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romanett 52df519e50 Expose the client configuration provider and add an opt-in eager load on host start (#4343)
# Description

`AddClient(configurationFile)` (#4328) loads the supplied configuration
XML lazily on the first DI session connect, and the
`ClientSuppliedConfigurationProvider` behind it was reachable only
through internals. Hosted clients whose user interface needs the
`ApplicationConfiguration` **before any session exists** therefore had
no public way to trigger the load or to read the configuration back —
the concrete blocker for moving the 14 WinForms sample clients and the
GDS client off the classic eager `ApplicationInstance` path
(OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard-Samples#794 /
OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard-Samples#808).

Two small additions, exactly as designed in #4340:

**1. `OpcUaClientOptions.ConfigurationProvider` is now public** (`get`;
the setter stays `internal`).

It is already typed as the public
`IOpcUaApplicationConfigurationProvider`, so consumers get everything
they need with **no new types**: `GetAsync(ct)` as an explicit load
trigger that does not connect a session, `Configuration` for the loaded
document, and `Application` (`IApplicationInstance`) for the
applications that manage their own instance certificate. Registering the
supplied provider as `IOpcUaApplicationConfigurationProvider` in DI was
deliberately *not* done — `OpcUaServerHostedService` binds to the last
registered interface when it has no document of its own, so in a
combined client+server host a client-only document would silently
capture the server.

**2. `OpcUaClientOptions.LoadConfigurationOnStart` — an opt-in eager
load for hosted applications.**

It registers an internal `ClientConfigurationLoaderHostedService` that
awaits `GetAsync` during host start, the client-side twin of
`ReverseConnectManagerHostedService`. When `host.StartAsync()` returns,
the document is loaded and validated, the application-instance
certificate is ensured, `Configuration` is published onto the resolved
options (exactly as the connect path does), and a load failure fails the
host start instead of surfacing on the first connect. It is registered
ahead of the reverse-connect hosted service, so the configuration is
complete before anything consumes it.

The flag applies to every provider source — a document supplied via
`ConfigurationFile` / `ConfigurationStream` and a shared
`ConfigureApplication(...)` provider alike — and is a no-op for an
explicit `Configuration`, which is already complete. It is bindable from
`OpcUa:Client:LoadConfigurationOnStart`. Applications without a Generic
Host call `GetAsync` on the provider directly instead; both routes share
the provider's single-flight load, so the configuration is never loaded
twice.

A WinForms client then becomes:

```csharp
services.AddOpcUa().AddClient("MyClient.Config.xml", o => o.LoadConfigurationOnStart = true);

await host.StartAsync();

ApplicationConfiguration configuration = host.Services
    .GetRequiredService<OpcUaClientOptions>()
    .ConfigurationProvider!.Configuration;
```

**Reviewer note:** because the flag decides a *service registration*, it
must be set inside the `AddClient(...)` callback or bound from the
configuration section — setting it on the resolved options afterwards
has no effect. This is called out in the XML docs and in
`DependencyInjection.md`.

**Coverage:** three tests added to `ClientConfigurationFileTests` for
the supplied-document path (eager load on start including the
certificate bootstrap and `Application` surface, load failure surfacing
on start, no hosted service registered without the flag) and a new
`ClientEagerConfigurationLoadTests` fixture for the provider-agnostic
behavior (shared `ConfigureApplication(...)` provider awaited exactly
once, explicit-`Configuration` no-op, host-startup-token cancellation
aborting the load, configuration-section binding, and an end-to-end
`host.StartAsync()` test). All 331 `ClientBuilder` tests pass (8 new),
as do the 185 server hosting tests including the combined client+server
fixtures. `Opc.Ua.Client` builds warning-free on all target frameworks;
the test project builds clean on net10.0 and net472.

**Docs:** new "Client: loading the configuration eagerly" section in
`docs/DependencyInjection.md` and a pointer in the `Opc.Ua.Client` NuGet
README.

With these in place the sample clients can switch in a follow-up to
OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard-Samples#808.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4340
- Builds on #4328

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Marc Schier <marcschier@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-30 20:50:46 +02:00
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