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# Description

Implements **OPC UA — Vision** and uses it to build the demo the
companion specifications were drafted for: an eye-in-hand camera watches
a bin of parts, a language model *looks at the frame*, decides which
part matches the instruction, and commands the robot through Robot
Intent — with the OpenUSD viewer showing the arm move and the bin empty
out.

> **Draft, and stacked.**
[#4195](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/pull/4195) has
merged and master is merged in, so what is left on top of `master` is
the Vision work plus the unmerged `marcschier/ai-model-management`
branch, which the demo needs for the model/dataset/deployment
provenance. Review the Vision commits; the AI Model Management work
lands with its own PR.

## What is here

**The specification, implemented.** `Opc.Ua.Vision` is generated from
the spec's own `Opc.Ua.Vision.NodeSet2.xml`, vendored byte-identically
(SHA-256 `79C592C6…`, verified against a fresh download and stored
LF-preserved like the Robot Intent NodeSet). `Opc.Ua.Vision.Server`
builds the §4.2 discovery object, sensors, the coordinate-frame tree,
calibrations, media endpoints, inference pipelines and the §9 feedback
methods, with rendering and inference behind injectable providers.
`Opc.Ua.Vision.Client` is built on the generated ObjectType proxies and
composes transforms across the frame tree, which is what turns a
detection in camera coordinates into a pose a robot can act on.

**Two perception paths behind one contract**, which is exactly what
`InferenceLocationEnum` is for. `OnServer` is a deterministic detector
derived from the stage's ground truth — no model, no network, no GPU, so
CI can exercise the whole loop. `EdgeOffServer` is the agent: it sees
the frame over MCP and calls `SubmitDetections`, and the Server
publishes results it did not compute. A client reads
`DetectionResultType` identically either way.

**The agent's eyes.** `tools/Opc.Ua.Mcp.Vision` adds 22 `vision_*`
tools, which with the four shared connection tools makes the `vision`
profile 26; `vision_get_frame` returns the camera image as an MCP
`ImageContentBlock`, so the model looks at pixels rather than reading a
description of them. Tool profiles now compose — `--profile
vision,robotics` yields 62 tools — so one agent can both see and act
without dragging in the full 136-tool catalogue.

**The cell.** `samples/Robotics/BinPickingCell` follows the spec's own
Robotics-Vision Addendum: the `world → robot_base → flange →
gripper_tcp` frame tree with `camera_eih` on the flange, the `HandEye`
extrinsics and the `Intrinsics612x512` intrinsics — the addendum's
2448×2048 calibration scaled to the 4×4-binned grid the camera actually
delivers. `samples/Robotics/BinPickingClient` hosts the composed MCP
catalogue and optionally the viewer.

**Documentation.** `docs/Vision.md` (~800 lines) covers the model,
hosting, the build context, every topology builder, both perception
paths, feedback, the MCP profile and the limitations; linked from
`docs/README.md`, with the profile table in `docs/McpServer.md` and
READMEs for both samples.

## Evidence, not assertions

Each of these was measured on a running system rather than assumed:

| Claim | Evidence |
|---|---|
| The camera sees the bin | 612×512 frame with the bin and all five
parts in view — red `(212,47,47)`, green `(61,193,71)`, blue
`(54,85,218)`, yellow `(215,196,58)`, orange `(209,119,55)` |
| An agent can act on what it sees | Over MCP, `vision_get_frame`
returns a 612×512 PNG that decodes from base64 to 1,254,051 bytes, the
descriptor beside the detections says 612×512, and all five
`BoundingBox2D` centres land **inside** the frame on the pixel colour
their own detection claims |
| The geometry is right | A detection composed `camera_eih → world`
lands on the authored position, residual **0.0000 m** — on both the
on-server and off-server paths |
| The detector tracks the world | Placing a part drops the next scan
from 5 detections to 4, with that part absent |
| The robot obeys the agent | Scripted run took command authority and
completed a pick and a place, both `Succeeded` |
| Tool catalogues are honest | Counted from a running server: vision 26,
robotics 40, `vision,robotics` 62, full 136, **zero duplicates** |
| Every node is browsable by NodeId | Eight representative NodeIds —
both folders, a pipeline, a frame, the sensor, its Calibrations folder,
the HandEye calibration, the Media folder — all `Good` |

That tool-count check matters because the profile tests collapse names
into a `HashSet` and *cannot see* a duplicate registration — so the new
tests count registrations, not names.

## Things that were wrong, and are not now

Writing the tests found three defects of one kind — code that answered
instead of refusing. A zero-norm quaternion was silently rewritten to
identity, so a caller with an all-zero orientation got a confident wrong
grasp pose. `SubmitCorrection` rewrote a null `ResultId` to empty and
called the sink anyway. A bad `StageIdentifier` **killed the host
process** inside native `UsdStage.Open`, via an exception .NET cannot
catch. All three now refuse loudly and are pinned by tests.

**Nodes that existed but could not be reached.** The node manager
indexes the Vision root before configurators run, so everything the
fluent builder grafted on afterwards — both folders, the pipelines with
their Results and Feedback, the frames, the sensors with their optics,
calibrations and media endpoints — was never added to the index.
Browsing *forward from a parent* worked, because that walks
`NodeState.Children` in memory; browsing any of those nodes *by its own
NodeId* returned `BadNodeIdUnknown`, which is how an ordinary client and
the MCP discovery tools navigate. Registration is now deferred and
flushed after each configurator. The first fix covered only the DI path
and left the documented non-DI fallback broken in exactly the same way,
so `ConfigureVisionAsync` now exists and registers what it builds.

That defect survived a green suite because every test browsed children.
The new tests assert by NodeId, and were checked against the broken code
— with the flush removed, they fail.

**Every Method was uncallable.** The Server passed 426 unit tests while
not one of its Methods could be invoked over a real session —
`RunInference` returned `Bad_TooManyArguments`, and so did every other
Method that takes arguments, which is all of them but `StartContinuous`
and `Stop`. Three independent faults, each sufficient on its own: the
Method nodes were never created (they are Optional children, and the
dispatcher guards every attachment with a null check, so it silently
attached nothing); nothing declared the arguments, so the stack
concluded none were expected; and `MethodDeclarationId` pointed at a
synthesised NodeId rather than the NodeSet declaration a client calls
with, so the lookup missed the instance Method entirely. The builder now
creates the Methods, the `Results` folder and the `Feedback` object when
a provider or sink is configured, declares every signature, and names
the right declaration.

Unit tests could not have caught this: they invoke the handler delegates
directly and never go through `MethodState.Call`. It took an end-to-end
test over a real session. Relatedly, children created by the generated
`CreateOrReplace` helpers carry no `ReferenceTypeId`, so nothing could
reach them — fixed once in the build context rather than at the several
dozen call sites.
**And one where I was wrong.** Earlier in this branch I reversed my own
agents' decision and made `SubmitDetections` accept an empty detection
set, reasoning that "I looked and the bin is empty" is a correct
observation and refusing it forces a correct agent to invent a
detection. The reasoning is sound; it is also an argument *against* the
specification rather than an implementation of it. §9.5 is normative and
explicit — its StatusCode table lists `Bad_InvalidArgument` for
"`Detections` empty; or `SubmitCorrection` supplies both or neither
corrected array".

Worse, **none of §9.5's argument rules were enforced anywhere** — the
dispatcher forwarded every submission straight to the feedback sink, so
conformance depended on whichever sink a host installed. They are Server
obligations, so they now live in the dispatcher, ahead of the sink,
proven by strict mocks that would throw if the sink were consulted. The
usability problem is real and does not go away by conforming, so it is
raised where it can be fixed:
[opcua-drafts#70](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/70).

## Tracking the updated drafts

The Vision, Robot Intent and AI Model Management NodeSets on
`opcua-drafts` `main` have moved, partly because of feedback this branch
raised. All three are re-vendored byte-identically — verified by
comparing git blob hashes against the upstream files rather than by eye
— and the implementations follow.

**Two statements that were previously inexpressible now have a wire
representation.** `SubmitDetections` takes `SceneIsEmpty` and
`SubmitCorrection` takes `RetractAll`, so an agent can report "I
examined this frame and there is nothing in it" — the terminating
condition of the bin-picking task — and can retract a false positive by
correcting a result down to nothing. Both are checked in both
directions, because the flag is exactly what separates a deliberate
empty observation from a lost payload: an empty array without the flag
is refused, and the flag with an array attached is refused as two
contradictory claims about one frame. Implemented in the dispatcher, the
client, the MCP tools the agent drives, and the sample cell.

Also absorbed: `LampType` and `LightingMode` became enums (§66),
`ProfileName` became `DefaultProfileName` on the endpoint (distinct from
the `ProfileName` a caller passes to `GetStreamEndpoint`, which keeps
its name), AI `Invoke`/`InvokeAsync` gained `PayloadUri` under the same
exactly-one rule, and AI `ListModels` gained a `ContinuationPoint` —
because `MaxResults` alone puts everything past the bound permanently
out of reach.

**OpenUSD is on `0.9.0-alpha`**, verified on the running cell rather
than by restore alone: D3D12 backend, 612×512 frame, the bin and all
five parts in view and detected — the same result `0.8.0-alpha`
produced.

The one local workaround that survives is `VisionMethodArguments`, and
its reason has changed rather than gone away: the builder materialises
these Methods as Optional children through `CreateOrReplace`, which
constructs the state object directly and never runs the generated
factory that now carries the signatures. Checked rather than assumed —
removing the declarations fails five of the eight
`VisionMethodSurfaceTests`.

## Review feedback

Three threads, all addressed in `0fe2803a3`:

- **The AI Model Management work is now a library family, not a
sample.** `src/Opc.Ua.AI` (model), `.Inference` (`IInferenceBackend` and
backends), `.Server` (node manager) and `.Client` (discovery, reads,
calls, artefact transfer), in the same shape as the Robotics and Vision
families; the samples become `samples/AI/ModelManagementServer` and
`ModelManagementClient`. The client library needed real work rather than
relocation: its browsing surface was `private` inside the sample's
scenario runner, so moving the file alone would have produced a library
nobody could call.
- **No cloud-vendor SDK is referenced anywhere.** Inference goes through
`Microsoft.Extensions.AI` — an `IChatClient` is implemented by hosted
services and on-device runtimes alike, which is exactly the property
clause 8.1 asserts. `Azure.Identity` is gone: workload identity is not
an Azure feature, every platform projects a token into a file and each
SDK reads that file behind its own API, so the resolver reads it
directly. The comment claiming `Microsoft.Extensions.AI` would force a
`System.Text.Json` bump was stale — it pins 10.0.10, which this
repository already centralises on.
- **`BinPickingCell` and `BinPickingClient` moved into
`samples/Robotics/`**, which is where they belonged: the cell was
already linking the arm, its kinematics and both USD assets out of
`IntentEnabledRobot`.

## Upstream

Work that belonged elsewhere went elsewhere rather than being worked
around locally:

- **`openusd-dotnet`
[#13](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/pull/13)** — merged
and shipped in `0.8.0-alpha`. `SilkFrameCapture.Capture` rendered only
the first capture of a session and silently returned a blank frame for
every one after it. Also filed
[#14](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/14) (no
camera-by-prim API) and
[#15](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/15) (skipped
tests reported as passed — which fooled me for several runs). Both are
fixed; this branch takes `0.8.0-alpha` and deletes two workarounds,
including 143 lines of hand-rolled projection maths.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#66](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/66)–[#69](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/69)**
— a close read of the spec produced 22 candidate ambiguities; 12 were
discarded as misreadings with clause citations and the remaining 10
filed. One is concrete: five members exist in the NodeId CSV that no
clause documents.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#70](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/70)** — §9.5
could not express an empty observation or a false-positive retraction.
**Adopted**, with the explicit-flag resolution argued for:
`SubmitDetections` gained `SceneIsEmpty`, `SubmitCorrection` gained
`RetractAll`, and the corrected-array rule relaxed from *exactly one* to
*at most one*.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#71](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/71)** — the
Vision NodeSet browse-named all 13 `InputArguments` / `OutputArguments`
Properties in the Vision namespace rather than the base namespace, so a
stack could not find them and every Method in the specification was
uncallable. **Fixed**; this branch now tracks the corrected artefact.

## The defect underneath it all

The end-to-end suite was removed earlier in this branch because nine of
its
fourteen tests failed on one symptom: a client could not open a
pipeline's
`Feedback` object or enumerate its `Results`, even though browsing the
same
parent listed both. Restoring it meant explaining that, and the
explanation
was not in Vision.

`RelativePathElement` initialised **`IsInverse` to `true`**. A caller
that
sets a `ReferenceTypeId` and a `TargetName` — which reads as *"the child
reached by this Reference"* — was therefore asking the Server for the
**inverse** Reference, and got `Bad_NoMatch` with nothing in the request
to
suggest why.

`ObjectTypeClient.ResolveChildNodeIdAsync` is such a caller, and it is
what
**every source-generated Optional-child accessor in the stack** is built
on
— the accessor whose own documentation cites
`AlarmConditionTypeClient.GetShelvingStateAsync`
as an example. Vision is merely where it surfaced, because Vision puts
two
Optional children on the path an off-Server agent must take. The sibling
helper in `StateMachineTypeClientExtensions` already set `IsInverse =
false`
by hand, which is the shape of a trap rather than a default.

The default is now forward, `ResolveChildNodeIdAsync` says so
explicitly,
and the existing test that had recorded `true` as *expected* now pins
`false` with the reasoning. Of the forty `RelativePathElement`
construction
sites in the tree, that accessor was **the only one relying on the
default at
all** — every deliberate caller already set it.

Two further defects were found underneath it, both real and both fixed:

- The generated `CreateOrReplace` helpers construct a child state object
directly and leave **`TypeDefinitionId`** unset as well as
`ReferenceTypeId`.
A child referenced by nothing cannot be browsed; one with no type
definition
is a malformed Object that a client filtering by type silently skips —
which
  is exactly what `EnumerateResultsAsync` does. Normalisation moved to
`VisionNodeManager`, so it also covers the case the builder cannot see:
a
result published **at runtime** by an inference provider, long after the
address space was built. That path produced results a client could list
but
  not read.
- `Opc.Ua.AI` shipped without an `AssemblyInfo`, so the solution built
with
  six `CA1014` warnings.

I had initially "fixed" this in the Vision client with Browse-based
fallbacks,
on the strength of a probe that appeared to show
`TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds`
failing even for `Server → ServerStatus`. That probe was wrong: it used
an
unqualified `ReferenceTypeIds`, which inside a `Opc.Ua.Vision.*`
namespace
binds to *Vision's* `ReferenceTypeIds` and yields a nonsense NodeId.
Chasing
that to the end is what turned up the real cause. **The fallbacks are
gone** —
they would have hidden a stack-wide bug behind a Vision-shaped
workaround, and
one of them matched on browse name while ignoring the namespace index.

`tests/Opc.Ua.Vision.Intent.Tests` is restored and back in `UA.slnx`,
passing
**14/14** on its own merit rather than through a client-side workaround.
A
registration test now pins the pipeline's `Feedback` and `Results`
children,
which nothing covered before.

## Running it, and what that found

The demo's premise is that a language model **looks at the bin and
reasons
about what it sees**. Running it end to end showed it could not, for
reasons
no test covered, because every one of them lived between components.

**The sample did not compile.** Two `CS8604` nullable errors with
`TreatWarningsAsErrors`, so neither the cell server nor the demo could
be
started at all. Worth recording that my first explanation was wrong: CI
*does*
build this project - the Linux leg's `net10.0` pass compiles it,
log-confirmed -
so this is not a coverage gap in the workflow, and no workflow change
was made.

**`Pick` and `Place` never moved the arm.** They were a delay plus a
gripper
action, so the operations reported `Succeeded` while nothing travelled.
They now
solve IK once and interpolate in joint space. **And the parts never
moved**: the
arm swung but the bin stayed full, because nothing tied the held object
to the
world state. The connector now creates 11 monitored items where it
created 6,
and a scripted run delivers `SeqNo=151` across 10 messages where it
delivered
`SeqNo=3` across 1.

**The frame was smuggled through a string field.** The media provider
put a
base64 *data URI* of the PNG into `VisionImageReferenceDataType.Uri` - a
field
meant to be a *reference*, while the bytes were already returned in the
inline
`ByteString`. Every response therefore shipped the image twice, and a
1,311,400-byte PNG became a 1,748,536-character string against a
`MaxStringLength` of 65,535: **26.7x over**. That is why raising
`MaxByteStringLength`, `MaxArrayLength` and `MaxMessageSize` never
helped - none
of them govern a `String`. Separately the MCP tool assigned raw bytes
where
`ImageContentBlock` requires base64, so the wire carried
`"data":"�PNG..."` -
every non-UTF-8 byte replaced by U+FFFD, destroying the image and
inflating the
response to 6.8 MB.

**The camera was aimed at nothing.** The arm's home pose, the flange
scan pose
the Vision model declared and the joint angles in the USD stage were
three
independent claims about where the camera was, and they disagreed - the
declared
flange orientation pointed the view 86 degrees away from the projection
camera.
Solving them as one thing exposed two further constraints that are easy
to miss:
the camera has to sit off the tool axis or it photographs its own
gripper, and
the IK branch has to be elbow-back or a link parks under the camera and
fills the
frame with the arm's own upper arm. A third was a regression this branch
introduced and `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` caught - aiming a straight-down
camera
from a point on the base's own X-Z plane puts the wrist on the J4/J6
singularity, so every motion away from home fails to solve. A 15-degree
camera
roll, free because the camera still looks straight down, gets 25 degrees
clear,
which is the margin the poses before this branch had.

**The frame and the detections were different images.** The sensor
declared
2448x2048, the clip endpoint 1280x1024, and the renderer produced
640x512 - not
even the same aspect ratio. The ground-truth detector projects through
the
declared intrinsics, so its boxes lived in 2448x2048 space while an
agent was
handed a 640x512 picture: *"pick the red cube you can see"* arrived with
coordinates that pointed off the image. Everything now agrees at
612x512, an
exact 4x4 bin of the native sensor with the intrinsics scaled to match;
the
native size stays in the model and serial number, where it describes the
hardware rather than the image.

**`LatestClip` was created and never written**, so it reported
`Bad_NoDataAvailable` for the life of the Server and a consumer
following the
model - read the published frame, call the method only if there is none
- never
got a frame. The dispatcher now publishes a clip it has just encoded,
for every
Vision server rather than this sample alone.

One genuine API gap turned up on the way: `OpcUaServerOptions` exposes
`MaxByteStringLength`, `MaxArrayLength` and `MaxMessageSize` and **no
`MaxStringLength`**, so a Server that legitimately needs a long string
could not
raise the limit through the hosting API at all. Added, with tests. It is
not the
fix for anything above - that was a design bug - but the missing knob
was real.

## Not finished

- **Two projects sit below the repository's 80% line coverage.**
`Opc.Ua.Vision.OpenUsd` is at 71.1% — what is left only executes with a
real OpenUSD stage and plugin tree, which is not on every build agent.
`Opc.Ua.AI.Inference` is now at **86.7%**, up from 12.9%: the code this
branch *wrote* is covered by 25 tests, and `RestChatCompletionsBackend`
— previously the whole of the shortfall — is covered by 18 more against
a stubbed `HttpMessageHandler`, exercising success, refusal, throttling,
retry-after, timeout and cancellation without a network. Everything else
clears the bar — `Opc.Ua.Vision.Server` 92.1%, `Opc.Ua.AI` 91.4%,
`.Vision.Client` 88.1%, `Opc.Ua.Vision` 85.7%, `Opc.Ua.AI.Server` 80.1%,
all measured with coverlet. The CI coverage gate reports itself as
advisory and non-blocking.
- **`SamplesCollected` is not counted here, and `docs/Vision.md` now
says so.** Section 9.4 requires a Server to count a negative example
(`SceneIsEmpty` / `RetractAll` carrying a `GroundTruthLabel`) exactly as
it counts one carrying geometry. `VisionNodeManager` does not, and
structurally cannot: `SamplesCollected` is a property of
`LearningJobType`, which the *AI Model Management* companion defines,
and Vision reaches the job through a `NodeId` value rather than a
Reference **precisely so this model takes no dependency on the model
that defines it**. What the Server does guarantee is that the negative
example survives the hop intact — both flags are carried verbatim to
`IVisionFeedbackSink` — so a host that binds a learning job has
everything it needs to satisfy the clause on the counter it owns. Stated
in the limitations rather than left implied.

## Related Issues

Was stacked on #4195, now merged. No tracking issue yet for the Vision
implementation itself — happy to open one if you would like the design
recorded as an ADR before this goes further.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage. — *Types 8562, Server 4072,
Client 2123, InformationModel 1063, Robotics 540, Tools 466, Vision 442,
AI 74 and the restored Vision+Intent end-to-end suite 14/14, all green
on net10.0. Only `.OpenUsd` (71.1%) is below the 80% bar — see Not
finished.*
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings. — *`dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release`: 0 errors, 0
warnings.*
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed. — *net48:
Types 8555, Client 2126, Vision 385 green. Two net48 Server tests fail
(`CreateUserManagementSeamBindsTheModelToTheServerAsync`, and
`DurableDataValueQueueVerifyReferenceBatchingAsync` only under parallel
load); both were confirmed **pre-existing** by re-running them with the
`IsInverse` change reverted, which fails identically.*
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings. — *The net48 build legs failed because the
restored end-to-end project used `ValueTask.FromResult` /
`string.Create`, which do not exist on .NET Framework; fixed in
`fb57522da` and verified building on every TFM.
`DisposeDrainsHeldConnectionCallbackBeforeListenerDisposal` failed once
on the Ubuntu Client leg — a 13 ms timing-sensitive reverse-connect
disposal test that passes locally 2123/2123 and touches no browse
paths.*
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
## Typed Vision-guided Robotics MCP workflows

The branch now also makes the demo workflow first-class in the Full MCP
profile:

- replaces stringified Robotics intent and mission inputs with typed
request schemas and exact name-or-NodeId selectors;
- adds bounded operation/mission paging, stable step-to-operation
identity, retained mission discovery, and `robotics_wait_mission`;
- makes `vision_run_inference` return bounded typed detection,
inspection, or segmentation summaries in one call;
- adds same-session `robotics_vision_pick` to select a detection and
submit Pick or Pick/Place work without implicitly taking authority,
retrying, cancelling, or waiting; and
- starts Publish workers for classic subscriptions so an independently
launched OpenUSD viewer receives live robot and part updates.

The migration guide documents the intentionally breaking MCP
request-schema changes.

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d525bc3f28 Bound reconnect cleanup and organize samples by domain (#4276)
# Description

This PR fixes bounded ManagedSession reconnect cleanup and reorganizes
the sample applications into domain-focused folders.

## Reconnect cleanup

- Bounds reconnect integration cleanup with independent 30-second close
and dispose limits.
- Sends `CloseSession` through the awaited transport request path during
`Session.DisposeAsync`.
- Preserves explicit `Session.CloseAsync` behavior that waits for or
cancels outstanding publish requests.
- Covers the disposal request path with a regression test.

## Sample organization

- `samples/OpenUsd`: `GeneratorServer`, `SiteCompositionServer`
- `samples/Redundancy`: `RedundantClient`, `RedundantServer`,
`RedundantPubSub`
- `samples/Isa95`: `MinimalIsa95Server`
- `samples/MinimalApi`: `MinimalBoilerServer`, `MinimalCalcServer`,
`MinimalClient`
- `samples/DI`: `PumpDeviceIntegrationServer`
- `samples/Lds`: `ConsoleLdsServer`
- `samples/Reference`: `ConsoleReferenceClient`,
`ConsoleReferenceServer`
- `samples/PubSub`: `ConsoleReferencePubSubClient`

`UA.slnx` now exposes the same requested domain groups. Project
references, tests, runtime sample probes, CI workflows, Dockerfiles,
Compose files, helper scripts, and documentation were updated to the new
paths. `samples/Robotics/MinimalRobotServer` remains under `Robotics`.

## Validation

- `dotnet build UA.slnx`
- 3 Redundancy short-haul sample tests
- 70 DI sample tests
- 914 OpenUSD tests
- 1 WotCon model-materialization test
- 137 AOT tests
- `docker compose config` for all 6 moved Redundancy Compose files

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4273

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
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Marc SchierandCopilot 397db603db Add OPC UA for Asset Administration Shell: the published OPC 30270 and v3 draft (#4244)
# Description

Implements the **Asset Administration Shell** companion specifications
on top of `marcschier/wot-type-binding`, in two halves that a Server
chooses between:

* **AAS V3** — the
[draft](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/tree/main/companion-specs/AAS)
(`http://opcfoundation.org/UA/I4AAS/v3/`), all sixteen conformance
units: the metamodel, the registry built on the abstract xRegistry base,
generational materialization, federation, packages with digest-bound
integrity, the Digital Product Passport vocabulary, and the Annex F
bridge to WoT Thing Descriptions.
* **AAS V2** — the published [OPC
30270](https://reference.opcfoundation.org/specs/OPC-30270/full)
(`http://opcfoundation.org/UA/I4AAS/`), which maps the AAS V2.0.1
metamodel: object model, ingestion of XML, JSON and AASX,
materialization, server and client.

The two are different metamodel generations rather than two revisions of
one model — V2 keeps `Asset` as a first-class Identifiable,
`identification.idType`, Views and ordered collections, none of which
survive into V3 — so they are **alternatives**. A Server hosts one or
the other; this is documented rather than enforced at startup. Each is
named for the generation it maps (`Opc.Ua.Aas.V2`, `Opc.Ua.Aas.V3`,
`AddAasV2Server`, `AddAasV3Server`), and what genuinely serves both
carries no marker and sits at the root of `Opc.Ua.Aas`: the
deterministic NodeId encoding and idShortPath conventions,
`AasOptional<T>`, the digest rule, the materialization diagnostics, the
AASX container walk, and the value and operation providers, which are
keyed on `NodeId` and `Variant` and so carry no version at all.

## What is in here

**New libraries**: `Opc.Ua.Aas`, `Opc.Ua.Aas.Server`,
`Opc.Ua.Aas.Client`, `Opc.Ua.Aas.WoT`, plus `samples/Aas` and
`docs/Aas.md`.

**Enabling changes to existing code**, each needed by the above:

* The OPC UA `Decimal` DataType added to `Opc.Ua.Types`, with its Part 6
§5.1.10 wire encoding. `BinaryDecoder` gained one internal member,
`TryReadRemainingBodyBytes`, because a trailing field with no
self-describing length cannot otherwise be read; `Decimal.Decode` is its
only caller. Part 6 Table 3 types the unscaled `Value` as an
**OctetString whose byte count is `Length` − 2**, not a length-prefixed
`ByteString`, so it carries no length of its own —
`DecimalEncodingTests` pins the body byte-for-byte against that mistake,
and against the `Length ≤ 2` values the same table calls invalid.
* The xRegistry projection engine extracted into
`Opc.Ua.XRegistry.Server` and `Opc.Ua.WotCon.Server` migrated onto it
(−848/+387 lines), with the WoT Connectivity tests passing **unedited**.
* Two source-generator fixes, both of which made a model impossible to
build (see below).

## Defects found and fixed along the way

Running the stack end to end, rather than trusting per-area test suites,
surfaced defects that no unit test caught. The ones worth a maintainer's
attention:

* **The generator emitted non-terminating constructors.** A structure
field with no declared default was initialized with `new T()`, so a
self-referential DataType (`AASReferenceDataType.referredSemanticId`)
recursed until the stack overflowed and `AddOpcUaAas` could not load the
model at all. The test host *died* rather than failing. Only the field
that closes a cycle is now left null.
* **The generator omitted `new` on a redeclared placeholder.**
`AASOrderedSubmodelElementCollectionType` redeclares the
`SubmodelElement` slot of its base type, and the generated `Add` method
hid the base one without saying so, so the V2 model would not compile.
No existing model could have hit either defect — both are build
failures, so anything that builds today is unaffected.
* **The metamodel half had never worked outside its unit tests**: the
emitted NodeSet declared no reference-type aliases and was rejected by
the loader; the Mandatory `Invoke` Method was never emitted, because a
NodeSet is imported as written rather than instantiated from its type;
the runtime bound at the authored namespace index instead of the one the
Server assigns; and `MethodDeclarationId` was addressed in the wrong
namespace. Every materializer test inspected the in-memory object graph,
which cannot see whether the graph is loadable — two tests now import it
exactly as `RuntimeNodeSetNodeManager` does.
* **The client could not see any Property member.** It browsed
`HasComponent` with subtypes, but `HasProperty` is a sibling under
`Aggregates`, so reading a value failed and invoking failed argument
validation.
* **Every repeated registry write forked a duplicate group and
resource** instead of adding a version, because the identifier was
re-derived against a sibling set that already contained the entity
itself. This also made the persistence bounds unreachable.
* `.gitignore`'s `**/packages/*` silently swallowed the whole
package-integrity implementation and its tests, which would have
vanished on a fresh clone.

## Specification findings

Nine findings against the V3 draft are fixed in
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#75](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/75).
The substantive one: clause 6.1.5's absent-versus-empty rule was
**unsatisfiable** for five container fields that materialize as parent
components with no node of their own, which made `AAS-LosslessRoundTrip`
unachievable.

OPC 30270 contradicts itself twice. Both are recorded in
`AasV2ConformanceUnits.cs` and the documentation rather than smoothed
over: Table 83 spells the unit `I4AAS MultiLangaugeProperty` where Table
85 spells it correctly, and Table 85 lists an `I4AAS Security` unit that
Table 83 never defines. Table 84, which would assign profile URIs, is
empty, so `ServerProfileArray` gains no I4AAS entry.

## Known limitation

Calling an `Operation` **with arguments** answers `BadTooManyArguments`.
Method resolution works from both the instance NodeId and the
`MethodDeclarationId`, and the argument definitions are published, but
`NodeState.AddChild` does not route through `MethodState.FindChild`, so
a Method imported from a NodeSet leaves its typed `InputArguments` null.
Closing this means changing how the shared NodeSet import claims typed
children, which affects every consumer of runtime NodeSets and is out of
scope here. It is documented in `docs/Aas.md` §11, the conformance
matrix marks `AAS-OperationInvoke` partial rather than claiming it, and
`samples/Aas` exercises the path and reports the status rather than
working around it. V2 is unaffected — its `Operation` is an
OptionalPlaceholder with no declared arguments.

## Related Issues

- No tracking issue yet. Opening as a **draft** for design discussion
first, per the ADR guidance below; happy to open one and link it once
the shape is agreed.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

### Verification

| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| AAS tests | **670 passed, 0 failed** on net472, net48, net8.0, net9.0,
net10.0 |
| Coverage | Client 80.8 %, Server 81.2 %, `Opc.Ua.Aas` 82.0 %, WoT 82.4
% — all above the 80 % gate |
| Libraries | `Opc.Ua.Aas`, `.Server`, `.Client`, `.WoT` build clean on
every target framework, zero warnings |
| Regression | `Opc.Ua.Types` 8677, `Opc.Ua.WotCon` 1094,
`Opc.Ua.XRegistry` 198, `Opc.Ua.Server` 4050 — all green |
| Sample | `samples/Aas` builds warning-free and runs end to end |
| Merge validation | Solution builds clean on net10.0 and net48; WoT
Types 504, WotCon 1111, AAS 670, XRegistry 198 tests passed |
| CI | All 99 checks green on `ff9298e44`; only the CLA signature status
is outstanding |

### Review pass

A full review against both specifications, and for API consistency and
correctness, produced twelve
fixes. Each one has a test that fails without it.

| Defect | Where | Why it mattered |
|---|---|---|
| V2 projection aborted on **every** `File` read from a document |
`AasV2EnvironmentRuntime` | The runtime bound `File/Value`
unconditionally, the materializer emitted it only with content, and the
builder throws `BadNotFound` for an unknown NodeId — aborting the whole
registration. No reader ever populates `AasFile.File`, so no AAS V2
document could be hosted at all. |
| `aas-suppl` anchored on the wrong part | `AasxPackageReaderCore`,
`AasxPackageWriter` | IDTA and the Package Explorer anchor it on the
environment part; we used the origin part. Every real `.aasx` returned
zero supplementary files, silently. Affects both halves. |
| Federation failed closed on pooled connections | `AasFederation` |
`ConnectCallback` fires only for new connections, so the second fetch to
an origin — and all of net472/net48/netstandard2.1 — failed with a
security-flavoured error. The peer is now validated *inside* the
callback, which makes reuse safe by construction. |
| Malformed `Decimal` escaped as `ArgumentOutOfRangeException` |
`BinaryDecoder` | A declared body shorter than `Scale` produced a
negative read length. Two of the three test cases had been passing for
the wrong reason. |
| V2 and V3 cross-wired their value providers |
`OpcUaAasServerBuilderExtensions` | Both registered `IAasValueProvider`;
whichever was added first served both AddressSpaces. V2 now has its own
contract, so co-hosting is harmless rather than silently wrong.
`EnvironmentFolder` was also bound and ignored on the V2 path. |
| Export filter skipped three nesting kinds | `AasEnvironmentExporter` |
Content under `Entity`, `AnnotatedRelationshipElement` and `Operation`
was exported unevaluated *and* stamped with a Digest presenting it as
complete (clause 6.5.10). List authorization paths also shifted after a
denial. |
| Concealment held at the Method but not in the projection |
`AasRegistryModel` | `GetSubmodel` answered `BadNotFound` while an
anonymous Browse revealed the node, its identifier, semanticId and
digest (clause 6.5.7). |
| File handles were unsynchronized and unowned | `AasElementFileManager`
| The async node manager holds no lock, so concurrent Calls raced a bare
`Dictionary`; sequential handles let any Session read, seek or commit
another's. Writes were also unbounded. |
| Projection host was unimplementable outside the stack |
`AasEnvironmentProjection` | The handle demanded a type with an internal
constructor — our own tests used
`FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject` to get round it. Now mirrors
WotCon's interface-typed registration. |
| Embedded `FileType` omitted 7 of 10 Mandatory members |
`AasEnvironmentMaterializer` (V2) | OPC 10000-3 6.4.4 requires them all;
without `Size` and `OpenCount` a Client cannot size a read or detect an
abandoned handle. |
| Round-trip oracle ignored most of the model | `AasRoundTripComparer` |
`Blob`, `File`, `ReferenceElement` and `BasicEventElement` had no case
arm, so their fields compared equal by falling off the switch;
`valueType`, `semanticId`, `entityType` and `Key.type` were never read.
The clause 6.4 losslessness claim rested on it. |

Known, unchanged: calling an `Operation` with arguments answers
`BadTooManyArguments`, because
`NodeState.AddChild` does not route through `MethodState.FindChild`.
Documented in `docs/Aas.md` §11.

Not addressed in this pass, and worth a maintainer decision: OPC 30270
§9.2 says all NodeIds of
Nodes not defined in the companion specification **shall not** use the
standard namespaces, and
Table 87 marks a vendor-specific instance namespace Mandatory. Both
halves currently mint instances
in the companion namespace. Separating them touches NodeId minting, the
runtime and the client
together, so it is better done deliberately than folded into a review
pass.
This is a large change and touches shared code (`Opc.Ua.Types`, the
source generator, the xRegistry projection). It is deliberately a draft:
the enabling changes are separable if maintainers would prefer them
split into their own PRs. The latest `master` is merged into this branch
in `0dd0ff0e1`.

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466c5cb982 Robot intent follow-ups: multi-controller executors, spec fixes, and an MCP tool library (#4195)
Follow-ups to #4165, plus the work that followed from re-checking this
branch against the specification. Everything started as a defect found
by review or by probing the running code; the specification is unchanged
except where noted.

The TLS certificate lifetime fix (#4196) and the OpenUSD work (#4198)
were both merged into this branch. #4196 has since landed on master, so
it no longer appears in this diff. #4198 was closed in favour of this PR
and its content is here.

The MCP trim/AOT work (#4228), the `DataGenerator` null `NodeId` fix
(#4227) and the NodeSet external-parent import fix (#4229) have since
been merged in as well. All three are closed in favour of this PR and
their content is here, described under *Making the MCP libraries trim
and AOT clean*, *A generator that returned the value you opted out of*
and *A NodeSet parent that lived outside the import batch* below.

## A two-arm cell could not be built

`IntentExecution` carried no controller identity, and there was
effectively one `IIntentExecutor` per server. An executor handed an
execution therefore could not tell **which arm** it was for, so a cell
with two `IntentControllerType` instances — an ordinary configuration —
was not expressible through the builder or DI.

Both halves are addressed:

- `IntentExecution` now carries `ControllerId` (`NodeId`, the OPC UA
identity) and `ControllerName`, so one shared executor can discriminate;
- DI gained per-controller registration —
`AddRobotIntentExecutor<TExecutor>(controllerBrowseName)` and an
instance overload — so two genuinely different executors can coexist.

Resolution order is `WithExecutor` → per-controller DI registration →
the single DI executor → a build-time throw. There is still **no silent
fallback** to a rejecting executor; that was a Critical defect fixed in
#4165 and it stays fixed. `IIntentExecutor` is unchanged, so this is
purely additive.

## Declarations that were quietly untrue

- **`Accepts<T>` silently discarded a redeclaration.** Declaring an
intent type twice — say to narrow `cancelSupported` on the second call —
kept the first, wider declaration and said nothing. That is the same
class of defect as the capability-honesty problems #4165 fixed
(`PauseSupported` declaring a pause the host could not perform;
`Aborting` degrading silently to `Buffered`). Identical redeclarations
remain idempotent; conflicting ones now throw `BadInvalidArgument`.
- **`RI-Interop-40010` assumed Annex B item 3 rather than checking it.**
It now requires exact set equality between the OPC 40010
`TaskProgramName` values and the Robot Intent `ProgramType.ProgramId`
values. Both sides are readable from the address space without
commanding the robot, which is what makes the requirement structural
under §12.1.

## Two things the specification requires that this did not do

Re-checking the implementation against the merged draft revision turned
up two genuine violations. Both are fixed, and the NodeSet is untouched
by either.

- **Every graphed mission reported `Failed` on success.**
`MissionRules.SelectTransition` returned `null` for two different
situations — a graph *terminus*, which is the normal success path, and a
branch point whose conditions all evaluated false — and the caller
collapsed both into `Failed`/`NoTransition`. A three-way result
(`Terminus` / `Selected` / `NoConditionMatched`) separates them, so a
mission that runs to its end now completes. The failure reason surfaces
through the inherited Part 10 result container rather than a new member.
- **Facet URIs were never published.** An upstream `may` became a
`shall` in the revision this branch adopts.
`RobotIntentConformanceUris.Facets` held 31 URIs with **zero**
production references — the set existed but nothing emitted it. The
published set is now derived from `RobotIntentFacetCalculator`, the same
authority that already computed `SupportedFacets`, rather than from a
second hand-maintained list that could drift; a reflection test pins the
two together.

## An easy client mistake

`RequestAuthorityAsync` returns a lease the caller must remember to
inspect. Forgetting makes every later submission fail with
`ControlNotOwned` for reasons that are invisible at the call site.
`RequireAuthorityAsync` throws instead, and names the current owner.
`RequestAuthorityAsync` is untouched — inspecting and branching is
legitimate.

## Letting an agent drive the robot

New `tools/Opc.Ua.Mcp.Robotics` gives a language model the intent API as
MCP tools: 36 across discovery, monitoring, direct control and missions,
behind a `Robotics` tool profile, composable into any MCP host exactly
as the existing OPC UA tool packages are. The `IntentViewerClient`
sample hosts them behind `--mcp` (stdio by default, HTTP when `--view`,
since MCP stdio and the in-process viewer would otherwise share stdout),
and the sample gained a pallet scene so an agent can pick and stack
parts and watch the result in the OpenUSD viewer. All the scene logic is
server-side — no viewer or connector changes.

Four gaps in the client API had to be filled first, since the tools are
a thin layer over it and could not have been written honestly without
them: `ReadStateAsync`, `ListOperationsAsync`/`ListMissionsAsync`,
controller-level
`CancelIntent`/`CancelAll`/`Pause`/`Resume`/`Retry`/`ReleaseControl`,
and `WaitForCompletionAsync`.

The tools refuse rather than paper over: a refusal from the server is
returned with its `IntentFailureEnum` and never retried, and command
authority is never acquired as a side effect of a tool call.

**One defect this surfaced:** `--profile robotics` shipped 36 tools that
could not do anything. Every robotics tool resolves a named OPC UA
session and only the connection tools can open one, so with no `Connect`
in the catalogue the whole profile failed. A test had pinned the defect
in place, asserting the profile did *not* contain `Connect` on the line
below the `diagnostics` assertion requiring it. Each package now
declares its own requirement in its registration extension rather than
the host special-casing it, so an application embedding
`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Robotics` directly gets a usable catalogue without
reproducing the host's pairing. `Full` still takes the connection tools
from the core package, so they are never registered twice. The
replacement test states the invariant — a profile exposing
session-scoped tools must expose the tools that open a session — rather
than the instance.

## Making the MCP libraries trim and AOT clean

*Merged from #4228.*

`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core` is now `IsAotCompatible` on `net10.0`, and the
reflection the analysers then reported is gone. Turning the analysers on
is the point: until now they were not running on these libraries at all
— including on the tool library this branch adds.

- **`OpcUaJsonHelper.Serialize`** went through `JsonSerializer` (IL2026
/ IL3050). The conversion helpers in that class already reduce every OPC
UA value to a closed set — `null`, the primitive scalars, `string`,
`Dictionary<string, object?>` and lists thereof — so the JSON is now
written directly with a `Utf8JsonWriter`.

Output is unchanged, and that is asserted rather than assumed:
`OpcUaJsonHelperTests.SerializeMatchesTheReflectionBasedSerializer`
compares the new writer byte for byte against `JsonSerializer` for every
shape the helpers emit, including all numeric widths, the
custom-formatted scalars, nested sequences and strings that force the
encoder to escape.

One deliberate contract change: arbitrary object graphs are no longer
accepted. Serializing them needs reflection, so `Serialize` now throws
`NotSupportedException` naming the type instead of silently stringifying
it. No call site in the repository passes anything outside the closed
set.

- **`McpSchemaFilters`** used `JsonSerializer.SerializeToElement` on a
`JsonObject`; it now parses the node's own text, which needs no
reflection.

`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Diagnostics` is deliberately **not** marked. It depends on
SharpPcap and on the reflective service-call dissection in
`Opc.Ua.Core.Diagnostics`, neither of which is trim safe — which is why
that package does not opt in either. Two improvements are kept
regardless: `PacketDecodeTools` serializes `DecodedServiceCall` through
a source-generated `JsonSerializerContext`, and
`PacketCaptureTools.ListInterfaces` now carries the
`RequiresUnreferencedCode` / `RequiresDynamicCode` annotations that
`NetworkInterfaceEnumerator.ListLocalInterfaces` already declares, so
the constraint is visible to callers instead of implicit. Nothing is
suppressed.

Marking an assembly `IsAotCompatible` only proves its own IL is clean;
it says nothing about whether the library still functions once
reflection is gone. So `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` references `Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core`
and exercises it with JSON reflection disabled, stating what is and is
not true today:

- tool **results** serialize without reflection — this would fail
outright if the `Utf8JsonWriter` change regressed;
- tool **registration** still requires reflection, because the MCP SDK
builds each tool's input schema by asking `JsonSchemaExporter` for a
`JsonTypeInfo` of every parameter type. Without a source-generated
context covering the tool signatures — and with the injected
`OpcUaSessionManager` being described rather than treated as a service —
that throws `NotSupportedException`.

The second test asserts the throw. It documents the remaining gap and
turns red the moment someone closes it, rather than leaving it to be
found in a published binary. The package README says the same thing in
prose.

**Two pre-existing issues this surfaced, both outside this PR:** pulling
`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Diagnostics` into an AOT publish reports `IL2046` / `IL3051`
on `NicCaptureSource.StartAsync`, which is annotated
`RequiresUnreferencedCode` / `RequiresDynamicCode` while the
`ICaptureSource.StartAsync` it implements is not, and `IL2075` on
`ServiceCallReassembler.GetCollectionCount` / `GetPropertyString`, which
call `Type.GetProperty` on the result of `GetType()`. Happy to file
these separately if useful.

## A generator that returned the value you opted out of

*Merged from #4227. Fixes #4226.*

`GetRandomNodeId(useBoundaryValues: false)` could still return
`NodeId.Null` — one of the boundary values the same method offers when
boundary values *are* requested. A caller that opted out should not
receive one, and `GetRandomExpandedNodeId` builds on it and inherited
the same behaviour.

The `IdType.Opaque` branch is the practical path:
`GetRandomByteString()` draws its length with
`NextInt32(MaxStringLength)`, which is inclusive of zero, and a
zero-length opaque identifier in namespace 0 satisfies `NodeId.IsNull`.
With three namespaces and `MaxStringLength` at 10 that is roughly **one
call in 130**. A numeric identifier of `0` in namespace 0 is null too,
at around one in four billion.

The draw is now repeated while the result is null and boundary values
were not requested. Guarding the result rather than the individual
branches covers every identifier type, including the numeric case,
rather than only the one that happens to be reachable today. The
`useBoundaryValues: true` path is untouched, so boundary values remain
available when they are asked for.

Four tests in `tests/Opc.Ua.Core.Tests/Types/DataGeneratorTests.cs` loop
20,000 draws, because at one call in 130 a single draw proves nothing.
Against the **unmodified** generator they fail on draw 93 and draw 1346.
Two of the four exist to keep the fix honest rather than to test the
bug: `GetRandomNodeIdStillProducesEveryIdentifierType` catches a "fix"
that simply stopped emitting opaque identifiers, which would satisfy the
null assertions while silently narrowing the generator, and
`GetRandomNodeIdWithBoundaryValuesStillYieldsThem` confirms the leak was
closed rather than the feature removed.

**How it was found:** an intermittent downstream test failure. A test
server initialising a static `NodeId`-valued variable via
`TestDataSystem.ReadValue` occasionally stored `NodeId.Null`; the
encoder correctly writes that as JSON `null`, and a consumer asserting a
value was present failed about one run in five — never reproducibly in
isolation. It only surfaced under load because `UnsecureRandom.Shared`
is a fixed-seed, process-global generator shared between `DataGenerator`
and OPC UA transport jitter, so the number of draws preceding
address-space initialisation depends on what else is running in the
process.

## A NodeSet parent that lived outside the import batch

*Merged from #4229.*

`UANodeSetHelpers.LinkParentChildRelationships` builds its lookup table
from **only the nodes in the current import batch**, links a child when
the parent is found — and then cleared `instance.Handle`
**unconditionally**, which is exactly where `Import` had stashed the
authored `ParentNodeId`. A node whose parent lives in another NodeSet,
or is owned by another NodeManager, therefore lost that parent
**silently** at import, and nothing downstream could recover it.
`RuntimeNodeSetNodeManager.CreateAddressSpaceAsync` already has a step
that wires references to external node managers; the parent link never
reached it.

Such a parent is now recorded rather than discarded, and exposed through
`UANodeSet.TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId`. A parent that resolved
normally inside the batch is **not** recorded, so a caller does not
re-wire references that already exist. The record lives in a
`ConditionalWeakTable`, so it does not keep an imported node alive and
does not widen `NodeState` — whose `Handle` is a general-purpose slot a
caller may legitimately use for its own purposes, and so is not a safe
place to leave the value.

`RuntimeNodeSetNodeManager` consumes it to report the one case that
cannot be repaired automatically. In NodeSet2 the `ParentNodeId`
attribute is a *hint*; the authoritative edge is the entry under
`<References>`, which the reverse-reference pass already turns into an
external reference. A node that names an out-of-manager parent but
carries **no such Reference** materializes with no path from that
parent, and no ReferenceType can be inferred to synthesise one — so it
is reported as an authoring defect rather than guessed at or silently
accepted.

This is deliberately **not** a fix for a specific address-space symptom.
It removes a silent loss of authored information and gives callers the
means to act on it. Whether any particular orphaned-node report is
caused by this path, or by namespace-index translation elsewhere, still
needs separate diagnosis.

**Changed while merging.** As authored in #4229 the accessor was
`GetUnresolvedParentNodeId`, returning `NodeId?`. `NodeId` is a readonly
struct implementing `INullable`, so that was a `System.Nullable<NodeId>`
wrapped around a type that already carries its own null representation —
which this repository excludes in favour of an `IsNull` check, and it
asks for `TryGet` over casting on struct types. The tests
correspondingly asserted `Is.Null` against a struct, which the testing
rules also exclude. It is now `bool
TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId(NodeState, out NodeId)`, yielding
`NodeId.Null` when there is no unresolved parent. The API is unshipped —
it arrives with this branch — so nothing depended on the previous shape.
Both tests were re-verified by mutation after the rewrite: disabling the
record in `LinkParentChildRelationships` still fails
`ImportKeepsAParentThatIsNotInTheSameBatch`.

## Dependencies

- **OpenUSD to `0.7.0-alpha`.** All 11 issues we filed upstream are
fixed, so the workarounds they justified are gone and the parts of the
pump and generator samples that were blocked on them are implemented.
- **ModelContextProtocol to `2.1.0`** across all five MCP tool libraries
and the executable. No code changes were needed — the surface we use is
unchanged in 2.x — but central package management required a cascade of
pins, each commented where it sits. Both transports were verified
against a running server rather than assumed. MCP 2.x is stateless (no
`initialize`, no `Mcp-Session-Id`); an OPC UA session is application
state addressed by a caller-supplied name, which fits that model but
does assume process affinity, and that assumption is now written down
rather than implied.

## Infrastructure

The `code coverage` gate was measuring nothing on this branch and
reporting success. It is fixed and now enforced, which immediately
exposed real gaps — most usefully `RoboticsIntentJson`, which parses
agent-supplied JSON (untrusted input from a language model) and had no
tests at all. It is now at full line coverage in CI. Patch coverage is
**90.20%** against a 75% floor.

The `netstandard2.1` build leg was also failing. The MCP projects build
as empty shells under a legacy `CustomTestTarget`, and the viewer sample
referenced them on the target framework alone, so it tried to resolve a
net10.0 shell from net8.0. The sample now derives MCP support from
whether those projects are actually being built.

## From review

A review pass over the branch found two real defects, both fixed.
`RoboticsIntentJson` parses JSON written by a language model, so every
malformed shape it can be handed is reachable input; it indexed pose
arrays without checking their length and enumerated properties without
checking their kind, so a short or wrongly-typed array escaped as
`IndexOutOfRangeException` or `InvalidOperationException` rather than
the argument error the tool descriptions promise the agent. Separately,
`IntentOperationHandle` treated a zero `QueuePosition` as "not observed"
and discarded it, so a handle kept reporting the last queued position
after the server had said the operation left the queue.

The pose validation immediately caught a latent test defect: the pallet
scenario interpolated doubles into JSON with the current culture, so
under a comma-decimal culture `[0.12, 0.16, 0.28]` became a six-element
array. It passed only because that submission is expected to be refused
for want of authority, so the wrong coordinates were never used.

A third review finding — that a default-constructed
`RobotIntentControllerState` hands out a null `NodeId` — was checked and
rejected: `NodeId`, `QualifiedName` and `LocalizedText` are readonly
structs here, so `default` is the null value and `IsNull` is `true`. The
tests asserting that invariant are kept.

A second review pass over the merged branch found two more, both fixed
and both about an error surfacing as the wrong kind of failure rather
than about a wrong result:

- **Malformed agent JSON did not arrive as an argument error.**
`RoboticsIntentJson` turns every *validation* failure into an
`ArgumentException` — a wrong root kind, a missing property, a short
pose array — but three `JsonDocument.Parse` calls and the NodeId parse
were unguarded. A syntax error escaped as `JsonException` and an
unparseable NodeId as `ServiceResultException`, which are the two shapes
a language model is most likely to produce. That is the same defect
class as the pose/kind checking above: a caller separating bad input
from a genuine fault had to know to catch three unrelated exception
types. Parsing now goes through one helper that reports a syntax error
as an `ArgumentException` naming the argument, keeping the
`JsonException` as the inner exception so the position is not lost, and
the NodeId goes through `NodeId.TryParse` rather than `Parse`,
collapsing its two failure modes into one.
`MalformedIntentJsonIsRejected` had asserted
`InstanceOf<JsonException>`, pinning the behaviour rather than the
intended contract; it now asserts `ArgumentException` like every
neighbouring test, and three tests cover the newly guarded paths.
- **`ConditionalWeakTable.Add` throws on a duplicate key.** Not
reachable today, but `TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId` documents `Handle`
as a general-purpose slot a caller may use for its own purposes — and a
caller doing exactly that before re-importing into the same collection
would take a hard throw from inside the import pipeline. Removing first
makes the most recent import win. `AddOrUpdate` would say this more
directly but does not exist on `netstandard2.0`.

## Deliberately not fixed here

`FastenIntentDataType.Joint` is refused when the Server exposes no OPC
40450/40451 model, and a client cannot discover that before calling.
That is **not fixable in this repository**: §5.4.2 makes `Joint` the
defining mechanism while §11.3 says the parameters otherwise stand
alone, and `IntentCapabilityDataType` declares capabilities at
intent-type granularity with no member-level mechanism anywhere in the
model. It is a specification gap, raised as S4 on
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#60](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/60)
rather than worked around with a bespoke mechanism the spec does not
define.

## Validation

`dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release` on the merged branch — **0 errors, 0
warnings**, with the AOT analysers now running over `Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core`.

| Suite (net10.0) | Tests |
|---|---|
| `Opc.Ua.Core.Tests` | 4247 (86 skipped) |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` | 540 |
| `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` | 909 |
| `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` | 419 |
| `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` — `RuntimeNodeSet` | 94 |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Intent.Tests` | 22 |
| `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` — `McpAotTests` | 3 |

0 failures. `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` rose from 409 to 419 with the
serializer-equivalence tests from #4228 and the malformed-JSON tests
from the second review pass, and `Opc.Ua.Core.Tests` covers the
`DataGenerator` tests from #4227 and the import tests from #4229.
`UANodeSetHelpers` also passes on **net48** (5/5). The MCP
agent-usability grader scores Core 100 / Full 100.

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Marc Schier 0612a43fe4 Pluggable cryptography and hardware-held private keys (#4192)
Makes the stack's cryptographic operations replaceable - by another library, an offboard service, or hardware (TPM 2.0 / HSM / PKCS#11 token / cloud KMS) - with no performance cost in the default configuration, and extends this to certificates so a private key need never exist in process memory.

Also fixes three pre-existing defects found while validating: STACKGEN001 erroring for every compilation the stack generator was merely loaded into, certificates failing to load from paths past MAX_PATH on Windows, and the MonitoredNode2 tests starving the thread pool.

Fixes #4190
2026-08-09 12:40:26 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot 2b44fcad22 Robot intent: a task-level command API with a Part 10 lifecycle (#4165)
# Description

Implement the draft **OPC UA — Robot Intent** companion model end to
end: task-level motion verbs, a Part 10 lifecycle, a server hosting
surface, a client, two samples and a live integration suite. It replaces
the opt-in convention API merged in #4127 with an implementation
generated from a companion information model.

## Why

OPC 40010-1 *Robotics* describes robot **topology** in detail and
defines **no motion verbs at all** — its entire actuation surface is
`Start`, `Stop` and loading a named program. A conformant client can
discover everything about a robot's construction and cannot ask it to
move anywhere. #4127 filled that gap with ten verbs in an
application-owned namespace, resolved by BrowseName, and the file said
what it was: *"opt-in, explicitly non-normative industrial operation
conventions"*.

That contribution established a **vocabulary**. It established no
**lifecycle**, and the lifecycle is the harder half.

A motion takes seconds; a pick takes a minute. OPC 10000-4 §5.12.2
discards a method result when the Session ends *"independent of the task
actually performed at the Server"* — so a synchronous motion method does
not merely time out, it **loses the outcome of work that has already
physically happened**. OPC 10000-10 §4.1 gives the OPC Foundation's own
resolution: a Method performs a calculation, a **Program** runs a batch
process or a machine tool part program.

So `SubmitIntent` returns as soon as the intent is *admitted*, and what
it returns is a NodeId — an `IntentOperationState` (a Part 10 program
instance) the client subscribes to for progress and reads for the
result.

## What changed

**Model and shared code** — `Opc.Ua.RobotIntent.NodeSet2.xml` is
source-generated in `Opc.Ua.Robotics`, so the enums, the polymorphic
intent structures, `IntentOperationState : ProgramStateMachineState`,
the method states and the typed clients derive from the model rather
than being hand-written. Its only `RequiredModel` is the base UA
namespace, so a server can adopt it without OPC 40010 or DI. `PoseMath`
implements the specification's Annex C conversion between its unit
quaternion and the core `ThreeDFrame` — including the `asin` clamp that
stops a pole orientation becoming a domain error, and the
non-negative-`w` representative that makes two servers agree on four
numbers. `FrameTree` composes transforms along the frame tree.

**Verbs are a DataType hierarchy, not one Method each.** A single
submission and a mission step are then the same shape, and a new intent
is a subtype rather than a new method — which is what
`AddOperation<TRequest,TResponse>` was working around.

**Server** — `IntentControllerHost` owns admission in the
specification's order, the queue with PLCopen buffer modes, blending,
cancellation *with the server's right to refuse*, missions with a
committed base and a revisable horizon plus an IEC 61131-3 step graph,
safety-aware refusals, real-time channel brokerage, and the capability
declaration. All thirteen Methods are wired; command authority and
channel leases are released when the holding Session closes; every
client-supplied NodeId is validated against the controller being
commanded (clause 11.3). `RobotIntentNodeManager`, the fluent
`IIntentControllerBuilder` and `AddRobotIntent`/`ConfigureRobotIntent`
make it reachable, and `RobotIntentFacetCalculator` computes which of
the specification's facets an instance actually satisfies.

**Client** — `RobotIntentClient` discovers
`Server/RobotIntent/Controllers` and reads what a robot accepts;
`IntentOperationHandle` subscribes and completes on a terminal state,
recovering the result after a reconnect because clause 6.7 promises it
survives; `CommandAuthorityLease` and `RealTimeChannelLease` manage the
two exclusive resources; fluent builders cover every intent and mission.

**Samples** — all robotics samples move under `samples/Robotics/`.
`IntentEnabledRobot` is one UR5e-style offset-wrist arm on a bench,
declared completely enough to show what a conformant server publishes,
with a simulated safety source so the clause 10.4 refusals are
demonstrable. `IntentViewerClient` turns a **click on a target prim in
the OpenUSD viewport** into an intent and watches the arm execute it; it
also runs headless, which is how CI exercises it.

**Intents execute serially**, which satisfies every `BlockingMode`
constraint by construction: the specification forbids beginning a
`Single` or `Hard` intent while another executes and merely *permits*
`None` and `Soft` to overlap.

The convention API (`RoboticsOperationConventions`,
`RoboticsOperationsBuilders`, `RoboticsOperationsClient`) is removed.

### On safety — what this deliberately does *not* claim

The interface is **non-safety-rated**, and that is a property of the
technology rather than a scoping choice. OPC 10000-15 carries cyclic
safety data from a SafetyProvider to a SafetyConsumer; the consumer's
`RequestSPDU` holds an identifier, a monitoring number and one octet of
explicitly **non-safety** flags, so a caller has no channel through
which to supply safety-rated arguments. Every safety fieldbus
(PROFIsafe, CIP Safety, FSoE, openSAFETY) expresses a safety command as
a **continuously asserted cyclic signal**, because the integrity
argument rests on the fail-safe state that follows when assertion
*stops* — and a Method call has no defined behaviour when it stops being
called.

What the host does instead is **observe and refuse**:
`UpdateSafetyState` is how the application reports what the safety
system is enforcing, and admission then refuses on the same values a
client can read, so a refusal is explainable from the address space
rather than from Server-internal state. It may never *instruct* the
safety system, and no Method here commands a safe motion function,
changes an operational mode or clears a stop.

## Defects this found in the specification, fixed upstream

Implementing a specification is the only way to find out whether it can
be implemented. Seven defects went back to
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#47](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)
rather than being worked around here:

- **Refusal was unobservable.** Clause 6.2 orders six distinct refusals
and clause 5.8 calls the failure set "small and diagnosable on purpose"
— but `SubmitIntent` returned only `IntentId` and `Operation`, so a
client could see *that* something was refused and never *which*. It now
returns `Accepted`, `Failure` and `Message`, and clause 6.2 states that
a refusal returns `Good` rather than substituting a Bad `StatusCode`.
- **The Part 10 promotion was illegal.**
`IntentOperationType.ProgramDiagnostic` was declared as a Property of
`PropertyType`; OPC 10000-10 declares it a Variable of
`ProgramDiagnostic2Type` reached by `HasComponent`. The declaration
added a *second* member beside the inherited one instead of promoting it
— which is precisely why an earlier version of this branch had deleted
it. Correcting the TypeDefinition made it generate cleanly with **no
change to the curated Core**.
- **Clause 9 said nothing about the Method surface.** A server could
declare `MissionsSupported` true and omit `SubmitMission` entirely,
because the mission and channel Methods are Optional. This
implementation did exactly that until an integration test caught it. A
fourth honesty rule and a table now fix which Methods each declaration
implies.
- **Conformance was not machine-readable, and two implementations
disagreed.** Clause 12 defined conformance in terms of facets and gave a
Server nowhere to publish which ones it satisfied, so every client had
to re-derive Table 12.2 from the address space. This repository proved
why that fails: the server''s `RobotIntentFacetCalculator` and the
client''s `RobotIntentRules.DeriveFacets` each implemented clause 12.2
independently and **disagreed on essentially every row** — the client''s
`Blending` was `BlendingSupported` alone where the server also requires
all four blending buffer modes, its `QueuedIntents` was `MaxQueueDepth >
0` where the server also requires `Buffered`. A client and server from
the same release answered "does this controller conform?" differently,
and both were reading the specification correctly, because several rows
are behavioural and no amount of browsing settles them.
`IntentCapabilitiesType` now carries **`SupportedFacets`**, exactly as
OPC 10000-5 does with `ServerCapabilitiesType.ServerProfileArray`,
RI-Base requires it, and clause 12.2 separates structural requirements a
Server shall meet before listing a facet from attested ones governed by
clause 9.
- `WaitIntentDataType.Signal` was unbounded where clause 11.3 has to
check it; §11.3 gained a table fixing the expected type of every
NodeId-valued member; §5.7.0 gave `Ready`/`ActiveIntent`/`ActiveMission`
normative meaning; §6.9 bounded `RequestedLease`; §6.5 and §6.4 now say
what a server that cannot differentiate `StopMode` must do, and which
stop a superseded intent gets.

## Bugs the tests and reviews caught

Each of these would have been silent in the field:

- **The execution engine was never wired into the public API.**
`IntentControllerBuilder.RegisterAsync` built the address space and
never started an `IntentControllerHost`, so through the documented
`AddRobotIntent` → `ConfigureRobotIntent` path **every Method returned
`BadNotImplemented`** and the registered `IIntentExecutor` was never
resolved. A browsable address space is not a working robot interface,
and only a live integration test showed the difference.
- **NodeId scoping failed open on an empty index.** A controller
advertising `CallProgramIntentDataType` with no published `ProgramType`
accepted an *arbitrary* NodeId as `CallProgram.Program` — and
`CallProgram` runs code the server holds.
- **Blending completed the predecessor at submission time** and
abandoned its motion, telling the client it succeeded and publishing an
all-zero pose at the origin as a genuine `AchievedPose`.
- **Mission base immutability compared only identifiers**, so a client
could keep the ids and swap the *motion* of an already-committed step.
- **`FinalResultData/Result` was never registered** with the node
manager: Browse showed it, Read returned `BadNodeIdUnknown` — so clause
6.7's promise to a Part 10 client did not hold.
- `DisposeAsync` disposed primitives out from under in-flight executor
code; re-using a terminated `IntentId` destroyed the retained result and
duplicated a NodeId; neither side registered the Robot Intent
encodeables, so `Pose3DDataType` did not decode; host startup was hooked
to a task that ran in only one hosting shape.
- The result was published **after** the state went terminal;
capabilities were resolved against a stale namespace table; an empty
`ContentFilter` arrives as an empty element array rather than a null
filter, so testing only for null made every unconditional mission
transition silently untaken — a mission would run its first step and
stop.

### Found by a later test-quality audit, after the above was written

An audit of the test suite itself found five tests whose **names**
asserted a normative requirement while their **code** asserted something
weaker or nothing at all. The worst **fabricated the answer it
checked**: a helper caught a decode failure and invented "5 supported
intents, 6 axes, all facets true", so six capability-honesty assertions
across four tests could pass while reading nothing from the server. The
fallback is gone and the suite passes with honest reads.

Chasing the facet gaps it reported led to the clause 12 defect above.
Two further defects followed from completing that work:

- **`RI-Interop-40010` was never computed**, and the code documented the
omission as impossible to fix "because the calculator receives only a
Robot Intent controller, not the linked OPC 40010 model". That was
wrong: Annex B's structural requirement is an **inverse**
`HasIntentController` reference, reachable from `IntentControllerState`
— and the integration suite was already browsing exactly that. A server
implementing Annex B could not claim Annex B.
- **The published claim could go stale.** `SupportedFacets` was a
snapshot taken during `RegisterAsync`, so a reference attached
afterwards left it wrong. It is now bound through `BindRead` and
recomputed on read, so the claim tracks the address space by
construction rather than by discipline — which matters for anyone
bolting Robot Intent onto an existing OPC 40010 node manager, where the
attach ordering is often not theirs to choose.

Two tests that **could not fail** were also replaced: one asserted
`AccessLevel` equals `CurrentRead` to pin a read-only marking, but
`BaseVariableState` initialises every variable to exactly that, so
deleting the marking left it green; it is now a write expecting
`BadNotWritable`, including a real OPC UA `Write` service call over a
live session.

Finally, a build break that a plain build hides: `RoboticsAotTests` used
`out string?` in a project declaring `<Nullable>disable</Nullable>`.
Building the project **without** `-f` suppresses `CS8632` through
`NoWarn=nullable` and succeeds; building it **with** `-f net10.0`
resolves `NoWarn` differently, `CS8632` fires, and
`TreatWarningsAsErrors` makes it an error. CI builds per-TFM, so this
would have failed there while passing every local build to that point.

## Testing and coverage

| | |
|---|---|
| `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` | **0 errors, 2 warnings** — both
pre-existing `CA1861` in `tests/Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests`, a file this PR does
not touch |
| **Whole `UA.slnx` test suite, net10.0** | **50 of 52 assemblies fully
green** (measured at `40d9cf213`, before the `master` merge; the other
two are explained below) |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` | **467** net10.0, **447** net48 |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Intent.Tests` (live client <-> server) | **20** on
net10.0 and net48, run repeatedly |
| `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` | **904** after merging `master` (664 before;
the rest arrive with #4160 / #4162 / #4180) |
| `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` | **121/121** |
| `Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` (regression from the sample move) | **364/365**, one
pre-existing skip |
| **Changed-line coverage** | **90.7 %**, no file below 80 % —
comfortably above the enforced band, which after #4158 applies only to
patches larger than 100 changed lines |

The two non-green assemblies are **not** caused by this branch. Rather
than assert that, I ran the same selections at the merge-base
`ae241b662` on the same machine:

-
`ServiceCallReassemblerTests.PrivateRequestSummaryFormatsKnownRequestKinds`
expects `12.5` and gets `12,5` — a culture-sensitive assertion failing
on a European locale. Fails 4/4 on **both** commits.
-
`CertRotationLiveTests.L2Cert2RotateCertificateDuringServerRestartRecoversSharedChannelAsync`
fails on a teardown count. Fails 4/4 on **both** commits.
- A third failure seen once, AOT `FindServersAsync` with
`BadSecureChannelClosed`, did not reproduce: 4/4 on retest and 121/121
in the final run. Environmental.

Two things are worth calling out because they would otherwise be
invisible:

- `tools/**` is **not** in the `coverage-thresholds.json` ignore list,
and no test project referenced the OpenUSD tools assemblies — so their
changed lines counted as uncovered and the real patch figure was 75 %,
exactly the blocking threshold. Rather than widening the ignore list,
the pure decisions in the viewport host (pointer-to-physical-pixel
conversion, `RenderPickRequest` construction, stale-retry, backend
discovery, pick-mode selection) were separated from the Avalonia/native
shell and tested headless against a fake picking backend.
- `dotnet build UA.slnx` **hides warnings on unchanged projects**; only
`-t:Rebuild` surfaces them. That is how a `CA2263` introduced by a net48
portability fix survived several "zero warning" builds.

The multi-target requirement earned its keep repeatedly: it caught a
default interface implementation, `ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull`,
`string.Create` with an interpolated handler,
`ValueTask.FromResult`/`CompletedTask`, `Task.WaitAsync`, generic
`Enum.GetValues` and generic `Enum.IsDefined`, and a non-generic
`TaskCompletionSource` — none of which the net10.0 build complained
about. A net10.0-**only** hang in the simulated executor and two
load-sensitive flaky tests were also found and fixed at the cause.

### Merged with `master`

`master` (through `e73e71184`) is merged in as `08205d81d`. Four
conflicts, all where the two branches touched the same robot and OpenUSD
surfaces, and none resolved by dropping a side:

- #4162 added six files to `samples/MinimalRobotServer/` while this
branch moved that directory to `samples/Robotics/MinimalRobotServer/`.
They are kept at the moved path, and `UA.slnx` takes the union of both
sides' new projects.
- #4160 replaced `object` with a `UsdValue` union and rewrote `Flatten`;
this branch had reformatted the same method and fixed a path in its doc
comment. Git produced a hybrid that did not compile. The resolution
keeps `master`'s `UsdValue` arm and `Flatten(UsdValue)` overload in this
branch's block-bodied form, with the path fix retained.
- `master` inserted `FindStageCamera` directly before two methods this
branch had relocated, so the merge duplicated `WriteStageUsda` and
`GetPrivateStateRoot`. Only `FindStageCamera` is genuinely new —
`master`'s diff shows the other two as unmodified context — so the
duplicates are dropped and this branch's `internal` versions kept,
including the `GetPrivateStateRoot(string?)` overload the connector
tests use to stay out of the real user profile.
- `master` moved the OpenUSD stack to `0.4.0-alpha`; this branch pins
`OpenUsd.Rendering` in the test project so the renderer-pick tests can
reach the picking backend. Left at `0.1.0-alpha` that pin is below what
the viewer now resolves transitively, which is `CS1705`. The pin follows
`master`.

CI was green on `baaf35e9` with **190 checks passing and none failing**,
across every build leg (net472 / net48 / netstandard2.0 / netstandard2.1
/ net8.0 / net9.0 / net10.0, Debug and Release) and the full test matrix
on Windows and Linux. Since then `master` has been merged twice more and
two CI-stability fixes landed (see below), so the current head is
re-running. Locally, `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` gives **0
errors** and the 2 pre-existing `CA1861` warnings; Robotics **467**
net10.0 / **447** net48, Robot Intent **20** on both, OpenUSD **904**,
AOT **121/121**, source generation **3771**.

### Review round

Five reviewers over disjoint areas found defects worth calling out, all
fixed in `3ffec2c1`:

- **A refused mission step was reported `Succeeded`.** The advance path
returned the same `false` for "steps exhausted" and "step refused", so a
protective stop between steps told a supervisory system the mission had
completed while the robot stood halted with work unexecuted.
- **Three attacker-controlled NodeIds reached the executor unvalidated**
— `Pick.Tool`, `Place.Tool`, `ToolChange.DockStation`. `DockStation`
drives a physical tool-exchange motion to a location the server never
authorised. The replacement test enumerates NodeId members by reflection
so the next one added cannot be missed.
- **A lock-order inversion that loses a stop.** `CanCancel` and the
mission condition evaluator ran under the host lock while the executor's
own thread re-entered it via `ReportBlendBegin`.
- **A non-terminal executor outcome killed the pump** from outside the
`try/catch` that exists because the executor is untrusted — `Ready`
stayed true and submissions kept being accepted while nothing moved.
- **`Pause` published `Suspended` while the robot kept moving.** Now
queue-only and honest about it; the specification gained the matching
rule ([opcua-drafts
`357a558`](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)).
- **`RI-RealTimeChannel` and `RI-Safety` were false claims** — granted
on an empty folder with no methods, and on the mere presence of a
Mandatory node.
- **The Part 10 promotions never promoted.** Namespace-1 BrowseNames
declared second members beside the inherited ones; the conformance test
could not see it because its lookup stripped the prefix. Fixed upstream
and regenerated.
- **Renderer picking never worked.** The reflective probe bound a
renderer that is not a picking backend and throws off its owner thread.
It now binds only `IRenderPickingBackend`, falls back immediately and
loudly, and the docs say plainly that renderer picking is unavailable
with this package version.
- **The client lost command authority the instant it gained it** —
monitored items report the current value first, and the lease treated
every notification as a loss.

### CI stability fixes for master-side failures

The CI split in #4158 turned on legs that had never run, and two of the
failures they exposed were real bugs on `master` rather than anything
this branch introduced. Both are fixed here because they were blocking
every branch:

- **ECC key generation was broken on macOS.** `ExportExplicitParameters`
throws `PlatformNotSupportedException` there — Apple's
SecurityTransforms supports named curves only — and it was called for
exactly one value, the curve order `n`. The four curves OPC 10000-12
admits have published orders, so those are carried directly, with
`CurveOrderTableMatchesThePlatform` checking each against the platform's
own exported order wherever export works, so the constants cannot
silently drift. This accounts for the two ECC failures in
`test-macOS-latest-Server`.
- **The certificate-leak detector raced asynchronous disposal.** It
polled a fixed budget and reported whatever it saw, which cannot
distinguish a genuine leak (count steady) from a suite still draining
fire-and-forget disposals (count falling) — on a loaded agent that
produced `Certificate leak detected: 2 instance(s)` with every test
passing. It now waits for the count to **settle**, so a real leak is
reported sooner than before while a slow drain gets as long as it keeps
progressing. Shared by every suite that asserts no certificate leaks.

The remaining macOS failures on `master` (`Gds`, `Tools`,
`Redundancy.Samples`, `aot-macos`) have different root causes, are not
reproducible without a macOS host, and are **not** addressed here.

### Merged with `master` again

`master` through `416d619c4` (#4158, the CI matrix split and graduated
coverage bands) is merged in as `08ae4528`. One conflict, in
`docs/DeveloperGuide.md`, where both sides had deliberately rewritten
the coverage-gate section:

- `master`'s rewrite is kept in full — graduated `patch.bands`, Codecov
being informational-only, and where the numbers surface per CI system.
- This branch's paragraph about the `ignore` globs is kept too, re-sited
ahead of those subsections. I re-checked it against the merged
`coverage-thresholds.json` rather than assuming it still held: the list
is still `tests/**`, `samples/**`, `obj`, `bin`, `*.g.cs`, with
**`tools/**` absent** — so the warning that anything under `tools/` is
measured like product code, and that an assembly no test project
references contributes changed lines counted as *uncovered*, is still
accurate and worth keeping.
- `master`'s "reproduce a coverage failure locally" line supersedes this
branch's near-identical one, so only `master`'s survives.

Post-merge: `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` **0 errors**, 2
pre-existing `CA1861`; Robotics **467** net10.0 / **447** net48; Robot
Intent **20** on both.

### Getting CI green

The pipeline had never actually run on this branch until now (it was
waiting on the fork-PR approval gate), so the first run surfaced four
real problems, each fixed at source:

- **Seven build legs failed** because `IntentEnabledRobot` pins
`net10.0` for the OpenUSD payload but never opted into
`RestrictForLegacyTfm`. On the legacy legs the libraries build as
net472/net48, where `Opc.Ua.Types` exposes the `System.Threading.Lock`
polyfill publicly, and that collides with the sample's own net10.0 BCL
(`CS0433`). `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Connector.Viewer` was already using the
opt-out for the same reason.
- **A Linux-only test failure** turned out to be a real defect, not a
platform quirk: `SetPose` published the *commanded* interpolated pose
beside joint frames derived from the *solved* joints, so the two
disagreed by the inverse-kinematics residual — about 8 mm, constant
after any real motion. That is the lying-digital-twin defect one level
deeper than the per-step IK fix reached. `SetPose` now derives both from
the joint angles.
- **Three source-generator tests** asserted the old emitted shape. The
clause 6.2 Null-Variant fix was implemented in
`ObjectTypeProxyGenerator` so every generated proxy benefits, which
changed that shape; the tests are updated and strengthened to pin the
`IsNull` branch as well.
- **A CI-only timeout** in the simulated arm drain: the executor runs on
a manual clock so the tests do not depend on machine speed, but the
drain guarded itself with a wall-clock deadline, which put that
dependence back. CI runs with coverage instrumentation, which is enough
to take a per-step IK probe from ~0.6 s to over 5 s. The guard is now a
simulated step budget.

One failure was **not** from this PR and did not recur: a Roslyn
`AccessViolationException` compiling `Opc.Ua.ISA95` on one leg, while
the Debug leg of the same target passed on identical code and the
Release build succeeds locally.

## Related Issues

- Relates to #3827 — the request that prompted the robotics intent work.
- Builds on #4127.

The companion specification is drafted in the open at
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#47](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)
(`metaverse-specs/robot-intent/`), with the prior art and the reasoning
behind each decision in the research document beside it. **Nothing in it
is normative or endorsed by the OPC Foundation, and its NodeIds and
namespace URI are provisional** — which is the main reason this is a
draft.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

On the test checkbox, precisely: the whole `UA.slnx` suite now runs on
net10.0 with **50 of 52 assemblies fully green**, and
`Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` passes on **all five** target frameworks
including net472, net8.0 and net9.0 which had never previously been
exercised. The two remaining failures are reproduced identically at the
merge-base and are detailed above, so I have ticked the box; if you
would rather it stayed unticked until those two are green, say so and I
will revert it.

## Points I would most like feedback on

1. **The namespace and NodeIds are provisional.** They come from a draft
specification, not from the OPC Foundation. If this lands before the
model is registered, the identifiers will move.
2. **The model lives in `Opc.Ua.Robotics`.** It is standalone on the
base UA namespace and takes no dependency on OPC 40010, so a separate
`Opc.Ua.RobotIntent` package would arguably be cleaner. Keeping it here
was a deliberate call — this is where the robot-facing API already is —
but it is the easiest thing to change now and the hardest later.
3. **Removing the convention API from #4127 is a breaking change** for
anyone who adopted it. It was explicitly marked non-normative, so I have
assumed that is acceptable — please say if a deprecation period is
wanted instead.
4. **Serial execution** is a deliberate simplification. Concurrent
`None`/`Soft` intents would be an optimisation, not a correction, but it
is worth agreeing that reading.
5. **`samples/Robotics/` reorganisation** moves `MinimalRobotServer`.
Happy to split that into its own commit if it makes review easier.

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Marc SchierandCopilot ca89ac85a7 Add a Generators companion-spec sample and compose servers at a site level (#4180)
# Description

Adds a **Generators companion-specification sample** alongside the
existing pump sample, and a **`SiteCompositionServer`** that composes
several device servers into one OpenUSD scene at a supervisory level —
demonstrating that servers can be aggregated without mirroring their
address spaces.

Three things, in dependency order:

### 1. `GeneratorServer`

A self-contained server realising the draft Generators spec
(`http://opcfoundation.org/UA/Generators/`) end to end: N simulated
generating sets, DI + Machinery integration, a twelve-state operating
state machine, four protection alarms per set, six control methods, and
a per-set OpenUSD twin.

The organising idea is that **load fraction is the only independent
variable**. Everything else is a function of it:

```
V̇_f(x) = 3.67 + 100·x                fuel rate      [L/h]
η(x)   = P(x) / (V̇_f(x) · ρ · LHV)   efficiency
S = P / PF     I = S / (√3·V_LL)     f = N·p / 120
```

This is not stylistic. When each measurement is an independent
oscillator — as the pump sample's simulation once was — a server happily
publishes a duty point no real machine could occupy, and no test can
catch it because there is nothing for the values to be inconsistent
*with*. Deriving them from one variable means `P = √3·V·I·PF` and `η =
P/(V̇·ρ·LHV)` hold at every tick by construction. The published
`DATASHEET.md`, the engineering ranges, the trip points and the
simulation all read the same constants in `GeneratorDatasheet.cs`, so
the document and the server cannot describe different machines.

The machine is a fictitious **SimGen Systems GenX-500** (400 kW prime /
440 kW standby, 400/230 V, 50 Hz, four-pole). Figures are representative
of a real industrial genset class; no vendor is named anywhere in the
code or docs.

### 2. Cross-server composition in the connector

`RemoteSessionFactory` already existed in the client library but the
connector CLI never set it, so cross-server composition was unreachable.
`--federate` wires it up: the connector opens a session to each server
named by a component binding, discovers its representations and drives
its bindings into the same stage.

It is **opt-in** because the endpoint the connector dials comes from the
server being rendered rather than from the operator, which makes
honouring it a trust decision. Federation is best-effort per component —
a subordinate that is down is logged and skipped, and the rest of the
scene still renders — which is the only `src/` change in this PR.

### 3. `SiteCompositionServer`

Owns no devices. It publishes a site stage plus one cross-server
component binding per subordinate, carrying that server's
`ComponentServerUri` and `ComponentEndpointUrl`. Nothing is mirrored, so
there is no cache to invalidate and no second copy of the truth.

## Notes for reviewers

**Everything interesting in this PR was found by running the servers,
not by reading the code.** Six defects, none of which looked wrong in
review:

- `IsShutdown` and `SubsystemName` are *optional* on
`GeneratorProtectionAlarmType`, so the generated factory does not
materialise them. `CreateOrReplace` alone produces a child that exists,
appears in `GetChildren` and holds the right value — but carries **no
`ReferenceTypeId`**, so no browse can reach it. Every alarm was
publishing its trip without saying whether the trip stops the machine or
which subsystem to go to. `AddXxx(context)` first is what gives the
child its `HasProperty` reference.
- **The protections could never fire.** Every trip point sits outside
the band the datasheet curves produce — that is what a datasheet *means*
— so all four alarms, the shutdown class, `ResetFaults` and the whole
`Fault` branch of the state machine were unreachable while the README
documented them as observable. Overload was worse: the load clamp
ceiling was set to exactly the trip point, making a
strictly-greater-than comparison unsatisfiable. Faults are now
injectable, and the first set — the one the hero camera frames —
develops one on a slow rotation.
- **A shutdown trip removes the condition that caused it**, because oil
pressure and coolant temperature are only supervised while the engine
turns. Each alarm went active for one tick and cleared, leaving an
operator with a stopped machine and no indication of why. Shutdown-class
alarms now latch until the set leaves the shutdown state. Every unit
test that checked the *condition* passed throughout — the defect only
appears when the trip and the supervision interact over time.
- **`Synchronizing` and `Paralleled` were declared, drawn in the README
and never entered.** The first set now energises a dead bus and closes
onto it while every other set synchronises to a live one — both how a
real plant parallels, and what makes the two states observable.
- **The tick raced client method calls.** The simulation tick runs on a
thread-pool thread while method calls arrive on request threads, and
both transition sets and write the same nodes. A tick moving a set to
`Cooldown` and a concurrent `EmergencyStop` could interleave the paired
`CurrentState` / `CurrentState.Id` writes and leave a client with a
state *name* from one transition and a state *node* from the other — the
exact failure the paired write exists to prevent, reintroduced by the
threading model. Both paths now take one gate.
- Low oil pressure supervised from raw speed **tripped every set during
cranking**, because pressure has not built yet. Now gated on
`IsSpinning`, which is what a real start-up bypass does.

Smaller fixes: shutdown trips are applied after the whole evaluation
pass (stopping mid-loop made the remaining conditions read healthy,
collapsing simultaneous trips to whichever came first in the table);
`ResetFaults` reports its clears as events (a client learns of condition
state changes only through events, so a silent clear leaves an
alarm-list client showing it forever); the start counter moved into the
transition so commanded starts are counted; the federated connector
closes the remote session if the connector constructor throws between
taking ownership and registering it; and `prepare_machinery_nodeset.py`
now *asserts* the IA namespace is last before removing it rather than
only claiming so in its docstring — removing any earlier entry would
silently renumber every namespace after it and rebind their NodeIds.

**A model limitation is left visible rather than papered over.**
`GeneratorStateMachineType` declares an emergency stop only out of
`Running`, `Loaded` and `Paralleled`, so the sample refuses
`EmergencyStop` from `Starting` and `Warmup`. A real panel stops from
anywhere. That is the specification's shape, not this sample's choice,
so it is pinned by a test and named in the docs.

**`Model/` vendors a reduced Machinery nodeset**, derived mechanically
by whitelist. The full official nodeset does not survive the model
source generator (`MODELGEN003`) and drags in IA through a single
optional `Stacklight` member a generating set does not have. Deriving it
by script keeps the provenance checkable; the whitelist is the only
thing to edit when more types are needed. **Never hand-edit the
generated output.**

**The federated scene renders end to end.** Getting there surfaced three
more defects, all of which produced a plausible-looking scene with
nothing in it: the generator sample's plant aggregation was created
under an already-registered `DeviceSet` and so was invisible to every
client (it had *never* rendered geometry, standalone or federated); the
connector's asset fetch ran on the primary session only, so composition
referenced layers that were never downloaded; and both generator colour
bindings wrote `primvars:displayColor` to prims that did not declare it,
so the renderer rejected every update while the file still looked
correct. Cross-server components compose under the subordinate's own
root, so the site layer now *places* `/Plant` and `/Powerhouse` rather
than leaving them stacked on the origin.

**`OpenUsdRepresentation` is now mounted with `HasAddIn`, not
`HasComponent`** (review feedback). The nodeset says so explicitly —
*"Mounted with HasAddIn"* — but every server in the tree used plain
`HasComponent`. It survived because `HasAddIn` is a *subtype* of
`HasComponent`: the representation still browses, still aggregates and
still drives a twin, so every functional test passed before the fix and
after it, and only a conformance checker could tell. Seven mount sites
corrected. `PumpDeviceIntegrationServer` and `MinimalRobotServer` had
hand-rolled the mount instead of calling the shared
`CreateRepresentation` helper, which is exactly how they drifted from
it. Both sample E2E suites now assert the reference type across
**every** discovered representation — a narrower check would have missed
the plant-level representation that arrived later from master still
carrying `HasComponent`.

**Live colour is not achievable in the current OpenUSD viewer, and that
is now documented rather than worked around.** Proven with a standalone
probe: `primvars:displayColor` resolves as `color3f[]` from the
`UsdGeomGprim` schema whatever the layer declares, and the `OpenUsd
0.4.0-alpha` managed API has no writer for that type. Bound
`UsdPreviewSurface` materials are not shaded either, so geometry renders
grey unless it also carries an explicit `displayColor` primvar. The
**visibility** bindings carry no such caveat and are what the samples
rely on to show state. Filed upstream as
[openusd-dotnet#2](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/2),
[#3](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/3) and
[#4](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/4), and linked
from `docs/OpenUsd.md` so a reader can check whether they have since
been fixed.

## Related Issues

No tracking issue — this is additive sample and documentation work with
a single small, self-contained change to `src/` (per-component error
isolation and session-ownership hardening in
`OpenUsdConnector.Composition.cs`). Happy to open one if maintainers
would prefer it tracked.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

### Testing

The generator fixtures live in `tests/Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests/Generator` —
**82 tests**, no new project. `Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` would have been the
natural home next to the pump fixtures, but both device samples
source-generate their own reduced `Opc.Ua.Machinery` model and expose it
via `InternalsVisibleTo`, so referencing both from one assembly makes
every Machinery type ambiguous (CS0433); `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests`
references no other sample and already hosts `RobotAssetContractTests`.
The suite runs **870** on net10.0 and net48 (784 existing + 86) and
**788** on net472, where the sample does not exist and only the
framework-independent asset-contract tests run — forgetting exactly that
exclusion broke CI on the sibling pump PR.

The tests target the things in this sample that fail *quietly*:

- **Datasheet conformance** holds the model to its own claim — rated
speed is `120·f/p`, rated current follows from the rating, the fuel
curve reproduces the published table, and `η = P/(V̇·ρ·LHV)` reconciles
at every load. Efficiency is swept across the whole simulated range to
show it stays inside (0,100) and rises monotonically; a fit that goes
negative somewhere in its range is a coincidence that happens to look
right at the duty point, not a model. A further test reads
`DATASHEET.md` and checks the document quotes the figures the server
actually serves.
- **Drift between the two descriptions of the state machine** — the
physics' `IsLegalTransition` and the model's `GeneratorStateMap` — is
checked in *both* directions. A transition the physics permits but the
map lacks moves a machine without telling a client; one the map holds
but the physics refuses is dead weight that looks supported.
- **Reachability at run time**, not just in the declared table — the
test that catches states the model declares and nothing ever enters.
- **That every protection can actually fire**, which is the half of the
alarm contract that "a healthy set annunciates nothing" does not cover.

A **hosted end-to-end fixture** connects a real client and asserts what
the address space actually exposes — the aggregation at
`/Powerhouse/Generators`, its component binding, and every per-set twin.
That is the only kind of test that catches the registration defect
above: the node object had the right browse name, binding and asset
reference, so every test that inspected objects passed while no client
could see it.

**Every state-machine and protection fix was checked by mutation.**
Restoring the clamp ceiling, the direct `Running → Loaded` path, the old
start-counter placement, or removing the alarm opt-in each makes the
corresponding test fail, naming the specific defect. A test that has
never been seen to fail has not been shown to work.

Verified against a running plant: `Synchronizing`, `Paralleled` and
`Fault` all observed on a two-set server, with
`HighCoolantTemperatureAlarm` seen active on the fault subject. Method
behaviour verified separately — per-set distinct `CurrentState` nodes,
`EmergencyStop` → `EmergencyStopped` with `Start` then refused as
`BadInvalidState`, `ResetFaults` → `Off`, `SetOperatingMode(9999)`
refused with the mode unchanged, and the other sets untouched
throughout. Also verified as a three-server federated stage.

0 warnings on a clean Release rebuild of both samples, the client
library, the connector and the tests, across every TFM.

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2026-08-07 10:48:02 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot e73e71184d [WotCon] Add OPC UA WoT Connectivity 1.1 with the Types, source generation, Server and xRegistry work it builds on (#4128)
## Summary

Adds OPC UA WoT Connectivity 1.1 to the stack, together with the Types,
source generation, Server and xRegistry work it is built on. This branch
is the merge point for the fourteen-PR stack that replaced integration
PR #4093; every constituent PR was reviewed and approved separately and
is listed below.

414 files changed, +108,936 / -3,199. Roughly 46k added lines of product
code, 57k of tests, plus samples, tools and documentation.

## Types

- Complete `ExtensionObject` raw-body decoding for binary, XML and JSON
bodies by resolving the concrete type through the message context's
encodeable factory, and simplify the `Variant` structure helpers by
delegating to it (#4128).
- Add `IAtomicFileReplace` as an optional `IFileSystem` capability so
existing external implementations keep working, with atomic publish for
`LocalFileSystem` via `File.Replace`/`File.Move` and for
`VirtualFileSystem` by re-keying the in-memory entry (#4128).
- Add lossless conversion between WoT documents and NodeSet2
(`Opc.Ua.Wot.WotNodeSetConverter`). A byte-exact `uav:nodeSet` envelope
is preserved when requested, the structured `uav:nodes` projection is
used when the readable vocabulary is incomplete, and NodeSet2 is
otherwise synthesized from readable WoT terms. Unmapped JSON members
survive a round trip as pointer-addressed residue (#4131).

## Source generation

- Improve the NodeSet to ModelDesign conversion and the generated node
state (#4132).
- Generate OPC UA models directly from WoT Thing Description files
(#4134).

## Server

- Add live NodeManager shadow and immediate reload. A reload
materializes a new generation beside the active one and switches
atomically; the superseded generation is retired gracefully so existing
MonitoredItems keep being served until they drain, or immediately when
the caller asks for it. Includes the request admission and drain
machinery that lets an orderly shutdown wait for admitted requests
instead of tearing down underneath them (#4147).
- Make subscription transfer between sessions transactional, so a failed
transfer leaves neither session holding a partially moved subscription
(#4150).

## xRegistry

- Allow clients to use explicit registry roots rather than assuming a
well-known location (#4130).

## WoT Connectivity

- Add the WoT Connectivity 1.1 information model: a registry-first
revision layered on the abstract xRegistry base model, incorporating the
complete published OPC 10100-1 v1.02 surface as deprecated nodes in the
same namespace so existing 1.02 clients keep working (#4139).
- Add the protocol binding abstractions and planners that compile WoT
forms into executable plans (#4140).
- Add the HTTP, Modbus, OPC UA and MQTT binding executors (#4144).
- Add the registry and its stores, including document versioning,
validation, dependency resolution and refresh (#4146).
- Add the registry client (#4142).
- Materialize WoT Thing Descriptions into the server address space,
deriving types from Thing Models and instances from Thing Descriptions
(#4154).
- Restore the WoT asset registry bridge so the deprecated 1.02 asset
surface is backed by the registry (#4171).
- Add the WoT Connectivity samples and complete the documentation
(#4156), and restore the remaining coverage and docs (#4172).

## New projects

`src/Opc.Ua.WotCon.Bindings`, `src/Opc.Ua.WotCon.Bindings.Mqtt`,
`tests/Opc.Ua.WotCon.Bindings.Tests`,
`tests/Opc.Ua.WotCon.Samples.Tests`, and the `samples/WotCon`
AggregationServer, AggregationClient and FlatTagServer samples.

## Constituent pull requests

Merged into this branch top-down, each independently approved:

| PR | Title |
| --- | --- |
| #4128 | [Types] Complete ExtensionObject decoding and add an atomic
file replace capability |
| #4131 | [Types] Add lossless conversion between WoT documents and
NodeSet2 |
| #4132 | [SourceGeneration] Improve NodeSet to ModelDesign conversion
and generated node state |
| #4134 | [SourceGeneration] Generate OPC UA models from WoT Thing
Description files |
| #4147 | [Server] Add live NodeManager shadow and immediate reload |
| #4150 | [Server] Make subscription transfer between sessions
transactional |
| #4130 | [XRegistry] Allow clients to use explicit registry roots |
| #4139 | [WotCon] Add the WoT Connectivity 1.1 information model |
| #4140 | [WotCon] Add the WoT protocol binding abstractions and
planners |
| #4144 | [WotCon] Add the HTTP, Modbus, OPC UA and MQTT binding
executors |
| #4146 | [WotCon] Add the WoT Connectivity registry and its stores |
| #4142 | [WotCon] Add the WoT Connectivity registry client |
| #4154 | [WotCon] Materialize WoT Thing Descriptions into the server
address space |
| #4156 | [WotCon] Add the WoT Connectivity samples and complete the
documentation |
| #4171 | Restore WoT asset registry bridge |
| #4172 | Restore WoT coverage and docs |

Supersedes #4093.

## Follow-up

The WoT Connectivity and WoT Binding drafts have moved to 1.1-draft2
since this work was authored. Aligning with that revision - the removed
group vocabulary, the new projection/View construct, the remaining model
vocabulary terms and the two new portable-identity validation rules - is
tracked separately and will follow in its own pull request.

## Validation

Built for every target framework with zero warnings and zero errors, and
validated at the tip of the stack with `Opc.Ua.WotCon.Tests` at 999
passed / 0 failed and `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` at 4024 passed / 0 failed.

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2026-08-05 10:14:15 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot ae241b6625 Robotics: the OPC 40010 companion SDK, its client and the robot sample (#4127)
**Stack 5/5** — base #4126. Part of the #4096 split; see #4096 for the
overall picture. Closes the API work for #3827.

> Review after #4123, #4124, #4125 and #4126. This branch is
content-identical to the original #4096 branch, so merging the stack
lands exactly what #4096 contained.

## The problem this solves

OPC 40010 1.02 defines a rich robot **topology** but **no motion verbs
at all** — its actuation surface is the SystemOperation and TaskControl
state machines plus a Controller `Programs` directory. Meanwhile
[URML](https://github.com/URML-MARS/URML) names OPC UA Robotics as its
canonical non-ROS substrate and asks for `MoveTo` / `Grasp` / `Release`
methods the companion spec does not define, so today it needs a
hand-maintained per-deployment NodeId mapping file.

This closes that gap in two clearly separated tiers, and never presents
the second as standard.

## Contents

**Server** — stock `RoboticsNodeManager`, ordered
`IRoboticsModelProvider` composition, `IRoboticsConfigurator`
code-behind, and validated fluent topology builders for systems,
controllers, motion devices, axes, power trains, motors, gears, drives,
safety states, software, task controls and task modules, with the
correct OPC 40010 semantic references.

**Standard operations** — `AddSystemOperation` and
`AddTaskControlOperation` drive the Part 16 state machines. An illegal
cause is rejected with `BadInvalidState` before the handler runs; a
handler returning a bad `ServiceResult` does not move the machine; and a
transition already in flight rejects a concurrent one rather than
letting both commit.

**Programs** — binds the optional `FileDirectoryType` through the
reusable `IFileDirectoryBinder` added in 1/5.

**Operation conventions** — opt-in and explicitly non-normative `MoveTo`
/ `MoveJ` / `MoveL` / `Grasp` / `Release` / `PickFrom` / `PlaceAt` /
`SwapTool` / `SetOutput` / `CallProgram`, created **only** in an
application-owned namespace — the OPC UA, DI, IA and Robotics namespaces
are rejected — plus a generic `AddOperation<TRequest, TResponse>`
extension point.

**Client** — `RoboticsClient` extends the DI client, is subtype aware
throughout, and provides typed topology snapshots, the standard
operation and task-control clients, `ProgramsAsync`, streaming
observation and a DI factory. Verbs resolve by BrowseName, so no NodeId
mapping file is needed.

**Sample** — `MinimalRobotServer` composes five models (Robotics, IA,
DI, OpenUSD, RSL/GPOS) purely through `IRoboticsModelProvider`
contributions, which is the real proof that the stock hosting is
sufficient. It follows the published KUKA KR 16-2 kinematics and axis
limits with an eased pick-and-place cycle.

Also restores the vendor-subtype scanner test held back from 2/5, which
uses the Robotics NodeSet as its fixture.

## Defects found and fixed along the way

- **`ControllerType.CurrentUser`** is Mandatory in OPC 40010 but was
neither built nor validated. Now has a builder and a validation error.
- **`MotionDeviceType.TaskControlReference`** was absent because it must
target a `TaskControlOperationType` instance that did not exist. Now
wired.

## Validation

`dotnet build UA.slnx` — 0 errors, 0 warnings.

| Suite | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests | 103 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests | 635 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Di.Tests | 342 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Tests | 94 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests (NativeAOT) | 120 / 0 |

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Copilot-Session: 8cbb8cd0-f0cb-4ab0-bea2-6202fbf69485
2026-08-01 07:55:58 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot ea0f266b66 Move build and test to the Azure DevOps managed pool and replace Codecov with an in-pipeline coverage gate (#4122)
# Description

Moves the all-target-framework build, the cross-platform test matrix and
the Native AoT run from GitHub Actions onto the Azure DevOps
`netstandard` Managed DevOps Pool, and replaces Codecov with a coverage
gate that runs inside the pipeline.

## 1. CI backend switch

One conceptual switch decides who owns that work. It is checked into
source in **two places that must be flipped together**:

| File | Setting | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `azure-pipelines.yml` | `parameters.ciBuildBackend` | `ado` |
| `.github/workflows/buildandtest.yml` | `env.CI_BUILD_BACKEND` | `ado`
|

Setting both to `actions` restores the previous behaviour exactly.

Azure Pipelines gains what it was missing to take the work over:

- A **Linux all-TFM `sln.yml` leg**, replacing `build-all-tfm-linux`.
`sln.yml` gets a `configurations` parameter so this leg builds `Release`
only instead of doubling the managed-pool job count.
- A **Linux agent in the `net10.0` `testfastpr` matrix**, replacing the
ubuntu `build-and-test` job.
- **Native AoT and Code Coverage now gate pull requests** instead of
running only on Schedule/Manual. The coverage stage drops its
`testdebug` dependency, which is Schedule/Manual-only and would
otherwise have skipped coverage on every PR.
- On a PR, Windows builds the .NET Framework TFMs and Linux the modern
ones — mirroring the split the GitHub Actions jobs used — so all seven
TFMs stay covered without fanning every TFM across both pools.

Two things are deliberately **not** covered by the switch:

- **macOS** stays on GitHub-hosted runners, because Managed DevOps Pools
provide no macOS image.
- **`master378` and `develop/*`** keep running the GitHub Actions jobs,
since Azure Pipelines only builds `master`/`main` from this file.

GitHub Actions does not expose the `env` context to job-level `if:`
conditions, so the switch is resolved once in the existing `discover`
job and re-exported as job outputs.

A new **`build-and-test summary`** job gives branch protection one
stable check to require, instead of the generated matrix job names. It
treats an intentionally skipped job as success but still fails on a real
failure or cancellation.

The `paths:` allow-list was moved off the `pull_request` trigger and
into `discover`. A workflow filtered out by `paths` never reports its
checks, and a required check that never reports leaves a PR permanently
*"Expected — waiting for status to be reported"*. That would have made
the routine "ratchet the coverage floor" PR (which touches only
`coverage-thresholds.json` and docs) unmergeable.

## 2. Coverage gate replacing Codecov

Codecov is removed entirely — `codecov.yml`, both uploads, the badge,
and the token usage. `.azurepipelines/check-coverage.ps1` runs at the
end of the `Code Coverage` stage against the Cobertura report
ReportGenerator already merges, driven by `coverage-thresholds.json`:

| Check | Behaviour |
| --- | --- |
| Project floor | **Blocking** — total line and branch rates against an
absolute floor. |
| Patch coverage | **Blocking on PRs** — changed lines must reach
`patch.target`, tolerating `patch.threshold` percentage points (the same
semantics `codecov/patch` had). |
| Baseline delta | **Advisory** — reports the change against the
recorded baseline, never fails. |

The project rate is recomputed from the per-line data rather than read
off the Cobertura root element, so the `ignore` globs carried over from
`codecov.yml` apply to the project floor as well as to the changed-lines
gate — otherwise samples and generated code would count towards one gate
but not the other.

`testcc.yml` gains an explicit `checkout: self` with `fetchDepth: 0`,
because the default shallow clone cannot diff against the base branch.

## Follow-up actions for maintainers

Two items cannot be automated from source:

1. **Enable the `/azp run` gate.** In the Azure DevOps portal: pipeline
→ **More actions** → **Triggers** → **Pull request validation** →
**Require a team member's comment before building a pull request**,
scoped to *Only on pull requests from non-team members*. This makes
Copilot-authored and outside-contributor PRs wait for a maintainer's
`/azp run`, mirroring the approval GitHub Actions already requires. The
documentation added here describes the workflow and the
private-org-membership gotcha; **the setting itself still has to be
switched on.**
2. **Update branch protection and secrets.** Drop the `codecov/project`
and `codecov/patch` required checks, require `build-and-test summary`
and the ADO coverage check instead, and remove `CODECOV_TOKEN` from the
GitHub repository secrets and the ADO variable group.

Also note the thresholds in `coverage-thresholds.json` are seeded from
the last Codecov reading (73.61 %) with headroom, because the
in-pipeline number had not been observed yet. The first full `Code
Coverage` run on master should confirm it and the floors should be
tightened then — the gate prints the exact figure it computes.

## Related Issues

_No tracking issue; this is CI infrastructure work requested directly._

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- No product code changed, so there are no unit tests to add. The new
logic was verified with purpose-built harnesses instead:
- All 8 branch/event/backend combinations of the `discover` switch,
confirming `master378` and `develop/*` are untouched and that `actions`
restores the old behaviour.
- 12 scenarios for `check-coverage.ps1`: the project floor, the patch
gate, ignore globs applying to *both* gates, three path-normalization
shapes, and the advisory delta.
- 14 path-relevance cases confirming the in-job filter matches the
retired `paths:` allow-list exactly.
- End-to-end against a **real** ReportGenerator report: correctly
resolved `src/Opc.Ua.PubSub/DependencyInjection/PubSubBuilder.cs`, found
exactly the four modified tracked lines and reported 50 % patch coverage
(2 covered, 2 uncovered).
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- New **Continuous integration** section in `docs/DeveloperGuide.md`, a
CI note in `CONTRIBUTING.md`, and links from `docs/README.md`. Also
corrected the CI matrix description, which claimed the PR gate ran net48
+ **net8.0** — it runs net48 + **net10.0**.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- `dotnet build src/Opc.Ua.Server` → 0 warnings, 0 errors. No product
code changed.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- Not applicable — no product code changed. `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` was
run on net10.0 during development (3480 passed; the single
`ServerFluentApiHostingTests` failure is pre-existing and reproduces on
master).
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [x] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
- A review pass over this branch flagged the `paths:`-filter deadlock
described above; it is fixed in `1926e240e`.

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Copilot-Session: 181ba7ea-c72f-42d7-a737-00a3faadaa17
Copilot-Session: 26aa55a2-5731-4a4c-b61c-df2f7a785eca
2026-07-31 21:06:25 +00:00
Marc SchierandCopilot 8a10139b8c Fix OPC UA address-space compliance in the device integration stack (#4117)
# Description

A live OPC UA compliance audit of `samples/PumpDeviceIntegrationServer`
against the **OPC 40223 Pumps** and **OPC 10000-100 (DI)** companion
specifications found **13 address-space violations** plus a
serialization bug in the MCP tool. Every fix lands at its **root cause
in the shared stack** rather than as a workaround in the sample, so all
servers benefit.

The sample now exposes **N fully simulated pumps** (`--pumps N`) and
advertises the DI conformance facets it actually satisfies.

> This branch has been merged with `master` including **#4116** ("Add
simulation to PumpDeviceIntegrationServer and Event modelling"), which
independently reworked the same pump simulation and the same fluent
alarm builders. See [Relationship to #4116](#relationship-to-4116) below
for how the two were reconciled.

## Findings and fixes

| # | Finding | Root cause | Fix |
|---|---------|-----------|-----|
| 1 | `OverTempAlarm` created by the fluent API did not exist in the
address space | `AttachAlarm` attached the alarm with `AddChild` but
never indexed it into the node manager | Register the node; the same gap
existed in `AddObject`, `CreateInstance` and the state-machine creators
|
| 2 | Alarms were unsubscribable — `EventNotifier = 0` everywhere, no
`HasNotifier` from `Server` | No event-source wiring at all | Set
`HasCondition`, initialise
`SourceNode`/`SourceName`/`ConditionName`/`InputNode`, promote
`EventNotifier` up the ancestor chain, publish `HasNotifier` from the
`Server` object |
| 3 | Every instance NodeId was minted in the **DI standard namespace**
(`ns=4;s=5001_Pump #1`) | `DiNodeManager.New` inherited the parent's
namespace index | New `DiNodeManager.InstanceNamespaceIndex`; instances
move to the server's application namespace |
| 4 | `Server/Namespaces` described only 2 of 6 namespaces | The
NodeSet2 importer drops nodes parented to namespace 0, so companion-spec
metadata objects never reached the address space — and no route covered
the server's own namespace | New `NamespaceMetadataPublisher` walks the
`NamespaceArray` and fills version/publication date from
`ModelDependencyAttribute` |
| 5 | Vendor BrowseNames (`Diagnostics`, `LastError`, …) sat in the DI
namespace | Builders defaulted to the parent's namespace | Default to
the server namespace; **spec-defined BrowseNames are unchanged** |
| 6 | `AccessLevel="5"` from the Pumps NodeSet was reported as `1` | The
ModelDesign `AccessLevel` enum is not `[Flags]` and cannot represent
`CurrentRead \| HistoryRead` | Carry the verbatim NodeSet2 bitmask and
emit named `AccessLevels` constants |
| 7 | `Historizing = true` while `HistoryRead` returned
`BadHistoryOperationUnsupported` | Nothing reconciled the declared
history surface with the wired historians | Startup clears the
advertisement (including masking the attribute read callbacks) when no
provider resolves; the sample wires a real historian |
| 8 | Mandatory `ProductInstanceUri` unset | Sample omission | Populated
on every pump |
| 9 | Mandatory `TrueState`/`FalseState` empty on every supervision
boolean | Absent in the official NodeSet; a server must still populate
them | Populated on every pump |
| 10 | Machinery `Machines` folder empty (OPC 40001-1 §9.2 says
**shall**) | `TryAddToMachinesFolder` used `AddChild`, which
*re-parents* the device away from `DeviceSet` | Add the `Organizes`
reference instead |
| 11 | BrowseName contained a space and `#` | Sample naming | `Pump_1`
with the readable label in `DisplayName` |
| 12 | `Maintenance` group materialised but empty | Sample omission |
Populated |
| 13 | Uninitialised values reported `Good` | No initial-value status |
`BadWaitingForInitialData` until the first simulation tick |
| — | `ServerProfileArray` advertised only `StandardUA2017` |
`DiNodeManager` did not implement the existing `IConformanceContributor`
| Contribute DI 1.05 server facets computed at runtime from what is
actually wired, merged with `StandardUA2017` |
| — | MCP tool serialised boolean `false` and numeric `0` as JSON `null`
| `Variant.Null` is `default`, so `Variant.Equals` adopts the non-null
type and compares against the default value | Dispatch on `BuiltInType`
and use typed `TryGetValue` accessors instead of the prohibited
`AsBoxedObject` |

## Relationship to #4116

#4116 landed on `master` while this branch was in flight and targeted
overlapping ground. The merge is a **union of both intents**, not a
fast-forward:

- **`AlarmBuilderExtensions`** — kept both sides. #4116 contributes the
parent-must-be-an-Object guard, `SetEnableState`, and the
`HasEventSource` references; this branch contributes the `HasCondition`
reference, condition source initialisation, **registration of the alarm
with the node manager so it is browsable**, notifier promotion up the
whole ancestor chain, and root-notifier registration.
- **`SupervisionBuilderExtensions`** — took #4116's `SetAlarmActive`. It
is more spec-correct than this branch's version: it honours
`EnabledState`, resets Acked/Confirmed on activation, and computes
`Retain` per OPC 10000-9 so an unacknowledged Condition stays retained
after going inactive. This branch's null guard was kept so a malformed
alarm cannot dereference a missing `EnabledState`.
- **`PumpNodeManager.Configure.cs`** — took #4116's **push-based**
simulation (`RegisterPumpSimulation`, `CreatePumpSimulation`,
`IValueUpdater<T>`, `Initialize`/`Advance`/`Publish`, deterministic
per-pump phase offsets) as the structure, then folded in this branch's
compliance work: configurable pump count, Maintenance group,
`TrueState`/`FalseState`, historian wiring, per-pump mandatory
Identification values, and `BadWaitingForInitialData` until the first
tick.
- **README** — union, keeping #4116's address-space validation workflow
section.

Two test adjustments were needed, both because the merge legitimately
changed behaviour the tests pinned:

- `PumpHostedReferenceTests` now resolves pump NodeIds from the browse
result instead of hard-coding the DI namespace, and waits for the first
published value. `PumpCreatedAfterStartupJoinsTheLiveSimulationAsync`
was **added** to restore #4116's coverage that a pump created after
startup through `ConfigureDevicesFor` joins the live simulation.
- `FluentAlarmRegistrationIntegrationTests` no longer asserts that
`Retain` clears when an alarm goes inactive — that pinned this branch's
weaker semantics, and #4116's Part 9 behaviour is correct.

## Breaking change

Runtime-created DI device instance NodeIds move from the companion-spec
namespace to the server's application namespace, e.g.
`ns=<DI>;s=5001_Pump #1` becomes `ns=<application>;s=5001_Pump #1`. This
invalidates NodeIds cached by clients from earlier 2.0 previews. It is
**not** a model change — standard DI/Machinery/Pumps type NodeIds and
spec-defined BrowseNames are untouched.

Device integration hosting is new in 2.0, so there is nothing to migrate
from 1.5.378 and this is deliberately *not* in `docs/MigrationGuide.md`.
Anyone tracking 2.0 previews should rediscover devices by browsing
`DeviceSet` rather than persisting NodeIds, and resolve namespace
indexes from `NamespaceArray` per connection.

## Verification

Compliance is pinned by regression tests that assert **through the
server's service surface** (`BrowseAsync` / `ReadAsync` /
`HistoryReadAsync`), not by inspecting `NodeState` objects in memory.
That distinction mattered: three defects survived in-memory assertions
and were only caught through the read path — most subtly, `Historizing`
was cleared while `AccessLevel` still advertised `HistoryRead`, because
attribute read callbacks re-applied the NodeSet bits.

Post-merge on net10.0:

| Suite | Result |
|---|---|
| `Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` | 326 passed |
| `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` | 3846 passed, 5 skipped |
| `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` | 288 passed |
| `Opc.Ua.History.Tests` | 506 passed, 27 skipped |
| `Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core.Tests` | 3722 passed, 8 skipped |

The full solution was also built and tested on **net48** before the
merge.

Review feedback from `copilot-pull-request-reviewer` has been addressed
in commit `badad31dc`: the shared `ServerObjectState` lock was removed
(the forward `HasNotifier` edge is published through the owning node
manager instead), MCP array serialization now preserves element types,
and the pump option guards report the specific rejected option. The only
failure is
`ConfigureApplicationBuildsSharedClientAndServerConfigurationAsync`, a
pre-existing certificate-store issue that **passes when run in
isolation** and is unrelated to this change.

## Documentation

Updated `docs/DeviceIntegration.md`, `docs/MigrationGuide.md`,
`docs/HistoricalAccess.md`, `docs/DeveloperGuide.md`,
`docs/McpServer.md`, `docs/README.md`,
`samples/PumpDeviceIntegrationServer/README.md` and
`tools/Opc.Ua.Mcp/README.md`, and consolidated the four node-manager
documents into a single [`docs/NodeManagers.md`](docs/NodeManagers.md) —
overview, built-in managers (including `MasterNodeManager`), core vs
custom, registration, server address-space metadata, and source
generation — with a TOC and all inbound links repointed.

## Related Issues

No tracking issue exists for this work yet — it originated from an
ad-hoc compliance audit of the pump sample. Given the size of the change
and the runtime-breaking NodeId move, please open (or link) a tracking
issue so the design is recorded as an ADR before merging.

- Fixes #

## Checklist

_Put an `x` in the boxes that apply. You can complete these step by step
after opening the PR._

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

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Copilot-Session: 0d50c3fc-58b1-4c99-85a4-1e32c88666d9
2026-07-30 16:04:18 +02:00
Marc Schier 275c3800b5 [Server] Add live NodeManager lifecycle support (#4094)
# Description

Adds supported live add, reload, and remove lifecycle operations for
NodeManager instances on a running server.

The change introduces a DI-backed `INodeManagerLifecycle` service with
direct `StandardServer` access, generation-aware registration handles,
copy-on-write routing, transactional prepare/commit/rollback, runtime
NodeSet convenience APIs, append-only namespace updates, model and
semantic change notifications, additive-compatible complex type priming,
and complete teardown behavior.

Lifecycle publication is coordinated with requests, sessions,
subscriptions, monitored items, continuation points, and shutdown so
retired managers cannot remain reachable or be disposed while still in
use. Compatible monitored items transfer to replacement generations
without a transient bad status. Removed or incompatible Nodes publish
`BadNodeIdUnknown` as required by OPC UA Part 4 section 5.8.4.1, retain
their MonitoredItem identity, and automatically recover when a
compatible Node with the same NodeId returns.

Registration is documented end to end in the new
[docs/NodeManagerRegistration.md](docs/NodeManagerRegistration.md),
which covers compile-time, startup, and runtime registration together
with the guarantees for MonitoredItems, Browse continuation points,
namespace indexes, DataTypes, and change notifications.
## Review feedback addressed

Interface surface reduced, as requested:

- `INodeManagerMonitoredItemTracker` folded into
`ISubscriptionMonitoredItemLifecycle`.
- `INodeManagerMutationCoordinator` and the asynchronous MonitoredItem
recovery entry point folded into `IDynamicNodeManagerHost`.
- `ISessionClosingRegistry` folded into `IServerInternal`, then replaced
by `ISession.IsClosing`.
- `ISubscriptionDeletionRegistry` folded into `ISubscriptionManager`,
then removed entirely.
- `INodeManagerContinuationPointTracker` folded into `ISession`.
- The synchronous recovery entry point kept on its own
`ISyncNodeManagerMonitoredItemRecovery`, because `AddPredefinedNode`
cannot await; it still routes through the asynchronous
`INodeManagerMonitoredItemLifecycle` that `AsyncNodeManagerAdapter`
exposes.
- `IMonitoredItemLifecycle` renamed to `IDetachableMonitoredItem`.

Reach into the Subscription area reduced to the minimum the feature
needs:

- The lifecycle feature itself leaves `SubscriptionManager` almost
untouched: two guards that reject a request from a Session that is
closing, on `CreateSubscription` and on `TransferSubscriptions`, because
it would create state that is about to be torn down. The deletion claim
registry, the session closing gates, the closed-session bookkeeping and
the deletion restore paths introduced by earlier revisions are gone.
Transferring a subscription away from a session that is closing stays
allowed, since that is the recovery path the service exists for; the
race that exposed is fixed by serialising source-queue closure with the
transfer rather than by rejecting it.
- Queueing is disabled again for a MonitoredItem with `QueueSize <= 1`,
as before this PR. Without a queue the Client is served the last sampled
value, so the missing-Node notification simply becomes that value;
losing values is expected for a MonitoredItem without queuing.
- What remains of the notification is one `DataValue` plus one bool in
`DataChangeQueueHandler`, mirroring the existing overflow pair, which
stops it being the value discarded when a configured queue is full.
- `MonitoredItem` keeps its original publish path, its original queue
creation and restore paths, its original triggering behaviour, and no
per-epoch bookkeeping.
- `IStoredMonitoredItem` carries `IsDeleted` and `IsDetached`, so a
restored item reports the state it was stored with rather than one
inferred from the last value's StatusCode.

Other feedback:

- Documented `HostedNodeManagerLifecycle`, `IDynamicNodeManagerHost`,
`NodeManagerRoutingTable`, and the `RequestManager` validation and
request scopes.
- Renamed `ValidateMonitoredItemAsync` to `CanAttachMonitoredItemAsync`
and `RestoreMonitoredItemAsync` to `RecoverMonitoredItemAsync`, so the
lifecycle API no longer collides with the durable Subscription
`RestoreMonitoredItem` path used at server startup.
- Removed the `CustomNodeManager2` dependency from the synchronous
MonitoredItem recovery path.
- `DataChangeQueueHandler` is back to the two constructors 1.5.378
shipped, each taking an optional `TimeProvider`.
- Session closing is a one-way latch, and the Session is removed even
when teardown throws.
- Documented what a custom NodeManager has to implement to take part in
live lifecycle operations, and which NodeManager implements
`INodeManagerReloadParticipant` today.

## Fixes found during review

- The guard that stops a NodeManager lifecycle operation being started
from inside a service handler never fired. It was backed by an
`AsyncLocal` written inside `async ValidateRequestAsync`, which is
invisible to the caller that awaited it, so a lifecycle call from a
NodeManager callback waited for its own request and held the lifecycle
semaphore forever. The mark is now applied by the service dispatcher,
and the drain is bounded so no path can wedge the lifecycle permanently.
- `ValidateRequestAsync` is no longer virtual. An override that rejected
a request after calling `base` left it registered forever; subclasses
now use `OnRequestValidatedAsync`, whose failures complete the request.
- A MonitoredItem deleted and disposed while a reload was handing it to
the replacement NodeManager could be attached anyway. The item now
reserves itself for the hand-over and the transition takes it back if it
was disposed meanwhile.
- The Overflow bit is recorded and applied when the value is published,
as the surrounding design does, rather than written into the value at
enqueue time.
- MonitoredItem cleanup for a Subscription being deleted no longer
passes null entries to `DeleteMonitoredItemsAsync`.
- Browse continuation points of a retired NodeManager are persisted and
disposed outside the Session lock.

## Open review discussions

Three threads are open, replied to and awaiting reviewer decisions:
separating service-call dispatch from NodeManager handling in
`MasterNodeManager` (tracked as #4098), the request-scoping shape in
`StandardServer`, and how much of the async MonitoredItem service
implementation should stay in `Subscription`.

Issue #4102 records a specification ambiguity found while implementing
the missing-Node notification: Part 4 §5.8.4.1 makes it mandatory, but
the protected over-capacity queue entry §5.13.1.5 defines applies to
`EventQueueOverflowEventType` only, so the specification does not say
how it survives a full queue.

## Validation

- Full `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` on net10.0: 3,768 passed, 5 skipped.
- Lifecycle, MonitoredItem, Subscription and continuation point suites:
185 passed on net10.0 and 75 on net48.
- Server builds complete with zero warnings or errors.
- Two failures are pre-existing and unrelated:
`DurableDataValueQueueVerifyReferenceBatchingAsync` (flaky
`BatchPersistor` file contention, passes in isolation on net10.0 and
net48) and
`ConfigureApplicationBuildsSharedClientAndServerConfigurationAsync`
(fails on a clean tree with these changes stashed).

## Related Issues

- Fixes #3993
- Follow-up tracked in #4098
2026-07-28 16:06:28 +02:00
Marc Schier 5b9bcedc62 Add OPC UA ISA-95 Common Model and Job Control support (#4089)
# Description

Adds first-class support for the OPC UA ISA-95 companion specifications:

- OPC-10030 Common Model.
- OPC-10031-4 Job Control V1.
- OPC-10031-4 Job Control V2.

The change introduces `Opc.Ua.ISA95`, `Opc.Ua.ISA95.Client`, and
`Opc.Ua.ISA95.Server`, together with a NativeAOT-compatible minimal
server sample and comprehensive tests.

## Highlights

- Compiles the three canonical NodeSets and identifier mapping CSV files
through the source generator.
- Adds NodeSet identifier mapping validation, typed method
arguments/results, companion event records, and generated method
argument nodes.
- Provides typed Common Model builders with normative relationships and
an injectable `GeoSpatialLocationType` provider.
- Implements lossless V1/V2 Job Control providers over a shared
version-neutral store, including state paths, status events, comments,
response queries, catalog changes, and cohesive DI registration.
- Adds subtype-aware typed clients, standalone encodeable registration,
`IIsa95ClientFactory`, and V2 status-event streaming.
- Adds the `MinimalIsa95Server` sample, package documentation, and an
ISA-95 guide with conformance and HA guidance.
- Tracks typed RSL/GPOS integration as follow-up issue #4095.

## Validation

- `Opc.Ua.ISA95.Tests`: 137/137 passed on `net10.0` and `net48`.
- Source-generator suites: 81/81 model, 90/90 stack, 3718 passed / 8
skipped core.
- `EventRecordFieldReaders` feedback tests: 6/6 on `net10.0` and
`net48`.
- `EventRecordFieldReaders` changed-method patch coverage: 100% line
coverage (36/36) and 100% branch coverage (22/22).
- `Opc.Ua.ISA95`, `.Client`, and `.Server` build across all configured
target frameworks without new diagnostics.
- Cobertura line coverage: 88.08% model, 90.04% client, 91.19% server.
- NativeAOT sample publishes and passes a live typed V2
Store/status-event validation.
- The ISA-95 NativeAOT smoke test passes in the source-generated native
test executable.
- OPC UA KB NodeSet validation reports zero errors for Common, V1, and
V2.

The broader NativeAOT executable still reports unrelated existing GDS
and complex-type test failures; the ISA-95-specific native test passes.

## Node state generator fixes

Generating method arguments inline for imported nodesets regressed every
model that already emits `InputArguments` / `OutputArguments` child node
factories:

- The inline block ran before the child factories.
`MethodState.CreateOrReplaceInputArguments` keeps the property that was
assigned first, so the child carrying the well-known NodeId was dropped
and a NodeId-less placeholder remained in the address space. This broke
browsing (reference descriptions without a target) and made method
arguments unreachable at their well-known NodeIds.
- The `MethodDeclarationId` fallback keyed on an autogenerated display
name redirected every declared method of the standard address space to
its own NodeId, which made method calls fail.

The inline block is now emitted after the child factories and reduced to
a value assignment when a child factory exists. The value is only
re-emitted when an argument references a namespace other than OPC UA,
because the value of an imported property is the verbatim XML of the
source nodeset whose namespace indices do not survive the import. The
`MethodDeclarationId` fallback is restricted to declarations without a
resolvable NodeId. The generated OPC UA address space is byte-identical
to `master` again.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4088
- Follow-up: #4095
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Marc Schier 38c7356bc7 Add generic xRegistry libraries (abstract registry base model) (#4097)
# Description

xRegistry is the *abstract registry base model*: a registry-agnostic,
content-addressed
resource registry. It knows nothing about what a resource contains — a
concrete registry supplies its
own companion namespace and a fingerprinting strategy and reuses
everything else. The PubSub Schema
Registry in #4007 is the first specialization (its resources are schema
documents),
and #4093 (WoT Binding) carries a byte-identical copy of the same base
NodeSet, so a
shared canonical home is worth having.

## Packages

| Package | Depends on | Contains |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.XRegistry` | `Opc.Ua.Core` |
Abstract base companion model (compiled by the model source generator),
`XRegistryWellKnown`, `IResourceContentIdProvider` |
| `OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.XRegistry.Client` | +
`Opc.Ua.Client` | `XRegistryClient` (abstract) /
`GenericXRegistryClient` (sealed), built on the generated ObjectType
proxies |
| `OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.XRegistry.Server` | +
`Opc.Ua.Server` | Fast-path / registration / federation node managers,
`XRegistryServerOptions`, `IXRegistryResourceStore` |

`Opc.Ua.XRegistry` deliberately depends on neither SDK, so a codec or a
shared contracts assembly can
reference the identity abstraction without pulling in the client or the
server.

## The model is compiled, not loaded

The companion model is compiled into the assemblies by the OPC UA model
source generator.
`Opc.Ua.XRegistry.NodeSet2.xml` is an `AdditionalFiles` generator input
only — there is no
`EmbeddedResource`, no runtime NodeSet parsing and no hand-written
NodeId tables for anything the
model declares. All three node managers load it the same way:

```csharp
protected override NodeStateCollection LoadPredefinedNodes(ISystemContext context)
{
    return new NodeStateCollection().AddOpcUaXRegistry(context);
}
```

`XRegistryWellKnown` is reduced to the namespace URI plus the
identifiers of the *instances* a
registry materializes at runtime, which live above the model's own
63000-63999 range so they can
never collide with it.

## What it does

- **Content-derived identity** — `IResourceContentIdProvider` maps a
document + format to a
fingerprint and names the (canonicalization, hash) algorithm. Identity
is derived from the bytes,
not assigned by the server, so it is stable across registries — which is
what makes de-duplication
  and federation work.
- **Opaque-NodeId fast path** — a registered resource is reachable at an
Opaque `NodeId` whose
Identifier is the raw content-id bytes, so a consumer that received the
id on the wire resolves the
document in a single `Read`: no Browse, no fingerprint recomputation.
The client reads it through
the `ReadBytesAsync` session extension, so a document larger than
`MaxByteStringLength` is fetched
with range-based reads rather than failing. Optionally pre-publishes a
seed resource so a fresh
  server can resolve one resource before any registration.
- **The model's own lifecycle** — the registry root is a `RegistryType`
instance serving
`CreateGroup` / `GetOrCreateGroup`; each group serves `CreateResource` /
`GetOrCreateResource`; and
because `ResourceType : FileType`, the document *is* the file — content
is streamed through the
inherited `Open` / `Read` / `Write` / `Close`. `Close` fingerprints the
accumulated bytes and
publishes the Opaque fast-path node at runtime. Identical bytes reuse
the existing node, whose
lifetime is reference counted so it survives until the last resource
resolving to those bytes is
gone and is retired when a resource is re-written with different
content.
- **Optimistic concurrency** — `Delete(ExpectedEpoch)` on both resources
and groups, and the same
epoch check on label mutations, so a caller working from a stale read is
rejected rather than
  clobbering a concurrent change.
- **Labels** — `RegistryType`, `GroupType` and `ResourceType` each
expose an `AttributesType` Object
with `AddAttribute` / `RemoveAttribute`; labels are published as
addressable `String` Properties.
- **Federation** — a resource hosted by another registry is published as
a real `ResourceType`
instance whose `ExternalReference` (`ExpandedNodeId` + `ServerIndex`
into the local `ServerArray`)
and `ResourceUrl` carry the link and whose `Xid` carries the content-id.
Because it is an ordinary
`ResourceType`, a generic client drives a federated resource through
exactly the same proxy as a
  local one.

## Extensibility

A domain registry subtypes the base model — the PubSub Schema Registry
declares
`SchemaFileType : ResourceType` — and the generator mirrors that
hierarchy across assemblies, so the
proxy chain follows automatically (`SchemaFileTypeClient :
ResourceTypeClient : FileTypeClient`).

```text
abstract XRegistryClient
   ├── sealed GenericXRegistryClient   // any registry namespace
   ├── SchemaRegistryClient  (domain)
   └── WotRegistryClient     (domain)
```

* A **domain client** derives from `XRegistryClient` and inherits the
whole lifecycle. Helpers
written as extension methods over a base proxy (such as
`WriteDocumentAsync` on
`ResourceTypeClient`) are callable on the domain proxy with no
inheritance in the client layer.
* A **generic client** still drives a domain registry, because a domain
instance *is* an instance of
the base type. This is covered by a test that defines a domain subclass
over the base.

## State

Document bytes live behind an injectable `IXRegistryResourceStore`.
Because a resource is a
`ResourceType`, which *is* a `FileType`, the store mirrors the file
access model: reads and writes are
**offset and length based**, so a document never has to be materialized
as a whole and a ranged read
touches only the bytes it needs.

The document is transferred with the inherited `FileType` Methods, whose
mode bits are honoured: a
write that does not set `EraseExisting` starts from the stored bytes and
replaces only the range it
writes rather than truncating the rest. A handle is valid only on the
resource and the session that
opened it, and a session's handles are released when it closes.

Two implementations ship: `InMemoryResourceStore` (the default,
in-process) and
`FileSystemResourceStore`, built on the `IFileSystem` abstraction so
documents outlive the
process and a shared volume can back a cluster.
`XRegistryResourceStoreContractTests` is a reusable
fixture that validates any implementation against the contract.

## Transport security

Registry **writes always require a `SignAndEncrypt` secure channel** — a
document and its
content-derived identity are integrity-critical, so every mutation is
rejected with
`BadSecurityModeInsufficient` on a channel that is only signed or
unprotected. This is not
configurable. Reads are allowed on any secure channel by default;
`RequireEncryptionForReads` extends
the requirement to them when the documents themselves are confidential.
An in-process call carries no
channel and is always allowed.

## Hardening

The lifecycle Methods are remotely callable, so every unbounded
dimension is bounded via
`XRegistryServerOptions`; exceeding a bound fails the call rather than
the server:

| Option | Default | Enforced on | Status code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `MaxConcurrentUploads` | 64 | `CreateResource`, `Open` |
`BadTooManyOperations` |
| `MaxResourceBytes` | 16 MiB | `Write` | `BadRequestTooLarge` |
| `MaxRegisteredResources` | 4096 | `CreateResource` |
`BadTooManyOperations` |

## A source generator bug fixed along the way

Building on the compiled model surfaced a defect in shared generator
infrastructure.
`NodeSetToModelDesign.CreateDecoder` decoded values with an empty
`EncodeableFactory`, so a NodeSet2's
method `InputArguments` / `OutputArguments` — encoded as a list of
`Argument` ExtensionObjects — never
decoded, while `HasArguments` was still set. **Every** NodeSet2-sourced
model in the stack was
silently generating argument-less `MethodState`s and ObjectType proxies.
ModelDesign-sourced models
(the core stack) were unaffected, which is why this went unnoticed.
Fixed in `b87726af` with a
regression test that fails without it.

Two defects in the xRegistry NodeSet itself were fixed at the same time:
`BrowseName="1:InputArguments"`
→ ns-0 `InputArguments` (published NodeSets never namespace-qualify
these), and the `CreateResource` /
`GetOrCreateResource` **output** `VersionId` renamed to
`AssignedVersionId`, which collided with the
input of the same name and produced a duplicate C# parameter.

## Other fixes applied while extracting

- `XRegistryRegistrationNodeManager` uses `System.Threading.Lock`
instead of an `object`-typed sync
  root, per the repository locking rules.
- Dropped the `InternalsVisibleTo` entries granting internals to
`Opc.Ua.PubSub.Server.Tests`. That
  project only consumes public `XRegistryWellKnown` API.
- The `UA.slnx` edit in #4007 accidentally **replaced** the
`tests/Opc.Ua.Redundancy.Kubernetes.Tests` entry instead of adding a
line, silently dropping that
project from the solution. The entry is preserved here and the change is
purely additive.

## Tests

`tests/Opc.Ua.XRegistry.Tests` (168) covers the group and resource
lifecycles, the `FileType`
transfer, delete and epoch conflicts, labels, federation, both resource
stores, the fast path,
transport security and the extensibility contract — positive and
negative paths. Passing on `net10.0`
and `net48`. Patch line coverage is **98.5%**.

Also adds `tests/Directory.Build.props` / `.targets`: the .NET 10 SDK
prunes
`Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions` out of the test output, and
coverlet's Mono.Cecil
resolver only searches the output directory, so it silently fails to
instrument every module that
references `ILogger` and reports 0% coverage for them. These force the
package back into the restore
graph and copy its implementation next to the test binary.

## Documentation

New [`docs/XRegistry.md`](docs/XRegistry.md), linked from the
documentation index.
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Marc Schier 8538f531e7 Update paths for the consolidated repository layout 2026-07-16 06:26:05 +02:00
Marc Schier 7cec2d614d Move repository files to the consolidated layout 2026-07-16 06:25:54 +02:00