#556 item 1 — leading whitespace defeated every Inspect's pre-filter. Seven
factories (Modbus/S7/AbCip/AbLegacy/TwinCAT/FOCAS/Mqtt) tested
`reference[0] != '{'`, so a padded blob returned EMPTY and a tag the driver
refuses deployed clean. The check now trims first, matching the idiom
Sql/Calculation/MTConnect/OpcUaClient already used. The raw reference is still
what is handed to the mapper — the driver reads the stored blob, not a trimmed
copy — so the gate keeps mirroring the runtime rather than becoming lenient.
Both directions are pinned: a padded blob the mapper accepts still draws
nothing, and one that is not object-framed AFTER trimming still draws nothing
(it is not an equipment-tag TagConfig at all).
Six of the seven mappers hand the blob to a whitespace-tolerant
JsonDocument.Parse, so their verdict is unchanged by padding. MQTT is the
exception: both its readers carry the same framing gate, so a padded blob is
genuinely refused — which is why the untrimmed pre-filter was a real defect
there and not a cosmetic mismatch.
#556 item 2 — FOCAS and MQTT appended advisories unconditionally and then gated
the catch-all rejection message on `warnings.Count == 0`, so an advisory (which
fires on ACCEPTED blobs too, and says nothing about a refusal) silently
swallowed the only message naming a refusal nothing else can. The two classes
now accumulate in SEPARATE lists and the backstop gates on the rejection count
alone — structural, not string matching. MQTT's swallow was reachable in
production (a padded blob its readers refuse while every describe branch finds
the parsed document well-formed); FOCAS's backstop is currently unreachable by
audit, so its guard is protective.
#557 item 2 — decided and pinned: KEEP the union verdict. Evidence:
FromSparkplugTagConfig hard-codes PayloadFormat=Json and never consults the key;
only MqttSubscriptionManager (the Plain ingest path) decodes by it; and
MqttTagConfigModel.ToJson deliberately omits the key entirely in Sparkplug mode
(#513). So a Sparkplug driver genuinely serves the tag and rejecting it would be
stricter than the runtime. The cost — served behaviour depends on the driver's
MqttMode, which no tag row records — is paid by an ADVISORY naming the key and
the mode dependency, not by changing the verdict, so both gates keep agreeing.
The same invalid value on a blob the union REFUSES stays a rejection; the class
is decided by the accept gate, never by the key.
Falsified: reverting Modbus's trim reddens the padded-rejection theory;
neutering MQTT's backstop guard to the pre-#556 shape reddens the
advisory-plus-unnameable-rejection test; disabling the #557 advisory reddens the
contract pin; and for FOCAS, removing a describe branch alone stays green (the
backstop covers it) while additionally neutering the guard goes red.
Gitea #551.
1. CSV import ran no driver-typed config gate. Its typed columns were always
strictly parsed, but the free-form TagConfigJson column reached the database
unread, so a CSV could author a tag the driver rejects — one that deploys
green and reads BadNodeIdUnknown forever. RawTagCsvMapper.Parse now names the
offending row in the staged review grid, and RawTreeService enforces the same
gate on CreateTag/UpdateTag/ImportTags: a form cannot be the guarantee (the
API and any future caller reach none of them, and this repo has no bUnit).
A rejected import row is an ERROR — the batch inserts nothing and the row is
named — never a skip.
Note the brief's premise that manual entry rides ImportTagsAsync is wrong:
RawManualTagEntryModal commits row-by-row via CreateTagAsync, which is why
the gate had to land on all three write paths.
2/3. The seven pre-#549 Inspect methods ran a hand-list of DescribeInvalidEnum
checks, so every rejection cause not on the list was invisible. They are now
ACCEPT-GATE-FIRST (the MTConnect/Sql/OpcUaClient/Calculation shape): ask the
driver's own reader for the verdict, then explain the refusal, with a
catch-all so "the parse rejects but Inspect said nothing" is unreachable.
That closes S7's absent dataType, AbCip members[], Modbus stringByteOrder and
the type-dependent guards, plus causes the issue did not name (absent
region/address/tagPath/symbolPath/topic, TwinCAT Structure, MQTT's Sparkplug
tuple). FOCAS and MQTT keep advisories about ACCEPTED blobs, so they
diagnose rather than return empty.
Authoring half: ModbusTagConfigModel gains stringByteOrder;
AbCipTagConfigModel asks the new AbCipTagDefinitionFactory.DescribeInvalidMember;
S7TagConfigModel captures whether the SOURCE blob declared dataType and asks
S7TagDefinitionFactory.DataTypeKey/DeclaresDataType. One authority per rule.
4. Doc sweep: the six factory Inspect summaries, EquipmentTagConfigInspector's
class remarks and AdminOperationsActor's comment all claimed invalid enums are
"silently defaulted by the lenient runtime" — false since R2-11 Phase C made
the runtime reads strict. They describe rejections now.
Wave-B EXEMPLAR. Retire the pre-declared/blob-parse tag model; the driver now
builds its RawPath -> definition table from the artifact's RawTagEntry set via a
pure mapper.
- Contracts: rename ModbusEquipmentTagParser -> ModbusTagDefinitionFactory;
TryParse(reference) -> FromTagConfig(tagConfig, rawPath) (def.Name = rawPath,
no leading-brace heuristic); add inverse ToTagConfig(def) serializer; keep all
strict-enum reads + guards; also read stringByteOrder/deadband/coalesceProhibited
so a RawTagEntry round-trips the full authored def. Inspect() unchanged.
- Options: Tags(IReadOnlyList<ModbusTagDefinition>) -> RawTags(IReadOnlyList<RawTagEntry>).
- Driver: _tagsByName -> _tagsByRawPath (Ordinal); resolver byRawPath-only; build
the table from RawTags at Initialize threading entry.WriteIdempotent onto each def;
Discover/Teardown updated.
- Factory: remove ModbusTagDto/BuildTag/ValidateStringLength + ConfigDto.Tags; bind
RawTags from driver-config JSON.
- CLI ModbusCommandBase.BuildOptions: serialise typed defs -> RawTagEntry via ToTagConfig.
- Tests: migrate Tags= -> RawTags via ModbusRawTags.Entries helper; parser tests ->
FromTagConfig(rawPath); factory String-length/enum tests re-seated on the mapper seam.
- Propagated rename to ControlPlane EquipmentTagConfigInspector (outside Modbus projects).
Modbus.Tests 315/315, Addressing.Tests 161/161, Cli.Tests 72/72 green.
Docker-gated Driver.Modbus.IntegrationTests left untouched (won't compile against
the new API; expected).
R2-11 Phase C. All six equipment-tag parsers (Modbus/S7/AbCip/AbLegacy/
TwinCAT/Focas) now read enum fields via the new TagConfigJson.TryReadEnumStrict:
absent -> fallback, valid -> parsed, present-but-invalid (typo) -> TryParse
returns false -> EquipmentTagRefResolver.TryResolve false -> driver surfaces
BadNodeIdUnknown, instead of the old lenient path that silently defaulted a
typo to a wrong-width Good.
Modbus flips all three enum fields (region/dataType/byteOrder); the other five
flip dataType. The deploy-time Deployment:TagConfigValidationMode=Error gate is
unchanged and remains the operator pre-flight.
Coverage:
- Six *EquipmentTagParserStrictnessTests inverted from Freeze_typo_* (lenient)
to Typo_*_rejects_the_tag + Valid_*_still_parses.
- TagConfigJsonTests.TryReadEnumStrict_rejects_only_invalid matrix.
- Driver-level end-to-end proof:
AbCipEquipmentTagTests.Driver_read_of_a_typod_dataType_ref_surfaces_BadNodeIdUnknown
drives the real AbCipDriver.ReadAsync through resolve->status.
Golden parity corpus has no typo'd enums, so the flip is a no-op there.
Full solution builds clean; all six driver suites + core + parity + gate green.
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.
- DecodeRegisterArray: add String and BitInRegister cases replacing the
default:throw; each element decoded by reusing DecodeRegister on its
contiguous register slice → string[] / bool[]
- ModbusEquipmentTagParser.TryParse: read optional arrayLength key from
TagConfig JSON and thread it into ModbusTagDefinition.ArrayCount
(null when absent or zero, preserving scalar behaviour)
- ModbusArrayTests: 8 new tests covering the two decode cases and the
equipment-tag parser/resolver path; 285/285 green
Move ModbusDriverOptions (and companion option types) to a new
Driver.Modbus.Contracts sibling project. The contracts project
references only Driver.Modbus.Addressing (itself zero-dep and
Admin-safe) because ModbusDriverOptions.Probe/Family/Region
properties use enum types that live there.
Drop 'using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions' and replace
<see cref="IHostConnectivityProbe"/> with <c>IHostConnectivityProbe</c>
per the approved decision — the using was doc-comment-only.
The runtime Driver.Modbus project gains a ProjectReference back to
.Contracts; the .slnx is updated accordingly.
Joseph Doherty