MXAccess silently no-ops a whole-array write unless the item reference
ends in "[]" (e.g. "<object>.MoveInWorkOrderNumbers[]") — the COM Write
returns success but the value never commits. Reads work either way, so
the bug surfaced only on writes. Mirror the AVEVA MES Camstar API, which
registers array tags as "<object>.<attr>[]" (scalars have no brackets).
WriteAsync now resolves/advises/writes array values against tag + "[]"
(scalars unchanged), keeping the original tag for result mapping. Adds
IsArrayValue matching the ToMxValue/PadArrayToDeclaredSizeAsync array set.
Verified live via mxwrtest against the deployed gateway: bare ref write
ok but read-back unchanged; "[]" ref write commits (read-back changes,
fresh source timestamp). No RealMxGatewayClient unit harness exists (the
gRPC session is concrete) — consistent with how the sibling supervisory/
pad/encode fixes are verified.
Even with correct array encoding (30d07b9), Ipsen MoveIn array writes still
hung: the Galaxy MES-receiver arrays are fixed-size SAFEARRAYs (e.g.
MoveInWorkOrderNumbers = SAFEARRAY(VT_BSTR) dimensions:[50]) and MXAccess only
accepts a write that supplies ALL slots. ScadaBridge sent just the N elements
the MES provided (1-2), so the COM write blocked. Verified on the live gateway:
a full-size (50) constructed array writes via WriteBulk in ~34ms; a short one
does not.
RealMxGatewayClient.WriteAsync now, for a list value, reads the tag's current
array to learn its slot count and pads the value to that length with
element-type defaults (empty string / 0 / false / default) — the caller's
values fill slots 0..N-1, the rest are cleared. The PLC reads the valid count
from a separate scalar (MoveInNumberWorkOrders). If the size can't be
determined (read fails / not an array) the value is written unpadded and a
warning is logged. Scalars are unaffected.
The Ipsen MoveIn e2e (after the supervisory-advise fix landed scalar writes)
exposed a second blocker: writes to List-typed attributes
(MoveInWorkOrderNumbers / MoveInPartNumbers, List<string>) hung at the 30s
device-write timeout while scalar writes succeeded.
InstanceActor.HandleSetDataAttribute already decodes a List attribute's
canonical JSON into a typed List<T> before the write (so the DCL can push a
real array), but RealMxGatewayClient.ToMxValue only had scalar cases — a
List<T> fell through to Convert.ToString and wrote the garbage string
"System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]" to the array Galaxy
node, which the gateway's COM write rejected/blocked.
Add IReadOnlyList<bool|int|long|float|double|string|DateTimeOffset|DateTime>
cases that call the client package's typed array encoders
(VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR etc.); List<DateTime> is mapped to DateTimeOffset. Covers
every element type AttributeValueCodec produces.
Writes through the MxGateway data connection (e.g. the Ipsen MoveIn flow
writing MES-receiver attributes) hung ~30s and changed nothing, while reads
of the same attributes worked. Root cause: MXAccess only accepts a write on
an item that holds a SUPERVISORY advise; the write path did AddItem +
WriteBulk with no advise and the monitoring subscription used a plain Advise,
so the worker's synchronous COM Write blocked until the gateway command
timeout. (Plain, non-secured writes need no user/login.) Verified live: with a
supervisory advise the write returns ok in ~22ms; without it it does not.
When the connection has no MXAccess write-user context (WriteUserId == 0) it
now behaves as a supervisory client: every advise defaults to
AdviseSupervisory — both the monitoring subscription (SubscribeAsync) and the
write path — so one connection can read and write. A supervisory advise still
delivers OnDataChange (the worker treats either advice kind as sufficient for
updates) so monitoring is unaffected, and the worker's UnAdvise tears down
either kind, so unsubscribe is unchanged. AdviseSupervisory is issued as a raw
MxCommandKind.AdviseSupervisory via the session's Invoke (the client package
exposes only plain Advise). The advise runs at most once per handle via a
Lazy<Task> so a concurrent first-time subscribe+write on the same new handle
both await the same advise (neither writes before it completes); a faulted
advise is evicted so the next write retries. Dropped on unsubscribe. A
configured non-zero WriteUserId keeps the prior plain-advise behaviour.
Surface native (Galaxy/MxGateway) alarms by their object-relative reference
(e.g. "Z28061.HeartbeatTimeoutAlarm") instead of the gateway's full provider
reference ("Galaxy!<area>.<object>.<alarm>"). The area is already preserved in
Category and the object reference is globally unique within the galaxy, so the
full provider prefix added only noise to the alarm identity operators see.
MxGatewayAlarmMapper.MapTransition/MapSnapshot now set SourceReference from
SourceObjectReference, falling back to AlarmFullReference only when the gateway
omits the object reference. +2 mapper tests; full DCL suite green (158).
The MxGateway alarm mapper emits the SnapshotComplete framing sentinel with
empty SourceReference/SourceObjectReference. HandleAlarmTransitionReceived
routed every transition by prefix match against the subscriber's source, so
the empty-ref sentinel ('' .StartsWith("<src>.") == false) was dropped for
any specific source. The NativeAlarmActor buffers snapshot conditions and only
flushes them on SnapshotComplete, so statically-active native alarms delivered
only in the initial snapshot (no later live transition) never surfaced.
Broadcast the SnapshotComplete sentinel to all alarm subscribers (bypassing the
source match + type filter) so each NativeAlarmActor's snapshot swap completes.
Adds a regression test using the real empty-ref sentinel against a specific
(prefix) source.
DataConnectionActor seeded a tag's initial value by Tell-ing TagValueReceived
from HandleSubscribe's background task, which runs BEFORE HandleSubscribeCompleted
registers the instance's tags in _subscriptionsByInstance. HandleTagValueReceived's
fan-out then found no subscriber and dropped the value. A tag that soon gets a
data-change notification recovers, but a STATIC tag (e.g. an idle MES field that
never changes) was left Uncertain forever — the dropped seed was its only value.
Seeds now ride back on SubscribeCompleted and are delivered after registration,
reusing HandleTagValueReceived's generation guard, fan-out and quality accounting.
+1 regression test (DCL026).
OPC UA (RealOpcUaClient):
- Append 5 new SelectClauses at indices 13–17 (never renumber 0–12):
- 13: AlarmConditionType/ActiveState/TransitionTime → OriginalRaiseTime
- 14–17: LimitAlarmType HighHighLimit/HighLimit/LowLimit/LowLowLimit → LimitValue
- New OpcUaAlarmMapper.PickLimitValue helper: first non-null in HiHi→Hi→Lo→LoLo
priority order, InvariantCulture-formatted; empty string for non-limit alarm types.
- HandleAlarmEvent reads new indices with fields.Count > N guards; hard minimum (6)
unchanged so base ConditionType events still process without the limit fields.
- Document unavailable-by-protocol fields (Category, Description, OperatorUser,
CurrentValue) inline in BuildAlarmEventFilter and HandleAlarmEvent.
MxGateway (MxGatewayAlarmMapper):
- MapTransition: CurrentValue and LimitValue now populated via MxValueToString
(uses MxValueExtensions.ToClrValue + InvariantCulture) from OnAlarmTransitionEvent
proto fields current_value/limit_value.
- MapSnapshot: same — populated from ActiveAlarmSnapshot.current_value/limit_value.
- MxValueToString helper (internal): null-safe MxValue → string conversion.
Tests (17 new, 40 total pass):
- OpcUaAlarmMapperTests: PickLimitValue priority, InvariantCulture, all-null case.
- MxGatewayAlarmMapperTests: CurrentValue/LimitValue populate from double/string
MxValue; absent fields yield empty strings.
- RealOpcUaClientAlarmFilterTests: index alignment assertions (count=18, per-index
TypeDefinitionId+BrowsePath), regression guard on existing indices 0–12.
HandleAlarmEvent set AlarmTypeName to the event-type NodeId string ("i=9341"),
but the client-side conditionFilter gate (and the OPC UA WhereClause) use friendly
type names — so a friendly-name filter built a correct server WhereClause yet the
client gate dropped every event (zero alarms delivered). Resolve the event-type
NodeId to its friendly name via an inverse of KnownConditionTypeIds (NodeId-string
fallback for custom types) so both sides agree. Also fix a dead-code ternary in
the SourceName derivation.
conditionFilter was plumbed end-to-end but applied nowhere — a filtered source
silently mirrored all conditions. Define the filter as a comma-separated,
case-insensitive list of condition type names (blank = all); enforce it
authoritatively client-side in DataConnectionActor routing (uniform across OPC UA
+ MxGateway) and, for OPC UA, additionally build a server-side EventFilter
WhereClause as a bandwidth optimization.
Resolve all 622 issues flagged by the enhanced CommentChecker: add missing
<returns> tags (incl. the standard phrasing on non-generic Task methods),
add missing <summary> tags, and replace misused/redundant <inheritdoc/> on
members that override or implement nothing with real documentation.
Documentation-only — no behavior change; solution builds clean.
The NativeAlarmActor sends SubscribeAlarmsRequest to the DCL manager, but the
manager only routed tag/write/browse messages to the per-connection
DataConnectionActor — alarm subscribe/unsubscribe were unhandled and dead-lettered,
so native alarms never subscribed at runtime. Caught by live T28 deployment.
Mirrors the existing HandleRoute forwarding.
Adds IAlarmSubscribableConnection to MxGatewayDataConnection (shared session-less
feed, ref-counted), IMxGatewayClient.RunAlarmStreamAsync over the package
StreamAlarmsAsync with internal reconnect, and MxGatewayAlarmMapper
(AlarmFeedMessage/OnAlarmTransitionEvent -> NativeAlarmTransition). Behavior
verified against a live gateway in Task 28; mapper unit-tested.
Adds IAlarmSubscribableConnection to OpcUaDataConnection, IOpcUaClient alarm
subscription methods, and RealOpcUaClient A&C event monitored-item +
EventFilter + ConditionRefresh snapshot, mapping fields via OpcUaAlarmMapper.
Behavior verified against a live A&C server in Task 28; mapper unit-tested.
Expanding a Galaxy object in the tag picker hung on "loading…": the browse
reply inlined every child's full attribute set (~152 KB), exceeding Akka's
128 KB remote frame, and remoting silently discarded the oversized reply.
Browse path (DataConnectionLayer):
- RealMxGatewayClient: navigation now uses BrowseChildren(include_attributes=
false) — child objects only — and an object's own attributes load lazily via
DiscoverHierarchy(root, max_depth=0) when it's expanded. Payload drops from
~152 KB/level to a few KB. Seam contract unchanged.
- DataConnectionActor.CapBrowseChildren: protocol-agnostic byte-budget cap
(~100 KB) on every BrowseNodeResult before it crosses the site→central
frame, OR-ing the adapter's own Truncated flag. Byte budget, not a count —
the only bound that holds regardless of NodeId/attribute-name length.
- RealOpcUaClient: requestedMaxReferencesPerNode 1000 → 500 to narrow the
window before the byte budget applies.
- Graceful gRPC Unimplemented handling → NotSupportedException →
BrowseFailureKind.NotBrowsable with an actionable message (older gateway
builds lacking BrowseChildren).
Picker UI (CentralUI):
- NodeBrowserDialog: modal-lg → modal-xl; new scoped .razor.css caps the tree
at 55vh with its own scrollbar so manual entry + Select/Cancel stay visible.
- Protocol-agnostic failure messages (was hardcoded "OPC UA …"); renamed the
leftover opcua-browser-tree class to node-browser-tree.
Tests: new frame-budget cap test + NotSupported=>NotBrowsable mapping test;
DCL suite 88/88. Doc: Component-DataConnectionLayer.md records the lazy
attribute-light browse and the frame-size guard.
DataConnectionFactory registers 'MxGateway' -> MxGatewayDataConnection over the
real client; AddDataConnectionLayer binds MxGatewayGlobalOptions; DeploymentManager
FlattenConnectionConfig gains an MxGateway arm using the typed serializer. Factory
test confirms Create("MxGateway") returns the adapter.
Seam implementation wrapping the gateway client + GalaxyRepositoryClient:
OpenSession/Register, AddItem+Advise subscribe, ReadBulk/WriteBulk with handle
tracking, StreamEvents loop with worker_sequence resume + OPC-style quality
mapping, and Galaxy BrowseChildren mapping (objects keyed by gobject id,
attributes by full tag reference). Only type touching the generated contracts.
Implements IDataConnection + IBrowsableDataConnection over the IMxGatewayClient
seam: connect/disconnect with once-only Disconnected guard + background event
loop, subscribe/unsubscribe with tag routing, read/write batch with per-tag
error classification, WriteBatchAndWait, and Galaxy browse mapping. Covers plan
Tasks 6-10. Full unit coverage via FakeMxGatewayClient (12 tests).
Central package management requires package-source mapping with >1 feed
(NU1507 as error), so nuget.config scopes ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.* to the Gitea
feed and everything else to nuget.org. Credentials are not committed.
Adds a Test Bindings button to the Connection Bindings table on the Configure
Instance page that opens a modal showing the live current value of every bound
attribute. Reuses the routing path that the OPC UA tag browser landed on:
Central: TestBindingsDialog → IBindingTester → CommunicationService
→ ReadTagValuesCommand → SiteEnvelope (Ask)
Site: SiteCommunicationActor → DeploymentManagerActor singleton
→ DataConnectionManagerActor → child DataConnectionActor
→ _adapter.ReadBatchAsync
Split mirrors the browse handler:
• Manager owns ConnectionNotFound (only it sees the per-site connection set).
• Child owns ConnectionNotConnected (pre-call status check, never stash —
read is interactive design-time), Timeout (OperationCanceledException),
ServerError (any other exception). Per-tag failures from ReadBatchAsync
become failure TagReadOutcomes without aborting the batch.
CentralUI:
• IBindingTester / BindingTester — Design-role guard via HasClaim against
JwtTokenService.RoleClaimType (not IsInRole — see c1e16cf), typed
transport-failure translation.
• TestBindingsDialog — ShowAsync(siteId, rows, instanceLabel) method-arg
pattern (no Razor parameter race; see 2c138b6), groups rows by connection
and issues one ReadAsync per connection in parallel, per-row error subline
+ per-connection banner, Refresh button re-issues the reads.
• InstanceConfigure.razor — Test Bindings button next to Save Bindings,
disabled when no testable rows. OPC UA only today (other protocols have
no ReadTagValuesCommand wiring yet).
Tests:
• Commons: ReadTagValuesCommand discovered by ManagementCommandRegistry.
• DataConnectionLayer: unknown connection → ConnectionNotFound,
not-connected adapter → ConnectionNotConnected (ReadBatchAsync NOT called),
success-path mapping (Good/Bad + per-tag error), cancellation → Timeout.
• CentralUI: register IBindingTester (and the previously-missing
IOpcUaBrowseService) on the existing InstanceConfigureAuditDrillinTests
Bunit container so the page renders cleanly with the new dialog.
- BrowseOpcUaNodeCommand: int DataConnectionId -> string ConnectionName
(site DataConnectionManagerActor indexes children by name; CentralUI
already has the connection name in scope via the dropdown — no extra
plumbing across the trust boundary).
- IOpcUaBrowseService / OpcUaBrowseService: parameter renamed accordingly.
- OpcUaBrowserDialog: collapse the duplicate ConnectionName parameters
(display label and routing key are the same string).
- Task 10: DataConnectionManagerActor forwards BrowseOpcUaNodeCommand to
its child by name (owns ConnectionNotFound); DataConnectionActor adds
the receive across all three lifecycle states (Connecting / Connected
/ Reconnecting) and maps adapter outcomes to BrowseFailureKind
(NotBrowsable / ConnectionNotConnected / Timeout / ServerError).
- Task 17: SetFailure in OpcUaBrowserDialog implements the full
BrowseFailureKind switch with friendly UI messages.
- Tests: DataConnectionManagerBrowseHandlerTests covers ConnectionNotFound,
NotBrowsable, success, and ConnectionNotConnectedException paths.
Joseph Doherty