Failed Authentication Opt-out

[aricart]

Overview

Traditionally clients have aborted reconnect reattempts after 2 consecutive authentication errors. https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go/pull/499

In some setups this behavior creates a different problem because a configuration mistake on the server will stop thousands of clients.

Provide a connect option ignoreAuthErrorAbort that prevents the 2 consecutive errors from aborting the reconnect attempts. See https://github.com/nats-io/nats.deno/commit/cf2b33cb8a936841e536adbd453bb4755aa6fdb5 - javascript client changes to fix this.

Clients and Tools

• [X] Go @piotrpio https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go/pull/1141
• [x] Java @scottf https://github.com/nats-io/nats.java/pull/1011
• [X] JavaScript
• [x] .Net @scottf
• [ ] C @levb
• [ ] Python @wallyqs
• [ ] Ruby @wallyqs
• [ ] Rust @Jarema @caspervonb

Other Tasks

• [ ] docs.nats.io updated @jnmoyne
• [ ] Update ADR to Implemented
• [ ] Update client features spreadsheet

Client authors please update with your progress. If you open issues in your own repositories as a result of this request, please link them to this one by pasting the issue URL in a comment or main issue description.

[bruth]

@aricart No urgency, but is this and #171 extending an existing ADR or does a new one need to be created?

[aricart]

@aricart No urgency, but is this and #171 extending an existing ADR or does a new one need to be created?

@bruth there's no ADR - this is just a connect option to prevent the default client behaviour.

[bruth]

Ok thanks, that is what I assumed. I am in the process of evolving some PR templates to help differentiate the kinds of issues that are created in this repo.