diff --git a/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md b/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md
index 15f9ef79..85e6f2f7 100644
--- a/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md
+++ b/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md
@@ -635,3 +635,19 @@ test could only pass once the production change landed.
source announcing its own offline state, the stale is our transport losing the broker (and matches
what the host's S15 fan-out writes). The existing const's "no driver emits BadNoCommunication at all"
remark was corrected rather than left to rot.
+
+### T5 — MQTT driver-level end-to-end recovery + docs
+
+- The test is green on first run by construction (T2–T4 already landed), so the plan's TDD bar was met
+ the other way: **the wiring was deliberately broken and the test seen to fail.** Deleting
+ `connection.ConnectionLost += OnConnectionLost;` from `MqttSubscriptionManager.AttachTo` ⇒
+ `ABrokerDrop_MarksCachedRefsBadNoCommunication_AndTheIdenticalReplayRecovers` **FAILED** with
+ `Timed out waiting for the broker drop to publish a BadNoCommunication snapshot` (15 s). Restored,
+ green. That is the point of this test: the manager-level suites drive `OnConnectionLost()` directly
+ and stay green against an unforwarded seam.
+- The outage edge is a real socket drop through MiniBroker → MQTTnet `DisconnectedAsync`; ingest is fed
+ through `Subscriptions.HandleMessage` because MiniBroker answers CONNECT/PINGREQ only and cannot
+ PUBLISH.
+- Docs: `docs/drivers/Mqtt.md` §"Quality on connection loss and re-subscribe" (links the contract in
+ `DriverLifecycle.md`, records the two distinct "not communicating" codes and the operator-visible
+ behaviour change).
diff --git a/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md.tasks.json b/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md.tasks.json
index ef1ec3b6..1ae9d324 100644
--- a/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md.tasks.json
+++ b/archreview/plans/R3-02-stale-good-family-plan.md.tasks.json
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
{
"id": "T5",
"subject": "MQTT driver-level end-to-end recovery test (broker drop -> Bad -> identical retained replay -> Good) + docs/drivers/Mqtt.md section",
- "status": "pending",
+ "status": "done",
"blockedBy": [
"T4"
]
diff --git a/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md b/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
index 0876c55a..d13bbf16 100644
--- a/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
+++ b/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
@@ -415,6 +415,41 @@ one session, and carrying it across made the host's re-subscribe resolve an empt
SUBSCRIBE at all, and leave the driver Connected/Healthy and permanently deaf. Sparkplug's
`SparkplugIngestor.AttachTo` resets its own session state for the same reason.
+## Quality on connection loss and re-subscribe
+
+The quality contract this implements is stated once, in
+[`docs/DriverLifecycle.md` §"The quality contract"](../DriverLifecycle.md#the-quality-contract).
+Two edge behaviours make MQTT — a push-model driver — honour it. A poll driver gets both free from
+`PollGroupEngine` (a fresh subscription's first poll runs with `forceRaise: true`); MQTT had neither,
+which is archreview 05/STAB-18.
+
+- **Connection loss stales, keeping the value.** On the `Connected → Reconnecting` edge
+ `MqttConnection.ConnectionLost` fires, and both ingest paths mark every **already-observed**
+ reference `BadNoCommunication` with its **last value retained** and publish the change. A
+ never-observed reference (still `BadWaitingForInitialData`) and an already-Bad one are left alone.
+ The event does **not** fire for a failed *initial* connect or during dispose — neither is an outage.
+- **Every (re)subscribe pushes the cached snapshots.** `SubscribeAsync` republishes each observed
+ reference's cached snapshot onto the new handle before any broker traffic. This is what refills a
+ node an address-space rebuild reseeded `BadWaitingForInitialData` on a quiet topic — a rebuild
+ triggers no retained replay and, in Sparkplug, no rebirth.
+
+**Why the stale is what makes recovery work.** The plain path suppresses a message whose value *and*
+status equal the driver-owned cache, and that cache survives reconnects and redeploys. So the retained
+message a broker replays on reconnect — routinely the identical payload — was suppressed, and every
+node the host had latched Bad stayed Bad until the plant value happened to change. Staling the status
+first makes the identical replay a change. (A regression test for this must replay the **identical**
+payload; a different value defeats the suppression on its own and proves nothing.)
+
+**Two "not communicating" codes, deliberately.** `BadNoCommunication` (0x80310000) means *the link is
+down* — the connection-loss stale, and what the host's comms-loss fan-out writes onto the value nodes.
+`BadCommunicationError` (0x80050000) keeps its narrower Sparkplug meaning: the **source announced its
+own death** (NDEATH/DDEATH), or a birth voided the scope feeding the tag. A refused SUBSCRIBE filter
+also degrades to `BadCommunicationError`.
+
+**Operator-visible change:** an MQTT tag now goes Bad when the broker session drops, rather than
+holding its last value at Good until the host's 90 s comms-loss watchdog notices — which, since
+MQTTnet usually reconnects well inside that window, in practice meant never.
+
## Write-through
`IWritable` landed with [#508](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/508). Before it,
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttDriverSessionLifecycleTests.cs b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttDriverSessionLifecycleTests.cs
index a20c1fca..38bdeaa0 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttDriverSessionLifecycleTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttDriverSessionLifecycleTests.cs
@@ -100,6 +100,79 @@ public sealed class MqttDriverSessionLifecycleTests
"the authored 2s budget must still bound the connect, not the 15s default");
}
+ ///
+ /// End-to-end through (archreview 05/STAB-18). Deliver a value,
+ /// let the real broker drop the real session, and the driver publishes
+ /// BadNoCommunication with the value retained; feed the identical payload back —
+ /// the retained replay a broker sends on reconnect — and it publishes Good again.
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// What this adds over MqttSubscriptionManagerRecoveryTests: the wiring. Those
+ /// drive OnConnectionLost() directly, so they stay green even if
+ /// MqttSubscriptionManager.AttachTo never subscribes to
+ /// — an unforwarded seam is this repo's
+ /// best-documented way to ship an inert fix. Here the edge comes from a genuine socket drop
+ /// through MQTTnet's own DisconnectedAsync.
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// Vacuity rule: the recovery payload is byte-identical to the pre-outage one. A test
+ /// that replays a different value passes against a build with no stale at all — the
+ /// value change alone would defeat the suppression — and is not the guard.
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// Ingest is fed through Subscriptions.HandleMessage, the method MQTTnet's dispatcher
+ /// calls, because answers CONNECT and PINGREQ and nothing else: it
+ /// can drop a session (which is what this test needs from it) but cannot PUBLISH.
+ ///
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ABrokerDrop_MarksCachedRefsBadNoCommunication_AndTheIdenticalReplayRecovers()
+ {
+ const string rawPath = "Plant/Mqtt/dev1/Temp";
+ const string topic = "factory/oven/temp";
+ const uint good = 0x00000000u;
+ const uint badNoCommunication = 0x80310000u;
+
+ using var broker = new MiniBroker();
+ var options = BrokerOptions(broker.Port) with
+ {
+ RawTags =
+ [
+ new RawTagEntry(
+ rawPath,
+ $$"""{"topic":"{{topic}}","payloadFormat":"Json","jsonPath":"$.value","dataType":"Float64"}""",
+ WriteIdempotent: false),
+ ],
+ };
+ await using var driver = new MqttDriver(options, "d", null);
+ await driver.InitializeAsync(Json(options), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await driver.SubscribeAsync([rawPath], TimeSpan.Zero, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var raised = new List();
+ driver.OnDataChange += (_, e) => { lock (raised) raised.Add(e.Snapshot); };
+
+ driver.Subscriptions.HandleMessage(topic, """{"value":21.5}"""u8.ToArray(), retained: false);
+ lock (raised) raised.Count.ShouldBe(1, "the first value must publish");
+
+ broker.DropAll();
+ await WaitForAsync(
+ () => { lock (raised) return raised.Count == 2; },
+ "the broker drop to publish a BadNoCommunication snapshot");
+ DataValueSnapshot staled;
+ lock (raised) staled = raised[1];
+ staled.StatusCode.ShouldBe(badNoCommunication);
+ staled.Value.ShouldBe(21.5, "the last known value is retained through the outage");
+
+ // The reconnect's retained replay — the IDENTICAL payload.
+ driver.Subscriptions.HandleMessage(topic, """{"value":21.5}"""u8.ToArray(), retained: true);
+
+ DataValueSnapshot recovered;
+ lock (raised) { raised.Count.ShouldBe(3); recovered = raised[2]; }
+ recovered.StatusCode.ShouldBe(good);
+ recovered.Value.ShouldBe(21.5);
+ }
+
private static async Task WaitForAsync(Func condition, string what)
{
var deadline = DateTime.UtcNow + TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);