# Description
Introduces a central `IClientChannelManager` that owns client-side
transport channels with reference counting, sharing, coalesced
reconnect, and asynchronous participant notification. Sessions,
discovery clients, and registration clients targeting the same
`ConfiguredEndpoint` (with the same reverse-connect identity) now share
a single underlying `ITransportChannel`; reconnect is transparent to
callers; and the previous `AttachChannel`/`DetachChannel` +
`SessionReconnectHandler` patterns are obsoleted.
## What lands
### Core types (`Stack/Opc.Ua.Core/Stack/Client/`)
- `ManagedChannelKey`, `ChannelState`, `ChannelStateChange`,
`ParticipantReconnectResult`
- `IReconnectParticipant`, `IManagedTransportChannel`,
`IClientChannelManager`
- `IChannelReconnectPolicy` + `ExponentialBackoffChannelReconnectPolicy`
(default mirrors historical `SessionReconnectHandler`: 500 ms → 30 s
exponential)
- `IRetryBudget` + `RetryBudget` — shared retry deadline so the
two-level retry no longer compounds multiplicatively
- `ClientChannelManager` — single non-partial sealed class with
SOLID-extracted internal types under
`Stack/Opc.Ua.Core/Stack/Client/Channels/Internal/`: `ChannelEntry`
(behind `IChannelEntryHost`), `ManagedTransportChannelLease`,
`ClientChannel`, `ClientChannelManagerMetrics` (IMeter),
`ClientChannelManagerCertRotation` (auto `ReconnectAllAsync` on
`CertificateManager` rotation), `ClientChannelManagerDiagnostics`
(ActivitySource + EventSource). Refcount, coalesced reconnect, and
transparent faulted-entry recovery via `SwapFaultedEntryAsync` (swaps a
lease's underlying entry on subsequent `ReconnectAsync` when the prior
cycle Faulted/Closed, preserves participant, back-off via policy
`GetDelay(SwapCount)`)
### Three-state lifecycle gate
`Disconnected` → `TransportConnecting` / `TransportReconnecting` →
`TransportConnectedSessionReactivating` → `Ready` (or `Faulted` /
`Closed`). Only `Ready` releases the service-call gate; the manager
bypasses the gate internally for participant `ActivateSession` traffic
during reactivation via an `AsyncLocal` scope.
### Session integration (`Libraries/Opc.Ua.Client/Session/`)
- New `Session.CreateAsync(IClientChannelManager, …)` overload
- `Session` implements `IReconnectParticipant`; reactivation handler
distinguishes `Reactivated` / `RequiresSessionRecreate` /
`TransientFailure` / `FatalForParticipant` / `FatalForChannel`
- `Session.ReconnectAsync(ct)` automatically delegates to the channel
manager when wired
- `Session.RecreateInPlaceAsync` swaps managed-channel leases for
failover-to-different-endpoint via a new atomic
`IClientChannelManager.GetAsync(endpoint, participantFactory, …)`
overload; same-key recreates delegate to manager reconnect;
explicit-channel/connection callers retain legacy behavior
- KA failure routes through
`IClientChannelManager.ReconnectAsync(channel)`
### ManagedSession integration
- `WithChannelManager(...)` builder + ctor param; DI-resolved
automatically
- Two-level retry: channel-mgr handles transparent reconnect; outer
`ConnectionStateMachine` + `IReconnectPolicy` only triggers on terminal
channel `Faulted`. Outer-state churn suppressed during channel-mgr
cycles via `_channelReconnectInProgress` flag wired through
`IManagedTransportChannel.StateChanged`
- New `ManagedSession.ChannelStateChanged` event surfaces transparent
reconnects
- `ConnectionStateChangedEventArgs.UnderlyingChannelState` populated
when outer reconnect was triggered by a channel fault
- Shared `IRetryBudget` propagated so the layers enforce a single
max-total-time
### Discovery / Registration / GDS
Channel-manager-aware `CreateAsync` overloads on `DiscoveryClient`,
`RegistrationClient`, `ServerPushConfigurationClient`,
`LocalDiscoveryServerClient`, `GlobalDiscoveryServerClient`. Each
registers a minimal `IReconnectParticipant`; co-located sessions and
discovery probes targeting the same endpoint share a channel.
### HTTPS transport (`Stack/Opc.Ua.Bindings.Https/`)
- New `IOpcUaHttpClientFactory` abstraction
- HTTPS / OPC-HTTPS channels migrated to `IHttpClientFactory` +
`Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience` (10.6.0; AOT-compatible on net10
via source generators; legacy direct-HTTP path retained for older TFMs /
no-DI consumers)
### DI
`AddOpcUa().AddClient(...)` registers `IClientChannelManager` and the
named HTTPS `HttpClient` + standard resilience handler automatically.
`ManagedSessionBuilder` resolves the manager from DI when present.
### Obsoletions (functional, `[Obsolete]` with guidance)
- `IClientBase.AttachChannel` / `DetachChannel`
- `SessionReconnectHandler`
- `SessionExtensions.ReconnectAsync(connection, ct)` and `(channel, ct)`
legacy overloads
### Tests
- Core: `ClientChannelManagerManagedTests`,
`ClientChannelManagerCertRotationTests`, `RetryBudgetTests`,
`OpcUaHttpClientFactoryTests` — **56 / 56 pass**
- Client: `ManagedSession*Tests` updated; legacy
`SessionReconnectHandlerTests` + `SessionExtensionsTests` preserved with
`#pragma warning disable CS0618` — **129 / 129 pass**
- Sessions integration: `ChannelManagerSharing` / `TransparentReconnect`
/ `SessionLifecycle` / `CertRotation` — **7 pass, 1 skipped**
(`ChannelManagerExhaustionEscalatesAndRecoversWhenServerReturns`
un-`[Ignore]`d and implemented in this PR via `SwapFaultedEntryAsync`;
remaining skip is end-to-end `RequiresSessionRecreate` plumbing —
carry-forward)
- Stress (consolidated `Tests/Opc.Ua.Stress.Tests/Subscriptions/` +
`Channels/`): chaos / contract / soak / lifecycle / leak-accuracy / gap
/ participant-result-aggregation tests merged from the
previously-separate `Opc.Ua.Channels.Stress.Tests` project; nightly run
via `.github/workflows/stress-test.yml`
Builds clean (0 warnings / 0 errors) across all six TFMs: `net472`,
`net48`, `netstandard2.1`, `net8.0`, `net9.0`, `net10.0`.
### Docs
- `Docs/Sessions.md` new § 4 documents the channel manager, three-state
gating, two-level retry with shared `IRetryBudget`, HTTPS resilience
layering
- `Docs/MigrationGuide.md` migration recipes for the four obsoleted API
groups
- `Docs/DependencyInjection.md` channel-manager and HTTPS factory
registration
## Carry-forward (separate PRs)
- End-to-end `ParticipantReconnectResult.RequiresSessionRecreate` →
`Session.RecreateAsync` lifecycle wiring (currently incomplete — flagged
in the 1 remaining skipped integration test)
## Related Issues
- Fixes#3288
- Builds on #3282 (PR that introduced the initial
`ITransportChannelManager` skeleton)
## Checklist
- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
*(Channel-manager-specific tests + ManagedSession/client tests verified
across all 6 TFMs; full UA.slnx run is pending CI.)*
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
* Enable Durable Subscriptions (#9)
* [Server] Durable Subscriptions (#2683)
* Implement a system test for DurableSubscriptions (#2839)
* Client Side
Co-authored-by: ALTERNATE-DEV\Archie <archie@dreamsandadventures.ca>
* make a static Method CalculateRevisedQueueSize
* Adress review feedback
* fix FilterRetainTests
* Add MonitoredItem Id to Queues
Use NodeIdDictionary where possible
The goal is to reduce the overall number of builds, stop using end of life platforms in the build pipeline and to support
build of future/deprecated build targets in a custom build step, which is also triggered weekly in the ci builds.
In addition:
- added a doc which describes the release and versioning strategy of this project
- produce the Nuget packges with .NET 8 assemblies.
- produce a Docker build based on a .NET 8 based container.
- add custom test targets to test outdated platforms. Need a manual step to enable for VS or command line.
- bug fixes: the latest move to an alternate crypto library for Bouncy Castle, which is only used for the GDS support and .NET Framework 4.6.2./netstandard2.0, revealed already a few issues which were previously not found.
- only .NET8/.NET6/.NET Framework 4.8 are tested in Pull requests. Remaining builds in weekly scheduled builds.
- Deprecate support for Nuget package support of .NET Framework 4.6.2
- Bump sample applications to 4.8
- update some copyright headers / supporting files (editorconfig etc.)
- fix a few warnings
- fix an issue with `SessionReconnectHandler`, in certain combination of reconnect period and exponential backoff the .NET sample app never reconnected.
- complete build in Dockerfile, not in ci pipeline
- Use recommended build tasks for github actions
- build multiarch with linux/amd64,linux/arm64
- docker signing support with cosign (yet disabled)
- support for Microsoft.Extensions.Logger.ILogger in Opc.Ua.Core as the new logging interface
- backward compatible with config and TraceEvents
- new API Utils.SetLogger allows to set ILogger
- updated Console samples to demonstrate ILogger support with Serilog
- support for EventSource logging
- see Docs/Logging.md for more info
Marc Schier