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Fixes #161, #160 and #165, in four commits meant to be read in order.

1. Register the delivery subscription before creating the consumer (#161)

Every push subscribe path created the server-side consumer first and subscribed to its deliver subject second. A subscription only queues a SUB frame for the next flush, so a delivery landing in that window has no interest and the server drops it.

ack_policy = .explicit consumers mostly self-heal through redelivery. The library's own internal consumers do not: KV watch/history/keys and Object Store get/list all use ack_policy = .none, so a message lost there is gone and those calls return short results with no error.

Subscribing first puts the SUB frame ahead of the create request on the same connection, so interest exists before the server can push anything. This is the order both official clients use — nats.go subscribes at js.go:1934 and upserts at :1959, nats.c at js.c:2991 and :3009, each after a consumer info lookup that resolves the deliver subject.

pullSubscribe is reordered the same way. It was not losing messages — nothing is delivered to a pull consumer until a fetch request is sent — but the wildcard inbox subscription has no reason to come second.

The subscribe errdefers change from nc.unsubscribe(subscription) to subscription.deinit(), which is #160. nc.unsubscribe drops only the connection's reference and leaves the caller's, so the subscription is never destroyed and Connection.deinit() panics about a live subscription the caller never received. That was previously reachable only through a failed wrapper allocation; with the create request now inside the same scope, a far more ordinary failure reaches it.

2. Attach to the consumer that wins a create race

Two clients subscribing to the same durable can both find nothing and both try to create it. The loser got "consumer already exists" handed back to it, even though the consumer it asked for now exists — and its subscription is pointing at the wrong deliver subject, since the winner's consumer has its own.

Look the winner up, drop the subscription, go round once more. Both official clients recover the same way (js.go:1971-1990, js.c:3003-3027). The retry can only run once, because the second pass has a consumer to attach to and returns before reaching addConsumer.

The four push paths move onto one subscribeToPushConsumer helper to get this, since the retry has to re-run the subscribe and each path performs a different one.

Consumers are now also looked up under the name the config carries, not only under the durable option, matching how both clients resolve the name they create under. Without it, naming a consumer through the config skipped the lookup and went straight to a create the server rejects.

3. Reject an existing consumer that does not match the request (#165)

Attaching to an existing consumer took it as-is and ignored the requested config, so a different filter subject, ack wait or deliver policy silently gave you the consumer's behaviour instead of yours.

Two cases were worse than silent. A push subscribe against a pull consumer read deliver_subject with .? on a null and panicked. And a second plain subscription to an already-bound push consumer is accepted by the server, which then splits that consumer's delivery between the two at random.

checkExistingConsumer mirrors processConsInfo/checkConfig in nats.go and _processConsInfo in nats.c: filter subject, pull versus push, deliver group versus queue group, push_bound, then the config fields. push_bound is new on ConsumerInfo; the server has always sent it.

One deliberate difference from nats.go: subscribing without a subject to a consumer that has a filter subject is allowed here. nats.go treats the empty subject as a mismatch, but binding to a durable by name alone is a normal way to use this API.

4. Let unset consumer config fields fall through to the server

Six ConsumerConfig fields were plain values holding the library's copy of the server's defaults, sent on every create whether or not the caller cared, with no way to express "not set". That made the check in commit 3 approximate — a value equal to the default had to be treated as unset — and meant a consumer could never inherit a default from a stream's ConsumerLimits, an account limit, or a future server release.

They are now optional and dropped from the request when null. Five produce exactly what the library used to send, because those values were the server's defaults already: deliver_policy all, replay_policy instant, max_deliver -1 (consumer.go:611), ack_wait 30s (consumer.go:672), max_ack_pending 1000 (consumer.go:695) — the last now behind the stream's consumer limits rather than in front of them.

ack_policy is the exception and keeps a client-side default: the server reads an omitted ack policy as none, which would turn every default subscription into one that never acknowledges. buildConsumerConfig asks for explicit when the caller did not choose, which is what nats.go does at js.go:1877. addConsumer still passes the config through untouched.

The mismatch check loses its special cases along with the defaults, so asking for a default value explicitly is now checked like any other request. Each field documents what the server does with it when it is not sent.

Testing

./check.sh is green: 132 unit tests, 182 e2e.

New tests in tests/jetstream_sync_test.zig cover attaching to a consumer named in the config, six rejection cases (filter subject, ack wait, queue group, both binding directions, already-bound) with the matching request still attaching, and the defaulting behaviour of commit 4 including the deliberate difference between subscribeSync and addConsumer.

Two things have no test. The create race in commit 2 needs another client to create the consumer inside the window between our lookup and our create, which nothing in the suite can arrange deterministically. The delivery window in commit 1 is a race against the server with no client-side trigger.

Unrelated, noticed while running the suite

autounsubscribe_test.test.autounsubscribe async basic functionality is flaky on main, panicking with Connection.deinit() with 1 live subscription(s) in 3 of 5 runs there. It does not touch JetStream and is unaffected by this branch, but it looks like a real refcount race in autoUnsubscribe rather than a test bug.

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JetStream consumer settings now preserve omitted server defaults. Subscription paths share configuration, compatibility checks, creation, and attachment logic. Push paths register delivery interest before consumer creation. Pull paths register inbox interest first. Tests cover existing consumers, configuration mismatches, and server defaults.

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JetStream consumer attachment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Consumer configuration contracts
src/jetstream.zig
ConsumerConfig uses nullable fields for server-defaulted settings. ConsumerInfo exposes optional push_bound. buildConsumerConfig centralizes subscription-specific configuration.
Consumer validation and creation
src/jetstream.zig, tests/jetstream_sync_test.zig
Existing consumers are checked for subject, delivery, queue, acknowledgement, flow-control, and binding compatibility. Named lookup and creation handle concurrent creation. Tests cover matching and incompatible attachments.
Shared push subscription wiring
src/jetstream.zig, tests/jetstream_sync_test.zig
Push, synchronous, and queue paths share setup logic. Delivery subscriptions are registered before consumer attachment. Omitted pending limits leave subscription limits unchanged. Tests cover attachment and server-returned defaults.
Pull subscription ordering
src/jetstream.zig
Pull setup creates wildcard inbox interest before consumer lookup or creation and uses subscription cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 69c40

Subscriptions that discover their stream can still fail on a later fetch. The defect is unchanged by this PR, so merging is reasonable with an owner follow-up to fix the string lifetime.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Relative to the only active directly linked issue, #161, the consumer-create race retry, existing-consumer compatibility and binding checks, and nullable ConsumerConfig defaults address separate behav… Split the race-recovery and consumer-config changes into PRs scoped to their corresponding active issues, or limit this PR to the subscription-ordering changes and supporting refactoring and tests for #161.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title captures two central changes: registering the subscription before consumer creation and checking an existing consumer. It is specific and related to the main changes.
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1539-1560: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Four push entry points repeat the same wiring. Each one generates and validates the deliver subject, builds a subscriber struct, calls subscribeToPushConsumer, sets the same two errdefers, calls applyPendingLimits, and allocates the same JetStreamSubscription. Only the subscriber struct genuinely differs. A shared tail helper taking the subscriber and the owned deliver subject would remove the repetition and keep the errdefer pairing in one place, which matters because getting those two errdefers wrong leaks a subscription.

  • src/jetstream.zig#L1539-L1560: extract the post-subscribeToPushConsumer tail (errdefers, applyPendingLimits, JetStreamSubscription allocation) into a helper and call it here with the callback subscriber.
  • src/jetstream.zig#L1598-L1618: call the same helper with the sync subscriber.
  • src/jetstream.zig#L1658-L1680: call the same helper with the queue callback subscriber.
  • src/jetstream.zig#L1718-L1739: call the same helper with the queue sync subscriber.
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In `@src/jetstream.zig` around lines 1539 - 1560, Extract the shared
post-subscribe tail into a helper that accepts the subscriber and owned deliver
subject, preserving both errdefers, applyPendingLimits, and
JetStreamSubscription allocation. Update src/jetstream.zig lines 1539-1560,
1598-1618, 1658-1680, and 1718-1739 to call the helper for the callback, sync,
queue callback, and queue sync subscribers respectively.

930-941: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Pull path has no create-race retry, and this helper is now pull-only.

subscribeToPushConsumer retries when another client wins the create. getOrCreateConsumer does not, so a concurrent pullSubscribe for the same durable can surface ConsumerAlreadyExists to the caller instead of attaching to the winner. The server returns the existing consumer for an identical durable config, so this only bites when the two configs differ, but the behaviour differs between the two paths for the same underlying event.

pullSubscribe is now the only caller, so is_pull and queue are effectively fixed. Consider narrowing the signature, or reusing the same lookup-retry-attach shape as the push path.

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In `@src/jetstream.zig` around lines 930 - 941, Update getOrCreateConsumer to
handle a concurrent addConsumer race: when creation reports that the consumer
already exists, look up the consumer again, validate it with
checkExistingConsumer, and return the winning ConsumerInfo instead of
propagating the conflict. Since pullSubscribe is now the only caller, simplify
the helper signature and remove the fixed is_pull and queue parameters where
appropriate, preserving pull-consumer configuration behavior.

769-802: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Filter validation has a hole for filter_subjects and config-supplied filter_subject.

The subject check only compares the subject parameter against the existing config.filter_subject. Two cases slip through:

  • The existing consumer uses filter_subjects (multi-filter). Then config.filter_subject is null and any requested subject is accepted, even one the consumer does not deliver.
  • The caller supplies filter_subject or filter_subjects through SubscribeOptions.config with subject = null. Neither is compared against the existing consumer.

headers_only is also requestable but never compared, so an existing body-delivering consumer satisfies a headers-only request.

♻️ Sketch of the additional checks
         if (subject) |s| {
             if (config.filter_subject) |filter| {
                 if (!std.mem.eql(u8, s, filter)) return configMismatchStr("filter_subject", s, filter);
+            } else if (config.filter_subjects) |filters| {
+                for (filters) |filter| {
+                    if (std.mem.eql(u8, s, filter)) break;
+                } else return configMismatchStr("filter_subjects", s, filters[0]);
             }
         }
+
+        if (requested.filter_subject) |v| {
+            if (!optStrEql(v, config.filter_subject)) return configMismatchStr("filter_subject", v, config.filter_subject);
+        }
+        if (requested.headers_only) |v| {
+            if (v != (config.headers_only orelse false)) return configMismatch("headers_only", v, config.headers_only);
+        }

filter_subjects needs a set comparison, not a first-element compare; the diff above is only the shape.

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In `@src/jetstream.zig` around lines 769 - 802, Extend the consumer compatibility
validation around the existing subject check to compare both single and
multi-filter configurations in requested options against the existing config,
including when subject is null. For filter_subjects, perform order-independent
set equality rather than comparing only one element, and reject requested
subjects not covered by the existing filters. Also compare requested
headers_only with config.headers_only so headers-only and body-delivering
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Inline comments:
In `@src/jetstream.zig`:
- Around line 1769-1781: Update the pull subscription creation flow to duplicate
and retain both stream_name and consumer_name in PullSubscription-owned storage,
including when consumer_name falls back to durable. Store the owned stream name
instead of the potentially freed auto-discovered stream_name, and release both
owned strings in PullSubscription.deinit.

In `@tests/jetstream_sync_test.zig`:
- Around line 337-343: Make the ConsumerAlreadyBound assertion in the jetstream
sync subscription test resilient to interest-propagation timing by polling until
the consumer reports its binding or retrying the expected error for a short
bounded interval. Preserve the existing subscription configuration and assert
ConsumerAlreadyBound once the server-side push_bound state is observable.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/jetstream.zig`:
- Around line 1539-1560: Extract the shared post-subscribe tail into a helper
that accepts the subscriber and owned deliver subject, preserving both
errdefers, applyPendingLimits, and JetStreamSubscription allocation. Update
src/jetstream.zig lines 1539-1560, 1598-1618, 1658-1680, and 1718-1739 to call
the helper for the callback, sync, queue callback, and queue sync subscribers
respectively.
- Around line 930-941: Update getOrCreateConsumer to handle a concurrent
addConsumer race: when creation reports that the consumer already exists, look
up the consumer again, validate it with checkExistingConsumer, and return the
winning ConsumerInfo instead of propagating the conflict. Since pullSubscribe is
now the only caller, simplify the helper signature and remove the fixed is_pull
and queue parameters where appropriate, preserving pull-consumer configuration
behavior.
- Around line 769-802: Extend the consumer compatibility validation around the
existing subject check to compare both single and multi-filter configurations in
requested options against the existing config, including when subject is null.
For filter_subjects, perform order-independent set equality rather than
comparing only one element, and reject requested subjects not covered by the
existing filters. Also compare requested headers_only with config.headers_only
so headers-only and body-delivering consumers cannot be treated as compatible.
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Comment thread src/jetstream.zig
Comment on lines +1769 to +1781
// Create the persistent wildcard inbox subscription before the consumer
// exists, so no response can be delivered without local interest.
const inbox_subscription = try self.nc.subscribeSync(wildcard_subject);
errdefer self.nc.unsubscribe(inbox_subscription);
errdefer inbox_subscription.deinit();

// Create or get consumer (pull consumers require a name)
var consumer_info = try self.getOrCreateConsumer(stream_name, subject, durable, options.config, true, null);
errdefer consumer_info.deinit();

// Get the consumer name (should be set from durable parameter)
const consumer_name = consumer_info.value.config.name orelse
consumer_info.value.config.durable_name orelse
durable;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Ordering change is right; the surrounding lifetimes are not.

Registering inbox interest before the consumer exists is the correct fix, and errdefer inbox_subscription.deinit() covers the getOrCreateConsumer failure. Two lifetime problems live in the same function, both pre-existing but now easy to fix while the code is open:

  1. stream_name (line 1789) is stored in the returned PullSubscription, but line 1756 frees it on return whenever the stream was auto-discovered from the subject. fetch() then formats a freed slice into the CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT subject. Reproduce by calling pullSubscribe(subject, durable, .{}) with no .stream.
  2. consumer_name can fall back to the caller's durable slice (line 1781). Everything else in that chain lives in the consumer info arena, which the subscription owns.
🐛 Own both strings in PullSubscription
-        defer if (options.stream == null and subject != null) self.nc.allocator.free(stream_name);
+        defer if (options.stream == null and subject != null) self.nc.allocator.free(stream_name);
+
+        const owned_stream_name = try self.nc.allocator.dupe(u8, stream_name);
+        errdefer self.nc.allocator.free(owned_stream_name);

Then store owned_stream_name, dupe consumer_name the same way, and free both in PullSubscription.deinit.

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In `@src/jetstream.zig` around lines 1769 - 1781, Update the pull subscription
creation flow to duplicate and retain both stream_name and consumer_name in
PullSubscription-owned storage, including when consumer_name falls back to
durable. Store the owned stream name instead of the potentially freed
auto-discovered stream_name, and release both owned strings in
PullSubscription.deinit.

Comment thread tests/jetstream_sync_test.zig
Every JetStream push subscribe path created the server-side consumer
first and only then subscribed to its deliver subject. Registering a
subscription queues a SUB frame for the next flush, so between the
consumer coming into existence and that frame reaching the server, a
delivery to the deliver subject has no interest and the server drops it
like any other message with no subscriber.

For ack_policy = .explicit consumers this mostly self-heals through
redelivery. The library's own internal consumers do not have that: KV
watch/history/keys and Object Store get/list all use ack_policy = .none,
which has no redelivery at all, so a message lost to that window is gone
and those calls return short results with no error.

Subscribe first, create second. The SUB frame is queued ahead of the
consumer create request on the same connection, so by the time the
server can push anything, the interest is registered.

That inverts the dependency the old order relied on, because the deliver
subject had been read back out of the consumer info. It is now resolved
before subscribing: an existing consumer's own deliver subject when the
requested durable is already there, the generated or caller-supplied
inbox when it is not. getOrCreateConsumer splits into buildConsumerConfig
and lookupConsumer to make both halves available separately;
preparePushConsumer packages the resolution for the four push paths, and
takeConsumerInfo moves a looked-up consumer info out of its optional so
the lookup's errdefer cannot release it twice.

pullSubscribe is reordered the same way. Nothing is delivered to a pull
consumer until a fetch request is sent, so it was not losing messages,
but the wildcard inbox subscription has no reason to come second.

This is the order both official clients use - nats.go subscribes at
js.go:1934 and upserts at :1959, nats.c at js.c:2991 and :3009, each
after a consumer info lookup that resolves the deliver subject.

The subscribe errdefers change from nc.unsubscribe(subscription) to
subscription.deinit() as part of this. nc.unsubscribe drops only the
connection's reference and leaves the caller's, so the subscription is
never destroyed and Connection.deinit() panics about a live subscription
the caller never received. That was reachable before only through a
failed wrapper allocation; with the create request now inside the same
scope, a far more ordinary failure reaches it.
A push subscribe looks the consumer up and creates it only if the lookup
came back empty, so two clients subscribing to the same durable at the
same time can both decide to create it. One of them wins; the other gets
"consumer already exists" back from the server and, until now, handed
that error to its caller - even though the consumer it asked for exists
and is ready to be used.

Both official clients recover instead: nats.go clears the subscription
and re-derives the deliver subject from a fresh consumer info
(js.go:1971-1990), nats.c does the same through goto PROCESS_INFO
(js.c:3003-3027). The recovery is not optional bookkeeping - the winning
consumer has its own deliver subject, so the subscription made before
the create is now subscribed to the wrong place and has to be discarded
along with the error.

Do the same here: look the winner up, drop the subscription, and go
round again. The retry can only run once, because the second pass has a
consumer to attach to and returns before reaching addConsumer. The
lookup comes before the deinit so a failing lookup leaves exactly one
cleanup to run rather than two.

Both errors the two clients check for are accepted, plus the third the
server can answer with: ConsumerAlreadyExists (10148), ConsumerNameExist
(10013) and ConsumerExistingActive (10105).

The four push paths move onto one subscribeToPushConsumer helper to get
this, since the retry has to re-run the subscribe and each path performs
a different one - callback or sync, with or without a queue group. Each
passes a small subscriber value carrying what its subscribe call needs.

Consumers are now also looked up under the name the config carries, not
only under the `durable` option, matching how both clients resolve the
name they will create under (nats.go js.go:1710, nats.c js.c:2822).
Without that, naming a consumer through the config skipped the lookup
entirely and went straight to a create that the server rejects whenever
the existing consumer differs - which is what the new test covers: it
fails with ConsumerAlreadyExists before this change, and attaches to the
existing consumer's own deliver subject after it.

The create race itself has no test. Reproducing it needs another client
to create the consumer inside the window between our lookup and our
create, which nothing in the suite can arrange deterministically.
Attaching to a consumer that already exists took it exactly as it is and
ignored the config the caller asked for. A caller wanting a different
filter subject, ack wait, deliver policy or ack window silently got the
consumer's own behaviour instead, with the mismatch showing up later as
messages that do not arrive or that redeliver on someone else's terms.

Two cases were worse than silent. A push subscribe against a pull
consumer read the deliver subject with `.?` on a null, so binding to the
wrong kind of consumer panicked rather than returned an error. And a
second plain subscription to a push consumer that is already bound is
accepted by the server, which then splits that consumer's delivery
between the two subscriptions at random.

Check the existing consumer before subscribing to it, mirroring
processConsInfo/checkConfig in nats.go (js.go:1568, js.go:1620) and
_processConsInfo in nats.c: filter subject against the requested
subject, pull versus push, deliver group against the requested queue
group, push_bound, then the config fields both clients compare.
push_bound is new on ConsumerInfo; the server has always sent it.

Only fields the caller can be shown to have set are compared. Several
ConsumerConfig fields are plain values with a default rather than
optionals, so a value equal to the default cannot be told apart from one
that was never set and is treated as unset. That is the same
accommodation nats.go makes for its own zero values, and it is what
keeps `.{}` from colliding with every consumer that was created with
something other than the library defaults. The cost is that explicitly
asking for a default value is not checked.

One deliberate difference from nats.go: subscribing without a subject to
a consumer that has a filter subject is allowed. nats.go treats the
empty subject as a mismatch, but binding to a durable by name alone is a
normal way to use this API, and it is how the test added in the previous
commit attaches.

The check runs for pull subscribes too, where it catches the reverse
binding error.
Six ConsumerConfig fields were plain values carrying the library's own
copy of the server's defaults: deliver_policy, ack_policy, ack_wait,
max_deliver, replay_policy and max_ack_pending. Every create sent all
six whether or not the caller had an opinion about them, and "not set"
had no representation at all.

That cost two things. The mismatch check added in the previous commit
had to treat a value equal to the default as unset, so asking for a
default value explicitly went unchecked. And a consumer could never
inherit a default from anywhere else - a stream's ConsumerLimits, an
account limit, or a future server default - because the client
overwrote it first with a value the caller never chose.

Make the six optional, defaulting to null, and let emit_null_optional_fields
drop them from the request. Five of them then produce exactly what the
library used to send, because the values were the server's defaults
already: deliver_policy all, replay_policy instant, max_deliver -1
(consumer.go:611), ack_wait 30s (consumer.go:672) and max_ack_pending
1000 (consumer.go:695), the last now behind the stream's consumer limits
rather than in front of them.

ack_policy is the exception and needs a client-side default: the server
reads an omitted ack policy as 'none', which would silently turn every
default subscription into one that never acknowledges and never gets a
redelivery. buildConsumerConfig asks for 'explicit' when the caller did
not choose, which is what nats.go does at js.go:1877 and why it carries
an ackPolicyNotSet sentinel to tell the two apart. addConsumer keeps
passing the config through untouched.

The mismatch check loses its special cases along with the defaults: a
null field means "whatever this consumer already is", so every field now
compares the same way and asking for a default value is checked like any
other request.

Each field documents what the server does with it when it is not sent.
The server sets push_bound asynchronously, once the consumer notices the
first subscription's interest, so checking right away could see it unset
and attach a second subscriber instead of failing.
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lalinsky merged commit 24b135a into main Oct 5, 2026
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Subscribe before creating the consumer, and check the one that already exists
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Push consumers are created before the delivery subscription is registered

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