The Test Bindings button was disabled (greyed out) for any attribute bound
to a non-OPC-UA connection. BuildTestableRows() filtered to protocol ==
"OpcUa", a stale gate left over from when OPC UA was the only protocol.
ReadTagValuesCommand is protocol-agnostic (routes through
IDataConnection.ReadBatchAsync, which MxGatewayDataConnection implements),
so the filter only blocked the UI — mirroring the already-fixed IsBrowsable.
Remove the OPC-UA-only filter and update the stale comments. Add a bUnit
regression test (theory over MxGateway + OpcUa) asserting the button is
enabled for a readable-protocol binding.
Verified live: dialog opens for an MxGateway binding and returns a
Good-quality read.
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.
Replace the generic 'MxGateway Shared' connection name with a per-site name
(site-a -> 'ScadaBridge Site A', env2 site-x -> 'ScadaBridge Site X') in both
docker/ and docker-env2/ seed scripts.
- DeploymentManagerActor.HandleDeployArtifacts read the Self property inside its
Task.Run lambda (line dispatching ApplyArtifactDataConnectionsToDcl). Self is
backed by the ambient ActorCell, null on a thread-pool thread, so it threw
'no active ActorContext' — surfaced the first time a data connection is
deployed via deploy-artifacts. Capture Self into a local first (as Sender
already was).
- seed-sites.sh: create a shared MxGateway data connection (10.100.0.48:5120)
on each site and deploy artifacts so the DCL establishes them.
- build.sh: nounset-safe empty-array expansion (bash 3.2).
Adds MxGateway as a second DCL protocol alongside OPC UA: IDataConnection +
IBrowsableDataConnection adapter over the ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Client package,
typed config + serializer/validator, factory registration, protocol-agnostic
browse plumbing, Central UI protocol selector + editor + tag picker, and docker
NuGet feed wiring. Full design + 19-task implementation plan in docs/plans.
Dockerfile copies nuget.config (so the Gitea feed + source mapping are known in
the restore stage) and accepts optional NUGET_GITEA_USER/PASS build-args for a
private feed; build.sh forwards them from host env vars (MXGW_NUGET_USER/PASS)
so secrets are never committed. Verified the in-container restore resolves the
ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.* packages (anonymous feed).
Adds MxGateway under Supported Protocols, an MxGateway Settings config table,
notes IBrowsableDataConnection now backs both protocols via BrowseNodeCommand/
BrowseService, and updates the README component table.
Generalize the browse-button gate from IsOpcUa to IsBrowsable (OPC UA or
MxGateway, both implement IBrowsableDataConnection site-side). The generalized
NodeBrowserDialog + BrowseNodeCommand path already routes by protocol; non-
browsable protocols return NotBrowsable. Test Bindings stays OPC-UA-only (its
read path is out of this slice's scope).
Adds an OPC UA | MxGateway protocol dropdown (create-time; locked read-only on
edit), branches the primary/backup endpoint editors, serializer, and validator
by protocol, and persists DataConnection.Protocol accordingly. Updates form
tests: protocol dropdown present on create + MxGateway save round-trips typed
JSON with Protocol=MxGateway.
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.
Add design doc for a second data-connection protocol, MxGateway, alongside
the OPC UA client. New IDataConnection adapter behind the existing
DataConnectionFactory extension point; tag pipe (read/subscribe/write) plus
Galaxy hierarchy browse, optional 2nd endpoint for failover. Generalizes the
OPC-UA-named browse plumbing to protocol-agnostic browse via
IBrowsableDataConnection. No entity/schema changes.
- Per-instance DataSourceReferenceOverride on InstanceConnectionBinding
- IBrowsableDataConnection capability + RealOpcUaClient.BrowseChildrenAsync
- BrowseOpcUaNodeCommand routed via DeploymentManagerActor singleton (HA-safe)
- <OpcUaBrowserDialog/> on InstanceConfigure with lazy-loaded tree + manual paste
- Test Bindings popup: one-shot live read of all bound tags via ReadTagValuesCommand
- ConfigurationDatabase migration AddInstanceConnectionBindingOverride
- Doc updates: Component-DataConnectionLayer, Component-TemplateEngine, Component-CentralUI
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.
Razor parameter binding propagates on the next render, so reading SiteId
inside LoadRootAsync raced against the parent's "set field, then call
ShowAsync()" pattern — central received an empty siteId and rejected
with "No ClusterClient for site ,". Take the values as args instead.
ClaimsIdentity is built without an explicit roleType, so IsInRole("Design")
checks ClaimTypes.Role while actual claims use "Role" — the guard always
returned not-authorized. Switch to HasClaim(RoleClaimType, "Design").
Wires the OPC UA Tag Browser cross-cluster path: central UI Asks via
CommunicationService.BrowseOpcUaNodeAsync -> ClusterClient -> site
SiteCommunicationActor -> /user/dcl-manager (Task 10 handler).
Uses ActorSelection.Tell(msg, Sender) since DataConnectionManagerActor
is not a child of DeploymentManagerActor and ActorSelection has no
Forward() helper; preserving Sender keeps the BrowseOpcUaNodeResult
routing back to the original Ask.
Integration test deferred: tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.IntegrationTests
has no ClusterFixture (only ScadaBridgeWebApplicationFactory, which
does not expose a Communication service nor a seeded site OPC UA
connection). Round-trip will be exercised manually under Task 19.
- 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.
Five phases, PR-shippable per phase: schema/contracts, DCL browse capability,
flattening uses override, Central UI popup + integration, docs. Per-task
classification, time estimates, and parallelism declared.
Joseph Doherty