All five client CLIs now share one credential contract for `authenticate-user`:
flags `--password` / `--password-env` (Go: `-password` / `-password-env`) with
default env `MXGATEWAY_VERIFY_PASSWORD`, resolution flag-then-env, and a resolved
credential that is missing *or empty* is a usage error naming the flag and the
variable. The value is never echoed and never reaches the wire.
Go and Java previously sent an empty credential when the variable was unset,
turning a misconfigured environment into a real MXAccess authentication attempt.
Go now returns the guard error before dialing; Java throws a picocli
ParameterException instead of falling back to "". Python's `--password-env`
gained the canonical default and its UsageError names the resolved variable.
Rust treats an empty flag or env value as missing, with the resolution extracted
into a testable `resolve_verify_user_password`. .NET adopts the canonical flags
and keeps `--verify-user-password`, `--verify-user-password-env`, and
MXGATEWAY_VERIFY_USER_PASSWORD as deprecated aliases for one release.
Docs same commit: CrossLanguageSmokeMatrix.md gains the credential contract and
the per-CLI subcommand-coverage table (the documented-not-fixed half of the
finding); all five READMEs name the canonical variable and the fail-fast rule,
and the .NET README carries the deprecation note. Tracking flipped to Done in
both remediation registers with a change-log row.
No .proto changed; no generated code regenerated.
An empty replay ring reported oldest_available_sequence = 0 even when gap was
true. Clients follow the documented after_worker_sequence = oldest - 1 formula,
so an unsigned client computed ulong.MaxValue: the follow-up resume replayed
nothing, reported no gap, and the live filter dropped every subsequent event —
a silently dead stream in the headline detach-and-resume scenario, reachable on
default config once ReplayRetentionSeconds (300) age-evicts the ring.
GWC-25: SessionEventDistributor.RegisterWithReplay's empty-ring branch now
reports _highestSequenceSeen + 1 — the next sequence that can possibly be
delivered — when gap is true, so oldest - 1 lands exactly on the highest
observed sequence and the resume delivers everything newer. Still 0 when there
is no gap, where the field is meaningless and never emitted. Nothing is lost:
the evicted interval was unrecoverable either way, and the sentinel's job is to
say "re-snapshot".
CLI-35: the Python CLI fed every stream item into MessageToDict, which raised on
the ReplayGap dataclass and aborted the command after consuming the stream. A
new _event_row helper renders a gap as {"replayGap": {...}} — the same camelCase
shape the Rust CLI emits — and leaves proto events on the existing path.
CLI-36: the Go CLI formatted result.Event on every row, but the library
deliberately clears Event on a gap, so text mode printed
"0 MX_EVENT_FAMILY_UNSPECIFIED" and JSON mode an empty object, discarding the
resume cursors. The loop now branches on result.IsReplayGap() and renders the
typed row in both modes, counting it toward -limit like any other row. The JSON
row's cursors are typed by hand rather than marshalled with protojson: the
proto3 JSON mapping renders 64-bit integers as strings ("7") while the Rust and
Python CLIs emit numbers (7), so going through protojson would have made Go the
only canonical CLI with a different value type.
Docs in the same change: docs/Sessions.md documents the empty-ring sentinel
value and that oldest - 1 is the universal resume formula in both the retained
and fully-evicted cases; docs/CrossLanguageSmokeMatrix.md gains a per-CLI
gap-rendering table covering both client findings, and records exactly what is
and is not comparable across CLIs (same keys and numeric cursors for Rust/Go/
Python; quoted cursors for .NET/Java; differing key order, whitespace, and
container), so a matrix runner compares parsed values rather than raw bytes.
Tests, all written red first and each reproducing its defect verbatim:
- SessionEventDistributorTests: RegisterWithReplayReportsNextDeliverableSequence
WhenRingEmptiedByAge, ...WithRetentionDisabled, and
ResumeUsingSentinelFormulaAfterEmptyRingGapDeliversLiveEvents.
- GatewayEndToEndReconnectReplayTests.ReconnectAfterFullAgeEvictionResumesWith
SentinelFormula — fake-worker e2e resume walk on a fake clock; the fixture now
takes a retention window and a TimeProvider.
- clients/python test_stream_events_renders_replay_gap.
- clients/go TestRunStreamEventsPrintsReplayGap.
GWC-25's ReplayGap.oldest_available_sequence proto-comment amendment is
deliberately deferred to the later codegen wave (see the tracker change log): it
is comment-only but triggers the full five-client regen fan-out.
The gateway emits a ReplayGap sentinel MxEvent at the head of a StreamEvents
stream resumed via after_worker_sequence when the requested cursor predates the
oldest retained event. Clients previously ignored it, silently mis-treating a
lossy resume as continuous. Each client now surfaces the sentinel as a distinct,
typed, non-terminal signal (never synthesized, never swallowed) so a consumer can
detect the gap and re-snapshot; resume contract is
after_worker_sequence = oldest_available_sequence - 1.
- .NET: MxEventStreamItem (IsReplayGap/ReplayGap/Event) via new StreamEventItemsAsync
+ AsStreamItemsAsync extension. Build clean, 87 passed.
- Go: EventResult.ReplayGap field + IsReplayGap(); ReplayGap type alias. build/vet/test clean.
- Rust: EventItem enum (Event/ReplayGap); EventStream now yields Result<EventItem, Error>;
CLI renders REPLAY_GAP line / replayGap JSON. fmt/check/test/clippy clean.
- Python: ReplayGap dataclass; stream_events yields pb.MxEvent | ReplayGap. 131 passed.
- Shared docs: ClientLibrariesDesign non-goals reframed (reconnect-replay protocol is
consumable; auto-reconnect stays a non-goal); CrossLanguageSmokeMatrix resume-gap note.
Java client is deferred to the windev batch (no local JRE); CLI-15 stays open until it lands.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMXXvNuPekkkrTEyPNxEkW
Apply the ZB.MOM.WW. prefix to all gateway-side projects, folders,
.csproj/.sln contents, C# namespaces, using directives, generated proto
C# (csharp_namespace + checked-in generated files), InternalsVisibleTo
attributes, project-name string literals (LoadProject, .sln lookups,
worker exe paths, staticwebassets manifest), and the install/script/doc
references that point at any of the above. Migrate the solution from
.sln to .slnx via `dotnet sln migrate` and delete the old file.
External-runtime identifiers are intentionally NOT prefixed so external
configuration keeps working:
- GatewayMetrics.cs MeterName ("MxGateway.Server")
- DashboardAuthenticationDefaults Scheme/Policy ("MxGateway.Dashboard")
- GatewayRequestLoggingMiddleware logger category ("MxGateway.Request")
- StaRuntime thread name ("MxGateway.Worker.STA")
- appsettings.json root section "MxGateway" + env-var prefix
MxGateway__... and secret-name MxGateway:ApiKeyPepper
- C:\ProgramData\MxGateway\ data dir paths
Also fixes two tests that were not rename-related but became visible
while validating the rename:
- WorkerLiveMxAccessSmokeTests.ShutDownAsync: cancellation that the
gateway service correctly maps to RpcException(Cancelled) per gRPC
convention was being misclassified as a stream fault. Added a sibling
catch on RpcException with StatusCode.Cancelled.
- IntegrationTestEnvironment.ResolveRepositoryRoot: extracted IsRepositoryRoot
and made it accept either a .git marker OR a .sln/.slnx next to src/
so the worker-exe walker works in non-git working copies.
clients/proto/proto-inputs.json's protoRoot updated to point at
src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Contracts/Protos.
Verified by `dotnet build` and a full `dotnet test` of the .slnx with
MXGATEWAY_RUN_LIVE_{MXACCESS,LDAP,GALAXY}_TESTS=1:
Tests: 472/472 pass
Worker.Tests: 280/280 pass (4 dev-rig [Fact(Skip=...)] skipped)
IntegrationTests: 18/18 pass
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- Rename 16 kebab-case docs to PascalCase per StyleGuide
- Move per-language client design docs from docs/ to clients/<lang>/
alongside their READMEs
- Add ## Related Documentation sections to 15 docs that lacked one
- Fix sentence-case violations in H3 headings (StyleGuide rule)
- Update cross-references in gateway.md, client READMEs, scripts,
and generate-proto.ps1 helpers to follow the new paths
- Add CLAUDE.md with build/test commands, the source-update
verification matrix, the parity-first contract, and pointers
to MXAccess and Galaxy Repository analysis sources
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Joseph Doherty