MAJOR-1: a deploy that changes a driver's config respawns it, and the fresh instance's empty told
record re-sent Raise for every still-active alarm, un-acking acknowledged conditions and writing a
duplicate "Activated" alerts row. NativeAlarmProjector now treats Raise on an already-active
condition as a re-statement (keeps Acked; ForwardNativeAlarm skips the alerts row); only Retrigger
(or inactive->active) un-acks. Sources whose upstream ack state is authoritative send Retrigger for
an unacked re-statement: OpcUaClient on first sight (no prior told), Galaxy for an unacked active
snapshot entry. Runtime E2E drives a FRESH FOCAS driver after a redeploy and asserts the ack survives.
MAJOR-2: a failed FOCAS alarm read annotates each subscribed condition BadNoCommunication once per
outage (#626 quality-only path) with one Warning (MINOR-6), lifted to Good on recovery; failed alarm
reads degrade driver health with LastSuccessfulRead frozen (successful ones advance it), so an
alarm-only driver trips the #527 comms-loss watchdog.
MINOR-3 CLAUDE.md #630 bullet; MINOR-4 split line; MINOR-5 a non-empty cnc_rdalmmsg2 payload that
fits neither stride throws; MINOR-7 value-tag + parsed-address tables are built and swapped, never
cleared in place under the retained poll engine. Docs corrected (FOCAS.md, AlarmTracking.md, CLAUDE.md).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
An ALARM: address (*, <Type>, <Type>/<n>, <Type>/<lo>-<hi>, T<code>, OTHER) on a raw tag that
also carries the cross-driver alarm object is ONE condition with ConditionId == RawPath and a
Kind (Raise / Retrigger / Clear), so DriverHostActor.ForwardNativeAlarm routes it and
NativeAlarmProjector activates it. Fixes all seven triage defects:
1. SubscribeAlarmsAsync treated the host's RawPaths as device hosts -> nothing polled.
2. Decorated "{host}#{Type}:{Number}" ConditionId -> every event dropped.
3. No Kind -> projector kept prior state.
4. WireFocasClient.ReadAlarmsAsync answered [] on failure -> mass clear + un-acked re-raise.
It now throws; a failed device read keeps every condition's state.
5. Acks lost on reconnect -> told-record dedup (MTConnect #626 pattern) held for the driver's
lifetime; same-set re-subscribe / re-init re-raise nothing; changed set prunes leavers only.
6. Subscribe threw while AlarmProjection.Enabled=false -> the tag is the opt-in; flag is a no-op.
7. Alarm tags could not be authored -> ALARM: grammar (FocasAlarmSelector, Contracts) backs the
editor, the address picker, the deploy-time inspector and driver init.
Severity: authored alarm.severity -> exact OpcUaSeverity; else the 16i-era type bucket. The type
table stays the only one (moved to Contracts, documented 16i-era; 30i codes not invented; raw
T<code> selector + raw code in every message). Read-only: ack is server-side. Also clears the
value table on a re-initialise (#630 gap that let a removed/moved tag keep reading).
E2E: Runtime.Tests FocasNativeAlarmEndToEndTests drives the real driver through the real
DriverHostActor and asserts the condition goes Active then inactive.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Now that ALMD transitions route, a re-subscribe (every reconnect, every alarm-set change)
started from an empty per-subscription record and re-RAISED every still-faulted alarm,
which the host projects as Active+unacked - un-acknowledging a condition the server had
just carried across the rebuild with its client ack. The record is now driver-owned and
pruned to the new set, mirroring MTConnect's _deliveredConditions.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Re-review of 3de2cc3b/454775c6:
- AlarmTransitions could not reach (inactive, unacked): (active,acked)->(inactive,unacked) emitted Clear
(host stayed acked) and a first-seen cleared-unacked condition emitted nothing. The table is now total;
an exhaustive test replays every (prior, target) pair through the projector's semantics.
- The per-RawPath read-compute-emit was a lock-free TryGetValue/set across SDK publish threads; it now runs
under one lock with the projection and emission.
- Condition BRANCH events (non-null BranchId) were projected (flipping the trunk) and remembered as the ack
target (acking the branch); they are dropped. BranchId is select clause 9.
- EventId is copied, not aliased from the decoded notification.
- An unchanged state re-emitted Unspecified; it now emits nothing unless message/severity changed (an
Unspecified projects from the host projector's default after a redeploy reset it).
- Exact upstream severity rides OpcUaSeverity (#626) instead of being re-bucketed.
- ShutdownAsync no longer forgets the last-told state: a reinit re-subscribes the same set and the refresh
would otherwise re-raise every acked alarm. A CHANGED set (host rebuilt) forgets it.
ConditionRefresh: called after the alarm event item is created, after an in-place reconnect (subscriptions
found on the new session by display name, since a recreate clones them) and on RefreshRequired. Refresh
markers are never projected. BadNotSupported/BadMethodInvalid/... logs once. Wire test: a condition already
active before subscribe is reported Raise; a release+resubscribe refresh re-raises nothing (falsified by
disabling the refresh call).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Found while verifying item 4 of #641. The host routes a native alarm transition
on an exact ConditionId == RawPath match (DriverHostActor.ForwardNativeAlarm),
but AbCipAlarmProjection emitted "{ref}#active" and no Kind, so every ALMD
raise/clear was dropped as "no alarm condition" — and even if routed, an
Unspecified kind projects no state change. It now reports the subscribed
reference (the RawPath) and Raise/Clear. A host test pins that a decorated id
is dropped.
FOCAS has the same id shape plus a device filter keyed by host address (a
RawPath subscription polls nothing); it needs a mapping decision and is
documented in docs/drivers/FOCAS.md rather than patched here.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
The driver cleared its whole "last told" record whenever the subscribed alarm
set changed, assuming the rebuild that accompanies an alarm-bearing delta had
reset every condition node. The server now carries each surviving native
condition's state (acknowledgement included) across the rebuild, so re-raising a
survivor would un-acknowledge it. Only entries that left the set are dropped; a
condition that comes back later is told again onto its fresh node.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
NativeAlarmProjector derives Active/Acked ONLY from AlarmEventArgs.Kind, and this driver
never set it - every routed event projected Unspecified, leaving the condition inactive+acked
(only Message/Severity moved). The live-gate expectation 'toggling Active as opc-plc cycles'
could not have passed. Select ActiveState/Id + AckedState/Id (two-element browse paths) and
emit the Kind sequence that moves the projector from the state last told to the host to the
event's (Raise+Acknowledge when a notification carries both).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
The alarm index was keyed on ns=N strings resolved once at subscribe time, while an
in-place SDK reconnect transfers the subscription without re-running it - a remote
namespace reorder silently orphaned every alarm tag. Keys are now nsu= on both sides.
Events match the authored nodeId against the event's ConditionId first, then its
SourceNode, so several conditions on one source can be authored 1:1. Acknowledge
passes the EventId of the event that named the remembered condition (paired, so node
and EventId can never come from different conditions) instead of an empty one.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
The host subscribes alarms with RawPaths and routes transitions on
(driver, RawPath), but the driver filtered upstream SourceNode ids against
the RawPaths and reported the upstream condition NodeId as ConditionId, so
no opc-plc (or any upstream) alarm could ever reach a condition node.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
S7.Net's own STRING/DT encoders throw ArgumentException; that fell into the
generic write catch (BadCommunicationError + Degraded health). Now surfaced as
S7ValueRangeException like the WSTRING/DATE codecs.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
- Unavailable keeps an ACTIVE condition active: quality-only BadNoCommunication; on data
return same statement => quality-only Good, Normal => Clear, different => Retrigger.
- A changed alarm reference set (alarm-bearing delta = full rebuild) clears the whole
last-told record so every active condition is re-asserted; the same set keeps it.
- Quality-only events go through the host's AlarmQualityUpdate path, never a projected
snapshot (which could ack a retained unacked condition or rewrite message/severity).
- Deterministic tie-break between equal-level conditions (ordinal nativeCode, then type).
- Dedup key is level+nativeCode+nativeSeverity+qualifier; a text-only change updates nothing.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
The parser keeps a condition's text, nativeCode, nativeSeverity, qualifier and type. A new
MTConnectConditionTracker applies MTConnect's multi-condition semantics (per-nativeCode
activation/clearing across /sample deltas, /current baseline reset, Unavailable), and
MTConnectConditionAlarmMapper turns tracker state into Part 9 transitions: Warning=500,
Fault=800, Normal=clear, Unavailable=inactive + BadNoCommunication; escalation or a new
code retriggers. The driver implements IAlarmSource keyed by the alarm tag's RawPath,
diffs against what the server was actually told (only when a handler is attached), so a
reconnect/re-baseline never re-raises an unchanged condition and a missed transition is
delivered on the next subscribe. Ack is a no-op success. Existing CONDITION String tags
are unchanged; a tag becomes an alarm only via the standard TagConfig 'alarm' object.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
New S7DataType members WString/Char/WChar/Dtl/Date/Tod/Time/S5Time mapped onto existing
DriverDataType (String / DateTime / Int32 ms); writes refuse out-of-range with BadOutOfRange.
Optional localTsap/remoteTsap/connectionType through options, factory JSON, probe and AdminUI form.
NegotiatedPduSize snapshotted at connect and exposed via GetDiagnostics (DriverHealth has no bag).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
FOCAS, AbLegacy, AbCip, TwinCAT, S7 and OpcUaClient orphaned the previous
probe/recycle/fixed-tree loops and clients when re-initialised on a live driver.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
MAJOR-1: R4's exact element-type match refused ScadaBridge's CLR-list
writes (its element types are only Boolean/Int32/Float/Double/String/
DateTime) to every Int16/UInt16/Byte/UInt32/Int64/UInt64 array node and a
Double list to a Float array. EvaluateEquipmentWriteStructure now converts
a numeric array of another numeric element type element-wise, CHECKED, into
the node's element type and hands the converted array back through
OnEquipmentTagWrite's ref value, so the node stores and the driver receives
the node's own type. Any out-of-range, fractional-to-integer, NaN/Inf-to-
integer or Float-overflowing element refuses the whole write BadTypeMismatch
(nothing dispatched) - so the UInt32 -> Int32 bit reinterpretation stays
closed. Non-numeric mismatches stay refused. The wrong 'no client relies on
a looser rule' comment is corrected.
MINOR-1: the array-value-to-scalar-node refusal broke writes back to
browse-committed array tags (committed scalar, isArray never set) on
pass-through drivers. It now applies only when the owning driver's scalar
encoder cannot take an array (DriverArrayWriteSupport.
RefusesArrayValueOnScalarTag: Modbus, S7), carried RawTagPlan.
ScalarRefusesArrayValue / UnsReferenceVariable.BackingScalarRefusesArrayValue
-> EnsureVariable(refuseArrayOnScalar) -> a per-node set in the node
manager. OpcUaClient/Galaxy/others keep pre-#610 dispatch. Not on the
classifier whitelist (driver-type edit rebuilds); a mirror whose flag
changes is recreated, not updated in place.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
MAJOR-1: the SDK skips TypeInfo.IsInstanceOfDataType on any node with an
OnWriteValue handler (every writable equipment node), and the node manager's
fail-fast treated numeric<->numeric as compatible, so a UInt32[] to a Galaxy
Int32 array matched MxValueEncoder's int[] arm by CLR covariance and was
written bit-reinterpreted with a Good result. EvaluateEquipmentWriteStructure
now matches an ARRAY write's element type exactly (Byte[]/ByteString the only
equivalence; Variant[]/object[] refused) -> BadTypeMismatch, nothing
dispatched. MxValueEncoder's int[]/long[] arms are exact-type guarded too, and
the Galaxy parity test's false "the SDK refuses" premise is corrected (the
UInt32/UInt64 exclusion is now the encoder's own answer). Scalar writes keep
numeric widening by decision: consumers write CLR-typed values (Double to a
Float node) and every driver's scalar encoder range-checks.
MINOR: Modbus row honours maxRegistersPerWrite (smallest of DriverConfig /
the tag's DeviceConfig, default 123) and FC15's 1968-coil ceiling, and
requires region + numeric address; Modbus/S7/Galaxy require isArray + integer
arrayLength >= 1 (Galaxy: an unbounded node would let a short write resize the
attribute); an array value to a scalar node is refused inline. Docs: Uns.md
array-write rules + upgrade note (ReadWrite array tags become client-writable
on first boot), Modbus.md, Galaxy.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
- Galaxy: deadline bounds the wait, not the subscribe RPC; BadTimeout for all tags and late handles unsubscribed; doc comment relocated
- S7: probe connect runs on the connect deadline so a timeout opens the backoff window
- S7: a successful write only retires a Faulted the write side owns
- S7: null array elements rejected (BadTypeMismatch); multi-PDU array writes documented non-atomic
- S7 integration: array write test gated on S7_SIM_ALLOW_WRITES=1
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Joseph Doherty