The old AdminUI cannot author the per-driver transport key (#576), so the
'pin before upgrading' recipe had no working path. A node-level appsetting
(env Drivers__AbCip__DefaultTransport) now supplies the default for AbCip
drivers with no key: explicit key > node default > compiled Native. Bound
and validated unconditionally (bad value fails host start); the driver
factory and the Test Connect probe both read it so they agree. AbCip.md
upgrade recipe rewritten around the key; Configuration.md documents it.
Also documents first-wins for AllowPacking/probe and host-alias throttles
(final review M6) and moves the status-bit note out of AbCip.md (M5).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Task 22 (spec section 8 P5), with the controller rulings that exclude PLC-5 and LogixPccc.
- Transport is nullable on both option records; null (key absent) means "use the default" and is
never serialized. Factory DTO parse: absent -> null; a bad value still fails via ParseEnum.
- One resolver per driver (AbCipTransportResolver / AbLegacyTransportResolver), used by the driver
constructor, the Test Connect probe and (through the driver) the CLI.
AbCip: null -> Native. AbLegacy: null -> Native unless any device is Plc5 or LogixPccc, then the
whole driver resolves to Libplctag. Explicit values always win; explicit Native with a
Plc5/LogixPccc device logs one Warning at init.
- Init log shows configured vs effective, e.g. transport=Native (default).
- AdminUI forms: "Default (...)" / "Native (managed)" / "libplctag (fallback)". Default omits the
key on save (reverses Task 19's explicit re-emit, which would have pinned every edited driver).
- CLIs: --transport default|native|libplctag, default "default" via the resolver, so
--plc-type Plc5 with no --transport runs libplctag.
- Tests pinned to Libplctag where a default-path runtime was created: found by instrumenting the
native factories with the current xUnit test name (one unit test, AbLegacyReinitConfigAdoption;
plus the two fixture-gated AbCip probe E2E tests whose exact messages were proven on libplctag).
TransportMatrix and the differential harness already pass explicit transports.
- Switch/resolver/CLI/form tests are falsified by mutating the resolver (default -> Libplctag,
exclusion removed, AbLegacy default -> Libplctag): each mutation turns them red.
- Replaces the inline role-name literal in AbCipDriverFactoryExtensions' ParseEnum call with a named
constant; RoleAuthorityGuardTests was already red on the base commit for that line.
- Docs: AbCip.md / AbLegacy.md default + release note; CLAUDE.md AB section.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Live read-only check against a production CompactLogix press: with one nonexistent tag
first in the read list, libplctag's create threw LibPlcTagException("ErrorNotFound"); the
driver counted it as a failed Forward-Open, opened the device's 05/STAB-8 connect-backoff
window, and every other cold tag on the device - all real (WW_InCycle, WW_ActualPress,
WW_WorkOrderNum) - read BadCommunicationError. In steady polling the bad tag re-opens
the window each attempt, so siblings ordered after it may never connect.
- A create that fails with a "controller answered" status (NotFound/NoMatch/BadDevice,
the probe's existing reachable classification) records backoff SUCCESS, not failure.
Genuine connection failures still open the window (falsification control test).
- Read exceptions map through the libplctag Status they carry: unknown tag ->
BadNodeIdUnknown, decode past the buffer -> BadOutOfRange, timeout -> BadTimeout,
instead of a blanket BadCommunicationError. One status-name parser
(AbCipStatusMapper.TryGetStatus) now serves both the read path and the probe.
A browse-committed AB CIP / TwinCAT / FOCAS tag bound with its model's DEFAULT
data type, not the one the device reported. A browsed REAL committed as
`{"tagPath":"Pump_1_Speed","dataType":"DInt"}` — and those three drivers decode
the wire bytes by that field, not by the raw row's OPC UA DataType — so the tag
read four bytes of a float through an integer decoder and published a plausible
wrong number with no error raised anywhere. FOCAS was missed when #536 was filed.
The type is CARRIED, not derived. Reverse-mapping the leaf's driver-agnostic
DriverDataType looks like the smaller fix and is wrong: SInt/Int/DInt/USInt/UInt
all collapse into Int32 on the way out of the driver, so that version would bind
a 16-bit INT as a 32-bit DINT while appearing to fix the REAL. Drivers now state
their own type name on DriverAttributeInfo.NativeDataType, which reaches the
picker as AttributeInfo.AddressFields["dataType"] and the commit mapper from
there. A leaf that states nothing keeps the model default — the pre-#536
behaviour, kept deliberately as the fallback rather than a guess.
Numeric strings are refused before parsing: Enum.TryParse accepts "9" for any
enum and Enum.IsDefined then confirms it, so an unguarded parse would bind a tag
to a type nobody named. A test caught this in the first version of the guard.
--- and the other half, which the fixture was hiding ---
Test Connect on a device with NO authored tags — every AB CIP device at the
moment an operator first presses the button — reported "CIP handshake failed"
against a healthy controller. That was written down as a fixture limitation
("ab_server doesn't implement @raw_cpu_type"). Both halves of that were wrong:
* @raw_cpu_type is not a libplctag special tag at all (only @raw, @tags and
@udt/ are), so it goes out as an ordinary symbolic name that no controller
defines, and the controller's "tag does not exist" IS the successful answer.
* ab_server answered an unresolvable tag path with CIP 0x03 where a Logix
controller answers 0x04 — ErrorBadParam vs ErrorNotFound, which the probe
classifies oppositely. Fixed in vendored patch 0002.
* With the fixture then telling the truth, the real defect surfaced:
AbCipDriverProbe.IsReachableException matched the native C status spellings
("STATUS_NOT_FOUND"), but libplctag.NET throws with the MANAGED enum name
("ErrorNotFound"). Those substrings can never match, so the reachable
classification could not fire on the exception path — which is the path every
no-authored-tags probe takes. This was failing on real hardware too, not just
against the sim. It now recovers the Status and defers to IsReachableStatus,
so there is one classification rather than two that can drift.
Rejected: switching the fallback to @tags. libplctag builds a tag-listing tag
with NO network I/O, so it reports OK against any TCP listener — measured green
against a Mosquitto broker.
Verification: full solution suite green. Falsification runs confirm exactly the
intended tests go red — 9 for the type carry, 3 (the reachable statuses only) for
the probe classification. Live on docker-dev: browse-committed TestString/
Motor_Run/TestSINT now store String/Bool/SInt, alongside last session's
Pump_1_Speed still holding the wrong DInt. TestSINT is the falsifier — its row
DataType is Int32, identical to TestDINT's, so no reverse map could have produced
"SInt".
Known consequence: pre-existing browse-committed tags keep their wrong dataType;
the fix applies to new commits only.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
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.
AdminUI driver-instance pages serialized enum config fields (S7 CpuType,
Modbus DataType/Region, AbCip PlcFamily, ...) as JSON *numbers* because each
page's _jsonOpts lacked a JsonStringEnumConverter. The driver factories,
however, deserialize into string-typed DTOs (+ lenient ParseEnum) and throw
when binding a JSON number to a string? — so an AdminUI-authored config
containing any enum field produced a blob the driver could not parse,
faulting the driver on deploy. Proven end-to-end for S7 and Modbus; latent
for AbCip/AbLegacy/TwinCAT/FOCAS/Galaxy/Historian. Only OpcUaClient was safe
(its factory + probe already carried the converter).
Add JsonStringEnumConverter to all 9 driver-instance pages' _jsonOpts and the
8 missing driver probes' _opts (factories unchanged — already string-via-
ParseEnum; strictly more permissive, also lets pages load hand-seeded
string-enum configs back into the form).
Also fix DriverProbeHandshakeE2eTests.AbCip_Green_AgainstSim to probe a real
sim tag (TestDINT) — the no-tags @raw_cpu_type fallback is rejected by the
ab_server sim with ErrorBadParam (a real ControlLogix returns ErrorNotFound,
which the probe treats as reachable; hardware-gated follow-up).
Tests: reflection guard over all driver pages' _jsonOpts (AdminUI.Tests);
factory round-trip + numeric-form-throws guards for S7 and Modbus.
Found by running the never-before-run FB-9/FB-10 live verifies.
Replace the bare-TCP-only AbCipDriverProbe with a two-phase check:
Phase 1 keeps the existing TCP preflight; Phase 2 initialises a
LibplctagTagRuntime against the first device to open a real EIP session
and CIP Forward Open, so a live-but-rejecting CIP endpoint reads red
instead of a false-positive green.
Status mapping: ErrorNotFound / ErrorNoMatch / ErrorBadDevice → reachable
(controller answered CIP, probe tag absent); ErrorTimeout / ErrorBadConnection
/ ErrorBadGateway / ErrorWinsock / ErrorOpen / ErrorClose / ErrorRead /
ErrorWrite / ErrorBadReply / ErrorRemoteErr / ErrorPartial / ErrorAbort →
handshake failed. LibPlcTagException message text is used as a secondary
signal for the reachable-exception path. All other statuses default to
handshake-failed (conservative).
Add AbCipDriverProbeTests: invalid JSON, no devices, malformed host address,
closed-port TCP rejection, and black-hole timeout — all offline-determinable.
Happy path + CIP-error path covered live against the CIP sim.
Cheap-and-fast probe: open TCP socket to the configured endpoint,
close immediately. Surfaces SocketError on failure, latency on
success, "timed out" on caller cancel. Sufficient for the AdminUI
Test Connect "can we reach the host?" question. Richer protocol-
level probes (OPC UA session open, FOCAS handshake, gRPC ping)
are a documented follow-up. Each probe registered as
AddSingleton<IDriverProbe, X> in DriverFactoryBootstrap so they
flow through DI into AdminOperationsActor.
Historian.Wonderware returns a clean "TCP probe not applicable"
result because it communicates over a Windows named pipe, not TCP.
Also adds OpcUaClient + Historian.Wonderware.Client project
references to Host.csproj (both were missing from the driver
ItemGroup).
Joseph Doherty