One deadline-bounded /current per batch, answered out of that one whole-device
document: N references cost one round-trip, one snapshot each, in request order,
duplicates included.
DEVIATION (deliberate, from the plan's implied shared-index write): the response
is indexed into a PER-CALL snapshot index, never into the driver's shared
observation index. That index is written by Task 11's /sample pump and is
last-write-wins with no timestamp arbitration; a read folding its /current into
it would be a second writer racing the first, and /current is frequently the
OLDER document (the Agent composes it while the pump's newer delta is in
flight). Losing that race rolls a subscribed value backwards and leaves it there
until the data item next changes. Both paths coerce through the same
MTConnectObservationIndex logic, so a read and a subscription report a given
observation identically -- the read path is simply a pure function of
(document, authored tags).
Failure posture is the inverse of InitializeAsync: nothing but genuine caller
cancellation crosses the capability boundary. Unreachable Agent / blown deadline
/ unusable answer => every ref codes BadCommunicationError and the driver
degrades (never downgrading Faulted); no client at all (pre-initialize, faulted,
post-shutdown) => BadNotConnected with health untouched. The index's
BadWaitingForInitialData / BadNodeIdUnknown / BadNoCommunication / BadNotSupported
distinctions pass through unmodified.
21 tests pinning arity, order, duplicates, empty batch, one-round-trip, each Bad
code, read-time freshness, the anti-clobber invariant, the deadline, and
cancellation-propagates-but-agent-failure-does-not. CannedAgentClient gains a
cancellation-observing CurrentGate (still no timers or sleeps of its own).
Test csproj takes the AbCip/S7 OTOPCUA0001 NoWarn -- this suite calls the
capability directly by design.
329/329 green.
Joseph Doherty
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