Task 21 — the design doc's §3.6 correctness core. `SparkplugIngestor` owns the
authored `(group, node, device?, metric) → RawPath` index, the live `BirthCache`,
one `SequenceTracker` per authored edge node, and the rebirth policy; it routes
NBIRTH/DBIRTH/NDATA/DDATA/NDEATH/DDEATH/STATE into `OnDataChange` +
`LastValueCache`, or into a bounded, per-node-debounced rebirth NCMD.
Invariants held (and each pinned by a falsifiability control):
- Published reference is the RawPath, never a composed Sparkplug reference —
`DriverHostActor`'s dual-namespace fan-out is RawPath-keyed.
- Tags bind by stable metric NAME; the alias is only the per-birth lookup, so an
alias reused across a rebirth cannot mis-route.
- Every value goes through `SparkplugMetricBinding.Reinterpret` before publish.
- NDEATH never reaches `SequenceTracker.Accept` (it carries no seq); it is tied to
its birth by bdSeq instead.
- An invalid payload mutates nothing — no tracker, no alias table, no eviction.
- `HandleMessage` never throws on MQTTnet's dispatcher thread.
Supporting changes:
- `MqttTagDefinitionFactory.FromSparkplugTagConfig` — the driver had no way to
parse the Sparkplug descriptor keys at all; the P1 stub fields on
`MqttTagDefinition` were never populated. Mode selects the parser, never a
blob heuristic. `dataType` becomes optional in the Sparkplug shape (the birth
declares it), recorded via the new `DataTypeAuthored` flag.
- `MqttConnection` implements `IMqttPublishTransport` (bounded, refusal throws).
- `MqttDriver` dispatches every capability by mode, subscribes `spBv1.0/{group}/#`
(+ the configured STATE topic) once at connect, and re-subscribes + requests a
late-join rebirth on reconnect. `IngestIdentity` now names `MqttSparkplugOptions`,
closing the silent same-ingest gap its own ⚠️ comment warned about.
Primary-host STATE *publishing* is explicitly out of scope and warned about at
construction: it needs the retained-OFFLINE Last Will set at CONNECT time, and
shipping the ONLINE half alone is worse than shipping neither.
58 new tests (MQTT suite 455 → 513, all green).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
MQTTnet 5 does not throw on an unsuccessful CONNACK — it returns the reason in
MqttClientConnectResult.ResultCode and v5 removed v4's ThrowOnNonSuccessfulConnectResponse,
so ConnectCoreAsync's unconditional SetState(Connected) sealed a wrong-password deployment
green: DriverState.Healthy / HostState.Running on a session that never authenticated.
Caught by the Task-13 Mosquitto fixture; 240 offline tests missed it.
ConnectCoreAsync now inspects the CONNACK and raises MqttConnectRejectedException.
Credentials/identity/protocol/Last-Will refusals are unrecoverable and set Faulted, which
stops the reconnect supervisor; transient refusals (ServerUnavailable, ServerBusy,
QuotaExceeded, UseAnotherServer, ConnectionRateExceeded, and anything unrecognised) stay
Reconnecting under backoff. MqttDriverProbe now shares the rejection wording, so the
AdminUI Test-connect button and the running driver can no longer disagree.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
MqttSubscriptionManager is the P1 plain-MQTT ingest path: it holds the authored
RawPath → MqttTagDefinition table behind the shared EquipmentTagRefResolver,
establishes one SUBSCRIBE per distinct authored topic, and turns each inbound
message into a LastValueCache update plus an OnDataChange notification.
Load-bearing choices, each pinned by a falsified test:
- The published reference IS the RawPath (def.Name), never the topic and never
the TagConfig blob — DriverHostActor's dual-namespace fan-out is RawPath-keyed,
so any other key passes every unit test and delivers nothing in production.
- One message fans out to EVERY tag on its topic; several tags routinely share a
topic with different jsonPaths, and stopping at the first match silently starves
the rest.
- An unauthored topic raises nothing: MQTT ingest never auto-provisions.
- Wildcard-authored topics (accepted by the parser, warned at deploy) match via
MQTTnet's own MqttTopicFilterComparer, so '+'/'#' behave as a broker would.
Concrete topics stay a single lookup; the wildcard scan runs only when one exists.
- Retained seeds are honoured natively on MQTT 5.0 (retain handling) AND filtered
client-side on the retain flag, because 3.1.1 brokers always replay.
- Nothing throws on MQTTnet's dispatcher thread: a malformed payload degrades that
tag (BadDecodingError / BadTypeMismatch), and a throwing OnDataChange subscriber
is contained without starving the tags behind it.
- The manager issues the FIRST subscribe itself — Reconnected deliberately does not
fire after the initial ConnectAsync.
- Reconnect re-subscribe: total failure THROWS (MqttConnection then tears the
session down and retries under backoff, rather than serving a connected-but-deaf
driver); a partial SUBACK rejection degrades only the denied refs, because
retrying forever over one ACL-denied topic would take every tag dark.
MqttConnection gains a MessageReceived observer (fired on the dispatcher, throwing
observers contained) and a bounded SubscribeAsync under its own linked-CTS deadline
— deliberately not MqttClientOptions.Timeout, which already governs every MQTTnet
op. A refused filter is an outcome, not an exception; only the SUBSCRIBE itself
failing throws. Classify() is parameterised by operation name (messages unchanged
for connect).
JSONPath is a documented subset ($, $.a.b, $['a'], $.a[0]); filters/slices/
recursive descent report a miss rather than pulling in a JSONPath package for an
expression form that selects a set where a tag needs one scalar.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Closes the connect-vs-connect defect: MQTTnet throws (and raises no DisconnectedAsync)
on a connect-while-connected, so a caller's ConnectAsync and the reconnect supervisor
corrupted each other in both directions. Both paths now check first; when the supervisor
finds the session already restored it stands down WITHOUT firing Reconnected.
Reconnected becomes Func<CancellationToken, Task>, fed from the lifetime token and capped
at ConnectTimeoutSeconds, so a hung re-subscribe can no longer park the supervisor.
Connected is published only after the re-subscribe succeeds; a supervisor that dies now
reports Faulted instead of Reconnecting forever.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Review follow-ups on MqttConnection (Task 3):
- Every certificate test asserted rejection, so the accept branch was
unreachable-by-regression. Adds a leaf genuinely issued by the pinned CA and
asserts acceptance.
- ValidateAgainstPinnedCa never seeded ChainPolicy.ExtraStore from the incoming
chain, so a leaf behind an intermediate delivered during the handshake failed
despite a legitimate path to the pinned root. Seeds from both the incoming
chain's elements and its ExtraStore; CustomRootTrust still means only the
pinned roots may terminate the chain.
- A DisposeAsync racing an in-flight connect escaped as an unclassified
exception; it now folds into ObjectDisposedException.
- Promotes the single-caller concurrency invariant into the type remarks, with
the accurate blast radius (a leaked live connection, not a benign throw).
Serialising the lifecycle remains Task 4's job.
- X509Chain.Build can throw; an exception escaping a TLS validation callback is
an opaque handshake crash, so it is caught and refused.
- Adds a connect-retry test (Task 4's reconnect loop reuses the instance) and a
disposed-then-connect test.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Joseph Doherty