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Joseph Doherty e77ea4aa73 docs(historian): close #491 — read-back and EnsureTags proven against wonder-sql-vd03
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The 2026-08-01 run closed every leg except read-back, which no reachable historian could
serve that day (the LAN instance accepts writes but serves no reads under a licence tag-count
violation; the licensed one needed the VPN). With the VPN up the run was repeated against
wonder-sql-vd03 and the remaining legs pass:

- EnsureTags provisioning: ensured=2, failed=0 — the path the LAN box could not exercise at
  all (it is RemoteGrpc-only and that CAP was not listening).
- Read-back: two Modbus registers carrying DISTINCT NON-ZERO constants were historized, and
  each read back as its own value (HR20 -> 8224, HR3 -> 120, quality 192). A first attempt
  read back 0, which proves nothing — the same trap #536 recorded, so the proof was rebuilt
  on values a crossed or fabricated answer could not fake.

Found during the run and FILED rather than fixed:

- #538 — one permanently-failing tag re-writes every healthy tag on every drain pass, forever.
  DrainOnceAsync writes EVERY per-tag group and then acks all-or-nothing, so a tag whose
  historian tag does not exist stops the FIFO head advancing while the healthy tags' values
  are re-submitted every drain interval; the outbox never truncates (Capacity defaults to 0 =
  unbounded, observed at 8.3 MB). The all-or-nothing ack is deliberate — RemoveAsync truncates
  THROUGH an id, so partial acking could drop older unwritten entries — so the fix changes the
  outbox contract and does not belong in this commit.

Also re-confirmed live: EnsureTags provisioning fires only for newly-ADDED historized tags, so
flipping an existing tag's historianTagname provisions nothing (Issue 5 of
2026-06-27-historian-gateway-integration-issues.md).

No production code changes — the recorder fix shipped in ad744734.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-04 11:29:15 -04:00
Joseph Doherty ad74473452 fix(historian): the recorder died on its first value — live gate for continuous historization (#491)
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Ran #491's live gate against a real ZB.MOM.WW.HistorianGateway talking to a real AVEVA
Historian, and it found a production-fatal defect on the first value it ever saw.

ContinuousHistorizationRecorder.OnValueChangedAsync touched `Self` after awaiting
IHistorizationOutbox.AppendAsync(...).ConfigureAwait(false). ConfigureAwait(false) discards
Akka's ActorTaskScheduler synchronization context, so `Self` — which reads ActorBase.Context —
threw NotSupportedException. The throw escaped into supervision, which RESTARTED the actor;
because production seeds an EMPTY ref set (the deployed set arrives later via
UpdateHistorizedRefs), the restart silently discarded every historized ref. Net effect: one
value captured, then nothing, with no further error to show for it. Fixed by capturing
`IActorRef self = Self` before the await — the idiom the GetStatus handler already applied to
Sender.

Thirteen unit tests missed it because InMemoryOutbox.AppendAsync returned
ValueTask.CompletedTask: a completed ValueTask never yields, so the continuation ran inline
with the context still installed. The production FasterLog outbox fsyncs per entry and does
yield. The first regression test was itself vacuous — `await Task.Yield()` posts back to the
CAPTURED context, so the append still completed on the actor thread and reverting the fix left
the test green. The fake must complete on a POOL thread (Task.Delay(1).ConfigureAwait(false)),
as a real fsync does; with that, reverting the fix reddens exactly one test.

The rig could not run this gate at all: docker-dev carried ServerHistorian__* but no
ContinuousHistorization__* keys, so the recorder could never spawn. Both centrals now carry
them (default OFF — the recorder needs ContinuousHistorization:Enabled AND
ServerHistorian:Enabled), with the outbox on the per-node named volume so it survives a
container recreate. ServerHistorian__UseTls was hard-coded true and is now parameterized; a
plaintext h2c gateway was unreachable without it.

Gate results: outbox append, drain, WriteLiveValues accepted by a real historian, and restart
convergence (capture resumes after a restart with no new deployment) all pass. The read-back
hop is NOT proven — the LAN historian accepts writes but serves no reads under a "License
violation: Database tag count exceeds license tag count", and the licensed corporate one needs
the VPN. EnsureTags provisioning is likewise unexercised there (RemoteGrpc-only, and that CAP
is not listening). #491 stays open for the read-back hop alone.

Also recorded, not fixed: the recorder has NO Primary gate, unlike the alarm store-and-forward
sink, so both nodes of a redundant pair send duplicate live values. Gating it would introduce a
failover window with no capture — that is a design decision, not a cleanup.

Evidence: docs/plans/2026-08-01-continuous-historization-live-gate.md

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 19:57:37 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 6b3da93151 fix(browse): commit the browsed data type, and fix the probe classification the fixture was hiding (#536)
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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
2026-08-01 15:20:07 -04:00
Joseph Doherty c2c3c52274 fix(abcip): unblock the controller-browse gate, and fix the decoder it exposed (#468)
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The AbCip controller browse could never be verified end to end: libplctag's
ab_server answers CIP service 0x55 (Get Instance Attribute List) on the Symbol
Object class with "unsupported", so the `@tags` walk had no backend. #468's own
definition of done offered a sim that serves `@tags` as an alternative to real
hardware; this is that.

The fixture now applies a vendored patch teaching ab_server to serve the Symbol
Object listing, with partial-transfer paging. Correctness is checked against
libplctag's own `list_tags_logix` rather than against our decoder — our decoder
is the thing under test, so its agreement would prove nothing. The clone is also
pinned to a concrete tag: the Dockerfile called `--branch release` "pinned" while
tracking a branch that moves.

That immediately exposed a real defect. CipSymbolObjectDecoder advanced to an
even byte boundary after each symbol name, but entries are packed with no
padding — libplctag walks them by sizeof(entry) + string_len, and a captured
reply confirms it. Any odd-length name therefore desynchronised every entry
behind it, and odd-length names are ordinary. In the live browse below,
`Motor_Run` is 9 bytes and first on the wire, so the old decoder would have
shown that one tag and silently dropped the other eight.

Every existing multi-entry test passed throughout, because the test builder
padded exactly as the decoder did: the two agreed with each other and neither
agreed with a controller. The builder no longer pads, and the layout is pinned
by a captured reply (CipSymbolObjectWireCaptureTests) instead of by a second
statement of the assumption. Restoring the alignment step reddens exactly the
three new tests and none of the 29 others.

Live gate on docker-dev, all three of #468's criteria:
  - populated tree — all nine seeded tags render as leaves, in wire order
  - refresh re-captures
  - leaf commit — Pump_1_Speed + TestDINT saved with their CIP tag paths

The gate also surfaced two things it was not asked about: browse-commit drops
the discovered data type, so a browsed REAL commits as a DINT and the driver
decodes it as one (filed as #536), and Test Connect fails against this fixture
regardless of the device because it probes `@raw_cpu_type` (documented).

TwinCAT and FOCAS still have no browsable backend; #468's AbCip half is closed,
theirs is not.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 12:25:15 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 1a1dbc3f00 fix(uns): enforce the UNS segment rule on every authoring path (#535)
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An area or line could be named "Packaging" or "Line 1", save cleanly, and then
fail the NEXT deployment with UnsSegmentInvalid. Because a deployment snapshots
the whole database, one badly-named area blocked EVERY cluster's deploy - and
whoever hit that was usually not whoever typed the name. Only the equipment form
carried the rule; the deploy gate held its own private copy.

The rule now lives once, on Configuration.Validation.UnsSegment, and both ends
call it. DraftValidator no longer restates it.

Enforced in UnsTreeService, not just on the forms:
- Create/Update Area, Line and Equipment reject an invalid name before touching
  the row.
- The CSV import reports a bad name as an ERROR, not a skip - a skip means "you
  already have this row", which would tell the operator the equipment exists
  when it does not. Good rows in the same batch still insert.

A form attribute could never have covered the import, and with no bUnit in this
repo a rule only a form enforces is also a rule no test can reach. The forms
keep an attribute for the immediate message, but it now references the shared
pattern rather than restating it - a second copy is how these drifted apart.

One behaviour change beyond the fix: UnsSegment.AttributePattern admits
"_default", which the equipment form's hand-written literal rejected. The form
was stricter than the gate it was mirroring, so a _default row was uneditable
through the AdminUI.

Tests: 41, falsified with three production mutations - dropping the CreateArea
guard reds exactly the CreateArea rejections, turning the import error back into
a skip reds only the import test, and narrowing AttributePattern reds only the
attribute/IsValid agreement. Every rejection is paired with a name that must
still be accepted, or a guard that refused everything would pass.

Live-verified on docker-dev: the area modal now refuses "Packaging" in place
with the rule spelled out, "packaging-b" saves, and a CSV import of two rows
reports Inserted 1 / Skipped 0 / Errors 1 naming the offending row - the path no
form attribute reaches. Rig cleaned up and a further deployment sealed.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 11:53:58 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 9303289d05 docs(plan): correct the self-form watchdog record — rejected, TCP guard was interim
Family-wide docs correction (paired with scadaproj 6d222ea4). This plan's superseded
banner was right but its task body still read as if the watchdog were merely patched.

- Dated 2026-08-01 correction section (history preserved): the timer calling
  Cluster.Join(SelfAddress) was implemented and REJECTED in both repos after live
  testing — outside Akka's join handshake, it fires mid-join on a routine standby
  restart (peer alive, join stalled behind stale-incarnation removal) and forms a
  permanent second cluster at the same address. ScadaBridge measured a split unhealed
  after 90s; Task 8 hit the same shape live here.
- The 'a booting node only self-forms when NO seed answers InitJoin' claim in the Task 2
  doc comment is marked FALSE for the watchdog: that guarantee belongs to Akka's native
  FirstSeedNodeProcess, which runs inside the handshake; the timer does not, and fires
  while a seed is answering.
- Task 8's TCP reachability guard is recorded as an INTERIM patch, not the fix — the
  race survived it, which is why the watchdog was deleted rather than patched.
- Shipped design restated: self-first seed ordering (AkkaClusterOptionsValidator +
  SelfFirstSeedBootstrapTests) plus the opt-in, default-OFF bootstrap guard (d1dac87f).

Source re-verified 2026-08-01: the defective watchdog is NOT present in this repo — no
ClusterBootstrapFallback.cs, no SelfFormAfter option, no Cluster.Join(SelfAddress) in
src/. Documentation-only change; no code touched.
2026-08-01 11:09:57 -04:00
Joseph Doherty a88cefd5ee docs(security): close the stage-7 gate's UNS gap — legs 12-15
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The first pass could not exercise UNS-realm scope selection because SITE-A had
no UNS. Authored one on docker-dev (area -> line -> equipment) and re-ran that
part: the picker's UNS column offers UnsArea/UnsLine/Equipment, selecting the
equipment resolves, and the grant deploys Sealed.

Leg 15 is the one worth keeping. Re-pointing the SITE-A grant at MAIN's
equipment is the only rejection whose id is REAL, so a check that asked only
"does a row with this id exist?" would accept it and confer authority across a
cluster boundary. The list page and the deploy gate both catch it and both name
the owning cluster.

Also found and filed (Gitea #535, not fixed here): the /uns area and line modals
do not validate the UNS segment format, so "Packaging" and "Line 1" saved
happily and then failed the deploy with UnsSegmentInvalid. Only the equipment
form carries the rule. A deployment snapshots the whole database, so one bad
area name blocks every cluster's deploy - the same authoring-vs-gate gap stage 7
just closed for NodeAcl rows.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 11:03:57 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 3796c0bf22 merge: ACL scope picker + authoring-time resolution (#520 stage 7)
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Closes #520 — all eight stages done and live-gated.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 10:53:37 -04:00
Joseph Doherty d542ab5b7c feat(security): author ACL grants from the real tree, not free text (#520 stage 7)
The last stage of #520. Enforcement landed in stages 5-6; this closes the
authoring end, where a grant could be saved, deployed and sealed green while
resolving to nothing.

Scope kind and scope target are now chosen TOGETHER from a picker over the
cluster's raw and UNS trees (AclScopePickerModal -> AclScopeTree, backed by
IAclScopeService). They were previously an unrelated dropdown and a free-text
box, so "RawDevice + a TagId" was a well-formed row. Because the trees are
rooted at the grant's own cluster and each node supplies its own kind,
NodeAclScopeCrossCluster, NodeAclScopeIdUnexpected, NodeAclScopeIdMissing and
NodeAclScopeKindRetired all become unauthorable by construction.

CheckScopeAsync mirrors DraftValidator.ValidateNodeAclScopes rule for rule and
blocks the save when a scope resolves to nothing - re-checked on submit, not
trusted from form load, because a row whose entity was deleted since is exactly
where the operator never touches the picker. The list page marks such rows
unresolved with the reason. The principal field suggests known principals and
reports how many live keys reach the one typed; reaching nobody warns rather
than blocks, since authoring ahead of minting is legitimate.

Deliberate departures from the plan line, all recorded in the design doc:
- The banners are reshaped, not removed. "Not enforced" stopped being true at
  stage 6, but enforcement is still a per-node flag the AdminUI cannot see, so
  a narrow grant really does confer nothing on a default-configured node.
- A Cluster row produces a NULL ScopeId. The deploy gate rejects one that
  carries an id, so filling in the cluster id would author undeployable rows.
- AclScopeTree is a new component rather than a third mode on RawTree, which
  already carries the /raw editing tree and the equipment reference picker.
- UNS tags are not offered: a UNS signal is a UnsTagReference, and a Tag grant
  already covers the raw node and every UNS projection of it.

Also fixed: the ACL editor had a DataAnnotationsValidator and no
ValidationSummary, so an invalid NodeAclId made Create a silent no-op.

Tests: 30 in AdminUI.Tests/Acls, falsified with six production mutations -
each turned exactly the intended tests red and no others.

Live gate PASSED on docker-dev, 11 legs; both central containers asserted on
the same image by container id. The pair that matters is legs 8 and 11: the
page and the deploy gate reject the same row with the same reason. Legs 5 and
9 are the positive controls - without them the gate passes against a page that
refuses everything. Not covered: UNS-realm scope selection (SITE-A has no UNS
areas). Rig restored to zero ACL rows.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 10:53:31 -04:00
Joseph Doherty d4389f57a2 merge: node ACL enforcement on read, browse and subscribe (#520 stage 6)
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Completes data-plane enforcement behind Security:Acl:Enabled (still default
false). Read — every attribute, not just Value — Browse, TranslateBrowsePath,
CreateMonitoredItems, SubscribeToEvents and SetMonitoringMode now consult scoped
NodeAcl grants. With the flag off nothing changes.

LIVE-GATED on docker-dev: site-a-1 with the flag on, central-1 on the same
artifact as the control. Revoking a grant stopped a running subscription
mid-stream — client told (0x801F0000), 25 seconds of silence, feed resumed by
itself on restore. Full transcript in the design doc.

Four decisions worth knowing:

- Browse needed ancestor visibility, or every grant narrower than the cluster is
  authored, shipped and unreachable — a client reaches a deep node by browsing
  the nodes above it, and the trie inherits downward only. It is a separate
  non-inheriting marker, NOT a synthesized Browse grant on each ancestor: the
  additive walk would carry such a grant onto every sibling subtree.

- Revocation had to reach LIVE subscriptions. Every other operation re-asks per
  request; a subscription is authorized once and streams, and streaming is how
  machine consumers read this server. A denied item is queued
  BadUserAccessDenied and then DETACHED from its fan-out, not set
  MonitoringMode.Disabled — disabling discards the queued notification, so the
  client would be silenced without being told why. Detaching is also reversible.

- The decision cache holds the grant WALK, not the decision. Grants are fixed
  for a generation; a key's expiry moves with the clock, so caching the whole
  decision would let an expired key work until the next deploy.

- TranslateBrowsePath is gated too, or a client refused a browse just asks
  TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds for the same path.

Three defects found and fixed en route, all the same shape — an `object`-typed
SDK parameter that the wrong cast reads as null, disabling a gate silently:
ContinuationPoint.NodeToBrowse is a NodeHandle (browse source gate), and
SubscribeToEvents' sourceId is too (event gate, which would have let an
ungranted session receive every alarm on an equipment whose values it was
refused). Also: UserAuthorizationState's staleness ceiling couples the
authorizer's clock to the evaluator's, and any divergence denies EVERYTHING with
a verdict indistinguishable from "no grant matched".

Consumer-visible: with the flag ON, a read-only consumer now needs a Read grant.
The umbrella index's previous claim that reads and subscriptions were ungated in
either mode no longer holds.

Full solution suite green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 10:00:19 -04:00
Joseph Doherty c4f537a60c docs(security): record the stage 6 live gate — PASSED on docker-dev
site-a-1 (driver-only, no ConfigDb) with Security:Acl:Enabled=true; central-1
on the same artifact as the A/B control. 11 legs.

The two that only a live rig could settle, as a transcript:

  13:49:39  SiteAOnly = 53   (0x00000000)   streaming ~1/s
  13:49:40  SiteAOnly =      (0x801F0000)   revoking deploy lands; client TOLD
            … 25 seconds of silence, ~25 updates that never arrived …
  13:50:05  SiteAOnly = 157  (0x00000000)   restoring deploy; feed resumes

53 -> 157 across the gap: the device counter ran throughout, so delivery
stopped, not the source. The 0x801F0000 frame is exactly what the
MonitoringMode.Disabled implementation would have swallowed.

Also recorded: the leg that distinguishes working enforcement from a trie that
denies everything is resolvedScopes=1 in the install log, not any denial.

Stated plainly as NOT covered: a UNS-realm grant (the rig's SITE-A has no UNS
equipment) and alarm-command scoping (no alarms there). Both covered offline,
neither seen live.

Two rig facts worth keeping: :9200 round-robins central-1/central-2, and a
stale central-2 rejected the deploy outright because its image predated the
stage-3 scope kinds — image parity must be asserted per container, not assumed
from one build. And SITEA-modbus had an empty DriverConfig, so it ran as a stub
serving nothing; until that was fixed every read returned
BadWaitingForInitialData and no allow leg could be told from a denial.

Rig left as found.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 09:52:42 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 2aa42f90eb fix(security): the ACL startup warning described stage 5's scope, not stage 6's
It told the operator "Read, Browse and Subscribe remain ungated" — which stage 6
is precisely the change to. A warning that misstates what a security control
does is worse than no warning, because it is read as authoritative.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 09:43:40 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 8cdbcb9823 fix(security): resolve the event-subscribe gate's source through IsHandleInNamespace
SubscribeToEvents' sourceId is the manager HANDLE, not a NodeState — the same
object-typed trap as ContinuationPoint.NodeToBrowse, found the same way. The
`sourceId as NodeState` cast compiled, always yielded null, and silently
disabled the gate: an ungranted session could subscribe to an equipment's event
notifier and receive every alarm it raises, including the condition fields,
while every value on it was refused.

Now uses the SDK's own IsHandleInNamespace, which cannot be wrong about the type.

The new test passes a null monitored item deliberately: the gate must deny
without touching the item, which also makes the test a discriminator rather than
a restatement — against the broken cast the call falls through to the base
implementation, which does dereference it, so the test fails loudly.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 09:42:32 -04:00
Joseph Doherty ce404df970 fix(security): count only this page's references in the browse-filter summary
On a BrowseNext the references list already carries the earlier pages, so the
summary's denominator counted them again. Log accuracy only — the filtering
itself was already scoped to this call's appended range.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 09:39:51 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 00aa486677 feat(security): enforce node ACLs on read, browse and subscribe (#520 stage 6)
Completes data-plane enforcement behind Security:Acl:Enabled. Read (every
attribute, not just Value), Browse, TranslateBrowsePath, CreateMonitoredItems,
SubscribeToEvents and SetMonitoringMode now consult scoped NodeAcl grants.
With the flag off nothing changes.

Four things went beyond the stage as written, each because leaving it out
would have made the feature look like it worked:

- Browse needed ancestor visibility. The trie inherits downward, and a client
  reaches a deep node by browsing the nodes above it, so without this every
  grant narrower than the cluster was authored, shipped and unreachable. It is
  a separate non-inheriting marker, NOT a synthesized Browse grant on each
  ancestor: the additive downward walk would carry such a grant from Plant onto
  Plant/Siemens/dev9 and every other sibling subtree. Pinned by a test that
  goes through the evaluator — probing the trie helper directly passes against
  the broken design, because a sibling is absent from the trie either way.

- Revocation had to reach LIVE subscriptions. Every other operation re-asks per
  request; a subscription is authorized once and then streams, and streaming is
  how machine consumers actually read this server — so stopping only the
  re-asking operations would have made revocation close to cosmetic.
  IDataPlaneAuthoritySource gained a Changed event.

  A denied item is queued BadUserAccessDenied and then DETACHED from its
  MonitoredNode2 fan-out, not set MonitoringMode.Disabled. Disabling discards
  the item's queued notifications, so the client is silenced without ever being
  told why. The over-the-wire test caught this; the unit-level path reports the
  item as stood down either way. Detaching is also reversible, so a restored
  grant resumes the feed with no client action.

- The decision cache holds the grant WALK, not the decision. Grants and the
  trie are fixed for a generation; a key's ExpiresUtc passes with the clock, so
  caching the whole decision would let an expired key keep working until the
  next deploy — the stage-5 open-session hole in a subtler form.

- TranslateBrowsePath is gated, without which browse filtering is decorative: a
  client refused a browse asks TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds for the same path.

Found en route: UserAuthorizationState's staleness ceiling couples two clocks.
MembershipResolvedUtc is stamped from DataPlaneAuthorizer's TimeProvider while
IsStale is evaluated against TriePermissionEvaluator's; they are the same
instance in production and diverge the moment anything injects a test clock, at
which point the evaluator denies EVERYTHING with a verdict indistinguishable
from "no grant matched". Stage 5's claim that these predicates cannot fire was
accidentally true; they are now disabled explicitly.

Also fixed: ContinuationPoint.NodeToBrowse is the manager HANDLE, not a
NodeState. The declared type is object, so the wrong cast compiled cleanly and
silently yielded null — skipping the browse source gate entirely.

Falsified: disabling the transit marking reddens exactly the three tests that
assert transit works; implementing transit as an ancestor grant reddens the
sibling-leak test; skipping the fan-out detach reddens the revocation test.
Full solution suite green.

The stage 8 live gate has NOT run yet.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 09:22:12 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 1ccc74005a merge: node ACL enforcement on write, alarms and HistoryRead (#520 stage 5)
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m37s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 15m44s
Behind Security:Acl:Enabled (default false), scoped NodeAcl grants now decide
writes, alarm commands and HistoryRead. HistoryRead had no authorization check
of any kind before this. Read, Browse and Subscribe stay ungated in both modes
(stage 6).

The ACL decision REPLACES the role check rather than chaining with it. Chained,
a grant would have to confer the server-wide role as well as pass the scope
check, and only Cluster-scoped grants confer a role — so every narrow grant
would stay inert and the flag would appear to do nothing. The consequence for
tests: a deny-only test is vacuous here because the role gate denies too, so the
load-bearing test is an allow — a roleless session writing on its grant alone.

Fixes a live defect found on the way in: the ACL principal never reached the
session. RoleCarryingUserIdentity derived DisplayName from the presented token,
which is the static username "apikey" for every key-bearing client, so the
trie's matching key was dropped at the identity boundary and every rejected
write audited as "apikey".

Beyond the stage as written:
- revocation now reaches an already-open session (both a revoked key and a
  removed grant), rather than persisting until the client chooses to reconnect
- UserAuthorizationState is built per call, not per session; its freshness
  predicates are LDAP-shaped and cannot fire under API keys, so they are
  documented as vestigial rather than left looking load-bearing
- the trie is built inside DataPlaneAuthorityState.Apply, not as a second
  wiring — an uninstalled trie denies everything, indistinguishable from working
  enforcement
- both IApiKeyStore implementations widened from Cluster-scoped grants to the
  full grant set; ApiKeyInterimRoleMapper still narrows, pinned by tests

The stage 8 live gate has NOT run — all verification is offline. Every failure
path denies, so a wiring mistake presents as a total outage of the three gated
operations rather than a subtle permission bug.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 08:35:17 -04:00
Joseph Doherty f692f6afe4 feat(security): enforce node ACLs on write, alarms and HistoryRead (#520 stage 5)
`Security:Acl:Enabled` (default false) makes scoped `NodeAcl` grants decide
data-plane authorization at the three seams that have one, and gives HistoryRead
a check it never had. Read, Browse and Subscribe stay ungated — stage 6.

The ACL decision REPLACES the server-wide role check rather than chaining with
it. Chained, a grant would have to confer the role as well as pass the scope
check, and only Cluster-scoped grants confer a role — so every narrow grant
would have stayed inert and the flag would have looked inert too. The
load-bearing test is an ALLOW: a session carrying no roles at all writing
successfully on the strength of its grant. A deny-only test passes against a
build where the ACL is never consulted, because the role gate denies too.

Found en route: the principal never reached the session. The authenticator
passed it as OpcUaUserAuthResult.DisplayName, but RoleCarryingUserIdentity
derives DisplayName from the presented token — for a key-bearing client that is
the static username `apikey`, identical fleet-wide. So the trie's matching key
was dropped at the identity boundary, and the audit ClientUserId on a rejected
write recorded `apikey` for every consuming system. Principal and ApiKeyId are
now carried explicitly.

Beyond the stage as sketched:

- Revocation reaches an OPEN session. Every decision re-checks the
  authenticating key against the current snapshot; without it a key revoked by a
  deployment kept its authority until the client chose to reconnect, which for a
  machine-to-machine consumer can be indefinitely.
- UserAuthorizationState is built per CALL, not per session. The per-session
  shape exists so an LDAP session can re-resolve membership that changed out of
  band; nothing can change out of band under API keys, so the generation stamp is
  the whole invalidation signal and a per-call record picks it up for free.
  IsStale/NeedsRefresh therefore cannot fire here and are documented as vestigial.
- The trie is built inside DataPlaneAuthorityState.Apply, under the same
  generation as the snapshot, rather than by a second wiring at the publish
  actor. An uninstalled trie denies everything — indistinguishable from working
  enforcement. Deleting the install turns 13 of the 22 new tests red.
- The deploy log reports what the BUILD dropped instead of re-deriving it. The
  old count agreed with the builder on one of its four drop reasons; a rule with
  a blank ScopeId, a retired scope kind, or a path not starting at a realm
  vanished with the log reading zero.

Both IApiKeyStore implementations widened to the full grant set. The narrowing
was redundant — ApiKeyInterimRoleMapper applies the same filter itself — and
became a trap once scope was enforced. Pinned by asserting the roles are
unchanged, with the two grants carrying different flags so it cannot pass by
accident.

Falsified by mutation: enforcement never engaging, the write seam ignoring the
ACL, the realm dropped from the scope, the revocation check removed, and the
trie never installed each turn the intended tests red and no others.

Full solution suite green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 05:00:28 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 9499099028 merge: ACL scope model + role/identity fixes + four real test failures (#520 s3, #532, #533, #534)
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m41s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 13m17s
Five commits, four Gitea issues closed.

#520 stage 3 — NodeScope becomes (ClusterId, Kind, Segments) with a variable-length
path, and AclScopePathResolver finally provides the scopePaths producer the trie
builder's required argument had never had. Closes two of the four documented
wire-up blockers: raw-realm nodes are now representable, and an unresolvable scope
is dropped with a diagnostic instead of planted where the walk cannot reach it.
Node ACLs remain unenforced — that is stages 5/6.

#532 — Cluster:Roles had no OTOPCUA_ROLES fallback despite two doc sites promising
one, so a node configured only through the env var joined the cluster with no Akka
roles: invisible to every role query, un-deployable, and silent about it. The field
fix on wonder-app-vd03 was a registry edit. Now applied once, in AddOtOpcUaCluster,
plus the four open-coded ClusterId derivations collapsed into RoleParser.

#533 — three string-identity rules in one authorization path, working only because
both sides held the same NodeAcl instances. One rule now: identifiers compare
OrdinalIgnoreCase, path segments compare Ordinal.

#534 — both libplctag drivers carried Port on their create-params and consumed it
nowhere, so libplctag substituted 44818 and the connection went to whatever answers
there. A production defect: on a plant network that is another PLC, read as Good.

Also fixed: three integration failures that had stopped catching what they guard —
a harness that stopped spawning the redundancy singleton after the Phase 6 re-home
(48s timeout, both nodes "role unknown"), a hand-written driver-type list that
could not see a driver registered without a probe, and an AbCip probe config still
in the retired v2 shape, exercising the fallback its own comment says it avoids.
The AbLegacy PCCC fixture was deployed for the first time, one port per family.

Full solution suite green, zero failures — AdminUI.Tests 969, Host.IntegrationTests
211/4 skipped, AbLegacy integration 4/4 (never passed before).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 02:37:47 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 01538464b7 fix(abcip,ablegacy): honour the authored EtherNet/IP port (#534)
Both libplctag drivers carried Port on their tag-create params and consumed it
nowhere. The runtimes set Tag.Gateway to the bare host, and libplctag does not
fail on a portless gateway — it substitutes 44818. So an authored port was not
ignored in the harmless sense; the connection was silently REDIRECTED to whatever
answers on the default port. On a plant network that is another PLC, and the
driver would read its tags and report them Good.

This is the root cause of #534's four AbLegacy integration failures, and the
explanation for every observation in that issue: with each PCCC family moved to
its own port (44819/44820/44821), the driver still dialled 44818 and kept talking
to the AB CIP fixture's ControlLogix container. Hence PCCC-against-ControlLogix
errors under every server-path / client-cip-path permutation — the permutations
were never reaching a PCCC server at all.

Established by a direct libplctag 1.5.2 probe outside the repo, which answered
#534's open question: PCCC works fine against ab_server for all three families,
with path="1,0" AND with path=null (only path="" throws ErrorBadData). Since the
library could reach the simulators and the driver could not, the difference had
to be in our Tag construction, and Gateway was the only field that differed.
Same probe confirmed libplctag accepts host:port in the gateway attribute, which
is what the fix emits.

AbCip has the identical defect and is fixed alongside. It has never been
observable there: every AbCip fixture profile binds 44818, so no test that driver
has could distinguish "uses the authored port" from "always uses 44818". A
fixture that only ever exercises the default value cannot falsify a rule about
non-default values, however many tests point at it.

The port is now emitted unconditionally rather than only when non-default, so the
value does not depend on libplctag's own default; a port <= 0 still falls back to
the bare host rather than producing "host:0".

The load-bearing guard is the AbLegacy integration suite, which addresses each
family on a non-default port and cannot pass unless the port is honoured — 4/4
green, having never once passed before. Unit tests in both drivers pin the
composition for machines with no fixtures. Falsified both ways: reverting the
runtime line reddens all 4 integration tests; dropping the port > 0 guard reddens
exactly the two fallback cases.

AbCip integration 10/13 (3 pre-existing skips), AbCip unit 345, AbLegacy unit 219.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 02:24:30 -04:00
Joseph Doherty b13bdc154a test(ablegacy): deploy the PCCC fixture, one port per family (#534)
The AbLegacy integration suite has never run against a simulator.
/opt/otopcua-ablegacy/ did not exist on the Docker host — the stack was written
but never deployed — and every ab_server across BOTH ab fixtures bound :44818.
So the AB CIP fixture's ControlLogix container (up for two weeks) answered this
suite's TCP reachability probe, the suite declined to skip, and it ran SLC500-mode
PCCC against a ControlLogix. Four failures that read as "fixture missing".

Two structural problems, both fixed here:

- The theory parameterises over all three PCCC families, but only one container
  could ever exist on the shared port, so at least two cases failed on every
  conceivable run. The suite was un-greenable by construction, and
  AB_LEGACY_COMPOSE_PROFILE existed to paper over it by filtering the theory
  down to whichever container happened to be up.
- A reachability probe that cannot tell one simulator from another is not a skip
  gate. It answered "is some ab_server listening", which is a different question
  from the one the caller is asking, and reported the difference as a test
  failure.

Each family now has its own host port — 44819 slc500, 44820 micrologix, 44821
plc5 — so all three run together and alongside AbCip on 44818 (ab_server still
listens on 44818 inside each container; only the host mapping differs). Skip is
per-family via SkipReasonFor(profile); the class-level gate runs if ANY family is
up so one down container cannot silently skip the other two.
AB_LEGACY_COMPOSE_PROFILE now applies only in AB_LEGACY_ENDPOINT-pinned
real-hardware mode, where the family genuinely is a property of the one device.
This finally makes true what the fixture's XML doc has claimed from the start —
that it and the AB CIP fixture can point at different containers simultaneously.

Deployed to /opt/otopcua-ablegacy/ on 10.100.0.35; all three containers running.

The 4 tests still FAIL, and are left red on purpose — see #534. Now aimed at
correct-family simulators, the PCCC exchange itself returns BadCommunicationError
for every server-path / client-cip-path permutation, reproduced outside the test
harness via the driver CLI. That is a true signal about the driver (or about
libplctag's PCCC support against ab_server) that skipping would hide. What
changed here is that the failure is now diagnostic instead of an artifact of a
port collision.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 02:18:53 -04:00
Joseph Doherty df340b8bba fix(tests): three real failures the integration suite had stopped catching
None of these were fixture absence. Each is a guard that went quietly wrong and
then reported the wrong thing.

PrimaryGateFailoverTests — per-cluster mesh Phase 6 (a2c5d57f) moved
RedundancyStateActor out of WithOtOpcUaControlPlaneSingletons into its own
cluster-role-scoped registration, made from Program.cs's DRIVER branch. The
harness models a fused admin,driver node but was never updated, so from that
commit onward NO node it built spawned the singleton: nothing published
redundancy-state, both nodes sat at "role unknown" forever, and the test polled
45s and timed out. The test's own summary calls this its negative control for a
broken redundancy-topic subscribe — it fired correctly, at the harness rather
than at production. Second time this shape has bitten the harness; the
AddOtOpcUaRuntime note a few lines up records the first.

DriverProbeRegistrationTests — the expected driver set was a hand-written array
kept in sync by comment, and it drifted when Sql (9b5a9687) and Mqtt (f79d13e2)
shipped. It failed as "12 where 10 expected", which names neither driver and
reads as if the probes were wrong. It also could not catch the direction that
matters: a driver type registered with no probe passed silently, because a
hand-written list only grows when someone remembers, and this test exists for
the case where nobody did. Now derived from DriverTypeNames.All, both
directions, plus an explicit case-drift test for the two types whose AdminUI key
differs in case from the constant (TwinCat/TwinCAT, Focas/FOCAS) — which the
derived tests cannot cover, since they compare the constants to themselves.

DriverProbeHandshakeE2eTests.AbCip_Green_AgainstSim — the probe config still used
the retired v2 `Tags: [{DeviceHostAddress, TagPath}]` shape, so
AbCipDriverOptions.RawTags bound empty, the probe fell through to its
@raw_cpu_type system-tag fallback, and ab_server answered ErrorBadParam. The test
has therefore spent the whole v3 migration exercising the one path its own
comment says it does not exercise. Rewritten to the v3 RawTags shape, and the
assertion tightened from ShouldContain("CIP session OK") to an exact match:
the probe's two green messages both contain that substring, so the loose form
would go green again the moment the config merely reached the controller,
whether or not the authored tag resolved.

Falsified each: drop the MTConnect probe (2 red, by name), remove the harness
singleton registration (back to the 48s "role unknown" timeout), break the
RawTags key (back to ErrorBadParam).

Host.IntegrationTests 211 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed, against live fixtures on
10.100.0.35.

Still red and NOT addressed here: the AbLegacy integration suite (4 tests). Its
fixture is genuinely down, but it hard-fails instead of skipping because the
AbCip ControlLogix container holds :44818 — the reachability guard cannot tell
"my ab_server" from "someone else's", so SkipReason stays null and SLC500-mode
PCCC runs against a ControlLogix. Needs either distinct fixture ports or a
family-aware guard; both are shared-infrastructure changes.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 02:09:15 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 06c56d7719 fix(cluster,acl): OTOPCUA_ROLES fallback + one string-identity rule (#532, #533)
Two independent defects surfaced in review of #520 stage 3.

#532 — Cluster:Roles had no OTOPCUA_ROLES fallback, despite two doc sites
promising one. A node configured only through the env var — which drives ALL of
Program.cs's conditional wiring, so it reads as the authoritative knob — bound an
empty Roles array and joined the cluster carrying no Akka roles at all. It ran,
served, and logged nothing wrong, while central reported "no driver-role nodes
are Up" and every deployment to it timed out. Not hypothetical: the field fix on
wonder-app-vd03 was to hand-add Cluster__Roles__0/1 to a Windows service's
registry environment. Anyone reading the code to diagnose that box would have
concluded from the XML doc that the fallback was already applied.

AddOtOpcUaCluster now post-configures AkkaClusterOptions through the shared
RoleParser.ResolveEffectiveRoles, so BuildClusterOptions (Akka's own member
roles), ClusterRoleInfo, the ControlPlane singleton scope and
ConfigDbApiKeyStore's ClusterId all see one answer. Two sibling validators
(ConfigSource, Telemetry) read Cluster:Roles directly and were exempting the
exact node they exist for — an env-only driver-only node has no ConfigDb and
could sit on ConfigSource:Mode=Direct unchallenged. They resolve the same way now.

Also collapsed the four open-coded `Roles.FirstOrDefault(IsClusterRole)` +
ClusterIdFromRole copies into RoleParser.ClusterIdFromRoles. They had drifted:
three classified the cluster role ordinally, so a verbatim-bound `Cluster-SITE-A`
yielded a null ClusterId — and a null ClusterId applies NO cluster filter, which
made #528's cross-cluster over-grant guard fail OPEN. IsClusterRole is now
case-insensitive; the ClusterId suffix keeps its authored spelling, because
normalizing it would silently rename the Akka role of a running deployment.

#533 — three string-identity rules in one authorization path. AclScopeRef used
default (ordinal) equality while the trie builder filtered ClusterId and hashed
principals OrdinalIgnoreCase; the deploy gate's cross-cluster check was ordinal
too, which was the worse half — it could reject a whole deploy over a ClusterId
case difference the runtime would have accepted. It only worked because resolver
and builder were handed the same NodeAcl instances.

The rule is now stated once, on AclScopeRef, and applied throughout:
identifiers (ScopeId, ClusterId, Principal) compare OrdinalIgnoreCase; path
segments compare Ordinal. AclScopePathResolver re-keys its own maps rather than
documenting a comparer contract for callers, so the two independent producers —
EF at the gate, artifact JSON on the node — cannot diverge from the outside.
PermissionTrieNode.Children stays Ordinal: those are browse names, and Speed /
speed are two nodes that can coexist under one device.

Split PermissionTrieBuildDiagnosticReason.RetiredScopeKind out of
UnresolvedScope. A legacy FolderSegment row and a typo'd id had the same message
and different remedies.

Falsified: five mutations, each reddening only its own guard — remove the
PostConfigure (3 tests), revert IsClusterRole to ordinal (3), revert AclScopeRef
equality (1), revert the resolver's map comparer (6), revert the gate's
comparisons (2), remove the FolderSegment short-circuit (1).

Test isolation: OTOPCUA_ROLES is process-global and xUnit runs classes in
parallel, so the three validator suites that now resolve effective roles share a
non-parallel collection. Without it, cases passing no roles would intermittently
observe another class's env var.

Full solution build clean; full suite green apart from two pre-existing failures
confirmed identical on 3a6b2a1d (PrimaryGateFailoverTests, and
DriverProbeRegistrationTests expecting 10 probe types where 12 now register)
plus the AbLegacy integration suite, which needs a docker fixture.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 01:51:22 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 3a6b2a1daf feat(acl): variable-depth scope model + the scopePaths producer (#520 stage 3)
Makes the /raw device tree addressable by an ACL rule, and builds the
scope-path producer PermissionTrieBuilder has accepted since it was written
but which had no caller anywhere.

The plan for this stage said "add NodeHierarchyKind.Raw, whose path is the
RawPath segments Folder/Driver/Device/TagGroup/Tag". That shape is wrong.
RawFolder.ParentRawFolderId and TagGroup.ParentTagGroupId are both
self-referencing, so folders and tag groups each nest without bound and a real
RawPath is folder…/Driver/Device/group…/Tag. NodeScope was fixed-arity and
PermissionTrie.CollectMatches was five hardcoded steps, so the scope model
could not address a real raw tree at all. NodeScope is now {ClusterId, Kind,
Segments} and the walk is a segment loop. The trie STRUCTURE was already
variable-depth (NodeAclPath.Segments is a list, Children is a recursive
dictionary), so only the walker and the scope record had to change.

Four decisions worth keeping:

- The namespace level became the realm. Level 1 gated on NodeScope.NamespaceId,
  but v3 has no Namespace entity — the snapshot was retired when the address
  space went dual-namespace, and the identifier appears nowhere in production
  outside NodeScope. So the level could only ever fail to match, which silently
  made every sub-cluster grant unreachable while cluster grants kept working.
  It is now a realm token derived from the scope's Kind, not carried on it, so
  the walk and the producer cannot disagree about its spelling.
- Provenance comes from the granting row's own ScopeKind, recorded on TrieGrant
  at build time. Depth-derived provenance could not name a raw level at all,
  since the depth of "Device" varies with folder nesting.
- The trie comparer moved from OrdinalIgnoreCase to Ordinal. Raw sibling-name
  uniqueness is ordinal, so Speed and speed can both exist under one device and
  a grant on either would have matched both.
- The null-scopePaths "deterministic test mode" is deleted. It planted
  unresolvable rows at a direct child of the trie root, a position the walker
  cannot reach, so the grant looked placed and could never match — and every
  test using that mode proved nothing about production placement. scopePaths is
  now required, and a row that does not resolve is dropped with a diagnostic.

A scope resolves to a LIST of paths: a raw tag projected into N equipments is
reachable at N+1 NodeIds and a write through any of them lands on the same
driver reference, so a Tag-scoped grant covering only the raw node would be
bypassable through a UNS one. The lookup is keyed on (ScopeKind, ScopeId), not
ScopeId alone — ScopeId has no FK and no type discriminator, so an id collision
across entity types would hand a grant the wrong node's paths.

Also closed here, all found by review rather than asked for:

- NodeAcl rows had no deploy-time validation of any kind and were not reachable
  from DraftValidator at all (DraftSnapshot carried no NodeAcls). They are now
  gated for dangling ids, cross-cluster scopes, blank/contradictory ScopeId, the
  retired FolderSegment kind, and undefined ordinals.
- ConfigDbApiKeyStore conferred roles from Cluster-scoped grants authored in ANY
  cluster, because it filtered on scope kind with no ClusterId predicate while
  ArtifactApiKeyStore read an already-cluster-filtered snapshot. On a fused
  admin+driver node that was a cross-cluster over-grant. Its doc comment claimed
  the two stores matched.
- The two AdminUI ACL banners still said enforcement was LDAP-group -> role
  mapping, which stages 1/2 made false in both directions.
- The /apikeys page was never classified in PageAuthorizationGuardTests, so that
  test has been red since the key-minting commit merged — I did not run
  AdminUI.Tests before merging stage 4.

Falsified rather than assumed: 8 mutations against the trie tests, 5 against the
deploy gate (including one proving a cross-cluster row is not silently
mis-diagnosed as unresolved), a staged red->green for the over-grant regression,
and the realm gate, the comparer and the malformed-path guard each broken
individually to confirm only their own tests go red.

Node ACLs are still not ENFORCED — nothing constructs a NodeScope or calls the
evaluator yet. That is stages 5 and 6; this stage makes the model able to
express what those will enforce.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 01:07:59 -04:00
Joseph Doherty fbe7403ca5 merge: API-key identity on the OPC UA data plane, keys+ACLs via the artifact (#520 stages 1-2, 4)
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m13s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 15m0s
Replaces LDAP with API keys on the OPC UA data plane and gets those keys to
driver-only nodes, which since per-cluster mesh Phase 4 have no ConfigDb and so
denied every UserName token.

A client now presents a UserName token with the fixed username `apikey` and an
`otua_<keyId>_<secret>` password; ApiKeyOpcUaUserAuthenticator resolves it to a
principal with one indexed lookup plus one peppered HMAC and no network I/O --
which matters because the SDK raises ImpersonateUser synchronously under a
SessionManager-wide lock. LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator is deleted along with the
four Security:Ldap keys that existed only to bound an inline LDAP bind on that
path. LDAP remains, for AdminUI login only.

Anonymous is a normal grantable principal rather than a bypass branch:
OpcUa:AllowAnonymous (default true, preserving today's behaviour) controls
admission, and an admitted anonymous session arrives at the role gates as the
same RoleCarryingUserIdentity a key produces.

ConfigComposer snapshots the ApiKey rows -- the peppered HMAC only, never a
secret, and the pepper is node config deliberately absent from the artifact --
and DeploymentArtifact.ParseDataPlaneAuthority decodes them node-side alongside
the cluster's NodeAcl rows. The consequence is asymmetric revocation: immediate
on a ConfigDb node, next-deployment on a driver-only one. That is documented
rather than hidden.

Two decisions worth keeping:

- The auth generation is a node-local counter DRIVEN BY the RevisionHash, not
  derived from its bits. PermissionTrieCache treats the highest GenerationId as
  current, so a hash-derived generation would install a lower number about half
  the time and the cache would go on serving the previous deployment's ACLs with
  nothing logged.
- The artifact feed runs before OpcUaPublishActor's plan.IsEmpty early-return.
  An artifact that only revokes a key changes no nodes, so feeding after that
  return would leave a revoked key working until some unrelated structural change
  happened to redeploy.

Node ACLs are still NOT enforced per node -- a key's grants collapse into the
existing server-wide WriteOperate and AlarmAck gates, and only Cluster-scoped
grants count, because honouring a narrower grant's flags while unable to honour
its scope would turn "WriteOperate on Equipment X" into server-wide write
authority. Read, Browse, HistoryRead and CreateMonitoredItems remain ungated.
The AdminUI carries "not enforced" banners saying so; stages 3, 5 and 6 remove
them.

Live-gated on the six-node docker-dev rig, 6/6 legs against driver-only
site-a-1, including both halves of the revocation asymmetry and confirmation
that a SITE-A grant does not leak to SITE-B.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-08-01 00:28:22 -04:00
Joseph Doherty a438ac1640 feat(acl): keys + ACLs reach driver-only nodes via the artifact (#520 stage 4)
A driver-only node has had no ConfigDb since per-cluster mesh Phase 4, so it
registered NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator and denied every UserName token. Its keys
now ride the deployment artifact instead.

- ConfigComposer snapshots ApiKeys alongside the NodeAcls it already carried.
  Only the peppered HMAC ships, never a secret, and the pepper is node config
  that is deliberately not in the artifact.
- DeploymentArtifact.ParseDataPlaneAuthority decodes both node-side. Grants are
  scoped to the node's own cluster; keys are not, because ApiKey carries no
  ClusterId — a key is a fleet-wide credential and the ACL rows are what bind it.
- OpcUaPublishActor installs them on DataPlaneAuthorityState on every apply,
  BEFORE its plan.IsEmpty early-return: an artifact that only revokes a key
  produces an empty address-space plan, so feeding after that return would leave
  the revoked key working until an unrelated structural change redeployed.
- ArtifactApiKeyStore serves them to session activation; a node with a ConfigDb
  keeps ConfigDbApiKeyStore, whose per-request read is what makes revocation
  immediate there.
- OtOpcUaNodeManager gains DataPlaneAuthority — the cluster identity blocker #4
  named. NodeScope.ClusterId is required and the evaluator fails closed on a
  mismatch, so until now no scope it built could have evaluated. Nothing reads it
  until stages 5/6.

The generation is a node-local COUNTER driven by the RevisionHash, not derived
from its bits. PermissionTrieCache treats the highest GenerationId as current, so
a generation taken from hash bytes would install a lower number about half the
time and the cache would go on serving the previous deployment's ACLs, silently.

Sessions are not stamped with it yet — that belongs with the first seam that
reads a UserAuthorizationState, in stage 5, rather than being built now and
consulted by nothing.

Live-gated on docker-dev against site-a-1 (driver-only, no ConfigDb): key
authenticates, wrong secret denied, both halves of the revocation asymmetry
observed, and a SITE-A grant confirmed not to reach site-b-1. Key minted with an
independent Python HMAC so the verifier was checked against something other than
itself. Rig left clean.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 14:37:18 -04:00
Joseph Doherty c1771dc271 docs(acl): correct the API-key revocation warning after live verification (#520)
The /apikeys page claimed revocation "takes effect on a node only after the next
deployment". The live gate showed that is wrong for the node the operator is
most likely looking at: revoking through the UI denied the key on the VERY NEXT
request against the fused admin+driver node, because ConfigDbApiKeyStore reads
per request. The deployment delay applies only to driver-only nodes, whose keys
ride the artifact.

Reworded to say both, and to tell an operator to assume the slower behaviour when
revoking a compromised key — which is the decision the warning exists to inform.

Found by doing the thing rather than reasoning about it: the previous wording
looked obviously correct until the revoked key was actually re-presented.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 14:06:13 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 54b06aab33 test(acl): docker-dev pepper + live gate for the API-key identity path (#520)
Adds the Security__ApiKeys__Pepper anchor to docker-dev, merged into all six host
nodes — a driver node needs it to verify keys, an admin node to mint them, and a
mismatch is a silent authentication failure rather than a startup error.
Committed dev value under the same exception as the LDAP service account and the
deploy key.

Live gate on the rig (migrations applied, both central nodes rebuilt one at a
time to avoid the simultaneous-cold-start split):

- Migrator applied the rename + ApiKey migrations; NodeAcl.Principal exists,
  LdapGroup is gone, ApiKey created.
- sp_ComputeGenerationDiff EXECUTES and returns rows. Without the re-emit in the
  rename migration this call would have failed with Invalid column name, so the
  trap is confirmed closed rather than argued closed.
- A key whose hash was computed by an INDEPENDENT Python HMAC implementation
  authenticates against the C# verifier. That validates the hashing contract
  (otua_<keyId>_<secret>, peppered HMAC-SHA256, base64) far better than
  round-tripping my own code would.
- Wrong secret -> 0x80210000 BadIdentityTokenRejected.
- Key with a cluster-scoped WriteOperate grant -> log shows "granted key gate-key
  as principal gate-principal with roles [WriteOperate]" and the WRITE SUCCEEDS.
- Same node, anonymous -> "admitted with roles [none]", write denied
  0x801F0000 BadUserAccessDenied.
- D3's distinctive claim proven: adding a cluster-scoped WriteOperate row for
  principal 'anonymous' flips the SAME anonymous session to "admitted with roles
  [WriteOperate]" and its write succeeds. No code change, no restart.
- OpcUa__AllowAnonymous=false -> anonymous fails with "Endpoint does not support
  the user identity type provided", i.e. refused at DISCOVERY because the token
  policy is withheld, not merely rejected at activation; the keyed read still
  works, so the server is key-only rather than unreachable.

NOT verified: the /apikeys Razor page itself. The Chrome extension was not
connected, and this repo has no bUnit, so the page is exactly the kind of surface
that has bitten before (#505). The service beneath it is unit-tested and the
whole path below it is now live-proven, but the page needs a /run pass before
this can be called done.

Rig restored: override removed, gate key and both ACL rows deleted, anonymous
reads Good again.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 13:47:13 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 087a969ee6 feat(acl): API key minting — AdminUI page + admin service (#520)
Pulled forward from stage 7 because without it the feature is unusable and
un-live-gateable: there was no way to create a key short of hand-inserting a row
and computing an HMAC by hand.

The minting logic is an IApiKeyAdminService in Core.Authorization, NOT logic in
the Razor page — this repo has no bUnit, so anything only a page can reach is
untestable, and minting credentials is not where that belongs. The page is a thin
shell over it.

Moved to Core.Authorization so both ends can reach them: ApiKeyOptions (was in
Host) and OpcUaPrincipals (was in OpcUaServer.Security). The OPC UA server
resolves principals; the AdminUI must refuse to mint a key claiming a reserved
one. OpcUaServer already gained a Core reference in stage 1b, so no new edge —
AdminUI gains one.

ApiKeyOptions is now bound UNCONDITIONALLY rather than in the driver branch: a
driver node needs the pepper to VERIFY keys and an admin node needs it to MINT
them, and getting that wrong on either side is a silent authentication failure
rather than a startup error.

Validation rules, all covered: the reserved 'anonymous' principal is refused
case-insensitively (so "ANONYMOUS" cannot slip past into a distinct principal
that the evaluator would then match case-INsensitively against anonymous's
grants); blank name/principal; a principal longer than the column, rejected
rather than truncated, because silent truncation yields a key that authenticates
and is granted nothing with no visible cause; a past expiry. Generation runs
BEFORE the DbContext is opened so an unconfigured pepper surfaces as a clear
error instead of a stored row whose hash nothing can verify.

The page shows the plaintext ONCE and says so; it is held in component state and
written nowhere else, because the server keeps only a hash. Revocation is flagged
in the UI as taking effect only after the next deployment — driver-only nodes
have no ConfigDb, so keys ride the artifact.

FleetAdmin-only (Administrator), not ConfigEditor: this mints credentials.

Core.Tests 68 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 13:40:34 -04:00
Joseph Doherty dd939d3c97 feat(acl): anonymous becomes a normal grantable principal (#520 D3)
Anonymous sessions used to short-circuit in HandleImpersonation — "let the SDK's
default validation stand" — so they always connected and always carried no roles.
Now admission and authority are separated:

  admission  -> OpcUa:AllowAnonymous, the HOST's decision (it owns token policies)
  authority  -> the authenticator, resolving the reserved principal "anonymous"
                through the SAME grant path a key's principal goes through

So anonymous can be granted WRITE, not merely tolerated as read-only, and it
arrives at the downstream gates as the same RoleCarryingUserIdentity a key
produces — which is the real payoff: no gate carries an anonymous-shaped branch,
so there is no bypass path to get wrong.

AllowAnonymous defaults to TRUE on purpose. Defaulting it false would silently
deny every client without a key the moment this deploys, including ScadaBridge's
Data Connection Layer in another repo. Making keys mandatory is a rollout
decision, not an upgrade side effect. When false, the Anonymous token policy is
withheld so a client is refused at DISCOVERY rather than only at activation, and
activation is rejected independently in case a client attempts a token type the
endpoint never advertised.

Two fail-closed choices, both falsified:
- A failure to read anonymous's grants DENIES rather than admitting with no
  roles. Admitting is the pre-#520 behaviour, and defaulting to it exactly when
  the server cannot determine what anonymous may do stops being harmless once
  reads are gated. Making it admit reds Anonymous_denies_when_grants_cannot_be_read.
- A key may not authenticate as the reserved "anonymous" principal, or a
  credentialled client silently inherits whatever anonymous was granted.

AuthenticateAnonymousAsync is a DEFAULT interface implementation returning
admit-with-no-roles, i.e. exactly the pre-#520 behaviour, so
NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator and every test double keep working rather than being
forced to reimplement it — important because driver-only nodes run the Null one
and would otherwise black out. Note a default interface method is only reachable
through the interface-typed reference, which is how OpcUaApplicationHost holds it.

An existing test asserted the old fall-through and correctly went red; it is
rewritten to pin the new contract rather than deleted, with the reason recorded.

OpcUaServer 366, Host 42 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 13:20:14 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 65fda7237f refactor(acl): delete the LDAP data-plane authenticator and its tests (#520)
Stage 2b. LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator was left registered nowhere by stage 2a;
this removes it, its three test files, and the config surface that existed only
to serve it.

Deleted: LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator, LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticatorTests,
LdapAuthResilienceTests, LdapGlauthOutageLiveTests (19 tests).

Also removed four Security:Ldap keys — AuthTimeoutMs,
MaxConcurrentAuthentications, OutageFailureThreshold, OutageCooldownSeconds —
plus their validator rules and binding/validator test coverage. Verified first
that the ONLY consumers were the deleted class and the validator rules asserting
them; none appear in any checked-in appsettings. Leaving them would have created
exactly the dead-config surface #521/#524/#525 were filed to clear up.

Worth stating why that resilience machinery does not need relocating rather than
just deleting. It existed because the OPC UA SDK raises impersonation
SYNCHRONOUSLY under a SessionManager-wide event lock, so a hung LDAP bind there
serialized every session activation server-wide — Anonymous and X509 included.
Key verification is one indexed lookup plus one HMAC with no network I/O, so the
hazard the wall-clock bound, concurrency cap and outage circuit guarded against
no longer exists on that path. LDAP now runs only on AdminUI login, an ordinary
async request path where a slow directory affects the one request making it.

ConnectionTimeoutMs is RETAINED: it is projected into the shared library and is
not authenticator-specific.

Docs corrected rather than left to rot:
- CLAUDE.md's "LDAP Authentication" section described the deleted file as the
  data-plane authenticator. Rewritten, including a warning not to "restore" it on
  seeing the LDAP wiring that AdminUI legitimately still needs.
- infra/README §5b (the GLAuth outage live gate) marked RETIRED with the reason,
  rather than silently dropped — the harness GLAuth is still used by
  OTOPCUA_HARNESS_USE_LDAP=1 and is unaffected.
- docs/security.md's five-key resilience table cut to the one surviving key, and
  a new API-key identity section added.
Historical archreview/ records are left as-is; they are dated accounts.

Host.IntegrationTests 211 tests (was 230, i.e. exactly the 19 removed) with the
same 3 pre-existing failures verified against clean master. Host 37, Security 89.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 13:08:50 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 0329fa4d4b feat(acl): API-key identity replaces LDAP on the OPC UA data plane (#520)
Stage 2a. Clients present the static username "apikey" with an
otua_<keyId>_<secret> credential as the password; the key resolves to a
principal. LDAP registrations are deliberately RETAINED for AdminUI login —
only IOpcUaUserAuthenticator moves, which is what D2 asked for.

The load-bearing decision here is what roles a key gets. The two live gates
(WriteOperate on Value writes, AlarmAck on Part 9 methods) check a SERVER-WIDE
role set, so the cutover has to keep producing one or it would lock every client
out of writes long before per-node evaluation lands in stage 5.

ApiKeyInterimRoleMapper therefore maps ACL grants to roles, but ONLY
cluster-scoped ones. The obvious version — union the permission flags across all
of a principal's grants — would let a grant authored narrowly ("WriteOperate on
Equipment X") confer server-wide write authority, because nothing in the pipeline
can enforce scope yet. That fails in the dangerous direction: the operator's
narrow intent silently becomes broad. Restricting to cluster scope under-grants
instead, which is no worse than today (where every ACL row does nothing) and can
never exceed what was authored. Falsified: deleting the scope check reds exactly
A_narrower_scoped_write_grant_confers_nothing_yet and nothing else.

Verification is one indexed lookup plus one HMAC, with no network I/O at all.
That matters because the SDK raises ImpersonateUser synchronously while holding a
SessionManager-wide event lock, so this path does not stall one request — it
serializes every session activation server-wide. It is the main practical gain
over the LDAP bind it replaces.

Every rejection returns one opaque message so the server cannot be used as an
oracle for whether a key id exists or which half of a credential was wrong; a
test asserts the failure modes really are indistinguishable AND that a valid key
still succeeds, so it cannot pass by denying everything.

Caught while wiring: OtOpcUaServerHostedService takes IOpcUaUserAuthenticator as
a REQUIRED ctor parameter, so leaving a driver-only node unregistered is not a
quiet fallback to deny-all — it fails DI and the node does not boot.
NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator is now registered explicitly there. A driver-only node
has no ConfigDb since Phase 4 and so has no key source until the artifact-backed
store lands in stage 4; it denies UserName tokens until then, which is the safe
direction, and anonymous sessions are unaffected.

LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator is now registered nowhere and is dead code. Deleting
it plus LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticatorTests / LdapAuthResilienceTests /
LdapGlauthOutageLiveTests is stage 2b, kept separate because those cover a
live-gated resilience feature (hard wall-clock bound, bounded concurrency,
directory-outage circuit) that exists precisely BECAUSE the LDAP bind ran inline
on session activation — a constraint the key path does not have. That deserves
its own commit, not a footnote in this one.

Anonymous-as-a-grantable-principal (D3) is also stage 2b.

Host 37, Security 89, OpcUaServer 364 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:57:51 -04:00
Joseph Doherty f88eb49bd1 feat(acl): ApiKey entity + key format, and put Core on the server's graph (#520)
Stage 1b. Still no enforcement wired — this adds the credential model the
identity cutover (stage 2) will read.

ApiKey holds one principal per key, deliberately. The reason to separate keys
from principals is so many keys share a grant set and rotating a key never
touches an ACL row, and that holds with one principal per key since nothing stops
two keys naming the same principal. A key belonging to several principals at once
buys little and costs a join table. UserAuthorizationState.Principals stays a
list, so adding it later needs no ACL-side change.

ApiKeySecret is the security-critical half and is pure, so it is tested on its
own: otua_<keyId>_<secret>, peppered HMAC-SHA256, FixedTimeEquals. Notes why a
plain HMAC rather than an iterated KDF (the secret is 32 bytes of CSPRNG, and the
call runs inline on session activation, which the SDK serializes server-wide
behind its SessionManager event lock), and fails closed on an unset pepper rather
than hashing under an empty key.

Found and fixed a bug in my own first draft: the key id was url-safe base64,
whose alphabet maps '/' to '_' — the very character TryParse splits on. Roughly
one key in five would have had its id truncated at a random position, an
intermittent auth failure reproducing only for SOME keys. The id is hex now, and
the guard is falsified: reverting the alphabet reds both
The_generated_key_id_never_contains_the_separator and, as a bonus signal,
Two_generated_keys_never_collide, because truncated ids collide.

ApiKeyId is NOT NULL, unlike the nullable NodeAclId precedent whose filtered
unique index would admit two NULL ids. Fine for a config row, not for a
credentials lookup key.

OpcUaServer.csproj now references Core. Until now it did not, so
IPermissionEvaluator was literally uncallable from the node manager — the place
enforcement has to happen. No new transitive package surface.

Schema doc updated for both, and its NodeAcl block flagged for pre-existing drift
(it still documents the GenerationId column v3 dropped) without fixing it here.

Core 247, OpcUaServer 364, Configuration 128 — all green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:27:28 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 4d376f727f refactor(acl): NodeAcl.LdapGroup -> Principal, with the proc that reads it (#520)
Stage 1a of the API-key ACL design. Behaviour-neutral: the trie walker already
matched an opaque string, so only what produces that string changes. No
enforcement is wired by this commit and none of the two live role gates move.

Renamed through the ACL model: NodeAcl.Principal, TrieGrant.Principal,
MatchedGrant.Principal, AuthorizationDecision.Principal,
UserAuthorizationState.Principals, and PermissionTrie.CollectMatches's parameter.
LdapGroupRoleMapping is a DIFFERENT entity that also has an LdapGroup column and
is deliberately untouched — it backs AdminUI login, which keeps LDAP.

The migration is the interesting part. EF scaffolds RenameColumn/RenameIndex, so
rows survive — but it cannot know that dbo.sp_ComputeGenerationDiff checksums
NodeAcl.LdapGroup. That proc is created in V3Initial.StoredProcedures and never
redefined since, and SQL Server does not validate a procedure body when a column
is renamed out from under it: the object keeps reporting healthy and fails at
CALL time with Invalid column name, silently breaking config-drift detection.
Verified against the live dev DB that the deployed proc really does reference the
column. The migration therefore re-emits the proc, as one parameterised template
shared by Up and Down so the two cannot drift.

Prose that describes what is enforced TODAY (fleet-wide LDAP group -> role) is
left alone, because it is still accurate until stage 2 lands.

UserAuthorizationState's refresh machinery is retained unchanged but now carries
a note that it is LDAP-shaped and largely vestigial here: an API-key principal
set cannot change out of band, since keys and ACL rows both ride the deployment
artifact, so the generation stamp rather than the freshness timer is the real
invalidation signal.

41 authorization tests pass; solution builds clean.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:17:57 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 804c32e5c0 docs(acl): design for API-key identity + node ACL enforcement (#520)
Owner decisions 2026-07-31: the OPC UA data plane is machine-to-machine, so
identity is an API key with a static username rather than an LDAP user; LDAP is
replaced entirely on the data plane (AdminUI login keeps its own); and Anonymous
becomes a normal grantable principal behind an enable setting rather than a
special case in the evaluator.

Re-verified all six of #520's claims on master first — they still hold.

The identity decision dissolves blocker #2 (session carries roles, not groups)
rather than solving it. Blocker #1 (raw-realm nodes have no representable
NodeScope) turns out to be tractable: NodeAclScopeKind already carries Namespace
and FolderSegment, so adding NodeHierarchyKind.Raw over the RawPath segments
makes FolderSegment matchable for the first time.

Seam survey corrects #520 in both directions: HistoryRead already has four
overrides to hang a check on, but Read/Browse/Subscribe genuinely have none and
sit on the hot publish path, so decisions must be cached per session+node.

Records two things the issue did not: enforcement ships behind a default-off
Security:Acl:Enabled dark switch (otherwise the first deploy silently denies
ScadaBridge, which consumes this address space from another repo), and because
Phase 4 leaves driver-only nodes with no ConfigDb, keys ride the deployment
artifact — so key revocation requires a deploy.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:12:35 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 112f62e5aa merge: close #489 — raw rename rebinds live, fixed by #516's respawn
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2026-07-31 12:00:17 -04:00
Joseph Doherty be3152e184 docs(raw): record that a raw rename rebinds live — #489 closed as fixed-by-#516
Re-ran #489's own repro recipe on docker-dev. It does not reproduce: renaming
pymodbus/plc/HR200X -> HR200Z and deploying (no node restart, container at 0
restarts) yields the new raw NodeId serving live ~1 Hz data, the old NodeId gone
with BadNodeIdUnknown, and the UNS projection still Good.

The mechanism is NOT the ApplyDelta/ReinitializeAsync chain the issue's
2026-07-26 code-trace predicted. The node log shows a stop-and-respawn:

    DriverHost: stopped driver child MAIN-modbus
    DriverHost: spawned Modbus driver MAIN-modbus (stub=False)
    DriverInstance MAIN-modbus: subscribed to 2 refs (poll-sub-1)

#516 moved a DriverConfig change out of toDelta and into toStop+toSpawn so the
factory is the single parse authority. A rename changes the merged DriverConfig,
so the child is rebuilt against the new RawPaths and re-subscribes on the same
deploy. #489 was fixed as a side effect and needs no code change.

Also gated the sibling case the issue did not cover: renaming the *device*
(the middle RawPath segment, plc -> plcz) rebinds identically.

Records the operator-facing fact in docs/Raw.md, including the flip side #516
accepts — a rename reconnects the driver, briefly dropping every tag on it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:00:17 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 916f0f79f6 merge: comms-loss watchdog — DisconnectObserved gets its first production sender (#527)
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Closes the defect the #481 live gate surfaced: a driver whose device died mid-run
was never detected and never recovered. Live-gated twice on docker-dev.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 10:58:44 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 5a7a08deca fix(drivers): detect mid-run comms loss and recover from it (#527)
DriverInstanceActor.DisconnectObserved had no production sender. The only paths
into Reconnecting were a failed *initial* connect and an operator's Force
Reconnect, so a driver that connected and then lost its device stayed Connected
indefinitely: publishing Bad for every tag, never re-initialising, and NOT
recovering when the device returned. PublishHealthSnapshot read GetHealth() for
reporting only and never acted on a driver reporting itself unhealthy.

Both comms-loss quality paths -- #477's native-condition annotation and #481's
scripted-alarm input fan-out -- hang off ConnectivityChanged, so both were
correctly wired to a signal that never fired.

The Connected health tick now evaluates a watchdog and self-sends
DisconnectObserved when the driver reports a non-Healthy state AND its
LastSuccessfulRead has been frozen for DefaultCommsLossTimeout (90s).

The conjunction is the design, and the issue's own proposal -- "non-Healthy for
N consecutive polls" -- is wrong. Degraded means *connected but some data is
bad*; several drivers write health per tag inside the read loop
(ModbusDriver.ReadAsync), so one unreadable address latches Degraded forever
against a perfectly reachable device, and a state-only watchdog would reconnect
that driver every 90s indefinitely -- worse than the bug. LastSuccessfulRead is
the honest evidence: preserved across Degraded/Faulted writes, advanced by any
success. The state check remains the second conjunct so an idle Healthy driver
with nothing subscribed is not declared dead for not reading.

Verified across all 12 drivers that a sustained failure does reach a non-Healthy
state -- nine poll drivers via Degraded, MQTT via live connection state, Galaxy
via its reconnect supervisor. CalculationDriver reports Healthy while running
and so can never trip, which is correct: it has no transport.

Also: the Reconnecting retry now calls ShutdownAsync before InitializeAsync.
ModbusDriver (_transport) and MqttDriver (_connection) overwrite an
IAsyncDisposable field inside InitializeAsync without disposing the previous
one, so re-initialising without a teardown leaks a socket per attempt -- latent
while only a manual Force Reconnect reached this path, but the watchdog makes it
automatic and unbounded (~360 leaks for an hour-long outage at the 10s retry).

Tests: 8 new in DriverInstanceActorCommsLossWatchdogTests, each absence
assertion carrying a positive control (a proven count of processed health-poll
ticks). Falsified five ways -- dropping either conjunct reds exactly the test
written for it, and removing the teardown, the null baseline, or the watchdog
call each reds its own guard.

Live gate PASSED on docker-dev (Modbus + otopcua-pymodbus-standard), run twice:
  - fixture stopped -> watchdog fires at ~108s, "declaring comms lost"
  - fan-out observed at Debug: "pushed BadNoCommunication for 2 mux ref(s)"
    (#481 Layer 4) and the #477 native-condition annotation on a driver
    owning conditions
  - fixture restarted -> reconnected in ~8s with NO node restart; both the raw
    (ns=2) and UNS (ns=3) NodeIds read Good with fresh timestamps

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 10:58:38 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 9fa701b14b merge: Sql browser layering (#526), IDriver dead-surface removal (#525), scripted-alarm comms-loss quality (#481)
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Three tracker issues, each falsified by reverting the production change:

- #526 measured before/after that Core.dll + Driver.Sql.dll leave the AdminUI's
  output, and added a csproj-graph guard covering every *.Browser project
  rather than only the one that had an issue filed.
- #525 deleted both unconsumed IDriver members plus the support code that only
  fed them, across 12 drivers and every test stub.
- #481 bridges driver comms loss into scripted-alarm input quality and closes
  #478 Finding 3. Its live gate found a pre-existing defect that makes the
  headline scenario unreachable — filed as #527.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 10:02:59 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 6cd91cc30a docs(alarms): record the #481 live-gate finding — the comms-loss signal never fires (#527)
The docker-dev gate for #481 could not close on its headline scenario, and the
reason is worth recording next to the feature rather than only on the tracker:
DriverInstanceActor.DisconnectObserved has no production sender, so a driver
whose device dies mid-run is never detected. Filed as #527 with the live
evidence (Modbus stayed Connected >10 min publishing Bad, and did not recover
when its fixture returned until the node was restarted).

What the gate DID establish: the change deploys and runs (scripted alarm
materialised on central-1 against the seeded Modbus tag), and the #478 Layer 3
path does carry Bad into scripted input quality for Modbus, because that driver
publishes Bad per tag rather than going silent.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 09:54:47 -04:00
Joseph Doherty c81cef39f5 feat(alarms): bridge driver comms-loss into scripted-alarm input quality (#481)
Layer 4 of the condition-Quality chain (#477 -> #478). #478 gave a scripted
condition the worst quality of its input tags, but only for inputs whose driver
PUBLISHES a Bad data change. A poll driver whose device goes unreachable
publishes nothing — it raises ConnectivityChanged(false) and goes silent — so
the engine held its last Good value, WorstInputStatus stayed Good, and worse,
AreInputsReady stayed true, so the predicate went on evaluating a stale value
after the source had died.

`DriverHostActor.FanCommsLossToDependencyMux` pushes a synthetic
BadNoCommunication with a null value into the dependency mux for every value ref
the disconnected driver owns.

The issue asked for a driver -> all-tag-refs map to be built for this. It
already exists: `_nodeIdByDriverRef`, keyed (DriverInstanceId, RawPath) and
rebuilt from the composition on every apply. Alarm-bearing tags live in the
separate `_alarmNodeIdByDriverRef` and are deliberately excluded — a native
condition is not a mux value and takes the Part 9 quality path instead.

Nothing is pushed on reconnect, deliberately: publishing Good would assert a
value quality this actor has not observed. Recovery rides the driver's own
republish, and the mechanism was verified rather than assumed — the
Connected -> Reconnecting edge calls DetachSubscription, which nulls the
subscription handle, so the reconnect's ResubscribeDesired builds a FRESH
subscription whose PollGroupEngine initial push runs with forceRaise: true.
Without that detach the poll engine would compare against its retained
LastValues, see an unchanged value, raise nothing, and strand these refs Bad
forever — the value-dedup trap that bit the v3 Batch 4 virtual-tag reassert.

Closes #478 Finding 3, which the above depends on. WorstInputStatus skipped
every input whose VALUE was null as "no data yet" — and Bad-with-no-value is
exactly the shape a comms-lost driver produces, so the skip was hiding the case
that matters most; without this half the fan-out above would be silently inert.
The upstream source now stamps a never-pushed path BadWaitingForInitialData —
the honest Part 4 code for that state — and the engine skips that specific code
rather than every null value.

Deleting the null-skip outright is the obvious fix and is wrong in the other
direction: it makes every not-yet-published input drag its condition Bad at
deploy, flooding the quality path with load-time annotations, which is what the
skip existed to prevent. Both mistakes are pinned by a test pair that goes red
under the opposite error, and both were falsified by reverting the production
code:

  old null-skip restored     -> A_pushed_Bad_carrying_no_value      RED
  null-skip deleted outright -> An_input_that_was_never_pushed      RED
  fan-out call removed       -> the three DriverHostActor tests     RED (1 of 7)

The never-pushed test was vacuous on first writing and is worth recording: the
quality bucket only emits on CHANGE, so the load-time evaluation is the one that
flashes Bad, and subscribing to OnEvent after LoadAsync made the assertion
unfalsifiable — it passed against the broken behaviour. It now subscribes first.

`FakeUpstream.ReadTag` returned 0x80340000 (BadNotConnected) for an unset path,
a different Bad code from production's placeholder. Harmless while any Bad
behaved alike; load-bearing now, so it is aligned and pinned by a reflection
guard asserting the engine's private constant agrees with what the production
source stamps.

Behaviour change to weigh, flagged in the issue and confirmed: virtual tags
computed from a comms-lost input now go Bad too. That follows from using the
shared mux and reads as correct, but it is broader than scripted alarms.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 09:21:11 -04:00
Joseph Doherty b815446940 refactor(drivers): delete GetMemoryFootprint / FlushOptionalCachesAsync (#525)
Both `IDriver` members had no production call site. Their only consumer was
`MemoryTracking`, deleted with the driver-tier recycle machinery in #522, and
`GetMemoryFootprint`'s doc-comment claimed "polled every 30s by Core" — which
had not been true since v3, even before #522 removed the poller.

Owner decision on #525 was (a) delete rather than (b) build the process-wide
watchdog that would consume them. The driver-side implementations are in git
history and were mostly reusable; what was always missing is the trigger, and a
member nobody calls is how the misleading doc-comment survived this long.

Removed from `IDriver`, all 12 driver implementations, and every test stub —
plus the support code that existed only to feed them, which is the part a
member-only deletion would have left behind as dead weight:

- MTConnect's three per-entry byte-weight constants, its cached
  `ProbeModelDataItemCount`, and `CountDataItems` — a full device-tree walk run
  on every cache fill to populate a number with no remaining reader.
- OpcUaClient's `_discoveredNodeCount` field and the discovery-pass write to it.
- MQTT's `ApproxBytesPerAuthoredTag`.

Two behavioural notes, neither a change in what the software does:

- `AbCipTemplateCache` now has no production reset path. Its only caller was
  AB CIP's flush, which itself had no caller — so nothing changes except how
  visible the fact is. Recorded on the type, along with the correction that its
  comment's claim about a device `ReinitializeAsync` also flushing it was never
  true. A UDT redefined on a live controller keeps its stale shape until the
  driver instance is rebuilt.
- MTConnect's `/probe` cache is still dropped, by `InvalidateProbeModel()` on an
  Agent restart. That is now `internal` rather than `private` so the tests which
  used the flush purely to empty the cache drive the real path instead — they
  now cover a case that actually occurs in production. Several unrelated doc
  comments cited `FlushOptionalCachesAsync` as the canonical CAS example and are
  repointed to it.

Tests: the ones that existed only to assert on the removed members are deleted
(3 OpcUaClient, 3 Galaxy, 2 MQTT, 1 MTConnect, 1 AbCip). Worth noting one was
vacuous — `FlushOptionalCachesAsync_resets_footprint_counter` asserted a
footprint of 0 before the flush and 0 after with no discovery in between, so it
would have passed against a flush that did nothing at all.

Full suite green except 7 failures verified identical on master before and
after (4 AbLegacy integration with the compose profile down, 3
Host.IntegrationTests), checked by name rather than assumed.

Docs corrected where they described this as live: `DriverLifecycle.md` (which
carried the #525 placeholder), `drivers/AbCip.md`, `drivers/AbLegacy.md`, and
`v2/driver-stability.md` — whose "polls this every 30 s" + per-driver
`DriverConfig` memory budget were never built as written and are now banner-ed
as design intent rather than description.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 09:07:11 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 803f4e6efe refactor(sql): split ISqlDialect/SqlServerDialect into a .Dialect leaf (#526)
`Driver.Sql.Browser` referenced the runtime `Driver.Sql` project. The AdminUI
references that browser, so the whole SQL driver runtime — and
`ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core` through it — sat in the AdminUI's build/deploy graph.
This is the same layering violation #512 removed from the MQTT browser, in a
second driver, and it is why #512's expected removal of `Core.dll` from the
AdminUI's output did not happen.

MEASURED, both directions, on a clean AdminUI build:

  before: ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.dll + ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Sql.dll present
  after:  both absent

The old csproj comment's premise was sound and survives — the dialect's catalog
SQL *is* the browse engine, so it must be shared rather than duplicated. What
was wrong was the conclusion that sharing it required referencing the runtime
driver. `ISqlDialect`/`SqlServerDialect` depend on nothing in `Driver.Sql`, so
they move to a `.Dialect` leaf that both consume.

This is the `.Transport` shape, not the cheap one: `ISqlDialect` exposes
`DbProviderFactory` and `SqlServerDialect` returns `SqlClientFactory.Instance`,
so `.Contracts` (deliberately provider-free) cannot hold them. Assembly name is
`.Dialect`; the NAMESPACE stays `ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Sql`, matching the
`Driver.Mqtt.Transport` precedent — the extraction cost zero `using` changes.

Two dependencies the cut edge surfaced as the implicit ones they were:

- The AdminUI itself read `SqlDriver.DriverTypeName` in three places — the tag
  editor map, the tag config validator, and the Sql address picker. All three
  now read `DriverTypeNames.Sql`, which is exactly what that constant resolves
  to and exactly the repoint `SqlDriverBrowser`'s own comment had deferred
  until a factory was registered against the shared constant. One exists now.
- `SqlDriverFormContractTests` asserts the AdminUI form's emitted JSON against
  the runtime factory that reads it, so it genuinely needs the runtime driver.
  `AdminUI.Tests` now references it explicitly. A test project referencing a
  runtime driver is fine — tests are not in the AdminUI's deploy graph.

New guard: `DriverBrowserLayeringTests` (Commons.Tests) scans the csproj graph
of every `*.Browser` project in the tree, transitively. It reads csproj files
rather than loaded assemblies because the cost is a build-graph cost — the
compiler emits no assembly reference for an unused `ProjectReference`, so
`MqttBrowserLayeringTests`' assembly-reference approach cannot see that case.
The two are complementary and each now points at the other.

Falsified three ways, each red then green again: the direct reference re-added
to the browser; the same reference one hop out via `.Dialect` (proving the walk
is really transitive); and both controls — browsers-discovered and
references-parsed — which exist so an empty discovery cannot pass the absence
assertion vacuously.

#526's claim that the reference "carries no comment at all" was wrong; it
carried a detailed one from the scaffold commit. Corrected on the issue and in
the design doc's project table, which had recorded the deviation as deliberate.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 08:38:57 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 857a10b4f7 merge: MQTT primary-host STATE (#511) + structured-metric flattening (#515)
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m28s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 15m45s
Both live-gated against the Mosquitto fixture: 5/5 for the primary-host claim (including
the Will leg, which the ordinary lifecycle cannot reach) and 3/3 for Template/DataSet
flattening. Full solution suite green apart from the 9 failures that pre-exist on master
(4 AbLegacy.IntegrationTests with compose profiles down, 3 Host.IntegrationTests, verified
identical on master before merging).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 08:14:11 -04:00
Joseph Doherty c74ccc55b5 feat(mqtt): flatten Sparkplug Template/DataSet metrics to sibling tags (#515)
`SparkplugCodec` handled scalars; `DataSet`, `Template` and `PropertySet` were skipped
with a warning. They now flatten to addressable tags (owner decision, recorded on the
issue):

  Template  → sibling metrics, `/`-joined, recursively: Motor → Motor/Speed, Motor/Stator/Temp
  DataSet   → one metric per cell, {column}/{rowIndex}: Recipe → Recipe/Step/0, Recipe/Target/1
  PropertySet → node metadata, never tags — it describes a metric rather than being one

Flattening was chosen over OPC UA Structures because flattened scalars are consumable by
any client with no type dictionary, and the result mirrors how the `/raw` tree works.

**The row index is always present, including on row 0.** Emitting a bare column name for
a single-row table and an indexed one otherwise would make a tag's name depend on how many
rows the plant published — a table growing from one row to two would rename every tag
already authored against it.

**A DATA metric carries the parent's alias and no name**, so member names cannot be
composed until the alias table has resolved the parent. Expansion therefore happens in
`SparkplugIngestor.PublishStructuredMembers` — after resolution, at the single funnel both
the DATA and birth-value paths already pass through — not at decode time. The alias table
installs a binding per member so browse enumerates them and a DDATA member that omits its
datatype falls back to the birth's (guessing from the CLR type would read a signed Int32 of
-42 out of its unsigned field as 4294967254).

**Skip-and-warn survives, and refusal is whole** — the explicit requirement on the issue.
A template definition, an unnamed member, an extension value, a column/type mismatch, a
short row, or a payload past MaxDepth(5)/MaxMembers(512) refuses the ENTIRE metric. A
silently half-flattened UDT looks exactly like a complete one in the picker.

The browse picker offers the members and deliberately NOT the structured parent, which has
no value and no servable datatype. The rediscovery signature likewise tracks members rather
than the parent, or a UDT gaining a member would leave the signature unmoved.

Member paths contain `/`, which #509 already solved: the slashed name travels intact as
`metricName` while the derived tag Name is coerced to a legal RawPath segment.

Live-gated 3/3 against the Mosquitto fixture with the project-owned simulator extended to
publish a nested Template and a 2x2 DataSet. Falsified at three points: dropping the member
bindings, not expanding the parent, and refusing to flatten templates each turn exactly the
expected tests red.

Also fixes a regression from the #511 commit in the same branch: `AddOtOpcUaDriverFactories`
resolved `IDriverPrimaryRoleSource` with `GetRequiredService` but only `AddOtOpcUaRuntime`
registered it, so a graph wiring driver factories without the full runtime failed at
resolution. Two Host integration suites do exactly that and caught it; both extensions now
TryAdd the same concrete `RedundancyRoleView`, so the registration is order-independent and
the fail-loud resolve is kept.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 08:14:04 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 7f2108dcf2 feat(mqtt): Sparkplug primary-host STATE publishing, Primary-gated (#511)
`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
2026-07-31 07:17:17 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 2a7d11674f merge: MQTT tracker batch — #508, #509, #510, #512, #513, #514
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m12s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 13m35s
Write-through (live-gated against the real Mosquitto fixture), four AdminUI
authoring defects, and the .Browser layering exception.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 06:42:12 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 72be19225d feat(mqtt): write-through (IWritable) — Plain publish + Sparkplug NCMD/DCMD (#508)
MqttDriver implemented no IWritable, so every MQTT node materialized read-only
regardless of what the operator authored. It now publishes.

  Plain      -> the tag's writeTopic; UTF-8 text (Raw/Scalar) or a bare JSON
                literal (Json)
  Sparkplug  -> DCMD for a device metric, NCMD for an edge-node metric, carrying
                the metric BY NAME with an explicit Datatype and no seq

Both at QoS 0, retain:false. Retain is deliberately not configurable — a retained
command is replayed by the broker on every future subscribe, including the
device's own reconnect, so one stale write would be re-applied forever.

writeTopic is a new, separate TagConfig key, and its ABSENCE is meaningful: the
write is refused BadNotWritable and the node is discovered ViewOnly. The issue's
"do not skip" warning drove the design — the one outcome worse than read-only
nodes is a node that looks writable, returns Good and publishes nothing. Reusing
the read topic would be worse still: it would echo back and read as a confirmed
device value. Browse-time writability is computed by the SAME encoder the write
path uses, so a node cannot advertise writability it would then refuse.

Good means published, not applied — MQTT has no application-level write ack, so
this is Galaxy's optimistic-Good posture and inherits its property: a failed
DEVICE write can never be surfaced. A failed PUBLISH is reported Bad; the
optimism covers what the device did with the command, never whether it was sent.
WriteIdempotent stays default-off.

The encoder is pure and lives in .Contracts, so both wire shapes are testable
without a broker. Unrepresentable values and types with no Sparkplug encoding are
refused rather than coerced — a Reference must not silently become a String on
the wire, and "not-a-number" must not become 0 on a live plant.

LIVE GATE PASSED against the real Mosquitto fixture on 10.100.0.35: 21/21
integration tests, including 6 new ones that observe the published message with
an INDEPENDENT broker subscriber — a fake asserting "publish was called" could
not tell the feature working from the feature publishing to the wrong topic.

The gate earned its keep: the NCMD test initially failed because NCMD is a SHARED
channel — the driver publishes its own rebirth request (Node Control/Rebirth) on
the very topic an edge-node metric write uses, and it arrived first. Correct
driver behaviour, wrong test; the watcher now matches on metric name. Documented,
because anything consuming that topic needs to know. DCMD has no contention.

Offline: 24 encoder + 9 driver tests. The four new status constants are NAMED so
StatusCodeParityTests can see them (#497/#519) — it went 258 -> 262 and validated
each against the pinned SDK.

Also corrects the Mqtt.md "Known gaps" table: prunes the six rows closed in this
round, and fixes the #507 row, which still described rediscovery as inert after
that issue was closed as superseded and its injection path deleted.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 06:33:23 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 7f53bd96ec fix(mqtt): close #509, #510, #512, #513, #514
Five MQTT tracker items — four AdminUI/authoring defects plus the .Browser
layering exception. No runtime driver behaviour changes.

#513 payloadFormat in a Sparkplug blob. MqttTagConfigModel.ToJson wrote the key
unconditionally. Sharper than the issue states: PayloadFormat is the one Plain
field with a NON-NULLABLE typed backing, so the write did not preserve a retyped
tag's leftover — it INVENTED "payloadFormat":"Json" in a Sparkplug tag that never
had one. Now Plain-only; preserve-unknown-keys is pinned unchanged.

#509 slashed Sparkplug metric names. The mapper already carried metricName
verbatim; only the tag Name (a RawPath segment) tripped RawPaths.ValidateSegment,
which refused the batch whole — including Node Control/Rebirth, mandatory on
every Sparkplug edge node. ToRawSegment coerces the Name and leaves the address
untouched. Coercion is not injective, so DescribeNameCollisions refuses a
colliding set BY NAME: silently merging two metrics into one tag would be worse
than the refusal it replaces. Applies to every driver, not just MQTT — the
argument is about what a Name is, not about who produced it. The sanitiser is
pinned against RawPaths.ValidateSegment rather than a copied charset.

#510 stale rebirth affordance. _canRebirth was probed once at browse-open and
sessions are reaped for idleness, so a modal left open offered an action whose
token no longer resolved. Re-probed on arm AND on confirm (the reap can land
between the two, and confirm is the one path that publishes to a live broker);
the affordance retires with an explanation instead of vanishing or erroring.

#514 rebirth on a quiet plant. The tree is birth-driven and births are never
retained, so a plant that birthed before the window opened showed an empty tree —
and the scope came only from a tree selection, so the one action that would fill
the tree could not be armed. The session already accepted a bare {group}/{edgeNode}
("the prime rebirth target"); this adds the affordance. Edge-node scope only, not
a group broadcast. The rule is extracted to SparkplugRebirthScope so it is
testable — this repo has no bUnit — and is advisory: the session re-resolves and
refuses before publishing.

#512 .Browser -> .Driver layering. TWO extractions were needed, not the one the
issue anticipated: it costed this as "the client-options builder", but the browse
session decodes births itself, so moving only that would have left the reference
exactly where it was.
  - MqttClientOptionsFactory (TLS, PEM CA-pin validator, credentials, protocol
    mapping) -> new leaf .Transport project. NOT .Contracts: that is deliberately
    transport-free and MqttClientOptions is an MQTTnet type, so .Contracts would
    hand MQTTnet to ControlPlane. This is the fix the .Browser csproj comment had
    already prescribed, against the issue's suggestion.
  - The Sparkplug protocol layer (SparkplugTopic/MessageType, SparkplugCodec,
    RebirthRequester) -> .Contracts, beside the Tahu wire schema it encodes.
Still exactly one copy of the TLS/CA-pin logic; MqttBrowserLayeringTests guards
the graph both ways.

Measured, not assumed: Driver.Mqtt.dll, Polly.Core and Serilog are now absent
from the AdminUI's output. Core.dll remains, because Driver.Sql.Browser has the
SAME violation, undocumented — the old comment blamed this browser for Core and
was wrong. Filed separately rather than fixed in passing.

Full suite green apart from the 7 known pre-existing failures (4 AbLegacy
integration, compose profiles not up; 3 Host.IntegrationTests).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 06:17:18 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 3207089f01 merge: close #517 (health-write ordering) and #519 (status sub-codes reach clients)
v2-ci / build (push) Successful in 4m12s
v2-ci / unit-tests (push) Failing after 14m27s
#519 replaces the 3-state OpcUaQuality projection with the raw uint across the value
path, so a driver's BadNoCommunication reaches an OPC UA client as BadNoCommunication.
#517 fixes CalculationDriver's constant Healthy and brackets MTConnect's init-failure
teardown, with the ordering rule documented on IDriver.ShutdownAsync.

Both issues' symptoms held up; both misstated their mechanism, and #517's suggested fix
would have inverted the terminal shutdown state. Detail in deferment.md §9.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 05:25:35 -04:00