Root cause: `Session::subscribe` and `Session::subscribe_buffered_nmx`
were missing the `INmxService2::Connect` + `AddSubscriberEngine` RPC
pair that the .NET reference's `MxNativeSession.EnsurePublisherConnected`
(`cs:516-526`) issues before the first advise against a publishing
engine. Without those two RPCs, NmxSvc accepted the subscription
registration but the publishing engine never knew our engine was
subscribed — so it never dispatched DataUpdate frames back.
Diagnosis driven by wwtools/aalogcli reading
C:\ProgramData\ArchestrA\LogFiles. The user pointed at this tooling
which lit up the path.
Red herring: NmxSvc's `[Warning] NmxCallback->DataReceived ... failed
with error 0x{N}` log lines turned out to be normal log spam where N
is the bufferSize of the inbound call, not a real error code. The
.NET reference's own probe triggers identical entries while still
receiving DataUpdate frames successfully.
Fix:
- SessionInner::publisher_endpoints — per-session HashMap<(platform_id,
engine_id), ()> cache mirroring MxNativeSession._publisherEndpoints.
- Session::ensure_publisher_connected — issues Connect +
AddSubscriberEngine, once per publisher endpoint per session.
- Session::subscribe + subscribe_buffered_nmx — both call it before
the wire advise.
- subscribe_buffered_nmx — additionally issues AdviseSupervisory after
RegisterReference. The .NET reference's RegisterBufferedItemAsync
only calls RegisterReference, but on this AVEVA install
RegisterReference alone produces the registration result + heartbeat
callbacks without ever starting DataUpdate dispatch; AdviseSupervisory
unblocks the dispatch.
Live verification (`TestMachine_001.TestChangingInt`, a tag that
updates >1×/s):
cargo test -p mxaccess-compat --features live-windows-com \
--test plain_subscribe_live -- --ignored --nocapture
cargo test -p mxaccess-compat --features live-windows-com \
--test buffered_subscribe_live -- --ignored --nocapture
Both pass — `cmd=0x32` SubscriptionStatus + sequence of `cmd=0x33`
DataUpdate frames flow as expected. Tests assert on the raw
Session::callbacks() broadcast (not the typed Subscription::next
DataChange path) because the engine reports quality=Uncertain
value=null for this attribute on this Galaxy — the wire-level
subscription is what F56 was about, not the value content.
DcomCallbackSink reverted to S_OK return for both DataReceivedRaw
and StatusReceivedRaw (the bytes-processed / sentinel HRESULT
experiments during diagnosis turned out to be irrelevant — the
"failed with error 0xN" logs come from NmxSvc regardless of the
return value).
design/followups.md F49 + F56 + docs/M6-live-verification.md updated:
F56 resolved, F49 steps 1 + 4 + 5 pass live, steps 2 + 3 pending
(now executable on this fixture).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Joseph Doherty
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