`ActAsPrimaryHost` was accepted by config and by the AdminUI form and did nothing but
log a warning. It now delivers the whole three-part contract or none of it: a retained
`ONLINE` on `spBv1.0/STATE/{hostId}`, a matching retained `OFFLINE` armed as the MQTT
Last Will, and an explicit `OFFLINE` on a clean stand-down.
**The claim is a dedicated connection, not a message.** A Will can only be registered in
the CONNECT packet — it cannot be added to a live session, changed, or withdrawn. So a
claim that is acquired and released at runtime cannot ride the long-lived ingest session.
`SparkplugPrimaryHost` opens its own connection (client id `{clientId}-spbhost`, forced
clean-session) when the node gains Primary and closes it when the node loses Primary; the
connection's lifetime *is* the claim, so every leg follows from its lifecycle. Ingest is
untouched by a role change — no dropped subscriptions, no lost birth cache, no data gap at
the Secondary->Primary transition.
**Primary-gated** (owner decision, recorded on the issue). Both pair nodes subscribe
independently, so an ungated claim means both claim the same host id — and the sharp
failure is not the two fighting over the retained STATE, it is that the SECONDARY's death
fires its Will and publishes OFFLINE while the Primary is healthy, stopping every edge node
in the group. Registering the Will only on whichever node is Primary at connect time fails
the other way: a node that later gains Primary would publish ONLINE with no Will behind it.
New seam: `IDriverPrimaryRoleSource` (`Core.Abstractions`) carrying the *data-plane* verdict
(`PrimaryGatePolicy.ShouldServiceAsPrimary`), not the alarm-drain verdict — an unknown role
with a driver peer present must deny. Registered unconditionally by `AddOtOpcUaRuntime`,
deliberately NOT alongside `IRedundancyRoleView`, which `AddAlarmHistorian` registers only
when that section is enabled: piggybacking would leave a pair with no alarm historian
falling back to "claim unconditionally". Polled on a 1s timer rather than evented — a
process singleton raising events at per-instance drivers outlives every driver it holds.
Accepted trade: a brief edge-visible OFFLINE window during failover. That is a genuine
state transition, not a glitch to hide.
Live-gated 5/5 against the Mosquitto fixture, including the Will leg — `AbandonForTests`
drops the socket with no DISCONNECT, because a clean disconnect makes the broker discard
the Will by protocol rule, so a test driven through `StopAsync` would observe the
stand-down OFFLINE and pass against an implementation that never armed a Will. Falsified:
removing the Will turns that leg and only that leg red.
Also corrects two stale claims found en route: the AdminUI form still said MQTT tags are
read-only (#508 shipped), and the driver doc still said nothing consumes `IRediscoverable`.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
Composes MqttConnection + MqttSubscriptionManager + LastValueCache into the
IDriver / ITagDiscovery / ISubscribable / IReadable / IHostConnectivityProbe /
IRediscoverable capability set.
- Discovery replays ONLY the authored raw tags (RediscoverPolicy = Once,
SupportsOnlineDiscovery = false) — a chatty broker can never auto-provision.
- Composition order is register -> AttachTo -> ConnectAsync; the manager's
Reconnected handler is passed through unwrapped so its throw-on-total-failure
still tears a deaf session down.
- ReinitializeAsync applies a tag-only delta in place and never faults on a bad
one; a session-changing delta rebuilds.
- ReadAsync serves the last-value cache and degrades per reference
(BadWaitingForInitialData), never throwing for the batch.
- FlushOptionalCachesAsync is a no-op: the last-value cache IS IReadable.
- Adds MqttDriverOptions.RawTags (the authored-tag delivery mechanism every
other driver's options DTO already has) and promotes MaxPayloadBytes from a
manager ctor knob to an operator-facing key.
- Converges on MqttDriverProbe.JsonOpts rather than a second, divergent
JsonSerializerOptions.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Code review of f22db5d8 (approved-with-findings): the existing round-trip
tests only exercised explicit JSON payloads, so nothing failed if UseTls /
AllowUntrustedServerCertificate or the §5.1 numeric defaults were flipped.
Adds a defaults-pinning test plus a partial-JSON test that omits the TLS
knobs entirely (the production case — an operator config that just doesn't
mention TLS must not silently land insecure).
Also overrides the record's PrintMembers so ToString() no longer prints
Password in plaintext (verified RED before the fix: the new test failed
with the raw password in the rendered string). OpcUaClientDriverOptions has
the same unredacted-ToString() shape but is out of scope for this task per
the coordinator's note; flagging as a possible follow-up.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Joseph Doherty