One deadline-bounded /current per batch, answered out of that one whole-device
document: N references cost one round-trip, one snapshot each, in request order,
duplicates included.
DEVIATION (deliberate, from the plan's implied shared-index write): the response
is indexed into a PER-CALL snapshot index, never into the driver's shared
observation index. That index is written by Task 11's /sample pump and is
last-write-wins with no timestamp arbitration; a read folding its /current into
it would be a second writer racing the first, and /current is frequently the
OLDER document (the Agent composes it while the pump's newer delta is in
flight). Losing that race rolls a subscribed value backwards and leaves it there
until the data item next changes. Both paths coerce through the same
MTConnectObservationIndex logic, so a read and a subscription report a given
observation identically -- the read path is simply a pure function of
(document, authored tags).
Failure posture is the inverse of InitializeAsync: nothing but genuine caller
cancellation crosses the capability boundary. Unreachable Agent / blown deadline
/ unusable answer => every ref codes BadCommunicationError and the driver
degrades (never downgrading Faulted); no client at all (pre-initialize, faulted,
post-shutdown) => BadNotConnected with health untouched. The index's
BadWaitingForInitialData / BadNodeIdUnknown / BadNoCommunication / BadNotSupported
distinctions pass through unmodified.
21 tests pinning arity, order, duplicates, empty batch, one-round-trip, each Bad
code, read-time freshness, the anti-clobber invariant, the deadline, and
cancellation-propagates-but-agent-failure-does-not. CannedAgentClient gains a
cancellation-observing CurrentGate (still no timers or sleeps of its own).
Test csproj takes the AbCip/S7 OTOPCUA0001 NoWarn -- this suite calls the
capability directly by design.
329/329 green.
MTConnectDriver implements IDriver only: connection-free ctor, initialize
(deadline-bounded /probe + /current, caching the device model, the agent
instanceId, and a primed observation index), reinitialize, shutdown, health,
footprint, and cache flush.
Decisions worth knowing:
- The driverConfigJson argument is HONOURED, not ignored. DriverInstanceActor
delivers a config change only via ReinitializeAsync(json) on the live
instance, so a driver reading only its ctor options would turn every MTConnect
config edit into a silent no-op that still sealed the deployment green.
ParseOptions lives on the driver; Task 15's factory must delegate to it rather
than deserialize a second DTO.
- /probe ok but priming /current failing is Faulted, not Healthy-with-no-data:
the index IS the read surface and the /sample cursor comes from /current.
- ReinitializeAsync rebuilds the client whenever ANY option the client reads at
construction changed - AgentUri, DeviceName, RequestTimeoutMs, HeartbeatMs,
SampleIntervalMs, SampleCount - not just the first two. The timing knobs are
baked into the deadlines, the watchdog window, and the /sample query string.
- An unparseable config faults a cold start but leaves a RUNNING driver serving
its previous valid configuration (the deployment fails instead).
- IMTConnectAgentClient now extends IDisposable rather than the driver doing
`as IDisposable`, which would silently no-op against a non-disposable fake and
leak an HttpClient + socket handler per re-deploy. Sync, not async: every
resource behind the seam is sync-disposable, and the async unwind belongs to
the SampleAsync enumerator the pump owns.
- Flush drops the probe/browse cache and keeps the index; every model consumer
goes through GetOrFetchProbeModelAsync so a flush cannot wedge browse.
Tests: CannedAgentClient (shared, deterministic - channel-backed scripted
/sample with no timers, call counts, disposal tracking, failure injection) +
27 lifecycle tests. 308/308 in the project.
Joseph Doherty