diff --git a/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md b/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
index 25c54975..6d1b921e 100644
--- a/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
+++ b/docs/drivers/Mqtt.md
@@ -24,20 +24,24 @@ for the design.
|---|---|
| `Driver.Mqtt.Contracts` | Config records, enums, `MqttTagDefinition` + the pure `MqttTagDefinitionFactory`, and the one shared `MqttJson.Options`. **Deliberately transport-free** — no MQTTnet reference |
| `Driver.Mqtt` | Runtime: `MqttDriver`, `MqttConnection` (connect + reconnect supervisor), `MqttSubscriptionManager`, `LastValueCache`, factory registration, `MqttDriverProbe` |
+| `Driver.Mqtt.Transport` | `MqttClientOptionsFactory` — TLS posture, PEM CA-pin chain validator, credentials, protocol mapping. Connection **policy** only; nothing here connects |
| `Driver.Mqtt.Browser` | `MqttDriverBrowser` + `MqttBrowseSession` — the AdminUI address picker's `#`-observation session |
-> `.Browser` references `.Driver` (not just `.Contracts`) — a **documented, deliberate exception**
-> so browse can reuse `MqttConnection.BuildClientOptions` (TLS / CA-pin / credentials / protocol
-> mapping). Its cost is pulling `Core` into the AdminUI graph. The csproj carries a boxed warning;
-> do not copy the pattern into a new driver's browser. The clean fix — extract the pure
-> options builder down into `.Contracts` — is tracked as
-> [#512](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/512).
+> **`.Browser` depends on the shared leaves only** — `.Contracts` + `.Transport`, never the runtime
+> `.Driver`. It used to reference `.Driver` under a documented exception; #512 removed it via two
+> extractions (the client-options builder to `.Transport`, and the Sparkplug protocol layer —
+> `SparkplugTopic`, `SparkplugCodec`, `RebirthRequester` — to `.Contracts`, beside the Tahu wire
+> schema they encode). `MqttBrowserLayeringTests` guards the graph in both directions.
+>
+> There must stay **exactly one copy** of the TLS/CA-pin logic. A second copy would not break the
+> build — it would silently diverge, browse quietly not honouring a pinned CA while the driver does.
## Capability Surface
```csharp
public sealed class MqttDriver
- : IDriver, ITagDiscovery, ISubscribable, IReadable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IRediscoverable, IAsyncDisposable, IDisposable
+ : IDriver, ITagDiscovery, ISubscribable, IReadable, IWritable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IRediscoverable,
+ IAsyncDisposable, IDisposable
```
| Capability | Entry point | Notes |
@@ -46,12 +50,15 @@ public sealed class MqttDriver
| `ITagDiscovery` | `DiscoverAsync` | Replays **only the authored `rawTags`** into an `Mqtt` folder. `SupportsOnlineDiscovery => false`. `RediscoverPolicy` is `Once` in Plain and **`UntilStable` in Sparkplug** (half of what a Sparkplug tag needs — its datatype — is only knowable from a birth) |
| `ISubscribable` | `SubscribeAsync` / `OnDataChange` | One SUBSCRIBE per distinct authored topic. **`publishingInterval` is ignored** — MQTT is push-based; this driver neither polls nor throttles |
| `IReadable` | `ReadAsync` | Serves the last received/retained value from `LastValueCache`; never throws. A never-seen tag reads `BadWaitingForInitialData` |
+| `IWritable` | `WriteAsync` | Publishes to the tag's **`writeTopic`** (Plain) or as an **NCMD/DCMD** command (Sparkplug). One status per request; a tag with no write destination is refused `BadNotWritable`. See [Write-through](#write-through) |
| `IHostConnectivityProbe` | `GetHostStatuses` | 1-second poll of `MqttConnection.State`; `HostName` is `"{host}:{port}"` |
| `IRediscoverable` | `OnRediscoveryNeeded` | Nothing raises it in Plain mode. **Sparkplug raises it** when a birth for an *authored* scope carries a metric-name set different from the last one seen for that scope — both conditions are anti-storm, see [Rediscovery](#rediscovery-sparkplug) |
-**Not implemented:** `IWritable`, `IPerCallHostResolver`, `IAlarmSource`, `IHistoryProvider`.
-Materialized nodes are `SecurityClassification.ViewOnly`, `IsAlarm: false`, `IsHistorized: false` —
-*"MQTT ingest is one-way … ViewOnly rather than an Operate node whose writes would silently vanish."*
+**Not implemented:** `IPerCallHostResolver`, `IAlarmSource`, `IHistoryProvider`.
+Materialized nodes are `IsAlarm: false`, `IsHistorized: false`. A node is
+`SecurityClassification.Operate` when its tag declares a write destination and
+`ViewOnly` when it does not — the browse-time answer comes from the same encoder the write path uses,
+so a node can never advertise writability it would then refuse.
Driver-type string: **`Mqtt`** (`DriverTypeNames.Mqtt`).
@@ -274,6 +281,81 @@ nothing forever, so `OnReconnectedAsync` **throws** when zero filters are grante
down rather than swallowing it. A SUBACK failure degrades just the affected RawPaths to
`BadCommunicationError`.
+## Write-through
+
+`IWritable` landed with [#508](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/508). Before it,
+every MQTT node materialized read-only regardless of what the operator authored.
+
+| Mode | Destination | Payload |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Plain** | the tag's `writeTopic` | the value as UTF-8 text (`Raw`/`Scalar`) or a bare JSON literal (`Json`) |
+| **Sparkplug B** | `spBv1.0/{group}/DCMD/{node}/{device}` for a device metric, `spBv1.0/{group}/NCMD/{node}` for an edge-node metric | a Sparkplug `Payload` carrying the metric **by name**, with an explicit `Datatype` and no `seq` |
+
+Both publish at **QoS 0, `retain: false`**. Retain is the one that matters and is deliberately not
+configurable: a retained command would be replayed by the broker to the device on *every* future
+subscribe — including the device's own reconnect — so one stale write would be re-applied forever.
+
+### `writeTopic` is separate from `topic`, and its absence is meaningful
+
+A tag commonly reads `…/state` and writes `…/set`, so the destination is its own authored field. A
+Plain tag with **no** `writeTopic` is refused `BadNotWritable` — it is not published anywhere, and the
+node is discovered `ViewOnly`.
+
+> This is the whole point of the design. The one outcome worse than read-only nodes is a node that
+> *looks* writable, accepts a write, returns `Good`, and publishes nothing. Publishing back onto the
+> tag's own read topic would be worse still: it would echo straight back and read as a confirmed
+> device value.
+
+```jsonc
+{
+ "topic": "factory/oven/temp/state",
+ "writeTopic": "factory/oven/temp/set", // omit for a read-only tag
+ "payloadFormat": "Scalar",
+ "dataType": "Float64"
+}
+```
+
+Sparkplug needs no extra key — a command is addressed by the binding tuple the tag already carries.
+
+### `Good` means published, not applied
+
+MQTT has no application-level write acknowledgement, so a successful PUBLISH is the strongest truth
+available at this seam — the same optimistic-Good posture Galaxy's fire-and-forget write takes. Device
+truth arrives afterwards as the echoed value on the read topic and corrects the node through ordinary
+ingest (write-outcome self-correction, [#5](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/5)).
+
+**Inherited consequence:** this driver can never surface a failed *device* write, exactly as Galaxy
+cannot. A publish that itself fails **is** reported `Bad` — the optimism covers what the device did
+with the command, never whether it was sent.
+
+### Status codes
+
+| Situation | Status |
+|---|---|
+| Published | `Good` |
+| Reference is not an authored tag | `BadNodeIdUnknown` |
+| No write destination, or a data type with no command encoding | `BadNotWritable` |
+| Value not representable in the tag's declared type | `BadTypeMismatch` |
+| Publish failed, or no live broker connection | `BadCommunicationError` |
+
+One status per request, in request order; one bad request never fails the rest of the batch.
+
+### `WriteIdempotent` stays default-off
+
+MQTT gives no write ack and a Sparkplug command is not necessarily idempotent (a pulse, a recipe step,
+a counter increment), so the resilience pipeline must not replay one. Operators opt in per tag.
+
+### Two things to know
+
+- **`jsonPath` is not applied on write.** It is a read-side extraction from the *read* topic's
+ document; the write topic is a different topic whose payload shape nothing in the tag config
+ describes. A `Json` write emits a bare JSON literal. Reconstructing a wrapped document from an
+ extraction path would be guesswork.
+- **NCMD is a shared channel.** The driver publishes its own rebirth requests
+ (`Node Control/Rebirth`) on `spBv1.0/{group}/NCMD/{node}` — the same topic an edge-node metric write
+ uses. Anything consuming that topic must match on the metric name. The live gate caught exactly this:
+ a rebirth NCMD arrived before the write command. DCMD has no such contention.
+
## Browse
`MqttDriverBrowser` opens a **read-only observation session**: it subscribes at QoS 0 to `#` (or
@@ -384,14 +466,13 @@ identical words. See [TestConnectProbes.md](TestConnectProbes.md).
Every row is tracked. None is a silent failure — each either refuses in words or logs.
+**Closed 2026-07-31:** write-through ([#508](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/508), live-gated), the slashed-metric browse-commit
+([#509](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/509)), the stale rebirth affordance ([#510](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/510)), the `.Browser` layering exception
+([#512](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/512)), the stray Sparkplug `payloadFormat` ([#513](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/513)) and rebirth on a
+not-yet-birthed plant ([#514](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/514)).
+
| Gap | Issue | Effect | Notes |
|---|:---:|---|---|
-| **Write-through (`IWritable`)** | [#508](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/508) | Every MQTT node is read-only | Deferred to P3 — NCMD/DCMD + plain publish, optimistic-Good + self-correct on echo |
-| **Rediscovery is inert** | [#507](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/507) | A DBIRTH introducing a metric does not change the OPC UA tree; redeploy to pick it up | v3 **platform** gap, not MQTT-specific — nothing subscribes to `OnRediscoveryNeeded` and `DriverHostActor.HandleDiscoveredNodes` hard-returns. Also affects Galaxy / TwinCAT / AbCip. Driver-side decision is log-observable |
-| **Rebirth needs a non-empty tree** | [#514](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/514) | `Request rebirth…` cannot be armed on a plant that has not birthed since the window opened | See [Refresh](#refresh). Session side already supports a bare `{group}/{edgeNode}` scope |
-| **`_canRebirth` is captured at browse-open** | [#510](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/510) | A session reaped for idleness (2 min) still draws the button, and using it errors | The error is shown, not swallowed; reopen the browser |
+| **Rediscovery is advisory, not a rebuild** | [#507](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/507) (closed, superseded) | A DBIRTH introducing a metric does not change the served OPC UA tree; an operator must re-browse the device and commit | **No longer "inert".** `DriverInstanceActor` now subscribes to `OnRediscoveryNeeded` and the raise rides the driver-health snapshot to the AdminUI `/hosts` page as a **re-browse chip**. It deliberately does not inject nodes: v3 authors raw tags through the `/raw` browse-commit flow, and grafting nodes at runtime would materialise ones nobody approved and no deployment artifact records. #507's injection path was deleted rather than revived |
| **Primary-host STATE publishing** | [#511](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/511) | `ActAsPrimaryHost` does nothing | Logs a startup warning rather than being silently inert — see the `Sparkplug` sub-object table |
-| **A metric whose name contains `/` cannot be browse-committed** | [#509](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/509) | The commit is refused **whole**, in words (`Row N: Name must not contain '/'`) | The derived **tag Name** is a RawPath segment and may not contain `/`, while `metricName` legitimately may. This blocks the spec-mandatory `Node Control/Rebirth`. **Workaround: Manual entry** — author the tag with a `/`-free name and type the slashed `metricName` into the Sparkplug editor, which accepts it. Nothing is silently mis-bound |
| **`DataSet` / `Template` / `PropertySet` metrics** | [#515](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/515) | Skipped with a warning | v1-unsupported; never coerced into a guessed type |
-| **The tag editor writes `payloadFormat` into a Sparkplug blob** | [#513](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/513) | Cosmetic only | `payloadFormat` is Plain-only; the factory routes on the Sparkplug keys and ignores it. Noise in the blob, not a mis-binding |
-| **`.Browser` references `.Driver`, not just `.Contracts`** | [#512](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/512) | A documented layering exception | Taken to reuse `MqttConnection.BuildClientOptions` rather than duplicate TLS/CA-pin logic — see the note at the top of this doc |
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagConfigKeys.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagConfigKeys.cs
index 4a11784b..a40e6ead 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagConfigKeys.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagConfigKeys.cs
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ public static class MqttTagConfigKeys
/// The concrete MQTT topic a Plain-mode tag subscribes to.
public const string Topic = "topic";
+ ///
+ /// The concrete MQTT topic a Plain-mode tag PUBLISHES to when written (Gitea #508). Deliberately
+ /// separate from : a tag legitimately reads .../state and writes
+ /// .../set, and publishing a command onto the tag's own read topic would echo back and
+ /// read as a confirmed device value. Absent ⇒ the tag is not writable, and a write is refused
+ /// rather than silently dropped.
+ ///
+ public const string WriteTopic = "writeTopic";
+
/// The Sparkplug group id — the first segment of the tag's binding tuple.
public const string GroupId = "groupId";
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinition.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinition.cs
index 15c3c3eb..6bd86ecd 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinition.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinition.cs
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt;
/// default. Both factories set it from the key's presence so it
/// means the same thing in either mode; nothing on the Plain ingest path reads it.
///
+///
+/// The concrete MQTT topic a Plain-mode write publishes to, or when the
+/// tag declares no write destination — in which case a write is refused with BadNotWritable
+/// rather than silently dropped (Gitea #508). Unused in Sparkplug mode, where the command address is
+/// the binding tuple itself (an NCMD/DCMD topic derived from group/edgeNode/device).
+///
/// The Sparkplug group id; for a Plain-mode tag.
/// The Sparkplug edge-node id; for a Plain-mode tag.
///
@@ -82,4 +88,5 @@ public sealed record MqttTagDefinition(
string? GroupId = null,
string? EdgeNodeId = null,
string? DeviceId = null,
- string? MetricName = null);
+ string? MetricName = null,
+ string? WriteTopic = null);
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinitionFactory.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinitionFactory.cs
index ecdcf121..abceea13 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinitionFactory.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttTagDefinitionFactory.cs
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@ public static class MqttTagDefinitionFactory
DataType: dataType,
Qos: qos,
RetainSeed: ReadBoolOrDefault(root, "retainSeed", defaultValue: true),
- DataTypeAuthored: dataTypeAuthored);
+ DataTypeAuthored: dataTypeAuthored,
+ // Optional, and absence is meaningful: no writeTopic ⇒ not writable (Gitea #508).
+ // Blank normalises to null so "" and absent cannot mean different things.
+ WriteTopic: NullIfBlank(ReadString(root, MqttTagConfigKeys.WriteTopic)));
return true;
}
catch (JsonException) { return false; }
@@ -190,7 +193,10 @@ public static class MqttTagDefinitionFactory
GroupId: groupId,
EdgeNodeId: edgeNodeId,
DeviceId: deviceId,
- MetricName: metricName);
+ MetricName: metricName,
+ // Carried through, but unread on the Sparkplug write path: a Sparkplug command is
+ // addressed by the binding tuple, not by a topic the operator typed.
+ WriteTopic: NullIfBlank(ReadString(root, MqttTagConfigKeys.WriteTopic)));
return true;
}
catch (JsonException) { return false; }
@@ -283,6 +289,17 @@ public static class MqttTagDefinitionFactory
? e.GetString() ?? ""
: "";
+ ///
+ /// Normalises a blank string to , for the optional fields where absence is
+ /// itself meaningful — writeTopic, where "absent" means "not writable" (Gitea #508). Without
+ /// this, "writeTopic": "" and an absent key would take different code paths and an empty
+ /// string could reach the transport as a publish topic.
+ ///
+ /// The raw read value.
+ /// The trimmed value, or when blank.
+ private static string? NullIfBlank(string value)
+ => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value) ? null : value.Trim();
+
private static bool ReadBoolOrDefault(JsonElement o, string name, bool defaultValue)
=> o.TryGetProperty(name, out var e) && e.ValueKind is JsonValueKind.True or JsonValueKind.False
? e.GetBoolean()
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttWriteEncoder.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttWriteEncoder.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45ee2981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Contracts/MqttWriteEncoder.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using Google.Protobuf;
+using Org.Eclipse.Tahu.Protobuf;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Sparkplug;
+using TahuDataType = Org.Eclipse.Tahu.Protobuf.DataType;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt;
+
+///
+/// Why a write could not be encoded. Maps 1:1 onto the status the driver returns, so the reason a
+/// write was refused is decided here — once, purely — rather than at the transport.
+///
+public enum MqttWriteEncodeError
+{
+ /// Encoding succeeded.
+ None = 0,
+
+ ///
+ /// The tag declares no write destination: a Plain tag with no writeTopic. Deliberately a
+ /// hard refusal — see 's remarks on why a silent no-op would be
+ /// worse than the honest read-only behaviour this replaced.
+ ///
+ NoWriteDestination,
+
+ /// The value is null, or cannot be represented in the tag's declared data type.
+ ValueNotRepresentable,
+
+ /// The tag's declared data type has no Sparkplug command encoding.
+ UnsupportedDataType,
+}
+
+///
+/// Encodes an outbound MQTT write — the payload bytes and the topic to publish them on — for both
+/// ingest shapes (Gitea #508). Pure: no I/O, no transport, no clock beyond the Sparkplug command
+/// timestamp, so the whole encode contract is unit-testable without a broker.
+///
+///
+///
+/// A missing write destination is a refusal, never a no-op. Before #508 the driver
+/// implemented no IWritable at all, so every MQTT node materialised read-only — honest, if
+/// limited. The one outcome that would be strictly worse is a node that looks writable,
+/// accepts a write, returns Good and publishes nothing. So a Plain tag with no writeTopic
+/// yields and the driver surfaces
+/// BadNotWritable.
+///
+///
+/// The write topic is deliberately separate from the read topic. A tag legitimately reads
+/// .../state and writes .../set, so the destination is its own authored field rather
+/// than being inferred from . Publishing a command back onto
+/// the tag's own read topic would, on a broker with no device behind it, echo straight back and
+/// read as a confirmed device value.
+///
+///
+/// Sparkplug writes are commands, not data. A metric under a device encodes as a DCMD, one
+/// owned by the edge node itself as an NCMD, addressed by the tag's stable
+/// (group, edgeNode, device?, metric) tuple — never by the per-birth alias, which may be
+/// reused for a different metric across a rebirth. No seq is stamped, for the reason
+/// documents at length: the sequence stream belongs to the messages
+/// an edge node itself publishes, and a strict node validating a host-supplied one against its own
+/// counter would have grounds to reject the command.
+///
+///
+/// jsonPath is not applied on write. It is a read-side extraction from the read topic's
+/// document, and the write topic is a different topic whose payload shape nothing in the tag config
+/// describes. A write therefore emits the value as a bare JSON
+/// literal. Reconstructing a wrapped document from an extraction path would be guesswork, and
+/// guessing a payload shape is how a write lands somewhere nobody authored.
+///
+///
+public static class MqttWriteEncoder
+{
+ /// QoS for an outbound write. See the remarks on .
+ public const int WriteQos = 0;
+
+ ///
+ /// Encodes one write for the tag under the driver's .
+ ///
+ /// The driver's ingest shape — chosen by driver config, never sniffed from the tag.
+ /// The resolved tag definition.
+ /// The value to write.
+ /// The topic + payload to publish, when this returns .
+ /// The encode outcome.
+ ///
+ /// QoS 0, retain . Retain is the one that matters: a retained
+ /// command would be replayed by the broker to the device on every future subscribe — including
+ /// the device's own reconnect — so a single stale write would be re-applied forever. This is the
+ /// same hazard avoids for NCMD, and the reason neither is
+ /// configurable.
+ ///
+ public static MqttWriteEncodeError TryEncode(
+ MqttMode mode,
+ MqttTagDefinition def,
+ object? value,
+ out MqttEncodedWrite encoded)
+ {
+ ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(def);
+ encoded = default;
+
+ return mode == MqttMode.SparkplugB
+ ? TryEncodeSparkplug(def, value, out encoded)
+ : TryEncodePlain(def, value, out encoded);
+ }
+
+ /// Encodes a Plain-mode write: the value's text/JSON rendering onto the tag's write topic.
+ /// The resolved tag definition.
+ /// The value to write.
+ /// The topic + payload on success.
+ /// The encode outcome.
+ private static MqttWriteEncodeError TryEncodePlain(
+ MqttTagDefinition def,
+ object? value,
+ out MqttEncodedWrite encoded)
+ {
+ encoded = default;
+
+ if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(def.WriteTopic))
+ {
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.NoWriteDestination;
+ }
+
+ if (value is null)
+ {
+ // No MQTT payload means "the value is null" — a zero-length payload is a legitimate
+ // clear-the-retained-message instruction, which is a different operation entirely.
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.ValueNotRepresentable;
+ }
+
+ string text;
+ if (def.PayloadFormat == MqttPayloadFormat.Json)
+ {
+ try
+ {
+ text = JsonSerializer.Serialize(value);
+ }
+ catch (NotSupportedException)
+ {
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.ValueNotRepresentable;
+ }
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ // Raw and Scalar are both "the payload's UTF-8 text" on the read side; the write side
+ // mirrors that. Invariant culture, or a comma decimal separator on a European host would
+ // publish a number the device cannot parse.
+ text = value is IFormattable f
+ ? f.ToString(null, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
+ : value.ToString() ?? "";
+ }
+
+ encoded = new MqttEncodedWrite(def.WriteTopic!.Trim(), Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text));
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+ }
+
+ /// Encodes a Sparkplug-mode write as an NCMD (node metric) or DCMD (device metric).
+ /// The resolved tag definition.
+ /// The value to write.
+ /// The topic + payload on success.
+ /// The encode outcome.
+ private static MqttWriteEncodeError TryEncodeSparkplug(
+ MqttTagDefinition def,
+ object? value,
+ out MqttEncodedWrite encoded)
+ {
+ encoded = default;
+
+ if (def.GroupId is not { Length: > 0 } groupId
+ || def.EdgeNodeId is not { Length: > 0 } edgeNodeId
+ || def.MetricName is not { Length: > 0 } metricName)
+ {
+ // A Sparkplug tag's command address IS its binding tuple, so an incomplete tuple is the
+ // Sparkplug equivalent of a missing write topic rather than a different kind of failure.
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.NoWriteDestination;
+ }
+
+ if (value is null)
+ {
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.ValueNotRepresentable;
+ }
+
+ var metric = new Payload.Types.Metric { Name = metricName };
+ var error = ApplyValue(metric, def.DataType, value);
+ if (error != MqttWriteEncodeError.None)
+ {
+ return error;
+ }
+
+ var timestampMs = (ulong)DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ metric.Timestamp = timestampMs;
+
+ var payload = new Payload { Timestamp = timestampMs };
+ payload.Metrics.Add(metric);
+
+ // A device metric is commanded with DCMD addressed to that device; an edge-node metric with
+ // NCMD. Sending a device metric as NCMD would address the node, which does not own it.
+ var isDevice = def.DeviceId is { Length: > 0 };
+ var topic = SparkplugTopic.Format(
+ groupId,
+ isDevice ? SparkplugMessageType.DCMD : SparkplugMessageType.NCMD,
+ edgeNodeId,
+ isDevice ? def.DeviceId : null);
+
+ encoded = new MqttEncodedWrite(topic, payload.ToByteArray());
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Sets the metric's typed value field and its Datatype from the tag's declared type.
+ ///
+ /// The metric being built.
+ /// The tag's declared driver data type.
+ /// The value to convert.
+ /// The encode outcome.
+ ///
+ /// Datatype is set explicitly rather than left for the node to infer, for the same reason
+ /// sets it: a node that treats a missing or ambiguous field as
+ /// malformed drops the command silently, and a silently-dropped write is the failure mode this
+ /// whole feature must not have.
+ ///
+ private static MqttWriteEncodeError ApplyValue(
+ Payload.Types.Metric metric,
+ DriverDataType dataType,
+ object value)
+ {
+ try
+ {
+ switch (dataType)
+ {
+ case DriverDataType.Boolean:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Boolean;
+ metric.BooleanValue = Convert.ToBoolean(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.Int16:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Int16;
+ metric.IntValue = unchecked((uint)Convert.ToInt16(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.Int32:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Int32;
+ metric.IntValue = unchecked((uint)Convert.ToInt32(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.Int64:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Int64;
+ metric.LongValue = unchecked((ulong)Convert.ToInt64(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.UInt16:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Uint16;
+ metric.IntValue = Convert.ToUInt16(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.UInt32:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Uint32;
+ metric.IntValue = Convert.ToUInt32(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.UInt64:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Uint64;
+ metric.LongValue = Convert.ToUInt64(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.Float32:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Float;
+ metric.FloatValue = Convert.ToSingle(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.Float64:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.Double;
+ metric.DoubleValue = Convert.ToDouble(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.String:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.String;
+ metric.StringValue = value as string ?? Convert.ToString(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) ?? "";
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ case DriverDataType.DateTime:
+ metric.Datatype = (uint)TahuDataType.DateTime;
+ metric.LongValue = (ulong)new DateTimeOffset(
+ Convert.ToDateTime(value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToUniversalTime())
+ .ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.None;
+
+ default:
+ // DriverDataType.Reference and anything added later: refuse rather than guess a
+ // wire representation. An unsupported type must not become a String on the wire.
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.UnsupportedDataType;
+ }
+ }
+ catch (Exception ex) when (ex is InvalidCastException or FormatException or OverflowException)
+ {
+ return MqttWriteEncodeError.ValueNotRepresentable;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/// One encoded outbound write: where it goes and what it carries.
+/// The concrete topic to publish on.
+/// The encoded message body.
+public readonly record struct MqttEncodedWrite(string Topic, byte[] Payload);
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttDriver.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttDriver.cs
index 3fd63a76..4f1e4d54 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttDriver.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttDriver.cs
@@ -63,8 +63,31 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt;
///
///
public sealed class MqttDriver
- : IDriver, ITagDiscovery, ISubscribable, IReadable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IRediscoverable, IAsyncDisposable, IDisposable
+ : IDriver, ITagDiscovery, ISubscribable, IReadable, IWritable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IRediscoverable,
+ IAsyncDisposable, IDisposable
{
+ // ---- Write status codes (Gitea #508) ----
+ //
+ // NAMED constants, never inline literals: StatusCodeParityTests checks each against the pinned SDK
+ // by reflection and can only see a named const (Gitea #497/#519). The names must match
+ // Opc.Ua.StatusCodes members exactly.
+
+ /// The reference is not an authored tag of this driver's live ingest path.
+ private const uint StatusBadNodeIdUnknown = 0x80340000u;
+
+ ///
+ /// The tag declares no write destination — a Plain tag with no writeTopic, or a Sparkplug
+ /// tag with an incomplete binding tuple. The honest answer to "can I write this?", and the whole
+ /// reason the encoder refuses rather than no-opping.
+ ///
+ private const uint StatusBadNotWritable = 0x803B0000u;
+
+ /// The supplied value cannot be represented in the tag's declared data type.
+ private const uint StatusBadTypeMismatch = 0x80740000u;
+
+ /// The publish failed, or the driver has no live broker connection to publish through.
+ private const uint StatusBadCommunicationError = 0x80050000u;
+
///
/// Rough per-tag driver-attributable cost: the parsed (five
/// strings — RawPath, topic, JSONPath and the record header) plus its cached
@@ -480,11 +503,16 @@ public sealed class MqttDriver
DriverDataType: ResolveDiscoveredDataType(def),
IsArray: false,
ArrayDim: null,
- // MQTT ingest is one-way in P1 — this driver implements no IWritable leg, so every
- // node is ViewOnly rather than an Operate node whose writes would silently vanish.
- SecurityClass: SecurityClassification.ViewOnly,
+ // Gitea #508: MQTT now has a write leg, so a tag that declares a write destination is
+ // an Operate node. One that does not stays ViewOnly — the point of the distinction is
+ // that a node must never look writable while its writes would go nowhere.
+ SecurityClass: CanWrite(def) ? SecurityClassification.Operate : SecurityClassification.ViewOnly,
IsHistorized: false,
IsAlarm: false,
+ // Default-off, deliberately: MQTT gives no application-level write acknowledgement, and
+ // a Sparkplug command is not necessarily idempotent (a pulse, a recipe step, a counter
+ // increment). The resilience pipeline must not replay one by default; an operator opts
+ // in per tag via Tag.WriteIdempotent.
WriteIdempotent: false));
}
@@ -585,6 +613,142 @@ public sealed class MqttDriver
return Task.FromResult>(results);
}
+ // ---- IWritable (Gitea #508) ----
+
+ ///
+ /// Whether declares somewhere for a write to go: a writeTopic in
+ /// Plain mode, or a complete command tuple in Sparkplug mode.
+ ///
+ /// The resolved tag definition.
+ /// when a write to this tag can be addressed.
+ ///
+ /// Asked of the SAME encoder the write path uses, so the browse-time answer and the runtime
+ /// answer cannot drift — a node advertised Operate that then refuses every write would be the
+ /// silent-no-op failure in a new costume. The value is irrelevant here, so a probe value of the
+ /// tag's own type is encoded and thrown away.
+ ///
+ private bool CanWrite(MqttTagDefinition def)
+ => MqttWriteEncoder.TryEncode(_options.Mode, def, ProbeValueFor(def.DataType), out _)
+ != MqttWriteEncodeError.NoWriteDestination;
+
+ /// A never-published sentinel value of the given type, for the probe.
+ /// The tag's declared data type.
+ /// A representable value, or a string for types with no natural zero.
+ private static object ProbeValueFor(DriverDataType dataType) => dataType switch
+ {
+ DriverDataType.Boolean => false,
+ DriverDataType.DateTime => DateTime.UnixEpoch,
+ DriverDataType.String or DriverDataType.Reference => "",
+ _ => 0,
+ };
+
+ ///
+ /// Publishes a batch of writes: one MQTT message per request, to the tag's write topic (Plain)
+ /// or as an NCMD/DCMD command (Sparkplug B).
+ ///
+ /// The requested writes.
+ /// Cancellation for the batch.
+ /// One result per request, in request order.
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// Never throws, and one bad request never fails the batch. Each slot carries its own
+ /// status, matching : failing the whole call would let a single stale
+ /// reference reject every other write in the same OPC UA request.
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// Good means "published", not "applied". MQTT has no application-level write
+ /// acknowledgement, so a successful PUBLISH is the strongest truth available at this seam —
+ /// the same optimistic-Good posture Galaxy's fire-and-forget write takes. Device-level truth
+ /// arrives afterwards, as the echoed value on the tag's read topic, and corrects the node
+ /// through the ordinary ingest path. A write whose PUBLISH itself fails is reported Bad: the
+ /// optimism covers what the device did with the command, never whether it was sent.
+ ///
+ ///
+ /// Consequence, inherited knowingly (see #5, write-outcome self-correction): because the
+ /// transport cannot report device-level rejection, this driver can never surface a failed
+ /// device write — exactly the property Galaxy has. A device that silently ignores a
+ /// command leaves the node reading whatever it last published, which is the honest picture; a
+ /// device that has no echo topic at all leaves the operator with no confirmation, which is a
+ /// property of the plant's topic design rather than of this code.
+ ///
+ ///
+ public async Task> WriteAsync(
+ IReadOnlyList writes,
+ CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+ {
+ ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(writes);
+
+ var results = new WriteResult[writes.Count];
+ var connection = _connection;
+
+ for (var i = 0; i < writes.Count; i++)
+ {
+ var w = writes[i];
+
+ if (!TryResolve(w.FullReference, out var def))
+ {
+ results[i] = new WriteResult(StatusBadNodeIdUnknown);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ var error = MqttWriteEncoder.TryEncode(_options.Mode, def, w.Value, out var encoded);
+ if (error != MqttWriteEncodeError.None)
+ {
+ results[i] = new WriteResult(MapEncodeError(error));
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (connection is null)
+ {
+ // Not yet connected, or torn down mid-rebuild. Reported rather than queued: a write
+ // buffered now and flushed at an unbounded later moment is the replay hazard
+ // WriteIdempotent exists to prevent, decided by the driver instead of the operator.
+ results[i] = new WriteResult(StatusBadCommunicationError);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ try
+ {
+ await connection
+ .PublishAsync(encoded.Topic, encoded.Payload, MqttWriteEncoder.WriteQos, retain: false, cancellationToken)
+ .ConfigureAwait(false);
+ results[i] = new WriteResult(0u);
+ }
+ catch (OperationCanceledException) when (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
+ {
+ // Caller-cancelled: fill the remainder rather than throwing, so the batch shape holds.
+ for (var j = i; j < writes.Count; j++)
+ {
+ results[j] = new WriteResult(StatusBadCommunicationError);
+ }
+
+ return results;
+ }
+ catch (Exception ex)
+ {
+ _logger?.LogWarning(
+ ex,
+ "MQTT driver '{DriverId}': write to '{Reference}' could not be published on '{Topic}'.",
+ _driverInstanceId,
+ w.FullReference,
+ encoded.Topic);
+ results[i] = new WriteResult(StatusBadCommunicationError);
+ }
+ }
+
+ return results;
+ }
+
+ /// Maps an encode refusal to the status an OPC UA client sees.
+ /// The encode outcome.
+ /// The OPC UA status code.
+ private static uint MapEncodeError(MqttWriteEncodeError error) => error switch
+ {
+ MqttWriteEncodeError.NoWriteDestination => StatusBadNotWritable,
+ MqttWriteEncodeError.UnsupportedDataType => StatusBadNotWritable,
+ _ => StatusBadTypeMismatch,
+ };
+
// ---- IHostConnectivityProbe ----
/// The single broker this driver instance talks to, as host:port.
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Shared/Uns/TagEditors/MqttTagConfigEditor.razor b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Shared/Uns/TagEditors/MqttTagConfigEditor.razor
index 456c1626..39ecb1e0 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Shared/Uns/TagEditors/MqttTagConfigEditor.razor
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Shared/Uns/TagEditors/MqttTagConfigEditor.razor
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@
@onchange="@(e => Update(() => _m.Topic = e.Value?.ToString() ?? ""))" />
Concrete topic — MQTT wildcards (+ / #) are not valid for a tag.
+ Where a write is published. Deliberately separate from the read topic — a tag commonly
+ reads …/state and writes …/set. Leave blank for a
+ read-only tag: a write is then refused (BadNotWritable) rather than published
+ nowhere.
+