Part 9 ConditionType.Quality was never assigned; default(StatusCode)==Good
so every native + scripted condition reported Good unconditionally — a
comms-lost device still showed a healthy, inactive, Good condition (a
wrong-VALUE bug, distinct from the null-value #473/#475). Clients (and HMIs
bucketing on IsGood) could not tell "genuinely inactive" from "lost contact".
Layer 1 — make Quality a real, plumbed field:
- AlarmConditionSnapshot gains OpcUaQuality Quality (default Good).
- MaterialiseAlarmCondition sets it (native BadWaitingForInitialData, scripted Good).
- WriteAlarmCondition projects snapshot.Quality; the delta-gate gains a Quality
member so a quality-bucket change fires a Part 9 event.
Layer 2 — drive native quality from driver connectivity (a comms-lost driver
emits no alarm transitions, and an alarm-bearing raw tag has no value variable,
so quality can't come from either existing channel):
- DriverInstanceActor Tells parent ConnectivityChanged on Connected/Reconnecting.
- DriverHostActor fans it to every native condition the driver owns as
OpcUaPublishActor.AlarmQualityUpdate (Good on connect, Bad on disconnect).
- New dedicated IOpcUaAddressSpaceSink.WriteAlarmQuality sets ONLY Quality and
fires only on a bucket change — never touches Active/Acked/Retain (an active
alarm that loses comms stays active). Not a full-snapshot re-projection, so it
can't clobber severity/message and works for a never-fired condition.
Forwarded through DeferredAddressSpaceSink (F10b trap; auto-verified by the
reflection forwarding guard). Ungated by redundancy role; no /alerts row.
Scripted conditions stay Good; worst-of-input quality deferred to #478 (Layer 3).
Tests: node-level (materialise/project/no-clobber/unknown-node no-op),
NativeAlarmProjector, DriverInstanceActor connectivity emission, DriverHostActor
fan-out, OpcUaPublishActor routing, and the wire-level guard
(Condition_event_Quality_tracks_source_connectivity_on_the_wire) — RED-verified
against a simulated pre-fix always-Good server. Existing DriverInstanceActor
parent probes ignore the new ConnectivityChanged.
Docs: docs/AlarmTracking.md §"Condition source-data Quality (#477)";
design doc docs/plans/2026-07-17-alarm-condition-quality-477-design.md.
MaterialiseAlarmCondition never assigned the mandatory Part 9 ConditionType
classification fields, so every condition event — native and scripted — shipped
ConditionClassId = NodeId.Null (i=0) and ConditionClassName = empty text. Same
mechanism as #473: Create() builds the mandatory children from the type's
embedded definition but leaves them unset, and nothing downstream synthesises
them (ReportEvent / InstanceStateSnapshot copy children verbatim). An HMI
bucketing alarms by condition class dropped every OtOpcUa alarm as unclassified.
Report BaseConditionClassType — Part 9's "no condition class modelled" value.
This is the honest report: we hold no classification at the materialise seam.
Deliberately NOT ProcessConditionClassType (the SDK sample's pick), which would
assert a classification we cannot back and would be actively wrong for a Galaxy
alarm whose upstream category is Safety/Diagnostics — trading a detectable null
for an undetectable lie. Real per-alarm classification needs the driver's
AlarmCategory carried to this deploy-time seam (it lives only on the runtime
AlarmEventArgs transition today) and is a separate feature.
Guards, both observed RED against the pre-fix server:
- NativeAlarmEventIdentityFieldDeliveryTests: wire-level, its own select clause
(the #473 test's clause mirrors ScadaBridge's exactly and its indices are
load-bearing, so it is left untouched). The class fields are declared on
ConditionType, not BaseEventType, so they are selected against that type.
- NodeManagerAlarmSourceFieldsTests: node-level, native (Raw) + scripted (Uns).
Stacked on #473 (PR #474) — merge after it.
MaterialiseAlarmCondition never assigned the three mandatory BaseEventType
identity fields, so all three arrived null on every condition event — native
and scripted. The SDK does not synthesise them on this path: Create() builds
the children from the type definition but leaves them unset, the auto-filling
BaseEventState.Initialize overload is only used for transient events, and
ReportEvent / InstanceStateSnapshot copy children verbatim. A conforming
client could not attribute an alarm to its source.
EventType = the concrete materialised type (TypeDefinitionId)
SourceNode = the condition's own NodeId (== ConditionId) — the condition IS
the source; an alarm-bearing raw tag materialises only the
condition, with no sibling value variable
SourceName = the same identifying id string: RawPath (native) /
ScriptedAlarmId (scripted)
SourceName carries the unique id rather than the leaf name: the leaf collides
across devices (HR200 on two PLCs) and is already carried by ConditionName, so
nothing is lost. Documented in docs/AlarmTracking.md, including that clients
must key on ConditionId and must not compose SourceName with ConditionName,
and that SourceName is NOT a live<->history join key (the alarm-history writer
stamps it with the EquipmentPath — a pre-existing divergence, now called out).
Tests: NativeAlarmEventIdentityFieldDeliveryTests is the wire-level guard —
a real client subscription using the standard [EventType, SourceNode,
SourceName, Time, Message, Severity] select clause, verified to fail against
the pre-fix server. NodeManagerAlarmSourceFieldsTests guards the node across
both realms, the base-type fallback, and the kind-swap re-materialise.
The HistoryRead events projection is a separate path (it projects historian
rows, not node fields) and is unaffected — its EventType => Variant.Null
assertions still hold.
Joseph Doherty