# Description
Nullable reference types are now enabled once, in `common.props`, and
every project in the repository builds warning-clean with them.
**Configuration**
- `<Nullable>enable</Nullable>` lives in `common.props`. All per-project
`<Nullable>` settings are removed: 178 project files (enable,
annotations, and the `disable` in the three Aot test projects).
- 419 per-file `#nullable enable`/`restore` directives and the 4
`#nullable disable` directives are removed.
- Kept on purpose:
- The 5 `<auto-generated>` schema files (`UANodeSet.cs`, `UA Type
Dictionary.cs`, `OPCBinarySchema.cs`, `SecuredApplication.cs`,
`PInvokeHelper.cs`) keep `#nullable enable`. The compiler ignores the
project setting in generated code, so the directive is required there.
- `tests/Opc.Ua.Interop.LegacyPeer` keeps `disable`. It builds against
the 1.5.378 packages and does not import the repository props.
- `docs/DeveloperGuide.md` and `.github/copilot-instructions.md` now
describe the central setting.
**Migration** (the 43 unset and 13 annotations-only projects, roughly
10k diagnostics)
- **Production code: annotated at the declarations.** Covers
`tools/Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core`, `src/Opc.Ua.Lds.Server` and the
LDS sample.
- Members, parameters and returns are nullable where null actually
flows.
- Null-check helpers carry `[NotNullWhen]` (`IsNull`, `IsValidXmlName`,
`IsMethodTypeDesign`).
- `CoreUtils.Format`, `Utils.Format`, `ITemplateWriter.WriteLine` take
`params object?[]`. `Template.AddReplacement` takes `string?` (rendering
already skips null replacements).
- `IRegisteredServerStore.RegisterAsync` returns
`Task<RegistrationEntry?>`: it returns null when a registration is
removed.
- Dereferences backed by an invariant (for example, the validated model)
use `!`, so runtime behaviour is unchanged.
- **Behavioural changes in production code** (small, deliberate):
- `NodeSetToModelDesign` throws `InvalidOperationException` when the
file is not a NodeSet. Before, it threw a NullReferenceException on the
next line.
- `ModelDesignValidator` starts its lookup tables empty instead of null.
A redundant `if (m_nodes == null) return;` guard is gone.
- **Test code: minimal annotations.**
- `?` on values that can be null, `!` where the test asserts non-null.
- `= null!` for fixture members assigned in SetUp.
- `TryGetStructure<T>(out T? x)` where the inferred `T?` broke the
`IEncodeable` constraint.
- A few redundant `== null` checks on structs (`NodeId`, `ArrayOf<T>`)
folded into the adjacent `IsNull`/`Count` checks.
**Notes for reviewers**
- The diff is large (~1,500 files) but almost entirely mechanical: `?`,
`!` and directive removal. The non-annotation changes are listed above.
- Known follow-up, not done here:
`IModelDesign.Namespaces/TargetNamespace/NamespaceUris` stay
non-nullable even though the validator returns null before it loads a
dictionary. Making them nullable would ripple through every generator
call site.
## Related Issues
- Fixes#4439
## 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.
- [ ] 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.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
The "no new warnings" box covers net10.0 and net48: full non-incremental
builds of `UA.slnx`, `tools/SourceGeneration.slnx`,
`tools/MigrationAnalyzer.slnx` and the Aot test projects finished with 0
warnings and 0 errors under the repository's warnings-as-errors
settings. net9.0 and net8.0 also had no nullable diagnostics, but they
were not rebuilt after the final fixes. Tests have not been run locally
yet.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
**Stack 2/5** — base #4123. Part of the #4096 split; see #4096 for the
overall picture.
> Review after #4123. The diff shown against `master` will include #4123
until that merges.
## What this is
Source generator only; no runtime library changes.
## Contents
- **Typed NodeSet method signatures.** A method imported from a NodeSet
now gets a typed signature. Methods that share a declared signature are
grouped onto one generated `MethodType`, named after its owner when the
plain name would collide, so two unrelated `Execute` methods no longer
share a class.
- **An override that keeps the signature it inherits keeps the
declaration it overrides.** Pointing `MethodDeclarationNode` at the
override itself made `MethodDeclarationId` self-referential. OPC 10000-4
lets a caller invoke a method with the NodeId of its declaration in the
ObjectType *or any supertype*, and `MethodState.MethodDeclarationId` is
what the server matches on, so `Call` stopped resolving and returned
`Bad_MethodInvalid` for every alarm subtype. An override that genuinely
changes its signature still becomes its own declaration.
- **`StateNumbers` / `TransitionNumbers` were emitted empty for every
NodeSet-sourced model**, because such children arrive as
`VariableDesign` rather than `PropertyDesign` and were filtered out. Any
companion model built from a NodeSet was writing `StateNumber = 0` on
the wire — a Part 16 defect well beyond the models in this stack. The
ModelDesign path is unchanged.
- **Referenced models can contribute fluent accessors**, carried by a
model dependency payload so a downstream model can extend an upstream
one.
## Notes for the reviewer
- `tests/Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Tests` is left at its `master` content
here. Its new vendor-subtype test uses the Robotics NodeSet as its
fixture, so it can only land with the Robotics change at the top of the
stack (5/5).
- `PumpInstanceNodeIdRegressionTests` gains six
`InputArguments`/`OutputArguments` entries for argument-less standard
condition methods. Typed method signatures materialise those properties
from the `ConditionType` declaration even where the method takes none.
That is a real deviation, pinned rather than hidden so it stays visible;
it is worth a follow-up.
## Validation
`dotnet build UA.slnx` — 0 errors.
| Suite | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core.Tests | 3739 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Tests | 81 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Di.Tests | 304 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.History.Tests | 506 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Gds.Tests | 1095 / 0 |
History and GDS are listed because they are what the method-declaration
fix above is load-bearing for: without it they fail with 10 and 370
errors respectively.
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 8cbb8cd0-f0cb-4ab0-bea2-6202fbf69485
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