diff --git a/docs/plans/2026-06-15-stillpending-m2-implementation.md.tasks.json b/docs/plans/2026-06-15-stillpending-m2-implementation.md.tasks.json
index fc4a1f24..ee93e3e8 100644
--- a/docs/plans/2026-06-15-stillpending-m2-implementation.md.tasks.json
+++ b/docs/plans/2026-06-15-stillpending-m2-implementation.md.tasks.json
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
{
"planPath": "docs/plans/2026-06-15-stillpending-m2-implementation.md",
"tasks": [
- {"id": 32, "ref": "M2.0", "subject": "M2.0 #32: EF model/snapshot drift (PendingModelChangesWarning)", "class": "high-risk", "status": "pending"},
- {"id": 33, "ref": "M2.1", "subject": "M2.1 #22: native-alarm capability validation wired into deploy pipeline", "class": "standard", "status": "pending"},
- {"id": 34, "ref": "M2.2", "subject": "M2.2 #10: connection-level diff surfaced in deployment diff", "class": "standard", "status": "pending"},
- {"id": 35, "ref": "M2.3", "subject": "M2.3 #7: Database.CachedWrite transient/permanent SQL classification", "class": "high-risk", "status": "pending"},
- {"id": 36, "ref": "M2.4", "subject": "M2.4 #8: alarm conditionFilter applied (OPC UA WhereClause + client routing)", "class": "high-risk", "status": "pending"},
- {"id": 37, "ref": "M2.5", "subject": "M2.5 #9: per-script execution timeout (entity+migration+flatten+actor)", "class": "standard", "status": "pending", "blockedBy": [32]},
- {"id": 38, "ref": "M2.6", "subject": "M2.6 #13: nested Object/List extended-type validation", "class": "standard", "status": "pending"},
+ {"id": 32, "ref": "M2.0", "subject": "M2.0 #32: EF model/snapshot drift (PendingModelChangesWarning)", "class": "high-risk", "status": "completed", "commits": ["2fb608f"]},
+ {"id": 33, "ref": "M2.1", "subject": "M2.1 #22: native-alarm capability validation wired into deploy pipeline", "class": "standard", "status": "completed", "commits": ["d690920", "41d828e"]},
+ {"id": 34, "ref": "M2.2", "subject": "M2.2 #10: connection-level diff surfaced in deployment diff", "class": "standard", "status": "completed", "commits": ["e9a84ba", "198770f"]},
+ {"id": 35, "ref": "M2.3", "subject": "M2.3 #7: Database.CachedWrite transient/permanent SQL classification", "class": "high-risk", "status": "completed", "commits": ["d052706", "de375ff"]},
+ {"id": 36, "ref": "M2.4", "subject": "M2.4 #8: alarm conditionFilter applied (OPC UA WhereClause + client routing)", "class": "high-risk", "status": "completed", "commits": ["8825df5", "00304a2"]},
+ {"id": 37, "ref": "M2.5", "subject": "M2.5 #9: per-script execution timeout (entity+migration+flatten+actor)", "class": "standard", "status": "completed", "blockedBy": [32], "commits": ["3edef09", "3032faa"]},
+ {"id": 38, "ref": "M2.6", "subject": "M2.6 #13: nested Object/List extended-type validation", "class": "standard", "status": "in_progress"},
{"id": 39, "ref": "M2.7", "subject": "M2.7 #20+#21: return-type + argument-type compatibility checks", "class": "standard", "status": "pending"},
{"id": 40, "ref": "M2.8", "subject": "M2.8 #23: binding-completeness Error + name-exists-at-site", "class": "standard", "status": "pending"},
{"id": 41, "ref": "M2.9", "subject": "M2.9 #17: MachineDataDb fail-fast (reverts Host-008)", "class": "small", "status": "pending"},
@@ -26,5 +26,10 @@
{"ref": "#16", "subject": "Transport stale-instance enumeration", "to": "M8 (Transport)"},
{"ref": "#19", "subject": "script started/completed events", "status": "done in M1.8"}
],
+ "followups": [
+ {"id": 52, "subject": "Investigate 2 partition-purge E2E test failures (AuditLogPurgeActor/PartitionPurge)", "from": "M2.0", "status": "pending"},
+ {"id": 53, "subject": "Dedup alarm-capable protocol predicate (3 copies → AlarmCapableProtocols)", "from": "M2.1", "status": "pending"},
+ {"id": 54, "subject": "Expose ExecutionTimeoutSeconds (+ MinTimeBetweenRuns) in CLI + UI script authoring", "from": "M2.5", "status": "pending"}
+ ],
"lastUpdated": "2026-06-15"
}
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/InboundApi/InboundApiSchema.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/InboundApi/InboundApiSchema.cs
index d797d41d..5ee21547 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/InboundApi/InboundApiSchema.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons/Types/InboundApi/InboundApiSchema.cs
@@ -39,7 +39,15 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
/// For = array: the schema every element must satisfy; null means element type was not declared (shape-only).
public InboundApiSchema? Items { get; init; }
- private static readonly JsonDocumentOptions DocOptions = default;
+ /// Maximum allowed schema nesting depth for both Parse and Validate recursion.
+ private const int MaxDepth = 32;
+
+ // Allow the JSON reader to parse schemas up to ~3× our structural ceiling so
+ // the application-level ParseSchema depth guard (MaxDepth = 32) fires before
+ // the System.Text.Json reader ceiling. Each structural level contributes
+ // roughly 3 JSON-reader nesting levels (object → properties-object → value),
+ // so 128 reader levels comfortably accommodates 32+ structural levels.
+ private static readonly JsonDocumentOptions DocOptions = new() { MaxDepth = 128 };
///
/// Parses a stored definition string into an .
@@ -51,7 +59,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
///
/// The definition JSON; null/whitespace yields null.
/// The parsed schema, or null when the input is empty.
- /// The input is non-empty but not valid JSON, or is a JSON scalar/null at the root.
+ /// The input is non-empty but not valid JSON, is a JSON scalar/null at the root, or the schema nesting exceeds .
public static InboundApiSchema? Parse(string? json)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(json))
@@ -62,14 +70,19 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
using var doc = JsonDocument.Parse(json, DocOptions);
return doc.RootElement.ValueKind switch
{
- JsonValueKind.Object => ParseSchema(doc.RootElement),
+ JsonValueKind.Object => ParseSchema(doc.RootElement, depth: 0),
JsonValueKind.Array => ParseLegacyArray(doc.RootElement),
_ => throw new JsonException("Type definition must be a JSON object (JSON Schema) or legacy parameter array."),
};
}
- private static InboundApiSchema ParseSchema(JsonElement el)
+ private static InboundApiSchema ParseSchema(JsonElement el, int depth)
{
+ if (depth > MaxDepth)
+ {
+ throw new JsonException($"Schema nesting exceeds the maximum allowed depth of {MaxDepth}.");
+ }
+
var type = el.TryGetProperty("type", out var t) && t.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.String
? NormalizeType(t.GetString())
: "string";
@@ -79,7 +92,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
InboundApiSchema? items = null;
if (el.TryGetProperty("items", out var itemsEl) && itemsEl.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Object)
{
- items = ParseSchema(itemsEl);
+ items = ParseSchema(itemsEl, depth + 1);
}
return new InboundApiSchema { Type = "array", Items = items };
@@ -109,7 +122,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
foreach (var prop in props.EnumerateObject())
{
var schema = prop.Value.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Object
- ? ParseSchema(prop.Value)
+ ? ParseSchema(prop.Value, depth + 1)
: new InboundApiSchema { Type = "string" };
fields.Add(new InboundApiSchemaField(prop.Name, requiredSet.Contains(prop.Name), schema));
}
@@ -142,7 +155,18 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
}
var rawType = TryGetMember(item, "type", out var t) ? t.GetString() : "string";
- var required = !TryGetMember(item, "required", out var rq) || rq.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.False;
+
+ // A field is optional only when "required" is explicitly false.
+ // The SQL migration uses a string comparison (LOWER(...) <> 'false'),
+ // so we must also accept the string "false" (case-insensitive) here —
+ // not only the JSON boolean false — to stay consistent with legacy rows
+ // that stored "required":"false" as a string.
+ var required = !TryGetMember(item, "required", out var rq)
+ || (rq.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.False
+ && !string.Equals(
+ rq.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.String ? rq.GetString() : null,
+ "false",
+ StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
var normalized = NormalizeType(rawType);
InboundApiSchema schema;
@@ -198,6 +222,9 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
"boolean" or "bool" => "boolean",
"integer" or "int" or "int32" or "int64" => "integer",
"number" or "float" or "double" or "decimal" => "number",
+ // datetime→string is intentional: the legacy migration's SQL
+ // normalization function maps "datetime" to "string" (no separate
+ // datetime wire type in the extended type system), so C# must match.
"string" or "datetime" => "string",
"object" => "object",
"array" or "list" => "array",
@@ -215,9 +242,18 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
/// The path prefix for the value being validated (empty for the root).
/// Accumulator the validator appends path-qualified messages to.
public void Validate(JsonElement value, string path, List errors)
+ => ValidateCore(value, path, errors, depth: 0);
+
+ private void ValidateCore(JsonElement value, string path, List errors, int depth)
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(errors);
+ if (depth > MaxDepth)
+ {
+ errors.Add($"{Describe(path)}: schema nesting too deep (max {MaxDepth})");
+ return;
+ }
+
// A null value satisfies any declared type — a present-but-null field is
// allowed; a MISSING required field is reported by the enclosing object.
if (value.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Null)
@@ -260,11 +296,11 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
break;
case "object":
- ValidateObject(value, path, errors);
+ ValidateObject(value, path, errors, depth);
break;
case "array":
- ValidateArray(value, path, errors);
+ ValidateArray(value, path, errors, depth);
break;
default:
@@ -273,7 +309,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
}
}
- private void ValidateObject(JsonElement value, string path, List errors)
+ private void ValidateObject(JsonElement value, string path, List errors, int depth)
{
if (value.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object)
{
@@ -303,7 +339,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
var fieldPath = JoinField(path, field.Name);
if (value.TryGetProperty(field.Name, out var fieldValue))
{
- field.Schema.Validate(fieldValue, fieldPath, errors);
+ field.Schema.ValidateCore(fieldValue, fieldPath, errors, depth + 1);
}
else if (field.Required)
{
@@ -312,7 +348,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
}
}
- private void ValidateArray(JsonElement value, string path, List errors)
+ private void ValidateArray(JsonElement value, string path, List errors, int depth)
{
if (value.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Array)
{
@@ -329,7 +365,7 @@ public sealed class InboundApiSchema
var index = 0;
foreach (var element in value.EnumerateArray())
{
- Items.Validate(element, $"{path}[{index}]", errors);
+ Items.ValidateCore(element, $"{path}[{index}]", errors, depth + 1);
index++;
}
}
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI/ReturnValueValidator.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI/ReturnValueValidator.cs
index 62acc5b9..03995c96 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI/ReturnValueValidator.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI/ReturnValueValidator.cs
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ public static class ReturnValueValidator
return ReturnValidationResult.Valid();
}
+ // INTENTIONAL asymmetry with ParameterValidator:
+ //
+ // ParameterValidator has an early-return guard for "schema.Type != object"
+ // because method parameters are ALWAYS a top-level JSON object (flat map of
+ // name→value); a non-object parameter schema is treated as unconstrained.
+ //
+ // ReturnValueValidator does NOT guard on schema.Type here. A method may
+ // declare a scalar return type (e.g. {"type":"string"} or {"type":"integer"})
+ // and the script is expected to return exactly that scalar JSON value.
+ // Guarding on type == "object" would silently bypass validation for scalar
+ // and array return schemas — do NOT add that guard here.
+
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(resultJson))
{
return ReturnValidationResult.Invalid(
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ParameterValidatorTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ParameterValidatorTests.cs
index e3c63747..de384994 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ParameterValidatorTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ParameterValidatorTests.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
using System.Text.Json;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Types.InboundApi;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests;
@@ -364,4 +365,76 @@ public class ParameterValidatorTests
Assert.False(bad.IsValid);
Assert.Contains("'count'", bad.ErrorMessage);
}
+
+ // FIX 1: legacy "required":"false" string → field is optional ─────────────
+
+ [Theory]
+ [InlineData("""[{"name":"opt","type":"String","required":"false"}]""")]
+ [InlineData("""[{"name":"opt","type":"String","required":"False"}]""")]
+ [InlineData("""[{"name":"opt","type":"String","required":"FALSE"}]""")]
+ public void LegacyFlatArray_RequiredStringFalse_FieldIsOptional(string def)
+ {
+ // An absent field whose "required" is the string "false" (any case)
+ // must be treated as optional — consistent with the SQL migration's
+ // LOWER(...) <> 'false' comparison that produced these rows.
+ var result = ParameterValidator.Validate(null, def);
+ Assert.True(result.IsValid, $"Expected optional field to be valid when absent; error: {result.ErrorMessage}");
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void LegacyFlatArray_RequiredStringFalse_FieldPresentAndTypedCorrectly_Passes()
+ {
+ const string def = """[{"name":"opt","type":"String","required":"false"}]""";
+
+ var result = ParameterValidator.Validate(Body("{\"opt\":\"hello\"}"), def);
+ Assert.True(result.IsValid);
+ }
+
+ // FIX 2: recursion depth guard on Parse ───────────────────────────────────
+
+ ///
+ /// Builds a JSON Schema string with levels of nested
+ /// object-in-properties nesting. Each level wraps the previous in an object
+ /// with a single property "a". The result exceeds the Parse ceiling when
+ /// depth > 32.
+ ///
+ private static string BuildDeeplyNestedSchema(int depth)
+ {
+ // Inner-most: a scalar
+ var schema = "{\"type\":\"string\"}";
+ for (var i = 0; i < depth; i++)
+ {
+ schema = "{\"type\":\"object\",\"properties\":{\"a\":" + schema + "}}";
+ }
+ return schema;
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void SchemaAtDepthCeiling_ParsesSuccessfully()
+ {
+ // Exactly 32 levels of nesting should parse without throwing.
+ var def = BuildDeeplyNestedSchema(32);
+ var schema = InboundApiSchema.Parse(def);
+ Assert.NotNull(schema);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void SchemaExceedingDepthCeiling_ThrowsJsonException_NotStackOverflow()
+ {
+ // 33 levels exceeds the ceiling → JsonException (clean 400 via the
+ // caller's try/catch), NOT a StackOverflowException.
+ var def = BuildDeeplyNestedSchema(33);
+ Assert.Throws(() => InboundApiSchema.Parse(def));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void SchemaExceedingDepthCeiling_ParameterValidator_ReturnsInvalid()
+ {
+ // End-to-end: ParameterValidator wraps Parse in try/catch(JsonException)
+ // → the caller gets Invalid rather than an unhandled exception.
+ var def = BuildDeeplyNestedSchema(33);
+ var result = ParameterValidator.Validate(Body("{\"a\":\"x\"}"), def);
+ Assert.False(result.IsValid);
+ Assert.Contains("Invalid parameter definitions", result.ErrorMessage);
+ }
}
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ReturnValueValidatorTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ReturnValueValidatorTests.cs
index eed2b7fe..cacd1dd3 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ReturnValueValidatorTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests/ReturnValueValidatorTests.cs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Types.InboundApi;
+
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.InboundAPI.Tests;
///
@@ -304,4 +306,92 @@ public class ReturnValueValidatorTests
Assert.False(bad.IsValid);
Assert.Contains("totalUnits", bad.ErrorMessage);
}
+
+ // FIX 3: scalar return schema validates scalar return values ──────────────
+ // (Guards the intentional ParameterValidator/ReturnValueValidator asymmetry:
+ // ReturnValueValidator must NOT short-circuit on non-object schema types.)
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ScalarStringReturnSchema_ValidatesScalarStringReturn()
+ {
+ // A {"type":"string"} return schema must accept a bare JSON string.
+ var result = ReturnValueValidator.Validate("\"hello\"", """{"type":"string"}""");
+ Assert.True(result.IsValid);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ScalarIntegerReturnSchema_ValidatesScalarIntegerReturn()
+ {
+ var result = ReturnValueValidator.Validate("42", """{"type":"integer"}""");
+ Assert.True(result.IsValid);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ScalarStringReturnSchema_RejectsIntegerReturn()
+ {
+ var result = ReturnValueValidator.Validate("42", """{"type":"string"}""");
+ Assert.False(result.IsValid);
+ Assert.Contains("String", result.ErrorMessage);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ScalarBooleanReturnSchema_ValidatesBooleanReturn()
+ {
+ var result = ReturnValueValidator.Validate("true", """{"type":"boolean"}""");
+ Assert.True(result.IsValid);
+ }
+
+ // FIX 2: recursion depth guard on Validate ─────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ValidateExceedingDepthCeiling_AddsDepthError_DoesNotThrow()
+ {
+ // Build a schema programmatically (bypassing Parse) with 34 levels of
+ // nesting to exceed the ceiling of 32. Validate must add an error and
+ // return, NOT stack overflow.
+ //
+ // Parse prevents creating a >32-level schema from stored JSON, but
+ // InboundApiSchema is a public type constructable in code, so Validate
+ // must guard independently.
+ var deepSchema = BuildProgrammaticSchema(34);
+
+ var json = BuildDeeplyNestedValue(34);
+ using var doc = System.Text.Json.JsonDocument.Parse(json);
+
+ var errors = new System.Collections.Generic.List();
+ // Must not throw — adds a depth error to the list instead.
+ deepSchema.Validate(doc.RootElement, string.Empty, errors);
+
+ Assert.NotEmpty(errors);
+ Assert.Contains("nesting too deep", errors[0], StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Constructs an with
+ /// levels of object-nesting programmatically (bypassing Parse) to
+ /// exercise the Validate depth ceiling independently of the Parse ceiling.
+ ///
+ private static InboundApiSchema BuildProgrammaticSchema(int depth)
+ {
+ InboundApiSchema inner = new() { Type = "string" };
+ for (var i = 0; i < depth; i++)
+ {
+ inner = new InboundApiSchema
+ {
+ Type = "object",
+ Fields = [new InboundApiSchemaField("a", Required: false, inner)],
+ };
+ }
+ return inner;
+ }
+
+ private static string BuildDeeplyNestedValue(int depth)
+ {
+ var value = "\"leaf\"";
+ for (var i = 0; i < depth; i++)
+ {
+ value = "{\"a\":" + value + "}";
+ }
+ return value;
+ }
}