TwinCAT � Native ADS notifications for ISubscribable #123

dohertj2 · 2026-04-19T18:51:36-04:00

dohertj2 commented

2026-04-19 18:51:36 -04:00

Closes task #189. Upgrades TwinCATDriver from polling to native AdsClient.AddDeviceNotificationExAsync � PLC pushes changes. UseNativeNotifications=true default; false falls back to PollGroupEngine. Partial-registration failure cleans up. 9 new tests, 93/93 passing. Merges to v2.

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TwinCAT follow-up — Native ADS notifications for ISubscribable. Closes task #189 — upgrades TwinCATDriver's subscription path from polling (shared PollGroupEngine) to native AdsClient.AddDeviceNotificationExAsync so the PLC pushes changes on its own cycle rather than the driver polling. Strictly better for latency + CPU — TC2 and TC3 runtimes notify on value change with sub-millisecond latency from the PLC cycle. ITwinCATClient gains AddNotificationAsync — takes symbolPath + TwinCATDataType + optional bitIndex + cycleTime + onChange callback + CancellationToken; returns an ITwinCATNotificationHandle whose Dispose tears the notification down on the wire. Bit-within-word reads supported — the parent word value arrives via the notification, driver extracts the bit before invoking the callback (same ExtractBit path as the read surface from PR 2). AdsTwinCATClient — subscribes to AdsClient.AdsNotificationEx in the ctor, maintains a ConcurrentDictionary<uint, NotificationRegistration> keyed on the server-side notification handle. AddDeviceNotificationExAsync returns Task<ResultHandle> with Handle + ErrorCode; non-NoError throws InvalidOperationException so the driver can catch + retry. Notification event args carry Handle + Value + DataType; lookup in _notifications dict routes the value through any bit-extraction + calls the consumer callback. Consumer-side exceptions are swallowed so a misbehaving callback can't crash the ADS notification thread. Dispose unsubscribes from AdsNotificationEx + clears the dict + disposes AdsClient. NotificationRegistration is ITwinCATNotificationHandle — Dispose fires DeleteDeviceNotificationAsync as fire-and-forget with CancellationToken.None (caller has already committed to teardown; blocking would slow shutdown). TwinCATDriverOptions.UseNativeNotifications — new bool, default true. When true the driver uses native notifications; when false it falls through to the shared PollGroupEngine (same semantics as other libplctag-backed drivers, also a safety valve for targets with notification limits). TwinCATDriver.SubscribeAsync dual-path — if UseNativeNotifications false delegate into _poll.Subscribe (unchanged behavior from PR 3). If true, iterate fullReferences, resolve each to its device's client via EnsureConnectedAsync (reuses PR 2's per-device connection cache), parse the SymbolPath via TwinCATSymbolPath (preserves bit-in-word support), call ITwinCATClient.AddNotificationAsync with a closure over the FullReference (not the ADS symbol — OPC UA subscribers addressed the driver-side name). Per-registration callback bridges (_, value) → OnDataChange event with a fresh DataValueSnapshot (Good status, current UtcNow timestamps). Any mid-registration failure triggers a try/catch that disposes every already-registered handle before rethrowing, keeping the driver in a clean never-existed state rather than half-registered. UnsubscribeAsync dispatches on handle type — NativeSubscriptionHandle disposes all its cached ITwinCATNotificationHandles; anything else delegates to _poll.Unsubscribe for the poll fallback. ShutdownAsync tears down native subs first (so AdsClient-level cleanup happens before the client itself disposes), then PollGroupEngine, then per-device probe CTS + client. NativeSubscriptionHandle DiagnosticId prefixes with twincat-native-sub- so Admin UI + logs can distinguish the paths. 9 new unit tests in TwinCATNativeNotificationTests — native subscribe registers one notification per tag, pushed value via FireNotification fires OnDataChange with the right FullReference (driver-side, not ADS symbol), unsubscribe disposes all notifications, unsubscribe halts future notifications, partial-failure cleanup via FailAfterNAddsFake (first succeeds, second throws → first gets torn down + Notifications count returns to 0 + AddCallCount=2 proving the test actually exercised both calls), shutdown disposes subscriptions, poll fallback works when UseNativeNotifications=false (no native handles created + initial-data push still fires), handle DiagnosticId distinguishes native vs poll. Existing poll-mode ISubscribable tests in TwinCATCapabilityTests updated with UseNativeNotifications=false so they continue testing the poll path specifically — both poll + native paths have test coverage now. TwinCATDriverTests got Probe.Enabled=false added because the default factory creates a real AdsClient which was flakily affected by parallel test execution sharing AMS router state. Total TwinCAT unit tests now 93/93 passing (+8 from PR 3's 85 counting the new native tests + 2 existing tests that got options tweaks). Full solution builds 0 errors; Modbus / AbCip / AbLegacy / other drivers untouched. TwinCAT driver is now feature-complete end-to-end — read / write / discover / native-subscribe / probe / host-resolve, with poll-mode as a safety valve. Unblocks closing task #120 for TwinCAT; remaining sub-task: FOCAS + task #188 (symbol-browsing — lower priority than FOCAS since real config flows still use pre-declared tags). 6c5b202910

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

dohertj2 merged commit 9da578d5a5 into v2

2026-04-19 18:51:40 -04:00

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2026-04-19 18:51:42 -04:00

Merge pull request (#123) - TwinCAT native notifications

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