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Six PRs, each based on the one before it. Review in order.

PR What it adds
1 #1350 The harness the derived tests stand on, and a README for the tree
2 #1351 The uts-to-csharp translation skill
3 #1352 The REST unit tier, and the record of what it found
4 #1353 The realtime unit tier, and the record of what it found
5 #1354 The integration tier, and the record of what it found
6 #1355 (this one) The proxy tier, and the record of what it confirmed

Goal

Translate the UTS proxy tier, which routes real traffic to the real sandbox through
ably/uts-proxy, and close the two documents with what it confirmed.

Two commits: the tests, then the documents.

What's added

Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight tests across the eight proxy spec files, on the harness landed
at the start of this stack. 34 passing, 3 gated on deviations the proxy confirms rather than
finds.

Why this tier exists

It settles two things no mock can.

Whether a response is retryable is decided inside the real HTTP client, from a real socket error
or a real status and header set — a fake that hands the SDK an invented exception is testing the
invention.

Whether a resume succeeded is decided by the real server, which has no fake at all.

It also gives every test a second witness: the SDK's own result, and the proxy's log of what
actually crossed the wire.

Two results worth more than the pass count

Both of these were diagnosed at the unit tier against mocks, where the obvious objection is that
the mock was wrong. The proxy answers that objection with a real handshake and a real server.

D22, confirmed against a real handshake. A 50000/500 ERROR during connection open is retried and
the connection reaches CONNECTED, while the otherwise identical test with 40005/400 fails as RTN14a
requires. So the SDK is branching on the status code, exactly as the unit-tier diagnosis said.

D32, located precisely. Injecting a non-resumed ATTACHED into an already-attached channel
re-enters presence correctly and that test passes, while the same thing after a real disconnect
sends no PRESENCE frame at all. One defect, one call site in ChannelMessageProcessor, two lines —
and the working path is the proof that the fix is right.

Two tests now wait on evidence rather than sample for it

Both were intermittent until they did, and both are the same class of mistake:

  • RTN22 polls the proxy log for the client's own AUTH. The auth callback returns before the
    frame it feeds is written to the socket, so a single read right after the callback count goes up
    sees nothing.
  • RTN16d records connection transitions before killing the transport rather than awaiting
    DISCONNECTED. A killed transport earns an immediate reconnect, so the client can be back in
    CONNECTING before an awaiter registers, and the wait then times out on a drop that did happen.

Measured after the change: three consecutive clean runs of the tier (38 passing, 3 skipped),
against two or three failures a run before. Both traps are now written into the skill.

Caveat

One test is not translated and the blocker is the proxy rather than the SDK. RTN14h needs the
client held out of CONNECTED while a shortened connectionStateTtl expires, and at uts-proxy
v0.3.0 — the version the CI leg pins — two things do not work:

  • the __PASSTHROUGH__ sentinel in a replaced message is not substituted (measured: the client
    stored the literal string and sent resume=__PASSTHROUGH__);
  • refuse_connection matched on a ws_connect count above 1 never fires (measured: ruleMatched
    empty on all three connects, while count: 1 does work and RTN14d relies on it).

The behaviour itself is covered at the unit tier by RTN14e. Both limits are written down so the
next person does not spend the same afternoon on them.

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  • Tests

    • Expanded integration coverage for realtime connection and channel recovery, authentication renewal, presence re-entry, heartbeat detection, and REST request retries and errors.
    • Added checks for connection resumption, message delivery after reconnecting, channel state changes, and REST history responses.
  • Documentation

    • Updated test coverage summaries and documented measured behavior and known coverage gaps.

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The pull request adds proxy-backed UTS integration tests for Realtime authentication, connection opening and recovery, channel and presence handling, and REST failures and fallbacks. It also updates UTS layout, coverage counts, and documented deviations.

Changes

Proxy-backed UTS integration coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Connection opening and authentication
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/README.md, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/AuthReauthTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/ConnectionOpenFailuresTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/deviations.md
Adds tests for connection-open errors, token renewal, refused connections, connection timeouts, and server-initiated reauthentication. Records the observed outcomes for 400 and 500 connection errors.
Connection resume, recovery, and heartbeat
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/ConnectionResumeTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/HeartbeatTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/deviations.md
Adds tests for resume, recovery, fatal errors, and resending unacknowledged messages. Tests reconnection after transport loss and records the proxy limitation on TTL-resume coverage.
Channel faults and presence re-entry
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/ChannelFaultsTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/PresenceReentryTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/deviations.md
Adds tests for channel state changes, reattachment, and presence re-entry. Records the different observations for ATTACHED frames received on an already attached channel and during reconnection.
REST faults and fallback behavior
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/RestFaultsTests.cs, src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Rest/Integration/Proxy/RestFallbackTests.cs
Adds tests for REST authentication retries and errors, fallback requests, and idempotent publish deduplication.
UTS coverage records
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/coverage.md
Adds uncovered-test counts, proxy-tier coverage status, test run results, and translated-spec coverage information.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 78ec1

The change is mergeable with bounded test-coverage follow-up. Strengthening two assertions would improve confidence in deduplication and reauthentication without addressing a demonstrated client failure.

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VeskeR and others added 2 commits October 2, 2026 14:14
Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight tests across the eight proxy spec files, on
the harness landed at the start of this stack. 34 passing, 3 gated on
deviations the proxy confirms rather than finds.

The tier earns its keep by settling two things no mock can. Whether a response
is retryable is decided inside the real HTTP client, from a real socket error
or a real status and header set - a fake that hands the SDK an invented
exception is testing the invention. And whether a resume succeeded is decided
by the real server, which has no fake at all.

Two results are worth more than the pass count.

D22, confirmed against a real handshake: a 50000/500 ERROR during connection
open is retried and the connection reaches CONNECTED, while the otherwise
identical test with 40005/400 fails as RTN14a requires. So the SDK is branching
on the status code, exactly as the unit-tier diagnosis said.

D32, located precisely: injecting a non-resumed ATTACHED into an
already-attached channel re-enters presence correctly and that test passes,
while the same thing after a real disconnect sends no PRESENCE frame at all.
One defect, one call site in ChannelMessageProcessor, two lines - and the
working path is the proof that the fix is right.

Two tests here wait on evidence rather than sample for it, and both were
intermittent until they did. RTN22 polls the proxy log for the client's own
AUTH: the auth callback returns before the frame it feeds is written to the
socket, so a single read right after the callback count goes up sees nothing.
RTN16d records connection transitions before killing the transport rather than
awaiting DISCONNECTED: a killed transport earns an immediate reconnect, so the
client can be back in CONNECTING before an awaiter registers and the wait then
times out on a drop that did happen. Measured after the change: three
consecutive clean runs of the tier, against two or three failures a run before.

One test is not translated and the blocker is the proxy rather than the SDK.
RTN14h needs the client held out of CONNECTED while a shortened
connectionStateTtl expires, and at uts-proxy v0.3.0 - the version the CI leg
pins - the __PASSTHROUGH__ sentinel in a replaced message is not substituted
(measured: the client stored the literal string and sent
resume=__PASSTHROUGH__), and refuse_connection matched on a ws_connect count
above 1 never fires (measured: ruleMatched empty on all three connects, while
count: 1 does work and RTN14d relies on it). The behaviour itself is covered at
the unit tier by RTN14e.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The proxy tier's additions, which close both documents: one mock limitation,
the proxy-side confirmations folded into the two unit-tier entries they settle,
and the coverage summary that can only be written once every tier has landed.

The confirmations are the point of this commit. D22 and D32 were diagnosed at
the unit tier against mocks, where the obvious objection is that the mock was
wrong. The proxy answers that objection with a real handshake and a real
server: a 50000/500 ERROR during connection open is retried and the connection
reaches CONNECTED, while the otherwise identical 40005/400 fails as RTN14a
requires. The diagnosis stands, and the entries now say so with evidence from
outside the harness that produced them.

The one new limitation is a limit of uts-proxy v0.3.0 rather than of this SDK,
and it is written down so the next person does not spend the same afternoon on
it: the __PASSTHROUGH__ sentinel in a replaced message is not substituted, and
refuse_connection matched on a connection count above one never fires. Both
measured, both with the counter-example that does work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Rest/Integration/Proxy/RestFallbackTests.cs (1)

271-282: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for retry visibility before asserting deduplication.

PublishAsync waits for the retry to succeed, but HistoryAsync is eventually consistent. The poll stops when it first sees one "test" message. A second message from a non-deduplicated retry can become visible after that read, so HaveCount(1) can pass incorrectly.

Check the proxy log before the history assertion, then observe history for a bounded settle window and assert that every result contains exactly one matching message.

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Review comment at
@src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Rest/Integration/Proxy/RestFallbackTests.cs
around lines 271 - 282:
Update the deduplication check in the test using WallClockPollUntil and
HistoryAsync: verify the proxy log before asserting history, then observe
history through a bounded settle window and require every observation to contain
exactly one matching "test" message. Do not stop polling at the first
observation of one message, since a later duplicate may appear.
src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/AuthReauthTests.cs (1)

104-105: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the outbound accessToken.

The current assertion accepts auth: {}. The callback count proves only that the SDK requested a token. Assert that message.auth.accessToken is a non-empty string.

ServerInitiatedReauthTests checks the typed Auth.AccessToken, but this proxy test still does not check the serialized token in the outbound frame. This is a coverage improvement, not evidence that the SDK currently sends an invalid frame.

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Review comment at
@src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/AuthReauthTests.cs
around lines 104 - 105:
Update the outbound auth assertion in the proxy reauthentication test to verify
that message.auth.accessToken is a non-empty string, rather than only checking
that message.auth is non-null. Keep the assertion focused on the serialized
token in the outbound frame.

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Review comments at
@src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/AuthReauthTests.cs:
- Around line 104-105: Update the outbound auth assertion in the proxy
reauthentication test to verify that message.auth.accessToken is a non-empty
string, rather than only checking that message.auth is non-null. Keep the
assertion focused on the serialized token in the outbound frame.

Review comments at
@src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Rest/Integration/Proxy/RestFallbackTests.cs:
- Around line 271-282: Update the deduplication check in the test using
WallClockPollUntil and HistoryAsync: verify the proxy log before asserting
history, then observe history through a bounded settle window and require every
observation to contain exactly one matching "test" message. Do not stop polling
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  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/ConnectionOpenFailuresTests.cs
  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/ConnectionResumeTests.cs
  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/HeartbeatTests.cs
  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/PresenceReentryTests.cs
  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Realtime/Integration/Proxy/RestFaultsTests.cs
  • src/Ably.PubSub.Tests.DotNET/Uts/Rest/Integration/Proxy/RestFallbackTests.cs
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