The second thing #516/§8.2 deliberately did not build. The original objection
stands — Modbus, S7, MQTT, AbLegacy and Sql echo authored config from
DiscoverAsync, so diffing discovered against authored is a tautology for them
— but it is now ENCODED rather than used as a reason not to build.
The discriminator already existed: ITagDiscovery.SupportsOnlineDiscovery is
documented as "enumerates the tag set from the live backend rather than
replaying pre-declared/authored tags", and it separates the fleet cleanly —
FOCAS, TwinCAT, MTConnect and AbCip true; the five config-echo drivers
explicitly false. The check runs only for a driver that is
SupportsOnlineDiscovery AND reports the new AuthoredDiscoveryRefs. That is
nullable rather than empty-by-default on purpose: an empty collection
legitimately means "nothing authored, everything discovered is new", so
conflating the two would report total drift for a driver that never opted in.
Where the value is: AbCip and FOCAS browse a live backend but implement no
IRediscoverable, so before this they had no change signal at all. A periodic
compare is the only way to notice a PLC re-download.
A finding that changed the design: FOCAS, TwinCAT and AbCip all re-emit their
authored tags into the same DiscoverAsync stream as device-derived ones, so
the browse picker can show an operator their existing tags. Discovered is
therefore always a superset of authored, and a VANISHED tag can never appear
missing — one whole direction is structurally undetectable for three of the
four. Shipping a Vanished list that is permanently empty for them would have
been the half-inert seam this whole exercise removes. So the driver declares
DiscoveryStreamIncludesAuthoredTags, the detector does not compute the
undetectable half, and the operator message says "missing-tag detection
unavailable for this driver" rather than letting the absence of a missing-tag
clause read as reassurance. MTConnect is the only driver where both directions
work — its stream is purely probe-model-derived.
Behaviour: a failed browse is not drift (an unreachable device would otherwise
report every authored tag as vanished); a truncated capture is skipped for the
same reason; an unchanged drift is reported once rather than re-stamping its
timestamp; drift that resolves clears the prompt. Interval defaults to 5
minutes — it browses a real device, and a tag set changing is an engineering
event, not a runtime one. It reuses the Stage-2 surfacing, raising the same
/hosts re-browse prompt, and never rebuilds the served address space.
Comparison logic is a pure, separately-tested type rather than actor-inline.
14 new tests. The gate was verified load-bearing by deleting the
SupportsOnlineDiscovery half: the tautology-driver test goes red, and it
asserts discovery was never invoked rather than merely "no prompt raised",
which would have passed for the wrong reason if the timer never fired.
Full suite green except the same three pre-existing fixture-gated integration
suites, identical counts.
Apply the reviewed Modbus exemplar to the AbCip multi-device driver:
- Mapper AbCipEquipmentTagParser -> AbCipTagDefinitionFactory; TryParse -> FromTagConfig(tagConfig, rawPath, out def); drop leading-{ heuristic + the deviceHostAddress key; add inverse ToTagConfig; round-trip arrays/members/safety for coverage.
- Options: Tags (typed) -> RawTags (RawTagEntry list); Devices list kept.
- Driver: byName-only resolver over _tagsByRawPath (Ordinal); table built from RawTags via FromTagConfig, threading entry.DeviceName (device routing key) + entry.WriteIdempotent onto the def. Multi-device routing keys on DeviceName-or-host via a _devicesByRoutingKey index; discovery groups _declaredTags by RoutesToDevice.
- Factory: retire the pre-declared Tags DTO/BuildTag; bind List<RawTagEntry> RawTags.
- Probe: derive probe tag path from RawTags via the mapper.
- Cli BuildOptions projects typed tags -> RawTagEntry (ToTagConfig).
- Tests: AbCipRawTags helper (typed def -> RawTagEntry); parser tests -> FromTagConfig; blob-fallback driver tests rewritten to author via RawTags + read by RawPath. Driver.AbCip.Tests 342/342, Cli.Tests 42/42.
TODO(v3 WaveC): DeviceName becomes a pure logical name once the device connection host moves to the Device row's DeviceConfig.
Task 3/4/5: SupportsOnlineDiscovery => true on AbCipDriver, TwinCATDriver, FocasDriver
(their device enumeration is real, config-gated on EnableControllerBrowse / FixedTree.Enabled
which PatchForBrowse guarantees at open). One gate fact per driver test project.
Adds <summary>/<param>/<returns>/<inheritdoc> where missing and removes
project bookkeeping IDs (task/tracking refs) from shipped code comments,
so the docs read cleanly and CommentChecker is quiet except for known
false positives (PLC/protocol terms, event/IEqualityComparer inheritdoc).
Doc/comment-only; no logic changed; solution builds clean.
Re-review at 7286d320. AbCip-016 (Medium): two cooperating defects made a declared array
member (e.g. REAL[4]) read one scalar/null — fan-out dropped ElementCount/IsArray, and
UdtMemberLayout.TryBuild ignored array members (mis-placing later members). Fix: thread
array shape through fan-out + opt whole-UDT grouping out when any member is an array + TDD.
AbCip-017 (severity-read StatusCode, Low) deferred.
Adds <summary>, <param>, <typeparam>, and <inheritdoc/> tags to public
members surfaced by commentchecker — resolves 5,847 of 5,869 issues
(99.6%) across three /fixdocs passes.
- Driver.AbCip-007: inject an optional ILogger<AbCipDriver> /
ILogger<AbCipAlarmProjection> (default NullLogger) and log around
every read / write / template-fetch / probe / alarm-poll failure path.
- Driver.AbCip-011: LogWarning when InitializeAsync is configured with
Probe.Enabled=true but ProbeTagPath is blank — operators now see why
GetHostStatuses keeps reporting Unknown.
- Driver.AbCip-012: documented the LibplctagTemplateReader per-call
Tag cost as accepted given libplctag's own connection pool and the
low-frequency discovery use-case.
- Driver.AbCip-013: per-device AllowPacking + ConnectionSize overrides
on AbCipDeviceOptions, threaded through AbCipTagCreateParams; central
BuildCreateParams helper replaces five ad-hoc clones; AllowPacking
now reaches Tag.AllowPacking at runtime.
- Driver.AbCip-015: stale-comment sweep — every PR-N forward-reference
is rewritten to describe present behaviour.
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Finding 005 revised approach: keep the parent Structure tag in
`_tagsByName` so the whole-UDT grouping planner can find it (required
for Driver.AbCip-003 opt-in path + alarm projection). Instead, detect a
direct read of a Structure-with-Members in `ReadSingleAsync` and return
`BadNotSupported` rather than Good/null — explicitly documenting the
contract that callers must address member paths. Duplicate-key checks
(scalar and member fan-out) remain.
Finding 014 test corrections: `Structure_parent_tag_read_returns_BadNotSupported`
now asserts the new contract. `Read_UDInt_tag_returns_uint_value_not_negative_wrapped_int`
assertion fixed to use `ShouldBeOfType<uint>()` instead of
`ShouldNotBe(-1)` (Shouldly overflows comparing uint.MaxValue with int).
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Add `EvictRuntime` helper that removes + disposes a stale
`ConcurrentDictionary` entry. Call it from `ReadSingleAsync`,
`ReadGroupAsync`, and `WriteAsync` on non-zero libplctag status and
transport exceptions so the next call for the same tag re-creates a
fresh handle — mirroring the probe loop's recreate-on-failure pattern.
Value-conversion exceptions (NotSupportedException, FormatException,
InvalidCastException, OverflowException) are not transport faults and
do not evict the handle.
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`PlcTagHandle` and `DeviceState.TagHandles` were dead scaffolding: the
`ReleaseHandle` no-op never called `plc_tag_destroy` and the dict was
never populated. Removed the file, the dead dict, and its
`DisposeHandles` loop. Updated the `AbCipDriver` class doc to document
that native lifetime is owned by libplctag.NET `Tag.Dispose()` (invoked
from `DisposeHandles`) with the library's own finalizer covering any
GC-collected instances. Two test methods that only exercised the dead
`PlcTagHandle` class removed from `AbCipDriverTests`.
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Structure tags with declared Members no longer register the bare parent
name in `_tagsByName` — reading it would return Good/null, which is
misleading. Clients read individual member paths. Both the member
fan-out and the scalar-tag paths now perform a duplicate-key check that
throws `InvalidOperationException` naming both colliding entries (fail-
fast, consistent with the AbCipHostAddress validation pattern).
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Driver.AbCip-001 — ReinitializeAsync silently discarded its config JSON.
Extracted AbCipDriverFactoryExtensions.ParseOptions; InitializeAsync now
re-parses a content-bearing driverConfigJson and replaces _options (and
recreates the alarm projection), so a reinitialize with a changed config
(new device/tag, changed timeout) actually takes effect. A blank or
empty-object JSON keeps construction-time options for the unit-test seam.
Driver.AbCip-002 — libplctag status mapping used wrong integer constants.
MapLibplctagStatus now switches on the libplctag.NET Status enum members
(Ok/Pending/ErrorTimeout/ErrorNotFound/ErrorNotAllowed/ErrorOutOfBounds/…)
instead of hand-typed natives, so timeout/not-found/not-allowed/out-of-bounds
get their specific OPC UA codes instead of all collapsing to
BadCommunicationError. The int overload casts to Status to stay correct
against the wrapper's contiguous renumbering.
Driver.AbCip-003 — whole-UDT reads decoded members at declaration-order
offsets, which Studio 5000 does not guarantee. Added the opt-in
AbCipDriverOptions.EnableDeclarationOnlyUdtGrouping flag (default false);
AbCipUdtReadPlanner.Build forms no groups when it is off, so by default
every UDT member reads per-tag rather than at possibly-wrong offsets.
Driver.AbCip-008 — probe loops were fire-and-forget and ShutdownAsync raced
them. Each probe Task is stored on DeviceState.ProbeTask; ShutdownAsync now
cancels every CTS, awaits each probe Task (10s timeout), then disposes the
CTS and handles. DeviceState.Runtimes/ParentRuntimes are ConcurrentDictionary
and the Ensure*RuntimeAsync paths use TryAdd, disposing the losing concurrent
creator instead of leaking a native tag handle.
Adds AbCipDriverCodeReviewRegressionTests and updates existing AbCip tests
to the corrected status constants + opt-in grouping flag. AbCip driver +
test project build clean; all 244 AbCip tests pass. (The full-solution
build has pre-existing, unrelated Driver.Galaxy protobuf-generation errors
in this worktree.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Group all 69 projects into category subfolders under src/ and tests/ so the
Rider Solution Explorer mirrors the module structure. Folders: Core, Server,
Drivers (with a nested Driver CLIs subfolder), Client, Tooling.
- Move every project folder on disk with git mv (history preserved as renames).
- Recompute relative paths in 57 .csproj files: cross-category ProjectReferences,
the lib/ HintPath+None refs in Driver.Historian.Wonderware, and the external
mxaccessgw refs in Driver.Galaxy and its test project.
- Rebuild ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.slnx with nested solution folders.
- Re-prefix project paths in functional scripts (e2e, compliance, smoke SQL,
integration, install).
Build green (0 errors); unit tests pass. Docs left for a separate pass.
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Joseph Doherty