Review follow-up. Dropped the hard Validate rejection of a blank jsonPath under
a Json payload: the runtime defaults it to the document root, which is the real
"publisher puts a bare JSON scalar on the topic" case, so rejecting it made the
editor refuse what the driver accepts — inverting "authoring surface accepts <=>
publish accepts" — and blocked whole CSV-import batches, since this validator
also gates RawManualTagEntryModal's review grid.
Replaced with guidance: an UNAUTHORED tag (no topic AND no jsonPath) seeds the
field with "$", so a fresh tag emits an explicit "jsonPath":"$" while an
existing path-less tag keeps the key ABSENT and the driver defaults it. The
wildcard-topic rule stays strict — a wildcard has no legitimate single-Tag
interpretation.
Also: omit a blank "topic" rather than writing "topic":"", and record why the
_lastConfigJson guard diverges from the Modbus template — the landmine is a
DERIVED, NON-PERSISTED UI FIELD INFERRED FROM BLOB CONTENT (Mode), which Task
24's Sparkplug field group will be tempted to add more of. Named the host-side
dependency (RawTagModal only mutates through this callback) that keeps the
staleness trade benign today.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Joseph Doherty
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