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romanett 651beaee1e Fully support AliasNames in ConsoleReferenceServer (#4012) (#4321)
# Description

The CTT AliasName conformance units skip or fail against the
ConsoleReferenceServer. `AliasName Base` skips with *"No instance of
AliasNameType has been found in the address space"*; `Category Tags`,
`Category Topics` and `Hierarchy` fail. Part 17 support landed in #3779,
but aliases live only inside the `IAliasNameStore` — nothing is
browsable, no `AliasNameCategoryType` is nested under another, and the
Topics aliases point at the Server object rather than at a
`PublishedDataSetType` instance.

Part 17 §6.2 clients — the CTT among them — discover aliases by
browsing, not only by calling `FindAlias`. This PR materializes the
store contents as real nodes and fills the three gaps.

### SDK — `Opc.Ua.Server`

* **`DiagnosticsNodeManager.MaterializeRegisteredAliasNameNodesAsync`**
(new, opt-in) walks every registered `IAliasNameStore` and creates one
`AliasNameType` instance per alias — BrowseName carrying the alias name,
`AliasFor` references to its targets, and the inverse `HasAlias`
reference on each local target (via `externalReferences`, since targets
usually live in another node manager) — plus an `AliasNameCategoryType`
instance for every store category the standard NodeSet does not already
ship. Categories whose NodeId belongs to another node manager are
skipped, so an `AliasNameNodeManager` that also registers its store with
the server-wide registry does not get its NodeIds claimed twice.

Opt-in: servers that only need the well-known `FindAlias` to answer from
their store pay nothing. The nodes are a snapshot taken at address-space
creation — later mutations change what `FindAlias` returns but do not
add or remove nodes.

* **Optional Part 17 methods on the well-known categories.** The same
pass instantiates whatever a category declares through
`AliasNameCapabilities`: `FindAliasVerbose` (§6.3.3),
`AddAliasesToCategory` (§6.3.4), `DeleteAliasesFromCategory` (§6.3.5)
and `LastChange` (§6.3.1). Mutations require a `SecurityAdmin` caller on
a `SignAndEncrypt` channel; the gate previously private to
`AliasNameNodeManager` moved to `AliasNameMethodDispatcher` so both
paths share one implementation.

* **`LastChange`** is now tracked per category rather than only for the
standard `Aliases` node, and the duplicated seeding logic collapsed into
one helper.

### Reference server

* A nested **`Devices`** category under `TagVariables` holds
`Pump1_Status` and `Heater_Power`. `FindAlias` on `TagVariables` still
returns all six names through subtree recursion, while `FindAlias` on
`Devices` returns exactly two — which is what the Hierarchy unit checks.
* `ReferenceServerConfigurationNodeManager` creates three
**`PublishedDataSet` instances** under `PublishedDataSets` (`i=17371`)
and the Topics aliases now target them, satisfying the *"is a Dataset"*
check. These are address-space instances only — no PubSub runtime is
added, and the CTT only inspects the target's type definition.

## Note for reviewers — the reserved NodeIds

The optional children are created at the NodeIds the OPC Foundation
reserves for them (`Aliases.FindAliasVerbose` = `i=24054`,
`TagVariables.LastChange` = `i=32854`, …). Those identifiers are
allocated in `StandardTypes.csv` but are **not** declared in the
ModelDesign and **not** present in the published NodeSet, because the
standard address space does not instantiate optional children. The
source generator therefore emits no parent-to-instance mapping and no
`MethodIds` constants for them, so
`DiagnosticsNodeManager.ReservedChildIds` supplies the nine method ids
and the two missing `LastChange` ids explicitly, each traceable to its
registry row. The 18 argument-property ids do have generated
`VariableIds` constants and are referenced through those.

I deliberately did **not** "fix" this by declaring the children in
`tools/Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core/Design/StandardTypes.xml`: that file
is a verbatim copy of upstream
`UA-ModelCompiler/Design.v105/StandardTypes.xml` (the only differences
today are upstream being newer), so a local edit is lost on the next
sync and the NodeIds would silently revert to factory-minted ones.
`docs/AliasNames.md` records this.

Worth raising upstream separately: `StandardTypes.csv` allocates
`Aliases_FindAliasVerbose` and siblings while the ModelDesign never
declares those children, so the ModelCompiler cannot emit ids it has
itself reserved. If that is ever reconciled, `ReservedChildIds` becomes
redundant and deletes cleanly.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4012

## 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. — **not
done: verified on net8.0 only** (Server 4710, InformationModel 1099,
Core 4443, plus the client and features alias suites; AOT build clean).
Needs a run against net framework and net10 before this leaves draft.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

### Tests

`tests/Opc.Ua.InformationModel.Tests/Aliasname*Tests.cs` mirror the four
CTT conformance units and no longer `Assert.Ignore` where the CTT
reported failures — the alias suite is 37 tests with no skips. New
`AliasnameOptionalMethodsTests` covers the optional methods, their
reserved NodeIds, the anonymous-caller denial, an add/find/delete round
trip and `LastChange` advancing on mutation.

One pre-existing test changed premise:
`EnumerateSubCategoriesAsyncOnLeafReturnsEmptyAsync` asserted that
`TagVariables` has no sub-categories, which this PR deliberately makes
false. It now targets `Topics` (still a leaf) and a new test guards the
nesting.

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