Phase 3 PR 24 — Modbus PLC data type extensions. Extends ModbusDataType beyond the textbook Int16/UInt16/Int32/UInt32/Float32 set with Int64/UInt64/Float64 (4-register types), BitInRegister (single bit within a holding register, BitIndex 0-15 LSB-first), and String (ASCII packed 2 chars per register with StringLength-driven sizing). Adds ModbusByteOrder enum on ModbusTagDefinition covering the two word-orderings that matter in the real PLC population: BigEndian (ABCD — Modbus TCP standard, Schneider PLCs that follow it strictly) and WordSwap (CDAB — Siemens S7 family, several Allen-Bradley series, some Modicon families). NormalizeWordOrder helper reverses word pairs in-place for 32-bit values and reverses all four words for 64-bit values (keeps bytes big-endian within each register, which is universal; swaps only the word positions). Internal codec surface switched from (bytes, ModbusDataType) pairs to (bytes, ModbusTagDefinition) because the tag carries the ByteOrder + BitIndex + StringLength context the codec needs; RegisterCount similarly takes the tag so strings can compute ceil(StringLength/2). DriverDataType mapping in MapDataType extended to cover the new logical types — Int64/UInt64 widen to Int32 (PR 25 follow-up: extend DriverDataType enum with Int64 to avoid precision loss), Float64 maps to DriverDataType.Float64, String maps to DriverDataType.String, BitInRegister surfaces as Boolean, all other mappings preserved. BitInRegister writes throw a deliberate InvalidOperationException with a 'read-modify-write' hint — to atomically flip a single bit the driver needs to FC03 the register, OR/AND in the bit, then FC06 it back; that's a separate PR because the bit-modify atomicity story needs a per-register mutex and optional compare-and-write semantics. Everything else (decoder paths for both byte orders, Int64/UInt64/Float64 encode + decode, bit-index extraction across both register halves, String nul-truncation on decode, String nul-padding on encode) ships here. Tests (21 new ModbusDataTypeTests): RegisterCount_returns_correct_register_count_per_type theory (10 rows covering every numeric type); RegisterCount_for_String_rounds_up_to_register_pair theory (5 rows including the 0-char edge case that returns 0 registers); Int32_BigEndian_decodes_ABCD_layout + Int32_WordSwap_decodes_CDAB_layout + Float32_WordSwap_encode_decode_roundtrips (covers the two most-common 32-bit orderings); Int64_BigEndian_roundtrips + UInt64_WordSwap_reverses_four_words (word-swap on 64-bit reverses the four-word layout explicitly, with the test computing the expected wire shape by hand rather than trusting the implementation) + Float64_roundtrips_under_word_swap (3.14159265358979 survives the round-trip with 1e-12 tolerance); BitInRegister_extracts_bit_at_index theory (6 rows including LSB, MSB, and arbitrary bits in a multi-bit mask); BitInRegister_write_is_not_supported_in_PR24 (asserts the exception message steers the reader to the 'read-modify-write' follow-up); String_decodes_ASCII_packed_two_chars_per_register (decodes 'HELLO!' from 3 packed registers with the 'HELLO!'u8 test-only UTF-8 literal which happens to equal the ASCII bytes for this ASCII input); String_decode_truncates_at_first_nul ('Hi' padded with nuls reads back as 'Hi'); String_encode_nul_pads_remaining_bytes (short input writes remaining bytes as 0). Full solution: 0 errors, 217 unit + integration tests pass (22 + 30 new Modbus = 52 Modbus total, 165 pre-existing). ModbusDriver capability footprint now matches the most common industrial PLC workloads — Siemens S7 + Allen-Bradley + Modicon all supported via ByteOrder config without driver forks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Modbus/ModbusDriverOptions.cs

@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ public sealed class ModbusProbeOptions
 
 /// <summary>
 ///     One Modbus-backed OPC UA variable. Address is zero-based (Modbus spec numbering, not
-///     the documentation's 1-based coil/register conventions).
+///     the documentation's 1-based coil/register conventions). Multi-register types
+///     (Int32/UInt32/Float32 = 2 regs; Int64/UInt64/Float64 = 4 regs) respect the
+///     <see cref="ByteOrder"/> field — real-world PLCs disagree on word ordering.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="Name">
 ///     Tag name, used for both the OPC UA browse name and the driver's full reference. Must be
@@ -46,14 +48,50 @@ public sealed class ModbusProbeOptions
 /// </param>
 /// <param name="Region">Coils / DiscreteInputs / InputRegisters / HoldingRegisters.</param>
 /// <param name="Address">Zero-based address within the region.</param>
-/// <param name="DataType">Logical data type. Int16/UInt16 = single register; Int32/UInt32/Float32 = two registers big-endian.</param>
+/// <param name="DataType">
+///     Logical data type. See <see cref="ModbusDataType"/> for the register count each encodes.
+/// </param>
 /// <param name="Writable">When true and Region supports writes (Coils / HoldingRegisters), IWritable routes writes here.</param>
+/// <param name="ByteOrder">Word ordering for multi-register types. Ignored for Bool / Int16 / UInt16 / BitInRegister / String.</param>
+/// <param name="BitIndex">For <c>DataType = BitInRegister</c>: which bit of the holding register (0-15, LSB-first).</param>
+/// <param name="StringLength">For <c>DataType = String</c>: number of ASCII characters (2 per register, rounded up).</param>
 public sealed record ModbusTagDefinition(
     string Name,
     ModbusRegion Region,
     ushort Address,
     ModbusDataType DataType,
-    bool Writable = true);
+    bool Writable = true,
+    ModbusByteOrder ByteOrder = ModbusByteOrder.BigEndian,
+    byte BitIndex = 0,
+    ushort StringLength = 0);
 
 public enum ModbusRegion { Coils, DiscreteInputs, InputRegisters, HoldingRegisters }
-public enum ModbusDataType { Bool, Int16, UInt16, Int32, UInt32, Float32 }
+
+public enum ModbusDataType
+{
+    Bool,
+    Int16,
+    UInt16,
+    Int32,
+    UInt32,
+    Int64,
+    UInt64,
+    Float32,
+    Float64,
+    /// <summary>Single bit within a holding register. <see cref="ModbusTagDefinition.BitIndex"/> selects 0-15 LSB-first.</summary>
+    BitInRegister,
+    /// <summary>ASCII string packed 2 chars per register, <see cref="ModbusTagDefinition.StringLength"/> characters long.</summary>
+    String,
+}
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Word ordering for multi-register types. Modbus TCP standard is <see cref="BigEndian"/>
+///     (ABCD for 32-bit: high word at the lower address). Many PLCs — Siemens S7, several
+///     Allen-Bradley series, some Modicon families — use <see cref="WordSwap"/> (CDAB), which
+///     keeps bytes big-endian within each register but reverses the word pair(s).
+/// </summary>
+public enum ModbusByteOrder
+{
+    BigEndian,
+    WordSwap,
+}