Implements NatsConfParser with Parse, ParseFile, and ParseFileWithDigest
methods. Supports nested maps/arrays, variable resolution with block
scoping and environment fallback, bcrypt password literals, integer
suffix multipliers, include directives, and cycle detection.
Adds 10 new fields to NatsOptions (ClientAdvertise, TraceVerbose, MaxTracedMsgLen,
DisableSublistCache, ConnectErrorReports, ReconnectErrorReports, NoHeaderSupport,
MaxClosedClients, NoSystemAccount, SystemAccount) plus InCmdLine tracking set.
Moves MaxClosedClients from a private constant in NatsServer to a configurable option.
Port the NATS configuration file lexer from Go's conf/lex.go to C#.
The lexer is a state-machine tokenizer that supports the NATS config
format: key-value pairs with =, :, or whitespace separators; nested
maps {}; arrays []; single and double quoted strings with escape
sequences; block strings (); variables $VAR; include directives;
comments (# and //); booleans; integers with size suffixes (kb, mb, gb);
floats; ISO8601 datetimes; and IP addresses.
Avoids re-serializing the same ServerInfo JSON on every new connection. The
cache is rebuilt when the ephemeral port is resolved. Connections that carry a
per-connection nonce (NKey auth) continue to serialize individually so the nonce
is included correctly.
Reconcile close reason tracking: feature branch's MarkClosed() and
ShouldSkipFlush/FlushAndCloseAsync now use main's ClientClosedReason
enum. ClosedState enum retained for forward compatibility.
Reject connections that send no_responders:true without headers:true,
since the 503 HMSG response requires header support. Add three tests:
connection rejection, acceptance with headers, and 503 delivery flow.
When a client sends CONNECT {"verbose":true}, the server now responds
with +OK\r\n after successfully processing CONNECT, PING, SUB, UNSUB,
and PUB/HPUB commands, matching the Go NATS server behavior.
Accumulate InMsgs/InBytes locally per ReadAsync cycle and flush once,
reducing from 4 Interlocked operations per published message to 2 per
read cycle. This matches the Go server's approach of batching stats.
When a PUB with a reply-to subject has no matching subscribers and the
sender opted into no_responders, send a 503 HMSG back on the reply
subject so request-reply callers can fail fast instead of timing out.
- Make ConnectReceived thread-safe with Volatile.Read/Write (accessed from auth timeout task and command pipeline)
- Include authTimeoutTask in Task.WhenAny to propagate exceptions
- Clear nonce after authentication with CryptographicOperations.ZeroMemory
- Avoid closure allocation on publish permission cache hot path (method group)
- Update AuthTimeout default to 2s to match Go server
Fix NKey nonce verification: the NATS client signs the nonce string
(ASCII bytes of the base64url-encoded nonce), not the raw nonce bytes.
Pass the encoded nonce string bytes to the authenticator for verification.
Subscriptions and message routing now go through account-specific SubLists
instead of a single global SubList. Clients in different accounts cannot
see each other's messages. When no account is specified (or auth is not
configured), all clients share the global $G account.
