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Marc Schier c4e0721a29 Add a documentation learning path and fix issues found while verifying it (#4555)
## Summary

### Documentation
- Stage the documentation index as a learning path: a first application,
independent client, server, and PubSub paths, then data and services,
companion models, production, advanced integration, and draft or
experimental capabilities.
- Add Getting started (repository samples or NuGet packages), OPC UA
concepts, Your first information model, and a production readiness
checklist.
- Add Native AOT application publishing, a first PubSub publisher and
subscriber exchange, and the UDP transport options.
- Add or expand contents navigation throughout `docs/`, and keep
contributor documentation separate.
- Correct outdated SDK examples and capability guidance, consolidate
repeated explanations into canonical guides, and repair local links and
heading structure.
- Rewrite What's New in 2.0 as a concise feature overview with short
linked details; keep migration instructions in the Migration Guide.
- Expand the feature catalogue with specification IDs, GDS, LDS, the OPC
10000-21 onboarding registrar, ISA-95, xRegistry, OpenUSD, and
sample-local models; distinguish draft status, explain crypto
pluggability, and bring performance guidance forward.
- Address review feedback on wording, active monitored items during
shadow reload, and the `Samples.md` filename and references.
- Regenerate the `opcua-v20-migration` plugin's bundled copy of the
migration guides so it matches the edited `docs/migrate/2.0.x` guides.
- Merge the latest `master`, preserving upstream resource-isolation
guidance within the task-based documentation index.
- Retain deferred Lingity findings where appropriate; this PR does not
claim that every document meets the Lingity score thresholds.

### Fixes found while verifying the guides
Each fix has regression tests that fail without it.
- **Client:** V2 subscriptions compared their lifetime with the
operation timeout instead of the session timeout, and logged a spurious
warning. `ISubscriptionEngineContext`, which is new in 2.0, gains a
`SessionTimeout` property; implementations must add it.
- **PubSub:** a subscriber now registers the `DataSetMetaData`
configured on its readers (OPC 10000-14 6.2.9.4), and the UADP decoder
decodes DataSetMessages that carry no ConfigurationVersion. Before, a
secured subscriber of the reference sample received no DataSets.
- **Source generator:** a ModelDesign method that declares its arguments
inline, without a method type, produced code that did not compile; it
now uses `MethodState`. The generated code of existing models is
unchanged.
- **MinimalClient sample:** waits for its first data-change notification
before it disconnects.

### Known issues, not addressed here
- UDP multicast: the publisher does not send on the interface that the
subscriber joins, and `MulticastLoopback` defaults to false. The PubSub
guide uses unicast for the exchange on one computer.
- The UDP metadata announcement is sent unsecured on secured writer
groups; a secured subscriber drops it with a warning.
- A server does not start in globalization-invariant mode, because
`ResourceManager` creates `CultureInfo("en-US")`. The Native AOT guide
cautions against the mode.

## Validation
- `git diff --check` and
`./.azurepipelines/validate-migration-plugin.ps1` (15 bundled migration
docs validated, plugin manifests synchronized).
- Local Markdown links, anchors, file-link casing, and contents lists
checked across all 87 documents under `docs/`. The index links every
top-level guide and every target of the previous index.
- Both Getting started routes, Your first information model, the PubSub
exchange, and the Native AOT publish of the Getting started client and
server were run as documented. The NuGet route and the tutorial use the
public `2.0.0-preview.5` packages.
- The changed libraries build for all target frameworks in Release
without warnings.
- Tests on .NET 10: Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Tests 199 passed;
Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core.Tests 3,977 passed, 8 skipped;
Opc.Ua.Server.Tests `Fluent` category 621 passed; Opc.Ua.Client.Tests
subscription-engine tests 70 passed; Opc.Ua.PubSub.Tests 1,374 passed, 2
skipped; PubSub fuzz replay 145 passed. The new and affected tests also
pass on .NET Framework 4.8.
- Earlier merge validation: 174 resource-isolation tests passed on .NET
10.
- The full solution suite was not run locally.

Review and validation artifacts are maintained outside the repository.

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-28 19:19:39 +00:00
Marc Schier fa8d45f2cf Fix server/core validation, lifecycle and protocol regressions (#4477)
# Description

**Server/core audit fixes with regression tests. Latest review-fix
validation, merge validation and earlier acceptance results are
distinguished below.**

This addresses a 95-finding server/core report. Every finding was
reviewed with
the OPC UA specification knowledge base or, where the standard does not
prescribe a C# implementation, the corresponding ownership/configuration
contract. Incorrect or withdrawn subclaims remain qualified rather than
being
presented as additional fixes.

The original checkpoint covers session identity/certificate validation
and
revocation; certificate/key ownership and transactional updates; TCP
reconnect,
receive/admission and buffer lifetime; HTTP quotas; subscription
admission,
durability and pooled payloads; file-operation lifecycle; historian
aggregates;
fluent/state-machine behavior; and related utilities. It includes
targeted
regressions and directly related documentation.

The approved acceptance cleanup is separate in the commit history:

| Cleanup | Verified result |
| --- | --- |
| Invalid identity-policy and KeyCredential fixture inputs | Fixtures
explicitly advertise Username and use its generated policy ID.
Credential persistence uses valid clear mode inside the existing
encrypted admin context. Original permission, lockout and negative
encryption assertions remain. |
| Native GDS lifetime and concurrent connection failures | Retain
ApplicationInstance until client teardown. A deterministic native
reproducer proved the test-only channel cap of 10 was exhausted;
removing that override restores the existing bounded default of 1000. No
global serialization or production quota change. |
| Stress certificate ownership and close accounting | Balance two helper
references and the fake transport's server-certificate ownership.
Replace the invalid event-count bound with exactly-once physical
disposal, opens = closes, zero active entries and one logical entry
lifetime. |
| Participant deadlines | Use the injected TimeProvider with the
existing cross-framework WaitAsync overload. Tests pin one tick before,
exact expiry, terminal notification, recovery and timely completion. |
| Reproducibility and platform assertions | Preserve canonical WoT
bytes/hashes, explicit display-culture contracts and exact
numeric-vector assertions. Accept Apple's CryptographicException subtype
without weakening disposal balance. |
| Missing user-signature proof | Reject null/empty proofs before OS
crypto. Return BadUserSignatureInvalid per Part 4, 5.7.3.3. None-policy
and valid-signature controls remain. A CI-only test nullable-context
error was corrected without changing production behavior. |
| Durable sample restore and shared test storage | Dequeue waits for
actual batch residency instead of treating failed restore completion as
success, and restored files close before deletion. Five deterministic
regressions failed before the fix. The two fixtures that clear the
shared batch directory are isolated; all original 3,000-item assertions
remain unchanged. |

## Latest review follow-up

Commit `828856850219518970e8e2f580b8f94b3c1fc748` fixes the deferred
robotics
disposal reported in the latest review.
`RobotIntentNodeManager.DisposeAsync`
now joins a shared controller-host drain and then explicitly awaits base
node-manager disposal. A controller's bounded shutdown wait may defer
its
cleanup, but no longer lets the node-manager override finish early.
Concurrent
callers, including an asynchronous call after synchronous `Dispose`,
cannot
bypass the drain after the host list has been detached.

Synchronous disposal remains nonblocking for deferred work. Deferred
initialization failures are logged and retained, and base cleanup
failures
propagate to asynchronous callers. The existing controller-level bounded
disposal contract is unchanged; the node-manager contract is documented
in
`docs/Robotics.md`.

| Regression requirement | Evidence |
| --- | --- |
| Wait for deferred hosts; preserve synchronous compatibility and
concurrent joins | `NodeManagerAsyncDisposalWaitsForDeferredHostsAsync`:
four cases covering both entry-point orders and zero/positive host
shutdown waits. All four failed before the fix. |
| Wait through base cleanup and observe failures |
`NodeManagerDisposalWaitsForBaseCleanupAndReportsItsFailureAsync`: four
cases hold the actual base-resource semaphore, verify pending callers
after the host finishes, then check success or the same propagated
exception and exactly-once cleanup. |

The focused `IntentHostingCoverageTests` and
`IntentControllerHostTests.Dispose`
selection passed **30/30 on net10.0 and 30/30 on net48**, with no
failures or
skips. The final net10 solution build passed with zero errors and only
the four
previously documented CA2249 warnings in unchanged fuzz-test code. No
new
warnings, analyzer suppressions, dependencies, or weakened assertions
were added.
The review thread received a commit-specific reply and was explicitly
resolved.

This verification is scoped to the robotics feedback; the earlier full
Subscriptions-run limitation remains recorded in the merge section
below.


## Documentation review follow-up (2026-09-14)

Commit `f9a9686fcc5d3cfd19cbbc8c2d826e20f5c7e72f` addresses the six
follow-up
threads on documentation and implementation rationale. Each has an
in-thread
reply citing the commit and an explicit resolution.

Multiline XML documentation now covers the declarations introduced or
modified
throughout the entire PR, including internal contracts, samples, tests,
and
public members of related private helpers. A syntax-aware inventory
checked
**2,031 declarations across all 256 PR C# paths with zero documentation
gaps**.
A supplementary check also covers **75 previously unchanged public
members**
of private helpers involved in the changed code. Token comparison across
the
conditional-compilation branches proves this follow-up changes **no
executable
C# or test assertions**. Project-file changes are rationale comments
only.

The implementation questions are documented at their source:

| Question | Resolution |
| --- | --- |
| Certificate assembly friendship | Server Push configuration reuses the
internal explicit-subject CSR helper with the existing key; no public
crypto API was added. |
| Core.Types assembly friendship | Server builders use internal
transition callbacks/revision guards; Server.Tests checks the revision
deterministically without creating a public compatibility contract. |
| Always-single-reader notifications | One dequeuer preserves event
order; optional concurrency fans out within one event and joins before
the next event. |
| Asynchronous disposal completion | `DisposeAsync` already joins the
completion published after admitted operations and all cleanup attempts.
The compatibility `Dispose` remains nonblocking to avoid deadlocking an
admitted callback against its own drain. |

The requested detailed review disposition follows. It distinguishes
actual
fixes from confirmed policies and incorrect subclaims rather than
counting every
comment as a new runtime change.


### Detailed disposition of review 5191795284

The [SDK
review](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/pull/4477#pullrequestreview-5191795284)
was submitted against `1c4a9df6c`, before the subsequent merge and
feedback fixes.
Its **15 inline threads** have each received an action-specific reply
and an
explicit resolution. A fresh GraphQL query verified those replies and
resolution
states; the fixes in `b8a59990f` remain ancestors of the current branch.

| Review concern | Action and disposition | Concrete regression evidence
|
| --- | --- | --- |
| Injected certificate-store providers bypassed | **Fixed.**
Registration, configuration snapshots, and validation use the injected
providers. Explicit custom types remain authoritative; the built-in
Directory catch-all is deferred so native X509 paths and later custom
providers are not captured. Failed store opens dispose the created
store. | `InjectedProviderResolvesRegisteredAndConfiguredTrustStores`
covers default-provider ordering and both registration paths; provider
validation/open-failure cases and the unchanged
`TrustedCertificateInjectedViaIndependentX509StoreIsObservedAsync` cover
real use and independent-store visibility. |
| Unguarded timer-thread leadership callbacks | **Fixed.** Each
subscriber's exception is logged independently and cannot suppress
subsequent subscribers or fail lease operations. `IsLeader` reads the
deadline without invoking application callbacks. |
`ThrowingLeadershipSubscriberDoesNotFailAcquireOrDisposeAsync`,
`ExpiryNotifiesOtherSubscribersWhenOneThrowsAsync`, and
`IsLeaderDoesNotDispatchExpiryNotificationsAsync` were all demonstrated
failing before the fix. |
| Legacy pending-key provider accepts an unfinishable regenerated CSR |
**Fixed by explicit capability validation.** A provider implementing
only `IPendingCertificateKeyStore` receives `BadNotSupported` before key
generation or persistence when regeneration is requested. Existing-key
CSR/update remains supported. Regeneration requires matching-only
consumption; no unsafe destructive probing was introduced. |
`LegacyPendingProviderRejectsRegenerationBeforeCreatingOrSavingAKeyAsync`
checks no key or store mutation;
`LegacyPendingProviderCompletesExistingKeySigningAndUpdateAsync` proves
the supported flow completes. |
| Shutdown waits behind user deactivation | **Fixed.** Accepted
deactivations drain before the master's lifecycle gate is taken.
Configuration retains its binding until the shared drain completes,
including concurrent shutdown callers and direct master disposal. | Four
cases of `ShutdownDrainsDeactivationOutsideTheSessionClosingGateAsync`
exercise real configuration/binding/ServerInternalData/master reentry,
retained address space, exact session/subscription closure, and no
production cancellation shortcut. |
| Subclass cleanup runs under the operation-lifetime lock | **Fixed.**
Cleanup starts outside that lock. A pre-published completion joins all
disposers, and only the active asynchronous teardown context may use
guarded helpers. Captured contexts lose that privilege when the callback
exits. |
`SynchronousOwnedCleanupLetsSamplingWorkerReachClosedAdmissionAsync`,
`DisposeCoreCanUseGuardedMembersWithoutReopeningCallerAdmissionAsync`,
captured-context rejection, and exact cleanup-failure/ownership
assertions cover both synchronous and suspended cleanup. |
| Discovery requestId-zero chunk read after pool return | **Fixed by the
earlier merge.** Discovery validation precedes `SaveIntermediateChunk`;
no read occurs after that path can return the buffer. The ordering is
retained. | `DiscoveryChannelReadsTheFirstChunkBeforeItIsReturnedAsync`
uses a poisoning pool and the requestId-zero path. |
| T1.8 OPN cleanup misses post-decryption throws | **Fixed by the
earlier merge and pinned with new regressions.** Both sequence rejection
and certificate mismatch release the decrypted body and input ownership.
| `OpenSecureChannelRejectionAfterDecryptionReturnsEveryRentalAsync`
checks the exact audit status and pool conservation. Omitting either
corresponding release in an isolated snapshot made its case fail; no
mutation remains. |
| T1.2 mount-root protection depends on the provider | **Fixed at the
host boundary.** Separator-only aliases resolve to the protected root.
Traversal, empty/whitespace segments, backslashes, and drive/stream
qualifiers are rejected before arbitrary providers are invoked. Valid
nested paths and root destinations remain supported. | A deliberately
permissive provider is used by
`NonCanonicalObjectPathsCannotDeleteMoveOrCopyAsync` and invalid-target
cases; exact zero-call checks are paired with legitimate
nested-path/root-destination controls. |
| Inline trusted/issuer entries now face CRL checks | **Intentional
strict behavior, documented and tested.** A configured backing store
with strict unknown-status rejection requires current revocation
information. Explicit-only lists without a store retain their no-store
behavior. Actual revocation cannot be suppressed; a matching store
entry's policy takes precedence. |
`InlineIssuerWithStoreHonorsStrictUnknownRevocationPolicyAsync`,
`InlineIssuerRevocationIsNeverSuppressedAsync`, store-precedence cases,
and explicit-only controls preserve the missing-information versus
actual-revocation distinction in Part 4 6.1.3. |
| RSA minimum applied to unspecified ECC identifiers | **Fixed at the
application-certificate check.** The RSA minimum is compared only with
an actual RSA public key. An unspecified ECC identity is not replaced
simply because its key size is below an RSA threshold. |
`SilentCertificateCheckPreservesUnspecifiedEccIdentityAsync` checks DER,
thumbprint, store contents, and private-key retention; explicit RSA and
HTTPS minimum controls remain. |
| Failed directory refresh wedges corrective mutations | **Fixed.**
Recoverable automatic pre-refresh failures are logged and leave
reconciliation pending, but do not block corrective provider mutations.
Explicit refresh errors, capacity admission, caller cancellation, and
actual provider denials remain enforced. |
`CorrectiveDeleteRecoversAfterPersistentOverLimitRefreshFailureAsync`
converges an externally over-limit directory back to its exact allowed
contents. Capacity, cancellation/token, and six refresh-error controls
check negative paths. |
| Timed-transition rejection logs at 10 Hz | **Fixed.** Repeated
`(state, revision, status)` warnings are deduplicated without changing
the retry cadence. A different status or state entry permits another
warning. | `RepeatedTimedRejectionLogsOnceAndRecoversAsync` checks one
warning over eleven rejections and success on the next attempt.
Status-change and same/different-state reentry controls pin reset
behavior. |
| Bad unsubscribe strands retired-generation bookkeeping | **Fixed.**
Retired all-event bookkeeping completes even when unsubscribe reports
Bad; the first Bad is still returned to the caller. | Good and
BadCommunicationError cases of
`RetiredAllEventsDeletionCompletesBookkeepingAndReleasesGenerationAsync`
check event/snapshot removal, generation release, and exactly one
unsubscribe without finalization replay. |
| CSR subject parsing and fallback | **Fixed for existing and
regenerated keys.** Omitted subjects fall back to the actual stored
certificate. Regeneration resolves the public certificate's subject
before creating a key. Malformed or unresolvable subjects return
`BadInvalidArgument` before pending-key mutation. | Store-only fallback,
real-generator null/empty cases, and missing-subject/malformed-DN
controls verify the signed CSR, matching fresh pending key, unchanged
active identity, and no destructive side effects. |
| Committed RemoveUser change reported as failed | **Fixed for
RemoveUser and ModifyUser.** Accepted cleanup is still awaited and close
failures remain logged, but cannot replace the committed mutation
result. Precommit failures retain their original result and side
effects. |
`CommittedUserChangeKeepsResultAndPublishedUsersWhenCloseFailsAsync`
checks published Users, Good result, logging, and continued closes.
`FailedUserChangeKeepsPublishedUsersAndDoesNotCloseSessionsAsync` checks
BadNotFound with no publication or close. |
| Alleged pooled decoded-request aliasing | **No runtime redesign
needed; reviewer rebuttal confirmed.** The decoder copies the relevant
input data. Misleading ownership comments were corrected rather than
introducing a new dispatch model. |
`DecodedRequestRetainsValuesAfterInputBuffersAreReturnedAsync` checks
the exact decoded NodeId and ByteString after returned arrays are
poisoned. |

The current documentation-only follow-up rechecked **104 Core, 473
Server, and
4 Configuration cases** covering these concerns: **581 passed, zero
failed or
skipped**. The final net10 solution build also passed with **zero
warnings and
errors**. The complete earlier Core/Server/Configuration and net48
results remain
listed separately rather than being presented as rerun current-head
acceptance.

## Earlier review follow-up

Commit `b8a59990fe2e8e967a12ffd5d9158beed7831143` addresses all 19
review
threads. Each thread has an in-thread reply naming this commit and was
explicitly
resolved after verification; the final paginated query found 19 resolved
and
zero unresolved threads.

The follow-up fixes injected certificate-store selection (including
default
provider ordering and native X509 paths), actual-RSA minimum
enforcement, and
CSR capability/subject validation before key mutation. Node-manager
teardown
uses simpler scoped ownership and drains accepted user revocation
outside the
master gate; committed user results and retired-event cleanup remain
correct
when cleanup reports failure. File mutations can recover after failed
refresh
without bypassing capacity or cancellation, provider paths protect mount
roots,
and repeated timed rejections no longer flood logs. Leadership
subscriber
failures are isolated without callbacks from `IsLeader`.

Regressions also pin the already-merged OPN/discovery buffer fixes and
prove
decoded request values do not borrow returned input buffers. The strict
inline
issuer revocation policy is documented and tested, not weakened.
Existing tests
were changed only for the reviewed behavior: the incorrect
committed-user result
was corrected, and inline-issuer/root-alias controls were expanded.

### Review-fix validation

| Suite | Scope | Framework | Passed | Existing TRX NotExecuted |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Core | Complete project | net10.0 | 4,970 | 88 |
| Server | Complete project | net10.0 | 6,414 | 69 |
| Configuration | Complete project | net10.0 | 231 | 0 |
| Core | Certificate, lease and buffer compatibility slice | net48 | 153
| 0 |
| Server | Reviewed lifecycle, user, file, timer and CSR compatibility
slice | net48 | 692 | 0 |
| Configuration | Complete project | net48 | 231 | 0 |
| CSR provider regressions | Final portable-mock follow-up | net10.0 |
11 | 0 |

All runs exited successfully with normal concurrency and leak detection.
The Server console reports 5 skips; its TRX additionally records
existing
assumption/explicit cases, hence the 69-record count above. The
Framework build
caught two modern-only `ValueTask.CompletedTask` usages in new mock
setup; only
those expressions changed to the equivalent portable
`default(ValueTask)`.
The complete modern suites precede that test-only correction; all
production
files remained byte-identical, and the corrected fixture passed on both
targets.

The final net10 solution build succeeded with 0 errors and the same 4
CA2249
warnings in unchanged fuzz-test code. Diff checks and changed-line
whitespace
checks are clean; whole-file formatting still identifies 10 unchanged
baseline
lines, which were not reformatted outside the feedback scope. The
committed
35-file tree was hash-verified against the validation inputs.

This is the review-feedback verification scope, not a rerun or sign-off
of the
historical complete platform/native/soak acceptance campaign below.


## Latest upstream merge

Merge `9d9bf679f317164c5b2b90924cd3cdc27a86d451` integrates `master`
through `162fc5ebb` (#4486),
including the AddNodes child-name index, shared certificate-error
reporting,
CTT sample-data corrections, and the accompanying regressions and
documentation.

The CreateSession conflict preserves this branch's certificate
ownership,
required certificate, application-URI, and channel-certificate checks.
The
validation result now retains nested errors through `ThrowIfInvalid`,
allowing
the upstream shared reporting helper to mask trust, policy, and
revocation
failures consistently without losing audit detail.

The new indexed AddNodes regression initially attempted to reuse a
deterministic
NodeId after renaming its existing node. Renaming frees the BrowseName,
not that
NodeId. `IndexedBrowseNameReusePreservesExistingNodeIdentityAsync` now
proves
both contracts: the derived-ID collision leaves the original node
intact, then
a fresh explicitly requested ID can reuse the old name while the new
name
remains protected against duplicates. No production identity rule was
relaxed.
The incoming seeded random-index test uses the existing `UnsecureRandom`
wrapper
with the same seed and sequence; no new analyzer suppression was added.

| Local merge validation | Framework | Passed | Existing exclusions |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Core, complete project | net10.0 | 5,081 | 88 |
| NodeState / BaseInstanceState | net10.0 | 579 | 0 |
| Server node management, certificate and session-security selection |
net10.0 | 112 | 0 |
| InformationModel node-management services | net10.0 | 29 | 1 |
| NodeState / BaseInstanceState | net48 | 578 | 0 |
| Core certificate validation, error reporting and TCP buffers | net48 |
111 | 0 |
| Server node management, certificate and session-security selection |
net48 | 112 | 0 |

All selected runs exited successfully at normal concurrency: **6,602
passing
test executions**. Modified test assemblies were explicitly rebuilt, and
the
combined name/identity regression was verified by name in both net10 and
net48
results. No skips or weakened assertions were introduced.

The final `dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release --no-restore -m:1` with
`CustomTestTarget=net10.0` succeeded with **zero warnings and zero
errors**.
The resolved source and adjusted tests pass whitespace verification, and
their
source hashes match the validation inputs.

This is merge-specific verification. Earlier review results and the
previously
reported incomplete full Subscriptions runs below remain scoped to their
own
commits; they were not reopened or relabeled as passing by this
operation.

## Previous upstream merge (2026-09-15 morning)

Merge `c4694e20ab089c555af233642042133ff3a03ac8` integrates `master`
through `484d6c887`, retaining
#4481's shared Like parser/GDS query fixes, #4488's RequestHandle
recovery in
ServiceFaults, and #4487's expired-session and durable-transfer
corrections.

Three conflict resolutions preserve both sides:

- Alias searches now use the shared `LikePattern` implementation,
including
upstream malformed-list validation. A timeout overload retains this
branch's
100 ms per-alias deadline and `BadTimeout` reporting without keeping a
second
wildcard translator. The shared matcher's original unlimited overload
remains
unchanged for existing GDS/ContentFilter callers. New regressions cover
bounded prefix/list scans, reuse after timeout, and the alias service
result.
- Expired activation closes outside the session-manager gate using
upstream's
once-only timeout claim, audit, and diagnostic accounting. This branch's
  original-channel and security-policy checks remain in place.
- TCP buffer tests retain this branch's ownership, poisoning-pool and
post-decryption checks alongside the upstream RequestHandle/fault
overload
  tests; neither set was discarded.

The upstream HTTPS binary behavior is intentionally retained: a decoder
`ServiceResultException` produces HTTP 200 with an OPC UA ServiceFault
carrying
the decoder status, response timestamp, and recoverable RequestHandle,
rather
than the previous HTTP 500 text response. Other exceptions retain their
existing HTTP error handling.

| Local validation | Framework | Passed | TRX NotExecuted |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Core, complete project | net10.0 | 5,054 | 88 |
| Sessions, complete project | net10.0 | 780 | 610 |
| Server aliases, expiry/security and subscriptions | net10.0 | 288 | 0
|
| GDS database, paging and live directory calls | net10.0 | 263 | 0 |
| Shared Like patterns and bounded evaluation | net10.0 | 109 | 0 |
| Subscriptions transfer/durability/service selection | net10.0 | 23 | 1
|
| HTTPS WebApi, complete project | net10.0 | 346 | 0 |
| InformationModel aliases | net10.0 | 54 | 5 |
| Shared Like patterns and bounded evaluation | net48 | 109 | 0 |
| Core fault handles, TCP/HTTPS and filters | net48 | 268 | 0 |
| Server aliases, expiry/security and subscriptions | net48 | 288 | 0 |

These selected runs exited successfully with normal test concurrency:
**7,582 passing test executions**. Sessions' console reports 379 skips;
the
TRX also contains conditional/assumption exclusions, so the table uses
the
actual 610 NotExecuted records. No skips or weakened assertions were
added.
The new `EvaluationTimeoutBoundsWorkAndPreservesPatternReuse` and
`SharedPatternTimeoutRemainsAnAliasServiceError` tests passed on both
targets.

**Validation limitation:** two unfiltered Subscriptions runs did not
produce
a final result and were stopped, including a retry with a hang guard.
They
are not counted as passing. The isolated failover fixture passed 2/2,
and the
transfer/durability/service selection above passed. The stall's cause
was not
established; no unrelated code or test was changed to conceal it.

The final `dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release --no-restore -m:1` with
`CustomTestTarget=net10.0` succeeded with **0 warnings and 0 errors**.
Whitespace verification passed for all hand-reconciled files, and staged
source hashes match the validation inputs.

These are merge-specific checks, not a new full platform/native/soak
acceptance
sign-off. Earlier review and acceptance evidence below remains dated to
its
own commit.

## Previous upstream merge (2026-09-14)

Merge `c3e09553e4d1509502d4ba751960d58491bea2cf` integrates `master`
through `6313e38a0` (#4478),
including the CTT-driven Part 13 aggregate corrections and FindAlias
argument
validation. The upstream tests and CTT documentation are retained.

The single conflict in `AliasNameWildcardMatcher` is reconciled through
the
branch's shared regex compiler: upstream malformed-pattern rejection and
`IsValidPattern` coexist with OPC UA character escaping,
whole-string/newline
matching, the 100 ms timeout, and service-level error reporting. The
upstream
ReferenceTypeFilter checks and chronological aggregate behavior are
preserved.

Local merge verification:

| Suite / selection | Framework | Passed | Existing skips |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Server aliases, aggregates and historian | net10.0 | 1,011 | 0 |
| Server aliases, aggregates and historian | net48 | 1,011 | 0 |
| InformationModel aliases | net10.0 | 54 | 5 |
| Features aliases | net10.0 | 11 | 0 |
| Client aliases | net10.0 | 28 | 0 |
| History aggregate/historical-access consumers | net10.0 | 265 | 0 |

All selected tests passed at normal concurrency. The final net10
solution
build passed with 0 errors and 0 warnings.
The resolved file's whitespace check and the staged diff check passed.
These
are merge-specific checks, not a new full platform/native/soak
acceptance claim.

## Previous upstream merges

Integrates `master` through `8e874d073`, including the Client, Types,
Core and
source-generator audit fixes in #4471, #4473, #4474 and #4475, plus the
event queue-size revision from #4480. The merge commits are `150ea0439`
(26 conflict resolutions) and `a0e17c07c` (the base update that arrived
during
validation).

The overlapping fixes are reconciled rather than replacing either
branch:

- **Rejected-certificate retention follows this branch, as explicitly
requested:**
zero means unlimited history; negative values disable new storage while
preserving existing backend trimming behavior (Directory clears prior
history;
shared key/value leaves it intact). The processor and manager policy are
not
  redefined, and documentation/tests describe the distinction.
- Preserve owned certificate snapshots and borrowed validation-core
lifetimes
  alongside upstream cache invalidation, store-first CRL checks and
  `BadCertificateRevocationUnknown` for unsupported revocation lookup.
- Combine exactly-once chunk ownership, receive-loop cancellation,
stale-epoch
rejection and detach-before-adoption with upstream
signature-before-padding
  verification and secret cleanup.
- Preserve pooled `HttpClient` per-request configuration together with
bounded
response reads and deadlines that remain active through body
consumption.
Regression cases exercise already-used clients and both timeout
precedence cases.
- Retain the binary-compatible channel-key constructor and normalize
omitted
profiles; preserve exact profile filtering and upstream binary-first
HTTPS/WSS
  endpoint ordering.
- Preserve monotonic lease expiry and stale-confirmation fencing while
adding
ordered, non-reentrant leadership notifications outside the state lock.

## Validation

Local validation of the conflict-resolution merge:

| Suite | Framework | Passed | Existing skips |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| Core | net10.0 | 4,940 | 88 |
| Client | net10.0 | 2,278 | 0 |
| Server | net10.0 | 6,088 | 5 |
| Types | net10.0 | 10,394 | 1 |
| SourceGeneration.Core | net10.0 | 3,940 | 8 |
| SourceGeneration | net10.0 | 185 | 0 |
| Core | net48 | 4,855 | 104 |

After the subsequent four-file #4480 update, the related Server slice
passed
811 tests with 5 existing skips, the real durable queue-size cases
passed 6/6,
and EventManager's 21 cases passed again after analyzer-only
expected-array
cleanup. The final `dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release` with
`CustomTestTarget=net10.0`
succeeded: 0 errors and 4 pre-existing CA2249 warnings in unchanged
fuzz-test
code. Whitespace verification passed for the resolved files and the
follow-up.

Merge-specific proof includes
`RequestTimeoutRemainsActiveWhileReadingTheOpenApiBodyAsync` on
already-used
shared clients with either the request or HttpClient timeout shorter,
the
existing ownership/expiry regressions from both branches, and both
branches'
retention tests adjusted only to the explicitly chosen zero/negative
contract.

Earlier acceptance at `1c4a9df6c` passed hosted Linux/macOS CI, CodeQL,
image
builds and the canonical coverage gate (87.15% line, 77.27% branch,
92.14% patch).
Both Framework project matrices, all three Windows native suites (183
cases),
and the unfiltered net10 stress project (230 cases, including full
60-minute
chaos and 30-minute memory soaks) also passed. Those are **pre-merge
results**,
not a claim that the full framework/platform/native/soak matrix has been
rerun
on this merge. The previous acceptance workflow remains separate from
this
review-feedback operation.

Security checks, meaningful assertions, leak detection, default native
concurrency, full soak durations and coverage thresholds remain intact.
The user-set ready-for-review state is unchanged. No architectural or
complete
merged-head acceptance sign-off is claimed.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4476

## 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.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] 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.
- [x] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
2026-09-16 04:42:09 +00:00
Marc Schier 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 Schier c48c8b93dd Positioning: OPC 10000-210 RSL and 10000-211 GPOS on one geolocation provider (#4125)
**Stack 3/5** — base #4124. Part of the #4096 split; see #4096 for the
overall picture.

> Review after #4123 and #4124.

## What this is

The OPC 10000-210 Relative Spatial Location and OPC 10000-211 Global
Positioning companion models, with their server and client libraries,
plus the ISA-95 migration onto the shared geolocation seam.

## Why it is one change

A deployment writes **one** provider implementation and both OPC
10000-211 and OPC 10030 are served from it. The specifications disagree
on representation, not on content:

- GPOS publishes the structured `GlobalLocationDataType` and validates
the EPSG code against the configured CRS.
- ISA-95 publishes the same sample as the `String` array that OPC 10030
§8.3.2.2 requires.

Splitting them would mean two provider interfaces for one physical
sensor, which is exactly what this avoids. The seam itself lives in
`Opc.Ua.Server` and landed in 1/5.

## Contents

- `Opc.Ua.Positioning`, `.Server` and `.Client`.
- `Opc.Ua.ISA95.Server` moves onto `IGeoLocationProvider`; the three
ISA-95-specific provider files are removed because the shared seam and
its in-memory implementation replace them.
- **Fixes a conformance gap**: the ISA-95 binder wrote a scalar where
the type declares `ValueRank` OneOrMoreDimensions. It now writes
`String[]`.
- **Fixes a liveness bug**: a provider that cannot push is polled at the
Variable's `MinimumSamplingInterval` rather than installed once, so a
non-pushing provider no longer serves its start-up sample with `Good`
status forever.
- `samples/MinimalIsa95Server`.

## Validation

`dotnet build UA.slnx` — 0 errors.

| Suite | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Opc.Ua.Positioning.Tests | 69 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.ISA95.Tests | 136 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Di.Tests | 304 / 0 |

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