diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 9d1513cf..c8f1717e 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ once per tag — only genuine transport failures evict and degrade (a runtime `N
it used to latch `Degraded`). AbCip width-checks every scalar **write** against the controller's bytes before
sending, on both transports (#611; libplctag used to patch part of its buffer and send it all). Controller-discovered
UDT members are writable once browse-committed and authored `ReadWrite` (BIT members included — the controller
-applies the bit); whole-UDT writes are refused `BadNotSupported` by decision (`docs/drivers/AbCip.md` §Member writes). `DeviceSessionPool.Shared` logs through the
+applies the bit) — ab_server-proven only, member and BIT-member writes are unverified on real hardware; whole-UDT writes are refused `BadNotSupported` by decision (`docs/drivers/AbCip.md` §Member writes). `DeviceSessionPool.Shared` logs through the
host logger factory (wired in `DriverFactoryBootstrap`; the FOCAS and TwinCAT factories' `Register(registry, ILoggerFactory?)` take one too, #602 CONV-3). The AbCip `browsePageDelayMs` knob has an AdminUI field (`AbCipDriverForm` "Browse page delay (ms)"). libplctag is confined to `Libplctag*.cs` adapters by
`LibplctagConfinementGuardTests`; do not reference it elsewhere. See `docs/drivers/AbCip.md` §Transport,
`docs/drivers/AbLegacy.md` §Transport + §Wire evidence, `docs/Configuration.md` §`Drivers:AbCip`, and
diff --git a/docs/drivers/AbCip.md b/docs/drivers/AbCip.md
index 98cb235d..bb81a9f1 100644
--- a/docs/drivers/AbCip.md
+++ b/docs/drivers/AbCip.md
@@ -405,8 +405,10 @@ when it is browse-committed in `/raw`, and that tag writes like any other atomic
with the bytes the controller holds at the path (the runtime's last read) and refuses a mismatch without
writing: a narrower/wider atomic type is `BadTypeMismatch` (libplctag would otherwise patch part of its read
buffer and send the whole buffer back — e.g. an `Int` over a DINT member wrote four bytes with a stale high
- word); a `Bool` over a wider value (a packed BOOL-array DWORD, a mistyped integer) is `BadNotSupported`,
- because writing it would rewrite every neighbouring bit. Native additionally refuses a same-width
+ word); a `Bool` over a wider value is never written, because writing it would rewrite every neighbouring
+ bit. On **native** the runtime judges it from the CIP type, exactly as its read does: a packed BOOL-array
+ DWORD (`0xD3`) is `BadNotSupported`, a BOOL authored over a mistyped integer member is `BadTypeMismatch`.
+ **libplctag** exposes only the size, cannot tell the two apart, and refuses both `BadNotSupported`. Native additionally refuses a same-width
mismatch (REAL vs DINT) from the CIP type code — see [Native transport behaviour](#native-transport-behaviour).
A refusal keeps the handle, warns once per tag and **does not touch driver health**.
- **Not verified on a real controller.** Production presses are read-only, so member writes are proven on
@@ -414,7 +416,8 @@ when it is browse-committed in `/raw`, and that tag writes like any other atomic
Z-35162 controller tag `_EmptyTemperatureSegment` (`UDT_TemperatureProfile_Segment`), which no logic
references — its members (`ID`, `Enable`, `RampTime`, …) are all zero and resolve as described above.
-Pre-declared `Members` with `Writable: true` keep working exactly as before (same write path).
+Pre-declared `Members` with `Writable: true` keep working as before — same write path, now width-checked
+(a mistyped declared member is refused where libplctag used to write it).
### Whole-UDT writes — refused, by decision
diff --git a/docs/drivers/AbServer-Test-Fixture.md b/docs/drivers/AbServer-Test-Fixture.md
index e198c6c2..a56eba20 100644
--- a/docs/drivers/AbServer-Test-Fixture.md
+++ b/docs/drivers/AbServer-Test-Fixture.md
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ smoke test passes on both transports. Evidence:
- ab_server serves no UDTs, so template parity is vacuous there. Docker patch 0003 serves a UDT **member
path** from a flat tag named by that dotted path (`UdtSeg.ID`, `UdtSeg.Sub.Code`, `UdtSeg.Points[2]`) — the
wire of a member read/write, not a structure — and accepts the pad byte libplctag adds to a 1-byte write,
- which stock ab_server refused (`0x03`) for every libplctag BOOL/SINT write. Native writes remain
+ which stock ab_server refused (`0x03`) for every libplctag BOOL/SINT write. Two blind spots follow (see
+ the Docker README §0003): a +1-byte over-write of an odd-sized tag is no longer caught, and a malformed
+ single segment `"UdtSeg.ID"` resolves where a real Logix would refuse it. Native writes remain
simulator-only.
- **Golden-frame capture:** `scripts/ab-capture/capture.sh` (capture client in `scripts/ab-capture/client`);
fixtures live in `tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Ab.Transport.Tests/Captures/` with a README.
diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip/AbCipDriver.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip/AbCipDriver.cs
index 64a22ca0..25bf13ba 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip/AbCipDriver.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip/AbCipDriver.cs
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ public sealed class AbCipDriver : IDriver, IReadable, IWritable, ITagDiscovery,
// BOOL-array DWORD wrote all 32 bits. Discovered UDT members are where a mis-authored type
// is most likely (browse-commit fills dataType from the template, an operator may retype).
size = runtime.GetSize();
- refusal = WriteWidthRefusal(def, parsedPath?.BitIndex, size);
+ refusal = WriteWidthRefusal(def, parsedPath?.BitIndex, size, runtimeTypesBool: runtime is NativeAbCipTagRuntime);
if (refusal is null)
{
runtime.EncodeValue(def.DataType, parsedPath?.BitIndex, w.Value);
@@ -1710,15 +1710,24 @@ public sealed class AbCipDriver : IDriver, IReadable, IWritable, ITagDiscovery,
/// would clobber the neighbouring bits, the same refusal the native runtime raises; any other width
/// mismatch is BadTypeMismatch. Arrays, bit selectors (Flags.3, served by the
/// read-modify-write path) and an unknown size (<= 0) are not judged here.
+ ///
+ /// A BOOL over a wider value is left to the runtime when it can see the CIP type
+ /// ( — the native transport): it tells a packed BOOL-array DWORD
+ /// (0xD3, BadNotSupported) from a mistyped integer member (BadTypeMismatch, the
+ /// same verdict as its read), and refuses both before sending. libplctag exposes only the size, so the
+ /// two are indistinguishable there and both get the safe BadNotSupported.
+ ///
///
/// The tag being written.
/// The parsed bit selector, if any.
/// The runtime's read-buffer size in bytes.
+ /// The runtime checks a BOOL write against the controller's CIP type itself.
/// The refusal status, or null.
- internal static uint? WriteWidthRefusal(AbCipTagDefinition def, int? bitIndex, int size)
+ internal static uint? WriteWidthRefusal(AbCipTagDefinition def, int? bitIndex, int size, bool runtimeTypesBool = false)
{
if (IsArrayTag(def) || bitIndex is not null || size <= 0) return null;
if (ExpectedScalarWriteWidth(def.DataType) is not { } width || size == width) return null;
+ if (def.DataType == AbCipDataType.Bool && runtimeTypesBool) return null;
return def.DataType == AbCipDataType.Bool
? AbCipStatusMapper.BadNotSupported
: AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch;
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/README.md b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/README.md
index c0ebb5f0..189892c5 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/README.md
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/README.md
@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ things for the discovered-UDT-member write suite (`AbCipUdtMemberWriteTests`, Gi
`0x03` (libplctag `ErrorBadParam`), so no libplctag BOOL/SINT write could pass here. The
patch drops exactly one trailing pad byte when it alone would overrun an odd-sized target.
+**Blind spots this patch introduces (accepted for a fixture):** (a) the pad trim also accepts a genuinely
+wrong 2-byte payload aimed at a 1-byte tag, so ab_server can no longer catch a client over-writing an
+odd-sized target by exactly one byte — the driver's own pre-write width check (`AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal`)
+covers our paths; (b) because `.` is legal in a `--tag` name, a malformed *single* symbolic segment
+`"UdtSeg.ID"` (which a real Logix rejects) also resolves, via the original exact-match lookup —
+`NativeAbCipTagRuntimeTests.A_member_path_write_names_the_member_and_sends_only_its_own_bytes` pins that our
+encoder splits members into separate segments.
+
**Bumping `LIBPLCTAG_TAG` means re-checking every patch against the new tag.** It
is a concrete tag rather than the `release` branch precisely so that this stays
a deliberate act — the branch moves, and the Dockerfile previously called it
@@ -159,7 +167,7 @@ place means updating both.
| Family | Seeded tags | Notes |
|---|---|---|
-| ControlLogix | `TestDINT` `TestREAL` `TestBOOL` `TestSINT` `TestString` `TestArray` `Pump_1_Speed` `Line1_Count` `Motor_Run` `UdtSeg.*` | Widest-coverage; PR 9 baseline. UDT emulation missing from ab_server; the `UdtSeg.*` member tags (patch 0003) serve member-path writes only. The last three serve the controller-browse gate and are additive — the read/write suites key off the `Test*` tags. `Motor_Run` (9), `Line1_Count` (11) and `TestArray` (9) have **odd-length names on purpose**: entries are unpadded, so an odd name puts every following entry on an odd offset, and a decoder that assumes even alignment loses everything behind it |
+| ControlLogix | `TestDINT` `TestREAL` `TestBOOL` `TestSINT` `TestString` `TestArray` `Pump_1_Speed` `Line1_Count` `Motor_Run` `UdtSeg.*` | Widest-coverage; PR 9 baseline. UDT emulation missing from ab_server; the `UdtSeg.*` member tags (patch 0003) serve member-path writes only. `Pump_1_Speed`, `Line1_Count` and `Motor_Run` serve the controller-browse gate and are additive — the read/write suites key off the `Test*` tags. `Motor_Run` (9), `Line1_Count` (11) and `TestArray` (9) have **odd-length names on purpose**: entries are unpadded, so an odd name puts every following entry on an odd offset, and a decoder that assumes even alignment loses everything behind it |
| CompactLogix | `TestDINT` `TestREAL` `TestBOOL` | Narrow ConnectionSize cap enforced driver-side; ab_server accepts any size |
| Micro800 | `TestDINT` `TestREAL` | ab_server has no `micro800` mode; falls back to `controllogix` emulation |
| GuardLogix | `TestDINT` `SafetyDINT_S` | ab_server has no safety subsystem; `_S` suffix triggers driver-side classification only |
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/docker-compose.yml b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/docker-compose.yml
index 8e6e45ae..ce9dfaa0 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ services:
restart: "no"
ports:
- "44818:44818"
- # The last three are here for the controller-browse gate (Gitea #468) and
+ # Pump_1_Speed, Line1_Count and Motor_Run are here for the controller-browse gate (Gitea #468) and
# are additive — the read/write suites key off the Test* tags above.
# The UdtSeg.* tags (Gitea #611) stand in for the members of a UDT tag `UdtSeg`
# (modelled on the Z-35162 press's UDT_TemperatureProfile_Segment): ab_server has
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.Tests/AbCipDiscoveredMemberWriteTests.cs b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.Tests/AbCipDiscoveredMemberWriteTests.cs
index 2fd0df3b..74fdaae2 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.Tests/AbCipDiscoveredMemberWriteTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.Tests/AbCipDiscoveredMemberWriteTests.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using Shouldly;
using Xunit;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Ab.Transport.Tests.Fakes;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbCip.Tests;
@@ -153,6 +154,120 @@ public sealed class AbCipDiscoveredMemberWriteTests
factory.Tags["Seg.ID"].WriteCount.ShouldBe(0);
}
+ ///
+ /// Review L4 — directly, with a real size so the check runs:
+ /// every atomic width (1/2/4/8, incl. LINT/ULINT/LREAL) passes at its own size and is refused at another;
+ /// arrays, Tag.N bit selectors, STRING/DT and an unknown size (<= 0) are never judged.
+ ///
+ [Theory]
+ // matching widths write
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Bool, 1, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.SInt, 1, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.USInt, 1, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Int, 2, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.UInt, 2, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.DInt, 4, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.UDInt, 4, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Real, 4, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.LInt, 8, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.ULInt, 8, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.LReal, 8, null)]
+ // mismatches are refused
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.LInt, 4, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.LReal, 4, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.ULInt, 2, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Real, 8, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Int, 4, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.SInt, 2, AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Bool, 4, AbCipStatusMapper.BadNotSupported)]
+ // types with no fixed encoded width are never judged
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.String, 88, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.String, 4, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.Dt, 8, null)]
+ // unknown size is never judged
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.DInt, 0, null)]
+ [InlineData(AbCipDataType.DInt, -1, null)]
+ public void WriteWidthRefusal_judges_scalar_widths_only(AbCipDataType type, int size, uint? expected)
+ {
+ var def = new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.X", type);
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(def, bitIndex: null, size).ShouldBe(expected);
+ }
+
+ /// Review L4 — array tags and bit selectors are exempt even at a size that would otherwise refuse.
+ [Fact]
+ public void WriteWidthRefusal_exempts_arrays_and_bit_selectors()
+ {
+ // Control: the same scalar at the same size IS refused, so the exemptions below are not vacuous.
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.X", AbCipDataType.Int), null, 4)
+ .ShouldBe(AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch);
+
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(
+ new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.X", AbCipDataType.Int, ElementCount: 4, IsArray: true), null, 4)
+ .ShouldBeNull();
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(
+ new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.X", AbCipDataType.Int, ElementCount: 2), null, 4)
+ .ShouldBeNull();
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(
+ new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Flags.3", AbCipDataType.Bool), bitIndex: 3, size: 4)
+ .ShouldBeNull();
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(
+ new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Word.3", AbCipDataType.Int), bitIndex: 3, size: 4)
+ .ShouldBeNull();
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Review L2 — a runtime that types BOOL writes itself (native) is left to judge a BOOL over a wider value;
+ /// only libplctag, which sees a size and nothing else, gets the pre-check's BadNotSupported.
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public void WriteWidthRefusal_leaves_a_wide_BOOL_to_a_runtime_that_sees_the_CIP_type()
+ {
+ var def = new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.Flag", AbCipDataType.Bool);
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(def, null, 4, runtimeTypesBool: false).ShouldBe(AbCipStatusMapper.BadNotSupported);
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(def, null, 4, runtimeTypesBool: true).ShouldBeNull();
+ // Non-BOOL mismatches are still refused up front on every runtime.
+ AbCipDriver.WriteWidthRefusal(new AbCipTagDefinition("T", Device, "Seg.X", AbCipDataType.Int), null, 4,
+ runtimeTypesBool: true).ShouldBe(AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch);
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Review L2, end to end on the native runtime: a BOOL authored over a mistyped DINT member writes
+ /// BadTypeMismatch (the same verdict as its read); a BOOL over a packed BOOL-array DWORD writes
+ /// BadNotSupported. Neither sends a write; health is untouched.
+ ///
+ [Theory]
+ [InlineData("C400", AbCipStatusMapper.BadTypeMismatch)] // DINT member mistyped as Bool
+ [InlineData("D300", AbCipStatusMapper.BadNotSupported)] // packed BOOL-array DWORD
+ public async Task A_native_BOOL_over_a_wider_value_keeps_its_type_distinction(string typeHex, uint expected)
+ {
+ var channels = new List();
+ var factory = new NativeFactory(p =>
+ {
+ var ch = new FakeCipChannel { Respond = _ => Task.FromResult(Convert.FromHexString("D2000000" + typeHex + "00000000")) };
+ lock (channels) channels.Add(ch);
+ return NativeAbCipTagRuntime.ForTest(ch, p);
+ });
+ var drv = new AbCipDriver(new AbCipDriverOptions
+ {
+ Devices = [new AbCipDeviceOptions(Device)],
+ RawTags = [Committed("Seg.Flag", "Bool")],
+ Probe = new AbCipProbeOptions { Enabled = false },
+ }, "drv-native", factory);
+ await drv.InitializeAsync("{}", CancellationToken.None);
+ var health = drv.GetHealth();
+
+ (await drv.WriteAsync([new WriteRequest("Seg.Flag", true)], CancellationToken.None))
+ .Single().StatusCode.ShouldBe(expected);
+
+ channels.ShouldHaveSingleItem().Sent.ShouldAllBe(req => req[0] != 0x4D); // no Write Tag request
+ drv.GetHealth().ShouldBe(health);
+ }
+
+ private sealed class NativeFactory(Func create) : IAbCipTagFactory
+ {
+ public IAbCipTagRuntime Create(AbCipTagCreateParams createParams) => create(createParams);
+ }
+
// ---- helpers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// Browses a UDT shaped like the Z-35162 press's UDT_TemperatureProfile_Segment (+ a nested struct).