60-testing-docs-gaps.md](60-testing-docs-gaps.md#tst-05--real-worker-controlcom-paths-verified-opt-in-only---medium--p1). |
 | 2026-07-10 | **TST-15 design fleshed out** (still `Not started` — design only, not implementation): `docs/plans/2026-07-10-dashboard-session-acl-tst15.md`. Resolves the crux the deferral left open — the dashboard is LDAP-identity (Admin/Viewer) while sessions are API-key-owned (`OwnerKeyId`), two disjoint identity domains — via a **session tag** sourced from the owning API key (rides in the existing `ApiKeyConstraints` JSON blob, no SQLite migration). Admin-sees-all; Viewer may `SubscribeSession` iff `session.Tags ∩ viewer.GrantedTags ≠ ∅` (new `Dashboard:GroupToTag` map → hub-token tag claims); untagged sessions Admin-only by default (`Dashboard:UntaggedSessionVisibility`). Includes the enforcement path (`HubTokenPayload.Tags` + `IDashboardSessionAcl` gate at `SubscribeSession`), task breakdown (epic Tasks 16–19), test plan incl. live-LDAP, and rejected alternatives (client-supplied tag; group→key-id map). Tracker + `60-testing-docs-gaps.md` TST-15 section point at the doc. **TST-03 investigated:** the CI never ran because the repo had **zero registered Gitea Actions runners** (Actions is enabled; runs are created on push/PR/nightly but fail instantly with nothing to execute them). A Mac runner proved the pipeline executes but cannot clone — this Gitea hands runners the internal `http://gitea:3000` URL, reachable only by a runner co-located on the gitea Docker network. Fix = run a co-located runner on the Gitea host (recipe prepared, `scratchpad/gitea-runner/setup-gitea-host-runner.sh`); pending host access. TST-03 stays `In review`. |
 | 2026-07-09 | **P2 Epic wrap — user decision: DEFER TST-15 + TST-24, close the epic.** Epic bucket result: 5 of 7 findings `Done` (CLI-15, CLI-04, CLI-30, TST-01, TST-04); **TST-15** and **TST-24** intentionally deferred to a follow-up (kept `Not started`, not `Won't fix` — they are gated, not rejected). **TST-15** (dashboard EventsHub per-session ACL) is epic Phase 4 — a real feature needing a new session-"tag" mechanism + dashboard group→tag config, not a mechanical fix; the `EventsHub` `TODO(per-session-acl)` stays, and the already-shipped **SEC-25** mitigation (tag *values* redacted from the dashboard mirror by default) means no sensitive payload leaks through the hub today regardless of the missing ACL — so deferring carries no value-leak risk. **TST-24** (per-client wire tests) depends on **TST-03** (CI), which is `In review` (YAML authored, never run on a Gitea runner) — no point wiring client tests into a pipeline that isn't live yet. Net P2: 35/38 `Done`; remaining = TST-15 (deferred feature), TST-24 (deferred, CI-gated), TST-14 (user deletes their own untracked gitignored `*-docs-*.md` files). |

archreview/remediation/60-testing-docs-gaps.md

@@ -457,6 +457,24 @@ If TST-02's interim mitigation (flip retention off) is chosen instead of impleme
 
 ## TST-24 — Client wire behaviour has no automated verification   `Low` · `—`
 
+> **Resolution 2026-08-10 (branch `feat/tst-24-client-wire-tests`): `Done`.** All five clients now drive their public API against a fake gateway served over a real gRPC transport, in the client's own default suite, and all five run in CI.
+>
+> **Corrected premise.** The Finding's "no in-process gateway integration tests" was already stale when it was re-verified: **Go, Rust, and Java had real-server wire tests**, not mocks — Go's `newBufconnClient`/`fakeGatewayServer` (`clients/go/mxgateway/client_session_test.go`) over `grpc/test/bufconn`, Rust's `spawn_fake_gateway` (`clients/rust/tests/client_behavior.rs`) over a loopback `TcpListener` with tonic's `Server`, and Java's `InProcessGateway`/`TestGatewayService` (`MxGatewayClientSessionTests.java`) over `InProcessServerBuilder`. Each already asserted the round trip, the `authorization` bearer header as *observed by the server*, and the `ReplayGap` sentinel. The cycle-2 re-verification cited `clients/python/tests/test_replay_gap.py` as evidence for "the other four clients still unit-test against mocks"; that generalized from Python to Go/Rust/Java incorrectly. `InProcessGatewayHarness` (the "template" the Impact paragraph names) is in fact the *thinner* of the Java harnesses — it serves only `streamEvents`/`closeSession` for the CLI tests.
+>
+> **Real gap, and what was built.** Two clients genuinely had none. **.NET** substituted `FakeGatewayTransport` for `IMxGatewayClientTransport` in every test, so not even the generated stub ran, and its test project had no server package at all. **Python** monkeypatched `MxAccessGatewayStub` everywhere except one opt-in TLS test that served only `OpenSession`. Both now have the pattern:
+> - `clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/WireFakeGatewayServer.cs` + `MxGatewayClientWireTests.cs` — Kestrel h2c on `127.0.0.1:0` serving `MxAccessGateway.MxAccessGatewayBase`; needed new `Grpc.AspNetCore.Server` + `Microsoft.AspNetCore.App` references on the test project.
+> - `clients/python/tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py` — a `grpc.aio` server on `127.0.0.1:0` serving `MxAccessGatewayServicer`; no new dependencies (`grpcio` is a runtime dep).
+>
+> Each covers the four shapes the Design asked for: round trip (`OpenSession` → `Invoke`/`Register` → `StreamEvents` → `CloseSession` with every reply field asserted), the bearer header as received by the server on the streaming RPC as well as the unary ones, the `ReplayGap` sentinel surfaced as the client's typed signal (TST-01), and a real `PERMISSION_DENIED` mapping to the typed authorization error.
+>
+> **CI.** The `portable` job previously only *built* the .NET client; a `dotnet test` step was added, so its wire tests actually run. Go/Rust/Python already ran their suites there and Java in the `java` job.
+>
+> **Bug this immediately caught** — the justification for the whole finding. `GatewayClient.connect()` / `GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect()` in the Python client were **broken for every real (non-stub) connection**: they built the `grpc.aio` channel inside `asyncio.to_thread`, and a `grpc.aio` channel binds to the event loop current on the constructing thread, so the worker thread raised `RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'asyncio_0'`. No mock-based test could see it — the one test asserting the off-loop behaviour (`Client.Python-028`) monkeypatched `create_channel` and therefore asserted the bug. Fixed by splitting `resolve_channel_security` (blocking TOFU probe, runs off-loop) from `create_channel` (must run on the loop thread), keeping the Client.Python-028 guarantee; the two `-028` tests were retargeted to assert both halves.
+>
+> **Deliberately out of scope.** Only the four session RPCs are served — the alarm feed (`StreamAlarms`, `QueryActiveAlarms`, `AcknowledgeAlarm`) and Galaxy browse are not, matching the Design's "full parity is out of scope". Java's `InProcessGatewayHarness` still lacks `openSession`/`invoke`; the client-module tests cover those shapes, so it was left alone.
+>
+> **Docs.** `docs/GatewayTesting.md` § Client Wire Tests (the cross-client pattern + per-client harness table), `clients/dotnet/README.md`, `clients/python/README.md`.
+
 **Finding.** All five clients have unit tests (13/8/3/13/7 files for dotnet/go/rust/python/java) but no in-process or containerized gateway integration tests; the only cross-language verification is the operator-run `scripts/run-client-e2e-tests.ps1`. `CrossLanguageSmokeMatrixTests` checks shapes only.
 
 **Impact.** Low-to-moderate: a gateway contract change can pass every default suite and break all five clients (partly mitigated by shared-proto codegen). The Java CLI already proves the cheap pattern — `InProcessGatewayHarness` (`stillpending.md` §8).

clients/dotnet/README.md

@@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ dotnet build clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.slnx
 dotnet test clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.slnx --no-build
 ```
 
+Most tests substitute `FakeGatewayTransport` for `IMxGatewayClientTransport`, so
+they never touch the wire. `MxGatewayClientWireTests` is the exception: it drives
+the ordinary public API against `WireFakeGatewayServer`, a real gRPC server
+(Kestrel h2c on an ephemeral loopback port) serving
+`MxAccessGateway.MxAccessGatewayBase`. Only the gateway's behaviour is canned —
+the HTTP/2 framing, protobuf serialization, `authorization` metadata, and gRPC
+status codes are genuine, so it catches decode and metadata breaks a transport
+fake cannot see. No MXAccess or worker is involved; it runs in the default suite.
+See `docs/GatewayTesting.md` (Client Wire Tests) for the cross-client pattern.
+
+```powershell
+dotnet test clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests.csproj --filter FullyQualifiedName~MxGatewayClientWireTests
+```
+
 ## Packaging
 
 Create local library and CLI artifacts from the repository root:

clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/MxGatewayClientWireTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+using ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Contracts.Proto;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Drives the public client API against <see cref="WireFakeGatewayServer"/> — a real
+/// gRPC server on loopback — so the transport, protobuf serialization, call metadata,
+/// and gRPC status mapping are all exercised. Every other test in this project
+/// substitutes <see cref="FakeGatewayTransport"/> and therefore proves nothing about
+/// what actually crosses the wire.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class MxGatewayClientWireTests
+{
+    private const string ApiKey = "mxgw_wiretest_secret";
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Verifies the full session happy path decodes real wire bytes end to end.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task SessionRoundTrip_OverRealTransport_DecodesEveryReplyField()
+    {
+        await using WireFakeGatewayServer server = await WireFakeGatewayServer.StartAsync();
+        await using MxGatewayClient client = server.CreateClient(ApiKey);
+
+        MxGatewaySession session = await client.OpenSessionAsync(
+            new OpenSessionRequest { ClientSessionName = "wire-test" });
+
+        Assert.Equal(WireFakeGatewayServer.FakeGatewayService.SessionId, session.SessionId);
+        Assert.Equal("fake-backend", session.OpenSessionReply.BackendName);
+        Assert.Equal(1234, session.OpenSessionReply.WorkerProcessId);
+        Assert.Equal(3u, session.OpenSessionReply.GatewayProtocolVersion);
+        Assert.Equal(["events", "invoke"], session.OpenSessionReply.Capabilities);
+
+        int serverHandle = await session.RegisterAsync("wire-test-client");
+        Assert.Equal(WireFakeGatewayServer.FakeGatewayService.ServerHandle, serverHandle);
+
+        MxCommandRequest? invoke = server.Service.InvokeRequest;
+        Assert.NotNull(invoke);
+        Assert.Equal(MxCommandKind.Register, invoke.Command.Kind);
+        Assert.Equal("wire-test-client", invoke.Command.Register.ClientName);
+
+        List<MxEvent> events = await CollectAsync(client.StreamEventsAsync(
+            new StreamEventsRequest { SessionId = session.SessionId }));
+
+        MxEvent single = Assert.Single(events);
+        Assert.Equal(MxEventFamily.OnDataChange, single.Family);
+        Assert.Equal(WireFakeGatewayServer.FakeGatewayService.ServerHandle, single.ServerHandle);
+        Assert.Equal(WireFakeGatewayServer.FakeGatewayService.ItemHandle, single.ItemHandle);
+        Assert.Equal(17, single.Value.Int32Value);
+        Assert.Equal(192, single.Quality);
+        Assert.Equal(9ul, single.WorkerSequence);
+        Assert.Equal(MxEvent.BodyOneofCase.OnDataChange, single.BodyCase);
+
+        CloseSessionReply closeReply = await session.CloseAsync();
+        Assert.Equal(SessionState.Closed, closeReply.FinalState);
+        Assert.Equal(
+            WireFakeGatewayServer.FakeGatewayService.SessionId,
+            server.Service.CloseSessionRequest?.SessionId);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Verifies the API key reaches the server as a bearer header on unary and
+    /// streaming calls alike. A transport fake can only assert what the client passes;
+    /// this asserts what the server receives.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ApiKey_ReachesTheServerAsBearerMetadata_OnEveryRpc()
+    {
+        await using WireFakeGatewayServer server = await WireFakeGatewayServer.StartAsync();
+        await using MxGatewayClient client = server.CreateClient(ApiKey);
+
+        MxGatewaySession session = await client.OpenSessionAsync(
+            new OpenSessionRequest { ClientSessionName = "wire-test" });
+        await session.RegisterAsync("wire-test-client");
+        await CollectAsync(client.StreamEventsAsync(
+            new StreamEventsRequest { SessionId = session.SessionId }));
+        await session.CloseAsync();
+
+        string expected = $"Bearer {ApiKey}";
+        Assert.Equal(
+            new Dictionary<string, string>
+            {
+                ["OpenSession"] = expected,
+                ["Invoke"] = expected,
+                ["StreamEvents"] = expected,
+                ["CloseSession"] = expected,
+            },
+            server.Service.AuthorizationByMethod);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Verifies the gateway's replay-gap sentinel survives serialization and is
+    /// surfaced as a typed, non-terminal stream item.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ReplayGapSentinel_SurvivesTheWire_AsTypedStreamItem()
+    {
+        await using WireFakeGatewayServer server = await WireFakeGatewayServer.StartAsync(service =>
+            service.ReplayGap = new ReplayGap
+            {
+                RequestedAfterSequence = 3,
+                OldestAvailableSequence = 8,
+            });
+        await using MxGatewayClient client = server.CreateClient(ApiKey);
+
+        MxGatewaySession session = await client.OpenSessionAsync(
+            new OpenSessionRequest { ClientSessionName = "wire-test" });
+
+        List<MxEventStreamItem> items = [];
+        IAsyncEnumerable<MxEvent> stream = client.StreamEventsAsync(new StreamEventsRequest
+        {
+            SessionId = session.SessionId,
+            AfterWorkerSequence = 3,
+        });
+
+        await foreach (MxEventStreamItem item in stream.AsStreamItemsAsync())
+        {
+            items.Add(item);
+        }
+
+        Assert.Equal(2, items.Count);
+        Assert.True(items[0].IsReplayGap);
+        Assert.Equal(3ul, items[0].ReplayGap!.RequestedAfterSequence);
+        Assert.Equal(8ul, items[0].ReplayGap!.OldestAvailableSequence);
+        Assert.False(items[1].IsReplayGap);
+        Assert.Equal(MxEventFamily.OnDataChange, items[1].Event.Family);
+        Assert.Equal(3ul, server.Service.StreamEventsRequest?.AfterWorkerSequence);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Verifies a genuine <c>PERMISSION_DENIED</c> status maps to the typed client
+    /// exception rather than a bare RpcException.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <returns>A task that represents the asynchronous operation.</returns>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task PermissionDeniedStatus_MapsToAuthorizationException()
+    {
+        await using WireFakeGatewayServer server = await WireFakeGatewayServer.StartAsync(
+            service => service.DenyInvoke = true);
+        await using MxGatewayClient client = server.CreateClient(ApiKey);
+
+        MxGatewaySession session = await client.OpenSessionAsync(
+            new OpenSessionRequest { ClientSessionName = "wire-test" });
+
+        await Assert.ThrowsAsync<MxGatewayAuthorizationException>(
+            () => session.RegisterAsync("wire-test-client"));
+    }
+
+    private static async Task<List<MxEvent>> CollectAsync(IAsyncEnumerable<MxEvent> stream)
+    {
+        List<MxEvent> events = [];
+        await foreach (MxEvent gatewayEvent in stream)
+        {
+            events.Add(gatewayEvent);
+        }
+
+        return events;
+    }
+}

clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/WireFakeGatewayServer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,264 @@
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
+using System.Net;
+using Grpc.Core;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Server;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Server.Features;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Contracts.Proto;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Hosts the real <c>mxaccess_gateway.v1.MxAccessGateway</c> service on a loopback
+/// Kestrel endpoint so client tests exercise genuine HTTP/2 framing, protobuf
+/// serialization, call metadata, and gRPC status propagation.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <para>
+/// This is the counterpart of <see cref="FakeGatewayTransport"/>: that fake replaces
+/// <c>IMxGatewayClientTransport</c>, so nothing below the client wrapper runs. This one
+/// replaces only the gateway's <em>behaviour</em> — every byte between the client and
+/// the service is the real wire format. Contract breaks that a transport fake cannot
+/// see (a field the client never decodes, metadata it does not actually send, a status
+/// code it maps differently once it arrives as a real <see cref="RpcException"/>) fail
+/// here.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// Plaintext h2c is used deliberately: TLS is covered by
+/// <c>MxGatewayClientTlsHandlerTests</c>, and h2c keeps the harness certificate-free so
+/// it runs identically on every CI host. See <c>docs/GatewayTesting.md</c>
+/// (Client Wire Tests) for the shared pattern and its Python counterpart.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+internal sealed class WireFakeGatewayServer : IAsyncDisposable
+{
+    private readonly WebApplication _app;
+
+    private WireFakeGatewayServer(WebApplication app, FakeGatewayService service, int port)
+    {
+        _app = app;
+        Service = service;
+        Endpoint = new Uri($"http://127.0.0.1:{port}");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets the canned service backing the endpoint; tests read its recorded requests.
+    /// </summary>
+    public FakeGatewayService Service { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets the h2c endpoint to point <see cref="MxGatewayClientOptions.Endpoint"/> at.
+    /// </summary>
+    public Uri Endpoint { get; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Starts a server on an ephemeral loopback port.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="configure">Optional configuration of the canned service.</param>
+    /// <returns>The started server.</returns>
+    public static async Task<WireFakeGatewayServer> StartAsync(Action<FakeGatewayService>? configure = null)
+    {
+        FakeGatewayService service = new();
+        configure?.Invoke(service);
+
+        WebApplicationBuilder builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder();
+        builder.Logging.ClearProviders();
+        builder.WebHost.ConfigureKestrel(options =>
+            // Port 0 lets the OS pick; HTTP/2 without TLS (h2c) is what the client's
+            // plain http:// endpoint negotiates via RequestVersionExact.
+            options.Listen(IPAddress.Loopback, 0, listen => listen.Protocols = HttpProtocols.Http2));
+        builder.Services.AddGrpc();
+        builder.Services.AddSingleton(service);
+
+        WebApplication app = builder.Build();
+        app.MapGrpcService<FakeGatewayService>();
+        await app.StartAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+        return new WireFakeGatewayServer(app, service, ResolvePort(app));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Creates a client bound to this server's endpoint.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="apiKey">API key the client should present.</param>
+    /// <returns>A client that talks to this server over h2c.</returns>
+    public MxGatewayClient CreateClient(string apiKey) =>
+        MxGatewayClient.Create(new MxGatewayClientOptions
+        {
+            Endpoint = Endpoint,
+            ApiKey = apiKey,
+            UseTls = false,
+            DefaultCallTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
+        });
+
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+    {
+        await _app.StopAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+        await _app.DisposeAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+    }
+
+    private static int ResolvePort(WebApplication app)
+    {
+        IServerAddressesFeature? addresses = app.Services
+            .GetRequiredService<IServer>()
+            .Features
+            .Get<IServerAddressesFeature>();
+        string address = addresses?.Addresses.FirstOrDefault()
+            ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Kestrel did not report a bound address.");
+        return new Uri(address).Port;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Canned gateway answering the four session RPCs with gateway-shaped replies.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal sealed class FakeGatewayService : MxAccessGateway.MxAccessGatewayBase
+    {
+        /// <summary>The session id every reply carries.</summary>
+        public const string SessionId = "wire-session-1";
+
+        /// <summary>The server handle the canned Register reply returns.</summary>
+        public const int ServerHandle = 4242;
+
+        /// <summary>The item handle the canned data-change event carries.</summary>
+        public const int ItemHandle = 77;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the <c>authorization</c> header value observed per RPC name.
+        /// </summary>
+        public ConcurrentDictionary<string, string> AuthorizationByMethod { get; } = new();
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets a value indicating whether <c>Invoke</c> fails with
+        /// <see cref="StatusCode.PermissionDenied"/> instead of replying.
+        /// </summary>
+        public bool DenyInvoke { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets or sets the replay-gap sentinel emitted at the head of the event stream.
+        /// </summary>
+        public ReplayGap? ReplayGap { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the last <c>Invoke</c> request the client sent, as decoded from the wire.
+        /// </summary>
+        public MxCommandRequest? InvokeRequest { get; private set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the last <c>StreamEvents</c> request the client sent.
+        /// </summary>
+        public StreamEventsRequest? StreamEventsRequest { get; private set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the last <c>CloseSession</c> request the client sent.
+        /// </summary>
+        public CloseSessionRequest? CloseSessionRequest { get; private set; }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override Task<OpenSessionReply> OpenSession(
+            OpenSessionRequest request,
+            ServerCallContext context)
+        {
+            Record(context);
+            return Task.FromResult(new OpenSessionReply
+            {
+                SessionId = SessionId,
+                BackendName = "fake-backend",
+                WorkerProcessId = 1234,
+                WorkerProtocolVersion = 1,
+                GatewayProtocolVersion = 3,
+                Capabilities = { "events", "invoke" },
+                ProtocolStatus = Ok(),
+            });
+        }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override Task<MxCommandReply> Invoke(MxCommandRequest request, ServerCallContext context)
+        {
+            Record(context);
+            InvokeRequest = request;
+
+            if (DenyInvoke)
+            {
+                throw new RpcException(new Status(StatusCode.PermissionDenied, "invoke scope required"));
+            }
+
+            return Task.FromResult(new MxCommandReply
+            {
+                SessionId = request.SessionId,
+                CorrelationId = request.ClientCorrelationId,
+                Kind = request.Command.Kind,
+                ProtocolStatus = Ok(),
+                Hresult = 0,
+                Register = new RegisterReply { ServerHandle = ServerHandle },
+            });
+        }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override async Task StreamEvents(
+            StreamEventsRequest request,
+            IServerStreamWriter<MxEvent> responseStream,
+            ServerCallContext context)
+        {
+            Record(context);
+            StreamEventsRequest = request;
+
+            if (ReplayGap is not null)
+            {
+                // The sentinel shape the gateway emits: family unspecified, body unset,
+                // only replay_gap populated.
+                await responseStream.WriteAsync(new MxEvent
+                {
+                    SessionId = request.SessionId,
+                    ReplayGap = ReplayGap,
+                }).ConfigureAwait(false);
+            }
+
+            await responseStream.WriteAsync(new MxEvent
+            {
+                SessionId = request.SessionId,
+                Family = MxEventFamily.OnDataChange,
+                ServerHandle = ServerHandle,
+                ItemHandle = ItemHandle,
+                Value = new MxValue { Int32Value = 17 },
+                Quality = 192,
+                WorkerSequence = 9,
+                OnDataChange = new OnDataChangeEvent(),
+            }).ConfigureAwait(false);
+        }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override Task<CloseSessionReply> CloseSession(
+            CloseSessionRequest request,
+            ServerCallContext context)
+        {
+            Record(context);
+            CloseSessionRequest = request;
+            return Task.FromResult(new CloseSessionReply
+            {
+                SessionId = request.SessionId,
+                FinalState = SessionState.Closed,
+                ProtocolStatus = Ok(),
+            });
+        }
+
+        private static ProtocolStatus Ok() => new() { Code = ProtocolStatusCode.Ok };
+
+        private void Record(ServerCallContext context)
+        {
+            string? authorization = context.RequestHeaders.GetValue("authorization");
+            if (authorization is not null)
+            {
+                // context.Method is the fully-qualified "/package.Service/Method";
+                // key on the bare method name so assertions stay readable.
+                AuthorizationByMethod[context.Method[(context.Method.LastIndexOf('/') + 1)..]] =
+                    authorization;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests.csproj

@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="17.14.1" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit" Version="2.9.3" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" Version="3.1.4" />
+    <!-- Wire tests only (WireFakeGatewayServer): hosts the real MxAccessGateway service
+         on loopback Kestrel so the client is driven over genuine HTTP/2 + protobuf rather
+         than a substituted transport. Version tracks the gateway server's Grpc.AspNetCore
+         (src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Server) and the client's Grpc.Net.Client, both 2.76.0. -->
+    <PackageReference Include="Grpc.AspNetCore.Server" Version="2.76.0" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>

clients/python/README.md

@@ -47,6 +47,19 @@ The tests import the generated gateway and worker stubs, run fake async gateway
 stubs, verify API key metadata, exercise stream cancellation, load shared value
 and command fixtures, and check deterministic CLI output.
 
+`tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py` is the one suite that does **not** substitute a
+stub: it serves a canned `MxAccessGatewayServicer` from a real `grpc.aio` server
+on an ephemeral loopback port and drives the ordinary `GatewayClient` API against
+it. Only the gateway's behaviour is canned — the HTTP/2 framing, protobuf
+serialization, `authorization` metadata, and gRPC status codes are genuine, so it
+catches decode and metadata breaks a stub fake cannot see. No MXAccess, no worker,
+no TLS, so it runs in the default suite. See `docs/GatewayTesting.md`
+(Client Wire Tests) for the cross-client pattern.
+
+```powershell
+python -m pytest tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py
+```
+
 ## Packaging
 
 Install the package in editable mode for local development:
@@ -398,6 +411,15 @@ point: the `require_certificate_validation=True` keyword on
 `--require-certificate-validation` CLI flag. See
 [Gateway Configuration](../../docs/GatewayConfiguration.md#automatic-self-signed-certificate).
 
+Channel construction is split in two: `resolve_channel_security(options)` performs
+the blocking part (the trust-on-first-use certificate probe) and
+`create_channel(options, security=...)` builds the channel. The async `connect`
+classmethods run the first off the event loop and the second on it, because a
+`grpc.aio` channel binds to the event loop current on the constructing thread —
+building it inside `asyncio.to_thread` raises
+`RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'asyncio_N'`. Callers that
+build their own channel should keep `create_channel` on the loop thread.
+
 ## CLI
 
 The CLI emits deterministic JSON for automation:

clients/python/src/zb_mom_ww_mxgateway/client.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from .auth import merge_metadata
 from .errors import ensure_protocol_success, map_rpc_error
 from .generated import mxaccess_gateway_pb2 as pb
 from .generated import mxaccess_gateway_pb2_grpc as pb_grpc
-from .options import ClientOptions, create_channel
+from .options import ClientOptions, create_channel, resolve_channel_security
 
 
 class GatewayClient:
@@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ class GatewayClient:
         if stub is not None:
             return cls(options=resolved, stub=stub)
 
-        # create_channel may perform a blocking TLS certificate probe (TOFU
+        # Resolving security may perform a blocking TLS certificate probe (TOFU
-        # default); run it off the event loop so connect never freezes the loop.
+        # default); run that off the event loop so connect never freezes it. The
-        channel = await asyncio.to_thread(create_channel, resolved)
+        # channel itself must be built on the loop thread — a grpc.aio channel
+        # binds to the loop current on the constructing thread, and a worker
+        # thread has none.
+        security = await asyncio.to_thread(resolve_channel_security, resolved)
+        channel = create_channel(resolved, security=security)
         return cls(
             options=resolved,
             stub=pb_grpc.MxAccessGatewayStub(channel),

clients/python/src/zb_mom_ww_mxgateway/galaxy.py

@@ -21,7 +21,12 @@ from .auth import merge_metadata
 from .errors import MxGatewayError, map_rpc_error
 from .generated import galaxy_repository_pb2 as galaxy_pb
 from .generated import galaxy_repository_pb2_grpc as galaxy_pb_grpc
-from .options import BrowseChildrenOptions, ClientOptions, create_channel
+from .options import (
+    BrowseChildrenOptions,
+    ClientOptions,
+    create_channel,
+    resolve_channel_security,
+)
 
 _DISCOVER_HIERARCHY_PAGE_SIZE = 5000
 _BROWSE_CHILDREN_PAGE_SIZE = 500
@@ -70,9 +75,13 @@ class GalaxyRepositoryClient:
         if stub is not None:
             return cls(options=resolved, stub=stub)
 
-        # create_channel may perform a blocking TLS certificate probe (TOFU
+        # Resolving security may perform a blocking TLS certificate probe (TOFU
-        # default); run it off the event loop so connect never freezes the loop.
+        # default); run that off the event loop so connect never freezes it. The
-        channel = await asyncio.to_thread(create_channel, resolved)
+        # channel itself must be built on the loop thread — a grpc.aio channel
+        # binds to the loop current on the constructing thread, and a worker
+        # thread has none.
+        security = await asyncio.to_thread(resolve_channel_security, resolved)
+        channel = create_channel(resolved, security=security)
         return cls(
             options=resolved,
             stub=galaxy_pb_grpc.GalaxyRepositoryStub(channel),

clients/python/src/zb_mom_ww_mxgateway/options.py

@@ -105,39 +105,50 @@ def _split_authority(endpoint: str) -> tuple[str, int]:
     return (host or "localhost", int(port))
 
 
-def create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> grpc.aio.Channel:
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
-    """Create a plaintext or TLS `grpc.aio` channel from client options.
+class ChannelSecurity:
+    """Transport security resolved for one channel.
 
-    The TLS default is lenient: grpc-python has no per-channel skip-verify, so
+    `credentials` is `None` for a plaintext channel. `target_name_override` is
-    the server's presented certificate is fetched once (unverified) and pinned
+    the SNI/authority override the TOFU path needs, kept separate from the
-    as the channel's only trust root (trust-on-first-use). Set
+    caller's explicit `server_name_override` so the caller always wins.
-    `require_certificate_validation=True` to force system-trust verification, or
-    pass `ca_file` to verify against a specific CA — both bypass the TOFU path.
     """
 
-    channel_options: list[tuple[str, str | int]] = [
+    credentials: grpc.ChannelCredentials | None = None
-        ("grpc.max_receive_message_length", options.max_grpc_message_bytes),
+    target_name_override: str | None = None
-        ("grpc.max_send_message_length", options.max_grpc_message_bytes),
+
-    ]
+
-    if options.server_name_override:
+def resolve_channel_security(options: ClientOptions) -> ChannelSecurity:
-        channel_options.append(("grpc.ssl_target_name_override", options.server_name_override))
+    """Resolve transport security for `options`, running any blocking probe.
+
+    This is the only blocking part of channel construction: the TOFU path opens
+    a real TCP+TLS socket to fetch the server's certificate. It is split out of
+    `create_channel` because a `grpc.aio` channel binds to the event loop
+    *current on the constructing thread*, so the channel itself must be built on
+    the loop thread — building it inside `asyncio.to_thread` raises
+    ``RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'asyncio_N'``. The
+    async `connect` classmethods therefore run this function off the loop and
+    then call `create_channel` on it.
+    """
 
     if options.plaintext:
-        return grpc.aio.insecure_channel(options.endpoint, options=channel_options)
+        return ChannelSecurity()
 
     if options.ca_file:
         root_certificates = Path(options.ca_file).read_bytes()
+        return ChannelSecurity(
             credentials=grpc.ssl_channel_credentials(root_certificates=root_certificates)
-    elif options.require_certificate_validation:
+        )
-        credentials = grpc.ssl_channel_credentials()
+
-    else:
+    if options.require_certificate_validation:
+        return ChannelSecurity(credentials=grpc.ssl_channel_credentials())
+
     # Lenient default: grpc-python has no per-channel skip-verify, so fetch the
     # server's certificate (unverified) and pin it for this channel (TOFU).
     # The probe opens a real blocking TCP+TLS socket, so it MUST be bounded —
     # a black-holed / firewall-drop host would otherwise hang on the OS default
     # connect timeout (minutes). Bound it by call_timeout (or a short fixed
-        # fallback) so the dial fails fast as a transport error. The async
+    # fallback) so the dial fails fast as a transport error.
-        # `connect` classmethods run this off the event loop (asyncio.to_thread).
     host, port = _split_authority(options.endpoint)
     probe_timeout = options.call_timeout if options.call_timeout else _TOFU_PROBE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
     try:
@@ -146,15 +157,50 @@ def create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> grpc.aio.Channel:
         raise MxGatewayTransportError(
             f"failed to fetch TLS certificate from {options.endpoint}: {error}"
         ) from error
-        credentials = grpc.ssl_channel_credentials(root_certificates=presented.encode("ascii"))
     # The gateway self-signed cert always carries a "localhost" SAN, so default
     # the SNI/target-name override to it when none was supplied, tolerating
     # dial-by-IP or hostname mismatch.
-        if not options.server_name_override:
+    return ChannelSecurity(
-            channel_options.append(("grpc.ssl_target_name_override", "localhost"))
+        credentials=grpc.ssl_channel_credentials(root_certificates=presented.encode("ascii")),
+        target_name_override="localhost",
+    )
+
+
+def create_channel(
+    options: ClientOptions,
+    *,
+    security: ChannelSecurity | None = None,
+) -> grpc.aio.Channel:
+    """Create a plaintext or TLS `grpc.aio` channel from client options.
+
+    The TLS default is lenient: grpc-python has no per-channel skip-verify, so
+    the server's presented certificate is fetched once (unverified) and pinned
+    as the channel's only trust root (trust-on-first-use). Set
+    `require_certificate_validation=True` to force system-trust verification, or
+    pass `ca_file` to verify against a specific CA — both bypass the TOFU path.
+
+    Pass *security* to reuse a `ChannelSecurity` already resolved off the event
+    loop by `resolve_channel_security`; omit it and this call resolves (and may
+    block) inline. Must run on the thread owning the event loop the channel will
+    be used from.
+    """
+
+    security = security if security is not None else resolve_channel_security(options)
+
+    channel_options: list[tuple[str, str | int]] = [
+        ("grpc.max_receive_message_length", options.max_grpc_message_bytes),
+        ("grpc.max_send_message_length", options.max_grpc_message_bytes),
+    ]
+    if options.server_name_override:
+        channel_options.append(("grpc.ssl_target_name_override", options.server_name_override))
+    elif security.target_name_override:
+        channel_options.append(("grpc.ssl_target_name_override", security.target_name_override))
+
+    if security.credentials is None:
+        return grpc.aio.insecure_channel(options.endpoint, options=channel_options)
 
     return grpc.aio.secure_channel(
         options.endpoint,
-        credentials,
+        security.credentials,
         options=channel_options,
     )

clients/python/tests/test_client_session.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway import client as client_module
 from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway import galaxy as galaxy_module
 from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.galaxy import GalaxyRepositoryClient
 from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.generated import mxaccess_gateway_pb2 as pb
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.options import ChannelSecurity
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
@@ -21,11 +22,12 @@ async def test_gateway_connect_forwards_require_certificate_validation(
     """The connect convenience kwarg must reach ClientOptions (Client.Python-027)."""
     captured: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
-    def fake_create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> object:
+    def fake_resolve(options: ClientOptions) -> ChannelSecurity:
         captured["options"] = options
-        return object()
+        return ChannelSecurity()
 
-    monkeypatch.setattr(client_module, "create_channel", fake_create_channel)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(client_module, "resolve_channel_security", fake_resolve)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(client_module, "create_channel", _stub_create_channel)
     monkeypatch.setattr(client_module.pb_grpc, "MxAccessGatewayStub", lambda channel: object())
 
     await GatewayClient.connect(
@@ -43,11 +45,12 @@ async def test_galaxy_connect_forwards_require_certificate_validation(
     """GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect must thread the flag too (Client.Python-027)."""
     captured: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
-    def fake_create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> object:
+    def fake_resolve(options: ClientOptions) -> ChannelSecurity:
         captured["options"] = options
-        return object()
+        return ChannelSecurity()
 
-    monkeypatch.setattr(galaxy_module, "create_channel", fake_create_channel)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(galaxy_module, "resolve_channel_security", fake_resolve)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(galaxy_module, "create_channel", _stub_create_channel)
     monkeypatch.setattr(
         galaxy_module.galaxy_pb_grpc, "GalaxyRepositoryStub", lambda channel: object()
     )
@@ -61,52 +64,67 @@ async def test_galaxy_connect_forwards_require_certificate_validation(
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_gateway_connect_runs_create_channel_off_the_event_loop(
+async def test_gateway_connect_splits_probe_off_loop_and_channel_on_loop(
     monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
 ) -> None:
-    """connect must run the blocking channel factory off the loop (Client.Python-028)."""
+    """The blocking probe runs off the loop; the channel is built on it.
-    ran_in_thread: dict[str, bool] = {}
 
-    def fake_create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> object:
+    Client.Python-028 required the blocking TOFU probe off the event loop. The
-        # If this runs on the event loop thread, get_running_loop() succeeds.
+    channel itself must nonetheless be constructed *on* the loop thread: a
-        try:
+    ``grpc.aio`` channel binds to the loop current on the constructing thread,
-            asyncio.get_running_loop()
+    and a ``to_thread`` worker has none, so building it off-loop raises
-            ran_in_thread["off_loop"] = False
+    ``RuntimeError: There is no current event loop``. Assert both halves.
-        except RuntimeError:
+    """
-            ran_in_thread["off_loop"] = True
+    where = _record_connect_threads(monkeypatch, client_module)
-        return object()
-
-    monkeypatch.setattr(client_module, "create_channel", fake_create_channel)
     monkeypatch.setattr(client_module.pb_grpc, "MxAccessGatewayStub", lambda channel: object())
 
     await GatewayClient.connect(endpoint="gateway.example:5001")
 
-    assert ran_in_thread["off_loop"] is True
+    assert where == {"resolve_off_loop": True, "create_on_loop": True}
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
-async def test_galaxy_connect_runs_create_channel_off_the_event_loop(
+async def test_galaxy_connect_splits_probe_off_loop_and_channel_on_loop(
     monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
 ) -> None:
-    """GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect must also run the probe off the loop (Client.Python-028)."""
+    """GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect splits the probe and the channel the same way."""
-    ran_in_thread: dict[str, bool] = {}
+    where = _record_connect_threads(monkeypatch, galaxy_module)
-
-    def fake_create_channel(options: ClientOptions) -> object:
-        try:
-            asyncio.get_running_loop()
-            ran_in_thread["off_loop"] = False
-        except RuntimeError:
-            ran_in_thread["off_loop"] = True
-        return object()
-
-    monkeypatch.setattr(galaxy_module, "create_channel", fake_create_channel)
     monkeypatch.setattr(
         galaxy_module.galaxy_pb_grpc, "GalaxyRepositoryStub", lambda channel: object()
     )
 
     await GalaxyRepositoryClient.connect(endpoint="gateway.example:5001")
 
-    assert ran_in_thread["off_loop"] is True
+    assert where == {"resolve_off_loop": True, "create_on_loop": True}
+
+
+def _stub_create_channel(options: ClientOptions, *, security: ChannelSecurity) -> object:
+    return object()
+
+
+def _on_event_loop_thread() -> bool:
+    try:
+        asyncio.get_running_loop()
+    except RuntimeError:
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
+def _record_connect_threads(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, module: Any) -> dict[str, bool]:
+    """Patch *module*'s channel helpers to record which thread each ran on."""
+    where: dict[str, bool] = {}
+
+    def fake_resolve(options: ClientOptions) -> ChannelSecurity:
+        where["resolve_off_loop"] = not _on_event_loop_thread()
+        return ChannelSecurity()
+
+    def fake_create_channel(options: ClientOptions, *, security: ChannelSecurity) -> object:
+        where["create_on_loop"] = _on_event_loop_thread()
+        return object()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(module, "resolve_channel_security", fake_resolve)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(module, "create_channel", fake_create_channel)
+    return where
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio

clients/python/tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py

@@ -0,0 +1,288 @@
+"""Wire-level tests: the Python client against a real localhost gRPC server.
+
+Every other test in this suite substitutes a fake *stub* object for
+``pb_grpc.MxAccessGatewayStub``, so nothing between the client wrapper and the
+generated stub is exercised: no HTTP/2 framing, no protobuf serialization, no
+call metadata, no gRPC status translation. That leaves a class of contract break
+— a field the gateway populates but the client never decodes, metadata the
+client believes it sends but does not, a status code it maps differently once it
+arrives as a real ``grpc.RpcError`` — invisible to the default suite.
+
+These tests close that gap by serving the real ``mxaccess_gateway.v1.MxAccessGateway``
+service from an in-process ``grpc.aio`` server bound to ``127.0.0.1:0`` and
+driving the ordinary public client API against it. The bytes on the wire are the
+real ones; only the gateway's *behavior* is canned. No MXAccess, no worker, no
+network beyond loopback, so this runs everywhere the normal suite runs.
+
+See ``docs/GatewayTesting.md`` (Client Wire Tests) for the shared pattern and its
+counterpart in the .NET client.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import socket
+from collections.abc import AsyncIterator, Awaitable, Callable
+
+import grpc
+import pytest
+import pytest_asyncio
+
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway import ClientOptions, GatewayClient
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.errors import MxGatewayAuthorizationError
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.events import ReplayGap
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.generated import mxaccess_gateway_pb2 as pb
+from zb_mom_ww_mxgateway.generated import mxaccess_gateway_pb2_grpc as pb_grpc
+
+API_KEY = "mxgw_wiretest_secret"
+SESSION_ID = "wire-session-1"
+SERVER_HANDLE = 4242
+ITEM_HANDLE = 77
+
+
+def _free_port() -> int:
+    with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as sock:
+        sock.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
+        return int(sock.getsockname()[1])
+
+
+def _ok() -> pb.ProtocolStatus:
+    return pb.ProtocolStatus(code=pb.PROTOCOL_STATUS_CODE_OK)
+
+
+class FakeGateway(pb_grpc.MxAccessGatewayServicer):
+    """Canned gateway serving the four session RPCs over a real transport.
+
+    Replies are shaped like the gateway's own: an OK ``ProtocolStatus``, the
+    echoed session id, and the typed payload the client wrapper reads (for
+    example ``RegisterReply.server_handle``). Set ``deny`` to make ``Invoke``
+    abort with ``PERMISSION_DENIED`` so the client's gRPC-status mapping is
+    exercised against a genuine ``grpc.RpcError`` rather than a hand-built one.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, deny: bool = False, replay_gap: pb.ReplayGap | None = None) -> None:
+        self.deny = deny
+        self.replay_gap = replay_gap
+        self.endpoint = ""
+        self.metadata_by_method: dict[str, str] = {}
+        self.open_request: pb.OpenSessionRequest | None = None
+        self.invoke_request: pb.MxCommandRequest | None = None
+        self.stream_request: pb.StreamEventsRequest | None = None
+        self.close_request: pb.CloseSessionRequest | None = None
+
+    def _record(self, method: str, context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext) -> None:
+        for key, value in context.invocation_metadata() or ():
+            if key == "authorization":
+                self.metadata_by_method[method] = value
+
+    async def OpenSession(  # noqa: N802 - generated gRPC method name
+        self, request: pb.OpenSessionRequest, context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext
+    ) -> pb.OpenSessionReply:
+        """Answer ``OpenSession`` with a fully populated reply."""
+        self._record("OpenSession", context)
+        self.open_request = request
+        return pb.OpenSessionReply(
+            session_id=SESSION_ID,
+            backend_name="fake-backend",
+            worker_process_id=1234,
+            worker_protocol_version=1,
+            capabilities=["events", "invoke"],
+            gateway_protocol_version=3,
+            protocol_status=_ok(),
+        )
+
+    async def Invoke(  # noqa: N802 - generated gRPC method name
+        self, request: pb.MxCommandRequest, context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext
+    ) -> pb.MxCommandReply:
+        """Answer ``Invoke`` with a Register reply, or deny when configured."""
+        self._record("Invoke", context)
+        self.invoke_request = request
+        if self.deny:
+            await context.abort(grpc.StatusCode.PERMISSION_DENIED, "invoke scope required")
+        return pb.MxCommandReply(
+            session_id=request.session_id,
+            correlation_id=request.client_correlation_id,
+            kind=request.command.kind,
+            protocol_status=_ok(),
+            hresult=0,
+            register=pb.RegisterReply(server_handle=SERVER_HANDLE),
+        )
+
+    async def StreamEvents(  # noqa: N802 - generated gRPC method name
+        self, request: pb.StreamEventsRequest, context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext
+    ) -> AsyncIterator[pb.MxEvent]:
+        """Stream an optional replay-gap sentinel followed by one data change."""
+        self._record("StreamEvents", context)
+        self.stream_request = request
+        if self.replay_gap is not None:
+            # The sentinel shape the gateway emits: family unspecified, body
+            # unset, only replay_gap populated.
+            yield pb.MxEvent(session_id=request.session_id, replay_gap=self.replay_gap)
+        yield pb.MxEvent(
+            session_id=request.session_id,
+            family=pb.MX_EVENT_FAMILY_ON_DATA_CHANGE,
+            server_handle=SERVER_HANDLE,
+            item_handle=ITEM_HANDLE,
+            value=pb.MxValue(int32_value=17),
+            quality=192,
+            worker_sequence=9,
+            on_data_change=pb.OnDataChangeEvent(),
+        )
+
+    async def CloseSession(  # noqa: N802 - generated gRPC method name
+        self, request: pb.CloseSessionRequest, context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext
+    ) -> pb.CloseSessionReply:
+        """Answer ``CloseSession`` with a closed final state."""
+        self._record("CloseSession", context)
+        self.close_request = request
+        return pb.CloseSessionReply(
+            session_id=request.session_id,
+            final_state=pb.SESSION_STATE_CLOSED,
+            protocol_status=_ok(),
+        )
+
+
+ServeGateway = Callable[..., Awaitable[FakeGateway]]
+
+
+@pytest_asyncio.fixture
+async def serve_gateway() -> AsyncIterator[ServeGateway]:
+    """Yield a factory that serves a :class:`FakeGateway` on loopback.
+
+    Each call starts its own server on a free port and records it for teardown,
+    so a test can serve a differently-configured gateway without a fixture per
+    variant.
+    """
+    servers: list[grpc.aio.Server] = []
+
+    async def _start(**kwargs: object) -> FakeGateway:
+        fake = FakeGateway(**kwargs)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+        server = grpc.aio.server()
+        pb_grpc.add_MxAccessGatewayServicer_to_server(fake, server)
+        port = _free_port()
+        server.add_insecure_port(f"127.0.0.1:{port}")
+        await server.start()
+        servers.append(server)
+        fake.endpoint = f"127.0.0.1:{port}"
+        return fake
+
+    try:
+        yield _start
+    finally:
+        for server in servers:
+            await server.stop(grace=None)
+
+
+async def _connect(fake: FakeGateway) -> GatewayClient:
+    return await GatewayClient.connect(
+        ClientOptions(
+            endpoint=fake.endpoint,
+            api_key=API_KEY,
+            plaintext=True,
+            call_timeout=10.0,
+        )
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_session_round_trip_decodes_real_wire_bytes(serve_gateway: ServeGateway) -> None:
+    """Open, invoke, stream, and close against a real server over loopback."""
+    wire_gateway = await serve_gateway()
+    client = await _connect(wire_gateway)
+    try:
+        session = await client.open_session(client_session_name="wire-test")
+        assert session.session_id == SESSION_ID
+        assert session.open_reply.backend_name == "fake-backend"
+        assert list(session.open_reply.capabilities) == ["events", "invoke"]
+
+        server_handle = await session.register("wire-test-client")
+        assert server_handle == SERVER_HANDLE
+        assert wire_gateway.invoke_request is not None
+        assert wire_gateway.invoke_request.command.kind == pb.MX_COMMAND_KIND_REGISTER
+        assert wire_gateway.invoke_request.command.register.client_name == "wire-test-client"
+
+        events = [event async for event in session.stream_events()]
+        assert len(events) == 1
+        event = events[0]
+        assert not isinstance(event, ReplayGap)
+        assert event.family == pb.MX_EVENT_FAMILY_ON_DATA_CHANGE
+        assert event.server_handle == SERVER_HANDLE
+        assert event.item_handle == ITEM_HANDLE
+        assert event.value.int32_value == 17
+        assert event.quality == 192
+        assert event.worker_sequence == 9
+        assert event.HasField("on_data_change")
+
+        close_reply = await session.close()
+        assert close_reply.final_state == pb.SESSION_STATE_CLOSED
+        assert wire_gateway.close_request is not None
+        assert wire_gateway.close_request.session_id == SESSION_ID
+    finally:
+        await client.close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_api_key_reaches_the_server_on_every_rpc(serve_gateway: ServeGateway) -> None:
+    """The bearer header is on the wire for unary and streaming calls alike.
+
+    Stub-substituting tests can only assert what the client *passes*; this
+    asserts what the server *receives*, which is the property that matters.
+    """
+    wire_gateway = await serve_gateway()
+    client = await _connect(wire_gateway)
+    try:
+        session = await client.open_session(client_session_name="wire-test")
+        await session.register("wire-test-client")
+        async for _ in session.stream_events():
+            break
+        await session.close()
+    finally:
+        await client.close()
+
+    expected = f"Bearer {API_KEY}"
+    assert wire_gateway.metadata_by_method == {
+        "OpenSession": expected,
+        "Invoke": expected,
+        "StreamEvents": expected,
+        "CloseSession": expected,
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_replay_gap_sentinel_survives_the_wire(serve_gateway: ServeGateway) -> None:
+    """A resumed stream surfaces the gateway's sentinel as a typed ``ReplayGap``."""
+    replay_gap_gateway = await serve_gateway(
+        replay_gap=pb.ReplayGap(requested_after_sequence=3, oldest_available_sequence=8)
+    )
+    client = await _connect(replay_gap_gateway)
+    try:
+        session = await client.open_session(client_session_name="wire-test")
+        items = [item async for item in session.stream_events(after_worker_sequence=3)]
+    finally:
+        await client.close()
+
+    assert len(items) == 2
+    gap = items[0]
+    assert isinstance(gap, ReplayGap)
+    assert gap.requested_after_sequence == 3
+    assert gap.oldest_available_sequence == 8
+    assert gap.resume_after_worker_sequence == 7
+    assert not isinstance(items[1], ReplayGap)
+    assert items[1].family == pb.MX_EVENT_FAMILY_ON_DATA_CHANGE
+
+    assert replay_gap_gateway.stream_request is not None
+    assert replay_gap_gateway.stream_request.after_worker_sequence == 3
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_permission_denied_maps_to_authorization_error(
+    serve_gateway: ServeGateway,
+) -> None:
+    """A real ``PERMISSION_DENIED`` status becomes the typed client error."""
+    denying_gateway = await serve_gateway(deny=True)
+    client = await _connect(denying_gateway)
+    try:
+        session = await client.open_session(client_session_name="wire-test")
+        with pytest.raises(MxGatewayAuthorizationError):
+            await session.register("wire-test-client")
+    finally:
+        await client.close()

docs/GatewayTesting.md

@@ -277,6 +277,49 @@ $env:MxGateway__Ldap__ServiceAccountPassword = "<service-account-password>"
 dotnet test src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.IntegrationTests/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.IntegrationTests.csproj --filter FullyQualifiedName~DashboardLdapLiveTests
 ```
 
+## Client Wire Tests
+
+Each client's own suite drives the client's public API against a **fake gateway
+served over a real gRPC transport** — an in-process or loopback server
+implementing `mxaccess_gateway.v1.MxAccessGateway`. Only the gateway's *behaviour*
+is canned; the HTTP/2 framing, protobuf serialization, call metadata, and gRPC
+status codes are genuine. That is the difference from the per-client mocks: a mock
+substituted for the generated stub (or, in .NET, for `IMxGatewayClientTransport`)
+proves what the client *intends* to send, never what a server *receives*, so a
+field the client fails to decode or a header it never actually attaches passes
+every mock-based test. These tests need no MXAccess, no worker, and no network
+beyond loopback, so they run in the default suite on every host.
+
+The shared shape each client's wire test covers:
+
+- **Round trip** — `OpenSession` → `Invoke` (a `Register`, asserting the decoded
+  `RegisterReply.server_handle`) → `StreamEvents` (asserting the decoded
+  `OnDataChange` fields) → `CloseSession`.
+- **Auth on the wire** — the `authorization: Bearer <key>` header is asserted as
+  *observed by the server*, on the streaming RPC as well as the unary ones.
+- **Replay-gap sentinel** — a stream resumed with `after_worker_sequence` opens
+  with the gateway's `replay_gap` sentinel, and the client surfaces it as its
+  typed, non-terminal replay-gap signal rather than a normal event.
+- **Status mapping** — a real `PERMISSION_DENIED` from the server becomes the
+  client's typed authorization error, not a bare transport exception.
+
+Per-client harness and command:
+
+| Client | Harness | Command |
+|---|---|---|
+| .NET | `WireFakeGatewayServer` (Kestrel h2c on `127.0.0.1:0`, `MxAccessGatewayBase`) — `MxGatewayClientWireTests` | `dotnet test clients/dotnet/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client.Tests.csproj` |
+| Python | `FakeGateway` + `serve_gateway` fixture (`grpc.aio` server on `127.0.0.1:0`) — `tests/test_wire_fake_gateway.py` | `python -m pytest` from `clients/python` |
+| Go | `fakeGatewayServer` + `newBufconnClient` (`grpc.NewServer` over `bufconn`) — `mxgateway/client_session_test.go` | `go test ./...` from `clients/go` |
+| Rust | `spawn_fake_gateway` (tonic `Server` over a loopback `TcpListener`) — `tests/client_behavior.rs` | `cargo test --workspace` from `clients/rust` |
+| Java | `TestGatewayService` + `InProcessGateway` (`InProcessServerBuilder`) — `MxGatewayClientSessionTests`; plus `InProcessGatewayHarness` for the CLI tests | `gradle test` from `clients/java` |
+
+All five run in CI: Go, Rust, Python, and the .NET client tests in the `portable`
+job, Java in the `java` job.
+
+Adding an RPC to `mxaccess_gateway.proto` does not automatically extend these —
+the fake gateways implement only the four session RPCs. Extend the fake in the
+client whose behaviour changed rather than adding a parallel harness.
+
 ## Client E2E Scripts
 
 `scripts/discover-testmachine-tags.ps1` queries the ZB Galaxy Repository for the