Gateway server-side named-pipe frame path, wire format byte-identical:
- Writer (GWC-08/IPC-13): serialize once into a single ArrayPool-rented buffer
holding the 4-byte LE length prefix + payload, then one WriteAsync. Removes
the second serialization pass (ToByteArray re-ran CalculateSize), the
separate prefix array + second stream write, and per-frame heap allocation.
- Reader (IPC-14): rent the payload buffer from ArrayPool instead of new byte[]
per frame; read/parse bounded to the real length, return in finally. Matches
the worker side which already pools.
- Correctness: length tracked separately from (larger) pool capacity; every
rented buffer returned exactly once in finally incl. the malformed-protobuf
path; ParseFrom copies into the message so the envelope never aliases the
returned buffer.
Cross-checked LE-prefix framing agrees across gateway+worker writer/reader.
Server build clean (0 warnings); WorkerFrameProtocol tests 10/10 incl. a new
large-payload-near-cap round-trip (forces pool buffer > frame). The 2 failing
WorkerClient/FakeWorkerHarness tests are the known macOS UDS 104-char path
limit, not a regression.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMXXvNuPekkkrTEyPNxEkW
The read loop awaited EnqueueWorkerEventAsync inline, which blocks in the bounded
event channel's timed WriteAsync (up to EventChannelFullModeTimeout, default 5s)
when the channel is full with no/slow consumer. A WorkerCommandReply or heartbeat
queued behind an event frame was then stalled, so an in-flight InvokeAsync could
hit CommandTimeout even though the worker replied in time.
Mirror the existing outbound WriteLoopAsync: add an unbounded event staging
channel and a dedicated EventWriteLoopAsync. DispatchEnvelope is now fully
synchronous — the WorkerEvent branch hands the event off with a non-blocking
TryWrite and the read loop never awaits. The event write loop owns the timed
WriteAsync into the bounded channel and the sustained-overflow ProtocolViolation
fault (unchanged contract). Registered in WaitForBackgroundTasks + completed on
close/fault/dispose.
Test: reply arriving after events with a full, consumer-less event channel is
dispatched promptly (no CommandTimeout) — pipe-harness, verified on windev.
Docs: GatewayProcessDesign read/write/event-loop section.
Proto foundation + gateway-side of the size/backpressure pass:
- IPC-02: add GatewayHello.max_frame_bytes (regen Generated/); gateway sends
its negotiated worker-frame max in the handshake so the worker can adopt it
instead of a hard-coded default. Worker read-half lands separately.
- IPC-03: give the pipe frame max envelope-overhead headroom above the public
gRPC cap (WorkerFrameProtocolOptions.EnvelopeOverheadReserveBytes = 64 KiB;
default Worker.MaxMessageBytes bumped to 16 MiB + reserve), cross-validate the
headroom at startup, and pre-check command envelope size in WorkerClient so an
oversized command fails only that correlation (ResourceExhausted) instead of
faulting the whole session.
- IPC-04: reject DrainEvents max_events above a public ceiling in the request
validator (worker per-reply cap lands with the worker half).
Docs: GatewayConfiguration, WorkerFrameProtocol, gateway.md.
Tests: headroom validation, DrainEvents bound, oversized-command per-command
failure (pipe-harness, verified on windev).
Interlocking changes across the gateway server (shared GatewaySession.cs /
SessionManager.cs), committed together:
- GWC-01 (Critical): alarm monitor now attaches as an internal
(non-counted) distributor subscriber instead of a second raw drain of the
single worker event channel; WorkerClient._events -> SingleReader with a
claimed-once guard so a future dual-consumer regression throws loudly.
- GWC-02 (High): faulted sessions are swept in CloseExpiredLeasesAsync
(IsFaultedReapable + FaultedReason); new FaultedGraceSeconds (default 0).
- GWC-03 (High): configurable MaxSparseArrayLength (default 1_000_000)
enforced before allocation.
- TST-02 (High, security): StreamEvents attach now enforces the opening key
id -> PermissionDenied on owner mismatch.
- TST-12 (Medium): CLAUDE.md retention-defaults sentence corrected.
Verified: NonWindows build clean; targeted tests 135/135 on macOS, plus
WorkerClientTests 18/18 on the Windows host.
Replaces the raw IllegalArgumentException thrown by GalaxyBrowseCommand for
--depth < 0 with a CommandLine.ParameterException so picocli surfaces a clean
single-line error instead of an unhandled stack trace. Adds an upper bound of
50 (matching the Python client) so --depth > 50 is also rejected cleanly.
Emits a stderr warning when --parent 0 is supplied explicitly, matching
Go/Rust client behaviour, because gobject id 0 is the server's root-walk
sentinel and passing it via --parent is almost always a mistake.
Adds three new tests: negative depth, depth > 50, and the --parent 0 warning path.
Add RespondToControlCommandAsync to FakeWorkerHarness so scripted fake
workers can auto-reply to the five control command kinds (Ping,
GetSessionState, GetWorkerInfo, DrainEvents, ShutdownWorker) with canned
replies whose shapes match the real WorkerPipeSession helpers.
Add five unit tests in FakeWorkerHarnessTests covering each control
command kind through the WorkerClient→pipe roundtrip, and one gateway
E2E test (GatewayService_WithFakeWorker_ControlCommandsRoundtripThroughGateway)
that exercises Ping, GetWorkerInfo, and DrainEvents through the full
gRPC→SessionManager→WorkerClient→named-pipe path using a scripted
ControlCommandFakeWorkerProcessLauncher.
Adds missing <summary>/<param> XML docs across 99 server, worker, and test
files so CommentChecker reports zero issues (TreatWarningsAsErrors needs the
analyzer clean). Bundles in WIP dashboard work: NavSection extraction,
MainLayout/site.css/js styling alignment, and DashboardOptions/Auth tweaks.
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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Joseph Doherty