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Joseph Doherty a0cf7c5860 AB Legacy ab_server PCCC Docker fixture scaffold (#224) — Docker infrastructure + test-class shape in place; wire-level round-trip currently blocked by an ab_server-side PCCC coverage gap documented honestly in the fixture + coverage docs. Closes the Docker-infrastructure piece of #224; the remaining work is upstream (patch ab_server's PCCC server opcodes) or sideways (RSEmulate 500 golden-box tier, lab rig). 
New project tests/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.AbLegacy.IntegrationTests/ with four pieces. AbLegacyServerFixture — TCP probe against localhost:44818 (or AB_LEGACY_ENDPOINT override), distinct from AB_SERVER_ENDPOINT so both CIP + PCCC containers can run simultaneously. Single-public-ctor to satisfy xunit collection-fixture constraint. AbLegacyServerProfile + KnownProfiles carry the per-family (SLC500 / MicroLogix / PLC-5) ComposeProfile + Notes; drives per-theory parameterisation. AbLegacyFactAttribute / AbLegacyTheoryAttribute match the AB CIP skip-attribute pattern.

Docker/docker-compose.yml reuses the AB CIP otopcua-ab-server:libplctag-release image — `build:` block points at ../../AbCip.IntegrationTests/Docker context so `docker compose build` from here produces / reuses the same multi-stage build. Three compose profiles (slc500 / micrologix / plc5) with per-family `--plc` + `--tag=<file>[<size>]` flags matching the PCCC tag syntax (different from CIP's `Name:Type[size]`).

AbLegacyReadSmokeTests — one parametric theory reading N7:0 across all three families + one SLC500 write-then-read on N7:5. Targets the shape the driver would use against real hardware. Verified 2026-04-20 against a live SLC500 container: TCP probe passes + container accepts connections + libplctag negotiates session, but read/write returns BadCommunicationError (libplctag status 0x80050000). Root-caused to ab_server's PCCC server-side opcode coverage being narrower than libplctag's PCCC client expects — not a driver-side bug, not a scaffold bug, just an ab_server upstream limitation. Documented honestly in Docker/README.md + AbLegacy-Test-Fixture.md rather than skipping the tests or weakening assertions; tests now skip cleanly when container is absent, fail with clear message when container is up but the protocol gap surfaces. Operator resolves by filing an ab_server upstream patch, pointing AB_LEGACY_ENDPOINT at real hardware, or scaffolding an RSEmulate 500 golden-box tier.

Docker/README.md — Known limitations section leads with the PCCC round-trip gap (test date, failure signature, possible root causes, three resolution paths) before the pre-existing limitations (T/C file decomposition, ST file quirks, indirect addressing, DF1 serial). Reader can't miss the "scaffolded but blocked on upstream" framing.

docs/drivers/AbLegacy-Test-Fixture.md — TL;DR flipped from "no integration fixture" to "Docker scaffold in place; wire-level round-trip currently blocked by ab_server PCCC gap". What-the-fixture-is gains an Integration section. Follow-up candidates rewritten: #1 is now "fix ab_server PCCC upstream", #2 is RSEmulate 500 golden-box (with cost callouts matching our existing Logix Emulate + TwinCAT XAR scaffolds — license + Hyper-V conflict + binary project format), #3 is lab rig. Key-files list adds the four new files. docs/drivers/README.md coverage-map row updated from "no integration fixture" to "Docker scaffold via ab_server PCCC; wire-level round-trip currently blocked, docs call out resolution paths".

Solution file picks up the new tests/.../AbLegacy.IntegrationTests entry. AbLegacyDataType.Int used throughout (not Int16 — the enum uses SLC file-type naming). Build 0 errors; 2 smoke tests skip cleanly without container + fail with clear errors when container up (proving the infrastructure works end-to-end + the gap is specifically the ab_server protocol coverage, not the scaffold).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 13:26:19 -04:00

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Drivers

OtOpcUa is a multi-driver OPC UA server. The Core (ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core + Core.Abstractions + Server) owns the OPC UA stack, address space, session/security/subscription machinery, resilience pipeline, and namespace kinds (Equipment + SystemPlatform). Drivers plug in through capability interfaces defined in src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/:

  • IDriver — lifecycle (InitializeAsync, ReinitializeAsync, ShutdownAsync, GetHealth)
  • IReadable / IWritable — one-shot reads and writes
  • ITagDiscovery — address-space enumeration
  • ISubscribable — driver-pushed data-change streams
  • IHostConnectivityProbe — per-host reachability events
  • IPerCallHostResolver — multi-host drivers that route each call to a target endpoint at dispatch time
  • IAlarmSource — driver-emitted OPC UA A&C events
  • IHistoryProvider — raw / processed / at-time / events HistoryRead (see HistoricalDataAccess.md)
  • IRediscoverable — driver-initiated address-space rebuild notifications

Each driver opts into only the capabilities it supports. Every async capability call at the Server dispatch layer goes through CapabilityInvoker (Core/Resilience/CapabilityInvoker.cs), which wraps it in a Polly pipeline keyed on (DriverInstanceId, HostName, DriverCapability). The OTOPCUA0001 analyzer enforces the wrap at build time. Drivers themselves never depend on Polly; they just implement the capability interface and let the Core wrap it.

Driver type metadata is registered at startup in DriverTypeRegistry (src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/DriverTypeRegistry.cs). The registry records each type's allowed namespace kinds (Equipment / SystemPlatform / Simulated), its JSON Schema for DriverConfig / DeviceConfig / TagConfig columns, and its stability tier per docs/v2/driver-stability.md.

Ground-truth driver list

Driver Project path Tier Wire / library Capabilities Notable quirk
Galaxy Driver.Galaxy.{Shared, Host, Proxy} C MXAccess COM + aahClientManaged + SqlClient IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IAlarmSource, IHistoryProvider, IRediscoverable, IHostConnectivityProbe Out-of-process — Host is its own Windows service (.NET 4.8 x86 for the COM bitness constraint); Proxy talks to Host over a named pipe
Modbus TCP Driver.Modbus A NModbus-derived in-house client IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe Polled subscriptions via the shared PollGroupEngine. DL205 PLCs are covered by AddressFormat=DL205 (octal V/X/Y/C/T/CT translation) — no separate driver
Siemens S7 Driver.S7 A S7netplus IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe Single S7netplus Plc instance per PLC serialized with SemaphoreSlim — the S7 CPU's comm mailbox is scanned at most once per cycle, so parallel reads don't help
AB CIP Driver.AbCip A libplctag CIP IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IPerCallHostResolver ControlLogix / CompactLogix. Tag discovery uses the @tags walker to enumerate controller-scoped + program-scoped symbols; UDT member resolution via the UDT template reader
AB Legacy Driver.AbLegacy A libplctag PCCC IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IPerCallHostResolver SLC 500 / MicroLogix. File-based addressing (N7:0, F8:0) — no symbol table, tag list is user-authored in the config DB
TwinCAT Driver.TwinCAT B Beckhoff TwinCAT.Ads (TcAdsClient) IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IPerCallHostResolver The only native-notification driver outside Galaxy — ADS delivers ValueChangedCallback events the driver forwards straight to ISubscribable.OnDataChange without polling. Symbol tree uploaded via SymbolLoaderFactory
FOCAS Driver.FOCAS C FANUC FOCAS2 (Fwlib32.dll P/Invoke) IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IPerCallHostResolver Tier C — FOCAS DLL has crash modes that warrant process isolation. CNC-shaped data model (axes, spindle, PMC, macros, alarms) not a flat tag map
OPC UA Client Driver.OpcUaClient B OPCFoundation Opc.Ua.Client IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IAlarmSource, IHistoryProvider, IHostConnectivityProbe Gateway/aggregation driver. Opens a single Session against a remote OPC UA server and re-exposes its address space. Owns its own ApplicationConfiguration (distinct from Client.Shared) because it's always-on with keep-alive + TransferSubscriptions across SDK reconnect, not an interactive CLI

Per-driver documentation

  • Galaxy has its own docs in this folder because the out-of-process architecture + MXAccess COM rules + Galaxy Repository SQL + Historian + runtime probe manager don't fit a single table row:

  • All other drivers share a single per-driver specification in docs/v2/driver-specs.md — addressing, data-type maps, connection settings, and quirks live there. That file is the authoritative per-driver reference; this index points at it rather than duplicating.

Test-fixture coverage maps

Each driver has a dedicated fixture doc that lays out what the integration / unit harness actually covers vs. what's trusted from field deployments. Read the relevant one before claiming "green suite = production-ready" for a driver.

  • AB CIP — Dockerized ab_server (multi-stage build from libplctag source); atomic-read smoke across 4 families; UDT / ALMD / family quirks unit-only
  • Modbus — Dockerized pymodbus + per-family JSON profiles (4 compose profiles); best-covered driver, gaps are error-path-shaped
  • Siemens S7 — Dockerized python-snap7 server; DB/MB read + write round-trip verified end-to-end on :1102
  • AB Legacy — Docker scaffold via ab_server PCCC mode (task #224); wire-level round-trip currently blocked by ab_server's PCCC coverage gap, docs call out RSEmulate 500 + lab-rig resolution paths
  • TwinCAT — XAR-VM integration scaffolding (task #221); three smoke tests skip when VM unreachable. Unit via FakeTwinCATClient with native-notification harness
  • FOCAS — no integration fixture, unit-only via FakeFocasClient; Tier C out-of-process isolation scoped but not shipped
  • OPC UA Client — no integration fixture, unit-only via mocked Session; loopback against this repo's own server is the obvious next step
  • Galaxy — richest harness: E2E Host subprocess + ZB SQL live-smoke + MXAccess opt-in

Related cross-driver docs

  • HistoricalDataAccess.md — IHistoryProvider dispatch, aggregate mapping, continuation points. The Galaxy driver's Aveva Historian implementation is the first; OPC UA Client forwards to the upstream server; other drivers do not implement the interface and return BadHistoryOperationUnsupported.
  • AlarmTracking.md — IAlarmSource event model and filtering.
  • Subscriptions.md — how the Server multiplexes subscriptions onto ISubscribable.OnDataChange.
  • docs/v2/driver-stability.md — tier system (A / B / C), shared CapabilityPolicy defaults per tier × capability, MemoryTracking hybrid formula, and process-level recycle rules.
  • docs/v2/plan.md — authoritative vision, architecture decisions, migration strategy.
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