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lmxopcua/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.OpcUaClient.IntegrationTests/Docker
Joseph Doherty c985c50a96 OpcUaClient integration fixture — opc-plc in Docker closes the wire-level gap (#215). Closes task #215. The OpcUaClient driver had the richest capability matrix in the fleet (reads/writes/subscribe/alarms/history across 11 unit-test classes) + zero wire-level coverage; every test mocked the Session surface. opc-plc is Microsoft Industrial IoT's OPC UA PLC simulator — already containerized, already on MCR, pinned to 2.14.10 here. Wins vs the loopback-against-our-own-server option we'd originally scoped: (a) independent cert chain + user-token handling catches interop bugs loopback can't because both endpoints would share our own cert store; (b) pinned image tag fixes the test surface in a way our evolving server wouldn't; (c) the --alm flag opens the door to real IAlarmSource coverage later without building a custom FakeAlarmDriver. Loss vs loopback: both use the OPCFoundation.NetStandard stack internally so bugs common to that stack don't surface — addressed by a follow-up to add open62541/open62541 as a second independent-stack image (tracked). Docker is the fixture launcher — no PowerShell/Python wrapper like Modbus/pymodbus or S7/python-snap7 because opc-plc ships containerized. Docker/docker-compose.yml pins 2.14.10 + maps port 50000 + command flags --pn=50000 --ut --aa --alm; the healthcheck TCP-probes 50000 so docker ps surfaces ready state. Fixture OpcPlcFixture follows the same shape as Snap7ServerFixture + ModbusSimulatorFixture: collection-scoped, parses OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT (default opc.tcp://localhost:50000) into host + port, 2-second TCP probe at init, SkipReason records the failure for Assert.Skip. Forced IPv4 on the probe socket for the same reason those two fixtures do — .NET's dual-stack "localhost" resolves IPv6 ::1 first + hangs the full connect timeout when the target binds 0.0.0.0 (IPv4). OpcPlcProfile holds well-known node identifiers opc-plc exposes (ns=3;s=StepUp, FastUInt1, RandomSignedInt32, AlternatingBoolean) + builds OpcUaClientDriverOptions with SecurityPolicy.None + AutoAcceptCertificates=true since opc-plc regenerates its server cert on every container spin-up + there's no meaningful chain to validate against in CI. Three smoke tests covering what the unit suite couldn't reach: (1) Client_connects_and_reads_StepUp_node_through_real_OPC_UA_stack — full Secure Channel + Session + Read on ns=3;s=StepUp (counter that ticks every 1 s); (2) Client_reads_batch_of_varied_types_from_live_simulator — batch Read of UInt32 / Int32 / Boolean to prove typed Variant decoding, with an explicit ShouldBeOfType<bool> assertion on AlternatingBoolean to catch the common "variant gets stringified" regression; (3) Client_subscribe_receives_StepUp_data_changes_from_live_server — real MonitoredItem subscription on FastUInt1 (100 ms cadence) with a SemaphoreSlim gate + 3 s deadline on the first OnDataChange fire, tolerating container warm-up. Driver ran end-to-end against a live 2.14.10 container: all 3 pass; unit suite 78/78 unchanged. Container lifecycle verified (compose up → tests → compose down) clean, no leaked state. Docker/README.md documents install (Docker Desktop already on the dev box per Phase 1 decision #134), run (compose up / compose up -d / compose down), endpoint override (OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT), what opc-plc advertises with the current command flags, what's tunable via compose-file tweaks (--daa for username auth tests; --fn/--fr/--ft for subscription-stress nodes), known limitation that opc-plc shares the OPCFoundation stack with our driver. OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md updated — TL;DR flipped from "there is no integration fixture" to the new reality; "What it actually covers" gains an Integration section listing the three smoke tests. Follow-up the doc flags: add open62541/open62541 as a second image for fully-independent-stack interop coverage; once #219 (server-side IAlarmSource/IHistoryProvider integration tests) lands, re-run the client-side suite against opc-plc's --alm nodes to close the alarm gap from the client side too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 11:43:20 -04:00
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OpcUaClient integration fixture — opc-plc in Docker closes the wire-level gap (#215). Closes task #215. The OpcUaClient driver had the richest capability matrix in the fleet (reads/writes/subscribe/alarms/history across 11 unit-test classes) + zero wire-level coverage; every test mocked the Session surface. opc-plc is Microsoft Industrial IoT's OPC UA PLC simulator — already containerized, already on MCR, pinned to 2.14.10 here. Wins vs the loopback-against-our-own-server option we'd originally scoped: (a) independent cert chain + user-token handling catches interop bugs loopback can't because both endpoints would share our own cert store; (b) pinned image tag fixes the test surface in a way our evolving server wouldn't; (c) the --alm flag opens the door to real IAlarmSource coverage later without building a custom FakeAlarmDriver. Loss vs loopback: both use the OPCFoundation.NetStandard stack internally so bugs common to that stack don't surface — addressed by a follow-up to add open62541/open62541 as a second independent-stack image (tracked). Docker is the fixture launcher — no PowerShell/Python wrapper like Modbus/pymodbus or S7/python-snap7 because opc-plc ships containerized. Docker/docker-compose.yml pins 2.14.10 + maps port 50000 + command flags --pn=50000 --ut --aa --alm; the healthcheck TCP-probes 50000 so docker ps surfaces ready state. Fixture OpcPlcFixture follows the same shape as Snap7ServerFixture + ModbusSimulatorFixture: collection-scoped, parses OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT (default opc.tcp://localhost:50000) into host + port, 2-second TCP probe at init, SkipReason records the failure for Assert.Skip. Forced IPv4 on the probe socket for the same reason those two fixtures do — .NET's dual-stack "localhost" resolves IPv6 ::1 first + hangs the full connect timeout when the target binds 0.0.0.0 (IPv4). OpcPlcProfile holds well-known node identifiers opc-plc exposes (ns=3;s=StepUp, FastUInt1, RandomSignedInt32, AlternatingBoolean) + builds OpcUaClientDriverOptions with SecurityPolicy.None + AutoAcceptCertificates=true since opc-plc regenerates its server cert on every container spin-up + there's no meaningful chain to validate against in CI. Three smoke tests covering what the unit suite couldn't reach: (1) Client_connects_and_reads_StepUp_node_through_real_OPC_UA_stack — full Secure Channel + Session + Read on ns=3;s=StepUp (counter that ticks every 1 s); (2) Client_reads_batch_of_varied_types_from_live_simulator — batch Read of UInt32 / Int32 / Boolean to prove typed Variant decoding, with an explicit ShouldBeOfType<bool> assertion on AlternatingBoolean to catch the common "variant gets stringified" regression; (3) Client_subscribe_receives_StepUp_data_changes_from_live_server — real MonitoredItem subscription on FastUInt1 (100 ms cadence) with a SemaphoreSlim gate + 3 s deadline on the first OnDataChange fire, tolerating container warm-up. Driver ran end-to-end against a live 2.14.10 container: all 3 pass; unit suite 78/78 unchanged. Container lifecycle verified (compose up → tests → compose down) clean, no leaked state. Docker/README.md documents install (Docker Desktop already on the dev box per Phase 1 decision #134), run (compose up / compose up -d / compose down), endpoint override (OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT), what opc-plc advertises with the current command flags, what's tunable via compose-file tweaks (--daa for username auth tests; --fn/--fr/--ft for subscription-stress nodes), known limitation that opc-plc shares the OPCFoundation stack with our driver. OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md updated — TL;DR flipped from "there is no integration fixture" to the new reality; "What it actually covers" gains an Integration section listing the three smoke tests. Follow-up the doc flags: add open62541/open62541 as a second image for fully-independent-stack interop coverage; once #219 (server-side IAlarmSource/IHistoryProvider integration tests) lands, re-run the client-side suite against opc-plc's --alm nodes to close the alarm gap from the client side too.
2026-04-20 11:43:20 -04:00
OpcUaClient integration fixture — opc-plc in Docker closes the wire-level gap (#215). Closes task #215. The OpcUaClient driver had the richest capability matrix in the fleet (reads/writes/subscribe/alarms/history across 11 unit-test classes) + zero wire-level coverage; every test mocked the Session surface. opc-plc is Microsoft Industrial IoT's OPC UA PLC simulator — already containerized, already on MCR, pinned to 2.14.10 here. Wins vs the loopback-against-our-own-server option we'd originally scoped: (a) independent cert chain + user-token handling catches interop bugs loopback can't because both endpoints would share our own cert store; (b) pinned image tag fixes the test surface in a way our evolving server wouldn't; (c) the --alm flag opens the door to real IAlarmSource coverage later without building a custom FakeAlarmDriver. Loss vs loopback: both use the OPCFoundation.NetStandard stack internally so bugs common to that stack don't surface — addressed by a follow-up to add open62541/open62541 as a second independent-stack image (tracked). Docker is the fixture launcher — no PowerShell/Python wrapper like Modbus/pymodbus or S7/python-snap7 because opc-plc ships containerized. Docker/docker-compose.yml pins 2.14.10 + maps port 50000 + command flags --pn=50000 --ut --aa --alm; the healthcheck TCP-probes 50000 so docker ps surfaces ready state. Fixture OpcPlcFixture follows the same shape as Snap7ServerFixture + ModbusSimulatorFixture: collection-scoped, parses OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT (default opc.tcp://localhost:50000) into host + port, 2-second TCP probe at init, SkipReason records the failure for Assert.Skip. Forced IPv4 on the probe socket for the same reason those two fixtures do — .NET's dual-stack "localhost" resolves IPv6 ::1 first + hangs the full connect timeout when the target binds 0.0.0.0 (IPv4). OpcPlcProfile holds well-known node identifiers opc-plc exposes (ns=3;s=StepUp, FastUInt1, RandomSignedInt32, AlternatingBoolean) + builds OpcUaClientDriverOptions with SecurityPolicy.None + AutoAcceptCertificates=true since opc-plc regenerates its server cert on every container spin-up + there's no meaningful chain to validate against in CI. Three smoke tests covering what the unit suite couldn't reach: (1) Client_connects_and_reads_StepUp_node_through_real_OPC_UA_stack — full Secure Channel + Session + Read on ns=3;s=StepUp (counter that ticks every 1 s); (2) Client_reads_batch_of_varied_types_from_live_simulator — batch Read of UInt32 / Int32 / Boolean to prove typed Variant decoding, with an explicit ShouldBeOfType<bool> assertion on AlternatingBoolean to catch the common "variant gets stringified" regression; (3) Client_subscribe_receives_StepUp_data_changes_from_live_server — real MonitoredItem subscription on FastUInt1 (100 ms cadence) with a SemaphoreSlim gate + 3 s deadline on the first OnDataChange fire, tolerating container warm-up. Driver ran end-to-end against a live 2.14.10 container: all 3 pass; unit suite 78/78 unchanged. Container lifecycle verified (compose up → tests → compose down) clean, no leaked state. Docker/README.md documents install (Docker Desktop already on the dev box per Phase 1 decision #134), run (compose up / compose up -d / compose down), endpoint override (OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT), what opc-plc advertises with the current command flags, what's tunable via compose-file tweaks (--daa for username auth tests; --fn/--fr/--ft for subscription-stress nodes), known limitation that opc-plc shares the OPCFoundation stack with our driver. OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md updated — TL;DR flipped from "there is no integration fixture" to the new reality; "What it actually covers" gains an Integration section listing the three smoke tests. Follow-up the doc flags: add open62541/open62541 as a second image for fully-independent-stack interop coverage; once #219 (server-side IAlarmSource/IHistoryProvider integration tests) lands, re-run the client-side suite against opc-plc's --alm nodes to close the alarm gap from the client side too.
2026-04-20 11:43:20 -04:00

opc-plc Docker fixture

Microsoft Industrial IoT's opc-plc — pinned Docker image that stands up an OPC UA server at opc.tcp://localhost:50000 with step-up counters, random nodes, alarm simulation, and other canonical simulated shapes. Replaces the PowerShell launcher pattern used by the Modbus / S7 fixtures — Docker is the launcher here since opc-plc ships pre-containerized.

File Purpose
docker-compose.yml Service definition for otopcua-opc-plc — image pin, port map, command flags.
(this file) How to run it.

Install

Docker Desktop (Windows) or the docker CLI + daemon (Linux/macOS). Per CLAUDE.md Phase 1 decision #134 the dev box already has Docker Desktop configured with the WSL 2 backend — nothing new to install.

Run

From the repo root:

docker compose -f tests\ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.OpcUaClient.IntegrationTests\Docker\docker-compose.yml up

Or from this folder:

docker compose up

First run pulls the image (~250 MB). Startup takes ~5-10 seconds; the healthcheck in the compose file surfaces ready state in docker ps.

To run detached (CI pattern):

docker compose up -d

Stop with docker compose down (removes the container) or docker compose stop (keeps it for fast restart).

Endpoint

  • Default: opc.tcp://localhost:50000
  • Override by setting OPCUA_SIM_ENDPOINT before dotnet test — e.g. point at a real OPC UA server in the lab, or at a different Docker host.

What opc-plc advertises

Command flags in docker-compose.yml enable:

  • --pn=50000 — OPC UA endpoint on port 50000
  • --ut — unsecured transport endpoint advertised (SecurityPolicy=None). Secured policies are still on the endpoint list; --ut just adds an unsecured option.
  • --aa — auto-accept client certs (opc-plc's cert trust store lives inside the container + resets each spin-up, so without this the driver's first contact would be rejected).
  • --alm — alarm simulation enabled; opc-plc publishes TripAlarmType, ExclusiveDeviationAlarmType, NonExclusiveLevelAlarmType, and DialogConditionType events.

Not turned on (but available via compose-file tweaks):

  • --daa — disable anonymous auth; forces username or cert tokens. Flip on when username-auth / cert-auth smoke tests land.
  • --fn / --fr / --ft — fast-node variants (100 / 1 000 / 10 000 Hz update rates) for subscription-stress coverage. Not needed for smoke.
  • --sn / --sr — slow-node / special-shape coverage.

Run the integration tests

In a separate shell, with the simulator running:

cd C:\Users\dohertj2\Desktop\lmxopcua
dotnet test tests\ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.OpcUaClient.IntegrationTests

Tests auto-skip with a clear SkipReason when localhost:50000 isn't reachable within 2 seconds (OpcPlcFixture).

Known limitations

opc-plc uses the OPCFoundation.NetStandard stack internally — same as our driver. That means bugs common to the stack itself are not caught by this fixture; the follow-up to add open62541/open62541 as a second independent-stack image (task tracked in #215's follow-ups) would close that.

See docs/drivers/OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md for the full coverage map + what's still trusted from field deployments.

References