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Link to Jira task

DOPE-589

Mirror PR: openplc-web, branch feat/DOPE-589-device-id-from-license-core.
Depends on: openplc-packages, same branch name (the contract and the rebuilt archives).

Description of the changes proposed

The open firmware stops reading the hardware anchor. It asks the closed license-core for the identity that core already derives, and forwards it. Three things follow.

  • ArduinoUniqueID leaves the build entirely — the include, the GLOBAL_LIBRARIES entry, and the OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID machinery. That flag existed (DOPE-587) because the library #errors on cores it does not cover, which broke every Arduino Opta, Portenta Machine Control H7 and Edge Control build. With no library there is nothing to keep out, so the flag and the isLicensable → defines gate are removed. The list-then-header shape DOPE-587 introduced in generate-defines stays: it is what stops a board with define: [] emitting a bare header.

  • FC 0x48 is redefined, not duplicated. The code keeps its number and changes meaning: raw anchor bytes → the 16-byte derived device_id. What makes that safe is the length check, not an assumption about the field. A firmware built before DOPE-587 did link ArduinoUniqueID, and answers 0x48 with raw anchor bytes — 9 on an AVR — so a redefined 0x48 can meet a legacy firmware. deriveIdentity checks the length of a reported id instead of trusting it, and license-flow.test.ts pins that exact case with the 9-byte AVR named in the comment: the mismatch fails closed, with a message the user can act on, rather than sending someone to checkout for an identity no device can reproduce. Do not remove that check on the grounds that legacy firmware cannot appear — it can. Every symbol that claimed otherwise is renamed with it (MB_FC_DEBUG_GET_DEVICE_ID, debugGetDeviceId, getDeviceId, parseGetDeviceIdResponse), so nothing is left saying "board id" where a device id is meant. The handler passes the frame length as the capacity, so an id that would not fit is refused rather than truncated — a short id is not a weaker identity, it is a different one, matching no licence ever issued.

  • The result types split in two, because bare metal and runtime-v4 answer the same function code with different kinds of value:

    carries derived by
    DebugDeviceIdResult deviceId the closed core, on the board
    DebugAnchorResult anchor the editor, in TypeScript

    One frame parser, two typed wrappers, one method per transport (getDeviceId / getAnchor), and a discriminated union into the licensing flow so the compiler forces every call site to say which it holds. Collapsing them back is how a derived id gets hashed a second time, producing an identity the device can never reproduce. deriveIdentity also checks the length of a reported id rather than trusting it: a firmware and a core that disagree about the format must not send a customer to checkout.

Scope is bare metal only. The Linux / runtime-v4 path keeps the device-tree serial and the TypeScript derivation; extending it would pull in openplc-runtime and is a later increment.

Second commit fixes four test comments that survived the rename still describing the old firmware — one of them asserted that 0x48 answers raw ArduinoUniqueID bytes, which is exactly what this change removes.

DOD checklist

  • The code is complete and according to developers’ standards.
  • I have performed a self-review of my code.
  • Meet the acceptance criteria.
  • Unit tests are written and green.
  • Test coverage: __ %.
  • Integration tests are written and green.
  • Changes were communicated and updated in the ticket description.
  • Reviewed and accepted by the Product Owner.
  • End-to-end test are successful.

What was verified, and what was not

Verified: tsc --noEmit clean; eslint 0 errors; prettier clean; validate:arch passes; the affected suites pass — modbus-pdu, websocket-transport-license, license-flow, generate-defines, device-identity, device-probe — including three new license-flow cases for the reported-id path (uses it as-is without re-hashing, refuses an empty id, refuses a 9-byte id, which is what an AVR used to report).

Not verified, and it is the reason the acceptance-criteria box is unchecked. The DOPE-589 criteria require real compiles: a plain ST project on Arduino Mega and the simulator with no ArduinoUniqueID object in the link line, and on the three mbed targets that DOPE-587 fixed. Those need arduino-cli and the board cores, which I did not run here. Also unrun: the full jest suite (it was killed for load; 44 suites had passed before that point) and any test against a licensable board with the rebuilt archive, which is criterion 5 — the parity case proving the reported id equals what the current derivation produces. That one is provable today on the packages side: the new host test asserts the reported bytes equal the golden blob's signed device_id field.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Device detection and licensing distinguish bare-metal device IDs from runtime anchors.
    • Runtime uploads support snapshots, usernames, and retain-configuration updates.
    • Retrieved projects can include managed libraries for installation.
    • VPP packages include valid signatures when available.
    • Firmware builds can validate retain-memory capacity.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Arduino uploads fail when no communication port is provided.
    • Constant variables are clearly identified when write or force operations are attempted.
    • Permanent licensing failures no longer offer retry actions.
    • Licensing errors now use clearer, user-friendly wording.
    • Debugger messages preserve paragraph spacing and use severity-appropriate colors.
    • Compiler results consistently report success or failure.

marconetsf and others added 2 commits August 28, 2026 12:04
…queID leaves the firmware

The open firmware no longer reads the hardware anchor at all. It asks the
closed license-core for the identity it already derives internally, and
forwards it. Three things follow from that, and the third is the reason the
diff is this size.

WHAT THE FIRMWARE DOES NOW

`debugGetDeviceId()` calls `license_gate_device_id()` and puts the answer on
the wire. No <ArduinoUniqueID.h>, no OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID, no library in
GLOBAL_LIBRARIES. The frame length is passed as the capacity, so an id that
would not fit is refused rather than truncated: a short id is not a weaker
identity, it is a different one, matching no licence ever issued.

This also makes DOPE-587 unnecessary. That fix existed because the library
`#error`s on cores it does not cover (mbed: Opta, Portenta Machine Control,
Edge Control) and needed a build flag to stay out of those builds. With no
library there is nothing to keep out, so the flag and the isLicensable ->
defines gate are both removed. The list-then-header shape DOPE-587 introduced
in generate-defines stays, because it is what stops a board with `define: []`
emitting a bare header.

0x48 IS REDEFINED, NOT DUPLICATED

There is no firmware in the field, so the code keeps its number and changes
meaning: raw anchor bytes -> the 16-byte derived device_id. Every symbol that
claimed otherwise is renamed with it (MB_FC_DEBUG_GET_DEVICE_ID,
debugGetDeviceId, getDeviceId, parseGetDeviceIdResponse), so nothing is left
saying "board id" where a device id is meant.

WHY THE TYPES SPLIT IN TWO

Bare metal and runtime-v4 answer the same function code with different KINDS
of value, and one shared field name would be a lie on one of them:

  DebugDeviceIdResult  {deviceId}  - baremetal, already derived in the core
  DebugAnchorResult    {anchor}    - runtime-v4, the raw device-tree serial

The transports get one method each (getDeviceId / getAnchor), the frame parse
stays shared, and the licensing flow takes a discriminated union so the
compiler forces every call site to say which it holds. Collapsing them back
is how a derived id gets hashed a second time, producing an identity the
device can never reproduce. deriveIdentity also checks the LENGTH of a
reported id rather than trusting it: a firmware and a core that disagree
about the format must not send a customer to checkout.

Scope is bare metal only. The Linux path keeps the device-tree serial and the
TypeScript derivation; extending it would pull in openplc-runtime and is a
later increment.

VERIFIED

tsc clean; eslint 0 errors; prettier clean; validate:arch passes; the four
affected suites pass (modbus-pdu, websocket-transport-license, license-flow,
generate-defines), including three new license-flow cases for the reported-id
path. The full jest run was not executed locally.

Refs DOPE-589

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FXYD9c1f7CArA26g6sLqCw
…behaviour

The mechanical rename only touched comments containing a renamed symbol, so
four explanations survived describing a firmware that no longer exists. One of
them asserted the exact thing this change removed:

  device-identity.test.ts: "bare metal answers 0x48 with the raw
  ArduinoUniqueID bytes and the closed core reads the SAME bytes raw"

That is now false on both halves. Baremetal reports an id already derived
inside the closed core, and `deriveDeviceId` serves the runtime-v4 path alone.
The test itself stays exactly as it was and still passes: hashing the anchor
raw remains correct, because the closed core's __linux__ branch strips the
same trailing set on read and the transport re-normalizes before this
function sees the bytes. Only the reason was wrong, which is the worse kind of
stale comment - it reads as a specification.

The other three:

- device-probe.test.ts, twice: "a core without ArduinoUniqueID" and "boards
  opting out via OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID" as the reason a board answers
  `id_len = 0`. The reason is now no license-core linked, or an architecture
  the closed reader refuses (AVR, RP2040).
- debug-e2e.test.ts (shared surface, mirrored to openplc-web): claimed the
  simulator gets an empty id because the build defines OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID.
  It gets one because it links no license-core, so the weak default answers 0.

Found by grepping the committed tree for the library name rather than trusting
the rename. Nothing in either repo now names the library or the flag except
the three places that deliberately record the history.

prettier and eslint clean; device-identity and device-probe suites pass
(20 tests).

Refs DOPE-589

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FXYD9c1f7CArA26g6sLqCw
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Walkthrough

The PR separates bare-metal device IDs from runtime-v4 anchors across debug transports, probing, licensing, and IPC handlers. It adds terminal licensing failures, runtime snapshot support, retain-buffer defines, VPP signature packaging, and explicit compiler success results.

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Device identity and licensing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Split identity transport contracts
src/backend/shared/debug/*, src/backend/editor/modbus/*, src/backend/shared/simulator/*
Debug result types, transport methods, Modbus function codes, and parsers now distinguish device IDs from anchors.
Rename device probing APIs
src/backend/editor/hardware/*
Probe methods, budgets, result fields, and options now use device-ID terminology.
Validate split identity transports
src/backend/shared/debug/__tests__/*, src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/*
Tests cover renamed identity APIs, response fields, errors, concurrency, and timeouts.
Pass tagged identities through licensing
src/backend/editor/license/*
Licensing accepts tagged device IDs or anchors. Device IDs use length validation. Anchors are hashed.
Integrate identity reads in IPC licensing
src/main/modules/ipc/*, src/middleware/shared/ports/device-port.ts
IPC handlers select the available identity method and return terminal failures with retryable: false.
Render terminal licensing failures
src/frontend/components/_features/[workspace]/editor/device/configuration/*, src/frontend/utils/*, src/frontend/hooks/*
The UI suppresses retry actions for terminal failures and displays terminal error details.
Standardize licensing messages
src/backend/editor/license/*
Licensing errors use plain-English wording, and tests enforce capitalization, punctuation, terminology, and spelling.

Compiler and runtime updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update compile defines and Modbus status handling
src/backend/shared/compile/*, src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts, src/backend/editor/modbus/*, src/backend/shared/debug/modbus-pdu.ts
Defines generation emits OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE when configured and no longer emits licensing-based OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID. Read-only Modbus responses produce descriptive CONSTANT-variable errors.
Report compiler and upload results
src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts
Arduino uploads fail without a communication port. VPP packaging writes available signatures. Compiler and simulator completion events include explicit success verdicts.
Wire runtime snapshots and IPC handlers
src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts, src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts
Runtime uploads accept snapshots and usernames. Runtime IPC handlers support configuration, project retrieval, library archives, pruning, and installation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 6a201

This change makes a device-reported derived identity authoritative for licensing and removes the hardware-anchor path, but the current branch still has a possible low-baud identity truncation failure, mixed-version identity ambiguity, and several concrete validation and error-handling defects that can cause licensing failures, incorrect project saves, misleading UI, or rejected runtime uploads. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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While runtime snapshots cross new signs,
Read-only values refuse each write,
Compiler results now state success right,
And terminal faults end retry flights.

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Actionable comments posted: 6

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src/backend/editor/license/license-flow.ts (1)

228-259: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an exhaustive switch for DeviceIdentity.

Line 229 uses a conditional that treats every future variant as an anchor. Add a switch with a never check so a new identity kind cannot silently enter the anchor derivation path.

As per coding guidelines, src/**/*.{ts,tsx} must “Model variant states as discriminated unions and make switches exhaustive with a never check.”

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In `@src/backend/editor/license/license-flow.ts` around lines 228 - 259, Update
deriveIdentity to replace the kind-based conditional with an exhaustive switch
over DeviceIdentity, preserving the existing device-id validation and anchor
derivation behavior. Add a never-typed default branch so future identity
variants fail at compile time instead of being treated as anchors.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/backend/shared/debug/__tests__/modbus-pdu.test.ts`:
- Around line 342-345: Replace all four non-null assertions on deviceId with
explicit definedness assertions before using the value. In
src/backend/shared/debug/__tests__/modbus-pdu.test.ts lines 342-345 and 350-353,
and src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/modbus-rtu-client.test.ts lines
698-701 and 709-713, assert result.deviceId is defined, then use that narrowed
value for Array.from and related checks.

In `@src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/modbus-rtu-client.test.ts`:
- Around line 740-742: Update the error expectation in the getDeviceId test to
match the current `Incomplete device-id data` message while preserving the
existing failure assertion.

In `@src/frontend/services/save-actions.ts`:
- Around line 1120-1123: Update the vendorScreenDataByBoard validation before
assigning diskByBoard[deviceId] so it accepts only non-null, non-array records;
treat arrays and other invalid values as an empty record. Remove the type
assertions from the cloning and fallback expressions while preserving the
existing diskVendor assignment flow.

In `@src/main/modules/ipc/__tests__/device-license.handler.test.ts`:
- Around line 80-82: Update the default success fixture in deviceIdClient so
getDeviceId returns a valid 16-byte deviceId instead of ANCHOR; keep the
existing success response structure and override behavior unchanged.
- Around line 74-76: Replace the `as unknown as` access to the private
`deviceSession` field in the bridge test fixture with a typed test seam or
injected `DeviceSessionManager`. Update `holdClient` and `holdRestSession` to
use that typed access while preserving their existing behavior, and remove the
double assertions.

In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts`:
- Around line 115-120: Update isLicenseChannel to accept channels exposing
either getDeviceId or getAnchor, while still requiring both readLicense and
writeLicense; preserve the type guard so runtime-v4 WebSocketDebugTransport
connections reach the anchor path in withLicenseChannel and readLicenseIdentity.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/backend/editor/license/license-flow.ts`:
- Around line 228-259: Update deriveIdentity to replace the kind-based
conditional with an exhaustive switch over DeviceIdentity, preserving the
existing device-id validation and anchor derivation behavior. Add a never-typed
default branch so future identity variants fail at compile time instead of being
treated as anchors.
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Review — openplc-editor PR #1059

Verdict

Request changes. The direction is right and the type model — a discriminated
union of device-id | anchor — is the correct design for the problem. But the
PR breaks the runtime-v4 licensing path in production, and
device-license.handler.test.ts is red: the suite that would have caught it, if
the rename hadn't left it testing a double that no longer corresponds to
anything real.

Both problems have the same root cause. The getBoardIdgetDeviceId rename
was applied mechanically across the baremetal layer, but the runtime-v4
transport became getAnchor, and the two places that decide "can this channel
carry licensing?" did not follow.

Independent verification

Worktree of e52bc2191, Node v22.14.0:

What Result
npx tsc --noEmit clean
eslint on the 22 changed .ts files 0 errors (69 warnings, all pre-existing in main.ts)
modbus-pdu, websocket-debug-transport-license, license-flow, device-identity, device-probe, generate-defines 6 suites pass (the ones the PR body lists)
src/main/modules/ipc/__tests__/device-license.handler.test.ts FAILS — 5 tests
src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/modbus-rtu-client.test.ts FAILS — 1 test
Grep for getBoardId / boardId / BOARD_ID across the tree clean (only "BOARD_ID=42" in a docstring example)
MAX_MB_FRAME (128 AVR / 256) − 4 ≥ 16 ok; the capacity passed can never force a refusal
mb_frame_len is uint16_t, assigned 4 + (int)idLen ok
Baremetal license_gate.h vs. the other 5 copies (packages, web) byte-identical (54e93901)
extern "C" covers license_gate_device_id in the header ok — the C++ weak definition matches the C symbol in the .a
license_gate_init referenced at Baremetal.ino:172 ok, so license_gate_weak.cpp is in every build

The PR body is honest about what wasn't run (real compiles, the full suite). But
it lists the passing suites without noting that device-license.handler is not
among them — and that's the suite covering the layer this PR rewrote most.

A. Blockers

A1 — the runtime-v4 licensing path becomes unreachable

src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts:117

function isLicenseChannel(client: DeviceDebugChannel): client is DeviceDebugChannel & LicenseChannel {
  return (
    typeof client.getDeviceId === 'function' &&   // <-- the WS transport never satisfies this
    typeof client.readLicense === 'function' &&
    typeof client.writeLicense === 'function'
  )
}

WebSocketDebugTransport — the only channel withDebugChannel hands out, and
the only licensing path on a REST / runtime-v4 session — had getBoardId
renamed to getAnchor. It has no getDeviceId. So isLicenseChannel
returns false, and withLicenseChannel answers:

{ outcome: { state: 'check-failed', error: 'this connection cannot carry the license protocol' } }

This applies to device:read-license and device:refresh-license — i.e.
the licensed Raspberry Pi (com.openplc.raspberry-pi-licensed) loses licence
checking and activation entirely. Not a partial degradation: the sequence never
starts.

The rest of the change already handles both cases: LicenseChannel declares
both methods optional, and readLicenseIdentity (lines 1995 and 2002) narrows
correctly on the channel. Only the guard was left behind. Fix:

return (
  (typeof client.getDeviceId === 'function' || typeof client.getAnchor === 'function') &&
  typeof client.readLicense === 'function' &&
  typeof client.writeLicense === 'function'
)

The comment just above it also needs updating ("the runtime-v4 WebSocket
implements all three" — it now implements getAnchor, readLicense,
writeLicense).

tsc didn't catch this because both methods became optional on
DeviceChannelTransport. Worth considering making the pair a type-level XOR
rather than two independent optionals: the doc comment already says "no medium
implements both", so the compiler could be enforcing that instead of commenting
on it.

A2 — 5 failing tests in device-license.handler.test.ts

All for the same reason: main.ts now passes
{ ...request, identity: { kind, ... } } to the flow, and the assertions still
expect { ...request, anchor: ANCHOR }.

✕ device:read-license › reads the anchor off the held link and hands it to the inspect flow      (:143)
✕ device:read-license › passes an empty anchor through rather than inventing one                 (:185)
✕ device:refresh-license › runs the full flow over the held link and notes the traffic           (:212)
✕ licensing over a REST-controlled session (runtime v4) › routes read-license over the debug channel      (:320)
✕ licensing over a REST-controlled session (runtime v4) › routes refresh-license over the debug channel   (:336)

More serious than the failures: the runtime-v4 describe block now tests a
channel that doesn't exist.
The helper was renamed to deviceIdClient() and
builds a double with getDeviceId, so "licensing over a REST-controlled session
(runtime v4)" exercises the baremetal branch under a runtime-v4 name. After
fixing A1, those two tests need a double with getAnchor — that's the only
thing that stops A1 from coming back. Suggestion: keep deviceIdClient() for
the control link and add an anchorClient() for the REST block, with an
explicit assertion that the flow receives { kind: 'anchor' }.

The partial-channel test at :346 ({ getDeviceId, writeLicense } with no
readLicense) should become { getAnchor, writeLicense } too, or it stops
covering the scenario it describes.

A3 — 1 failing test in modbus-rtu-client.test.ts

src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/modbus-rtu-client.test.ts:742

Expected substring: "Incomplete board-id data"
Received string:    "Incomplete device-id data (expected 4 bytes, got 2)"

The error string was renamed in modbus-rtu-client.ts:573, the assertion
wasn't. The file was touched by this PR (44 lines), so this is one case that
slipped rather than a file that was missed.

Relevant for the mirror PR: this file lives under
src/backend/shared/simulator/__tests__/, which openplc-web's vitest.config.ts
excludes. The failure surfaces only in editor CI. Fix here and mirror it.

B. Worth changing

B1 — the collateral deviceId rename in save-actions.ts makes the name worse and is out of scope

src/frontend/services/save-actions.ts:1042 and :1118

-  const boardId = state.deviceDefinitions.configuration.deviceBoard
+  const deviceId = state.deviceDefinitions.configuration.deviceBoard

That value is the board identifier — the key into availableBoards and the
key of the vendorScreenDataByBoard bucket. It has nothing to do with the
licensing device_id. Calling it deviceId in a PR whose central thesis is
"board id and device id are different things, and conflating them is how a
derived identity gets hashed twice" inverts its own argument, and
diskByBoard[deviceId] reads worse than the original.

This is clearly a search-and-replace that overreached. It costs two things: it
puts a UI-persistence file in the diff of a licensing PR, and it forces an extra
file into the shared surface with openplc-web (the mirror had to carry the
rename too). Revert it.

B2 — an empty device_id should be unsupported, not check-failed

src/backend/editor/license/license-flow.ts:228

deriveIdentity maps bytes.length === 0 to check-failed. This PR's own
logic argues, for LIC_UNSUPPORTED on 0x48, that a permanent property of
the device
must land on the terminal unsupported outcome precisely to avoid
an endless retry nag (modbus-pdu.ts, the R2/E5 comment).

An id_len = 0 on bare metal is exactly that. After this PR it means: no
license-core linked, or an architecture the closed reader refuses (AVR,
whose signature row is not guaranteed unique; RP2040, whose id lives in a
socketed flash chip). Neither improves on retry. A licensable VPP published for
an AVR board would be stuck in a retryable check-failed forever.

The behaviour is pre-existing (the old code did the same with an empty anchor),
but this PR widens and makes permanent the population that reaches that branch,
and it's the PR that wrote the argument against it. At minimum this deserves a
recorded decision — or the mapping to unsupported.

B3 — reusing FC 0x48 with no version handshake deserves a release note

The PR changes the meaning of 0x48 while keeping the number, on the basis that
there is no firmware in the field. I accept the product premise, but it leaves
an asymmetry worth recording:

  • new firmware + old editor: the editor receives 16 already-derived bytes
    and hashes them again → a device_id no device can reproduce, a licence
    purchased that never verifies, and no error message that explains why;
  • old firmware + new editor: the ESP32's 6 anchor bytes hit the new length
    check and become an explicit check-failed ("6-byte device id, expected 16").
    Fail-closed and legible — that side is covered by the new test.

So only one of the two directions has a diagnostic. MB_FC_DEBUG_GET_VERSION
(0x47) already exists, so there's room for a gate later; for this PR it's
enough to state explicitly in the ticket and the release notes that editor and
firmware ship together.

C. What's genuinely good

  • The discriminated union is the right design, and the types.ts comment
    explains why without decoration.
    "A single Uint8Array field would
    type-check either way and silently do the wrong thing on one of them" is the
    sentence that justifies having two types, and deriveIdentity branching on
    kind closes the loop: the compiler forces every call site to say what it
    holds.

  • One frame parser, two typed wrappers. parseIdentityFrame keeps the
    byte-level parse in one place (the frame is medium-independent) and the two
    wrappers name what the bytes actually are (the meaning is not). Better than
    duplicating the parse or than one generic field.

  • Checking the length instead of trusting it (license-flow.ts:246) is the
    detail that makes the move safe: "a short id is not a weaker identity, it is a
    DIFFERENT one". And the 9-byte test (what an AVR used to report) anchors
    exactly the firmware/core-disagreement scenario.

  • The test uses a reported device id as-is, without hashing it again, with
    expect(deriveDeviceId(reported)).not.toBe(DEVICE_ID) in the same case, is
    nicely done: it proves the behaviour and proves that the wrong behaviour
    would be observable.

  • debugGetDeviceId passes the frame as the capacity instead of clamping.
    Refusing rather than truncating is the right choice, and the comment explains
    why.

  • The OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID removal is clean — the flag goes, isLicensable
    leaves GenerateDefinesInput, the GLOBAL_LIBRARIES entry goes, and the
    list-then-header shape DOPE-587 introduced stays (it's what stops a board with
    define: [] emitting a bare header). Both output snapshots were updated.

  • Commit e52bc2191 is the kind of commit almost nobody writes. It finds
    four comments that survived the rename still describing a firmware that no
    longer exists — including one asserting that 0x48 answers raw
    ArduinoUniqueID bytes, exactly what the PR removes — and fixes only the
    comment, leaving the test intact because the test is still correct. "Only the
    reason was wrong, which is the worse kind of stale comment — it reads as a
    specification" is right.

Summary

# Item Severity
A1 isLicenseChannel requires getDeviceId; the runtime-v4 WS only has getAnchor → licensing on the licensed Raspberry Pi is unreachable Blocker
A2 5 failing tests in device-license.handler.test.ts; the runtime-v4 block now tests a channel that doesn't exist Blocker
A3 1 failing test in modbus-rtu-client.test.ts (error string renamed, assertion not) Blocker
B1 Collateral boardIddeviceId rename in save-actions.ts: out of scope, worse name, and it drags the web repo along Medium
B2 An empty device_id becomes a retryable check-failed instead of a terminal unsupported Medium
B3 FC 0x48 reused with no versioning: new firmware + old editor fails silently Note / release notes

marconetsf and others added 2 commits September 1, 2026 11:34
Addresses Julio's review on #1059 (A1, A2, A3, B1).

A1 (blocker) -- isLicenseChannel demanded getDeviceId, but the getBoardId
rename made the runtime-v4 WebSocketDebugTransport expose getAnchor instead.
The guard therefore returned false for the only channel a REST session hands
out, and both device:read-license and device:refresh-license answered "this
connection cannot carry the license protocol": licensing on
com.openplc.raspberry-pi-licensed never started at all. The guard now accepts
either identity read, and LicenseChannel is a type-level XOR so a transport
cannot declare both -- the doc comment already asserted "no medium implements
both", so the compiler may as well enforce it. DeviceModbusTransport declares
getAnchor?: never for the same reason.

Being precise about what that buys, because this bug got through review once:
the XOR stops a transport from declaring BOTH reads. It does NOT protect
isLicenseChannel, which inspects a DeviceDebugChannel at RUNTIME with typeof,
where both methods are legitimately optional. What catches this class of
mistake is A2.

A2 (blocker) -- 5 tests in device-license.handler.test.ts were red on the
{ ...request, anchor } -> { ...request, identity } change. The worse half was
silent: the rename left the runtime-v4 describe block driving deviceIdClient(),
so it exercised the baremetal branch under a runtime-v4 name and A1 could not
fail it. Added anchorClient() -- getAnchor, no getDeviceId, which is what the
WebSocket transport actually looks like -- and the REST block now asserts it
receives kind: 'anchor', since a regression to 'device-id' there would mean the
runtime's raw serial being published as an identity. The partial-channel case
moved to { getAnchor, writeLicense } for the same reason.

A3 (blocker) -- the error string was renamed in modbus-rtu-client.ts:573 and
the assertion was not. Mirrored in openplc-web, where vitest excludes that
directory and the failure is invisible.

B1 -- reverted the collateral boardId -> deviceId rename in save-actions.ts.
That value is the board identifier, the key into availableBoards; calling it
deviceId in a PR whose thesis is that the two are different things inverted its
own argument, and it dragged a UI-persistence file into the shared surface for
nothing.

Carries the LIC_DEVICE_ID_SIZE move from openplc-packages: the constant now
lives in license_blob.h next to the device_id field it has to match, bound by a
static assert. Verified byte-identical to contract/firmware in openplc-packages
and to src/assets/firmware in openplc-web.

Not addressed here, deliberately: B2 -- an empty device_id staying a retryable
check-failed rather than a terminal unsupported -- is pre-existing behaviour,
and reopening license-flow.ts widens this PR past its blockers. Recorded as a
follow-up.

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Model identity results and channels as discriminated unions.

DebugDeviceIdResult and DebugAnchorResult allow success without a payload and failure with identity data. Define explicit success and failure variants. Keep an empty Uint8Array as a valid successful identity. Define the identity methods as an XOR, including the neither-method case, instead of leaving both optional on DeviceChannelTransport and DeviceDebugChannel.

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In `@src/backend/shared/debug/types.ts` around lines 93 - 113, Refine
DebugDeviceIdResult and DebugAnchorResult into discriminated success/failure
unions: successful variants must require the identity payload while allowing an
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98-98: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Replace IPC type assertions with validated narrowing.

These assertions violate the TypeScript rules for src/**/*.{ts,tsx}. Lines 98-117 only prove container shapes, but Line 128 casts the partial object to full PLCProjectData.

Validate a dedicated library-build project shape with Zod or no-cast type guards. Then make runLibraryBuildPipeline accept that validated shape.

As per coding guidelines, src/**/*.{ts,tsx} must “Validate external data at boundaries, including IPC payloads, ... using Zod schemas or type guards instead of casts.”

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In `@src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts` at line 98, Replace the IPC
payload assertions in the compiler-module handling around raw, projectPath,
projectData, and rawNativePous with Zod validation or cast-free type guards that
validate the complete library-build project shape, including PLCProjectData
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cast-free type guards that validate the complete library-build project shape,
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runLibraryBuildPipeline, updating that function’s parameter type to the
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In `@src/backend/shared/debug/types.ts`:
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… dead retry

An audit of every terminal state of the licensing flow, plus a bench session on
an ESP32 WROOM licensed before DOPE-589, turned up four defects that all landed
on the same screen at once. The board reported a 6-byte anchor (a pre-DOPE-589
firmware), and this is what the user got:

  "Licence Check Failed
   The editor could not determine whether this device holds a licence. the board
   reported a 6-byte device id, expected 16. Its firmware and its license-core
   disagree about the identity format. This is NOT the same as having no licence."
  [Try Again] [Continue]

Four things wrong in one modal, fixed here:

1. THE MODAL COLLAPSED EVERY PARAGRAPH BREAK. debugger-message-modal.tsx
   rendered the message in a bare <p>, and every caller composes these texts
   with `\n\n` between paragraphs. So the sentence break vanished and the
   injected detail ran into the previous sentence — which is why the lower-case
   "the board reported" reads as a typo rather than as a detail. One class,
   `whitespace-pre-line`, and every message in this flow becomes legible. The
   badge panel already had it; the modal never did.

2. THE MESSAGE STATED AN INTERNAL CONTRACT. "a 6-byte device id, expected 16" is
   a byte width nobody outside this codebase can act on, and it was the FIRST
   thing a user saw when connecting a board flashed by an older editor. It now
   says what to DO: the firmware reports its identity in a format this editor
   does not recognise, rebuild and upload. Same for the empty-identity case,
   which named "license-core" — a component with no user-facing meaning.

3. "TRY AGAIN" WAS OFFERED FOR CAUSES THAT CANNOT CHANGE. `check-failed` gained
   an optional `retryable`, written only ever as `false`, for the terminal
   causes: no identity to bind a licence to, an identity format this editor does
   not speak. Absent still means retryable, so a dropped link, a timeout and a
   backend blip keep the retry they have always had. The badge panel used to
   offer "Check again" even for states where the modal deliberately withheld the
   retry — the same disagreement rendered in two places; both agree now.

4. AN IDENTITY-LESS TARGET WAS TOLD TO REBUILD ITS STORAGE. `LIC_UNSUPPORTED` on
   0x48 (identity) was mapped to the same `unsupported` outcome as
   LIC_UNSUPPORTED on 0x4A (storage) — and that outcome's entire message is
   "this hardware supports it, the image was built without the storage backend,
   rebuild and upload". For a host with no device-tree serial that is factually
   false and unactionable. It is now a terminal check-failed naming the real
   condition. The `unsupported` outcome keeps its meaning and its wording, which
   were carefully written after a NodeMCU cost a debugging session.

Also: `type` on the modal was declared and never read, so an error and a
question wore the same amber glyph. There is one icon, so severity is now
carried by its colour.

Tests: the three suites that sealed the old messages are updated to assert the
new contract instead — including that the width and the word "license-core" are
ABSENT, so a regression to the old wording fails. New cases cover the retry
being withheld when terminal and kept when absent, and the detail still being
shown when the action is withheld.

Verified: `tsc --noEmit` clean; 81 tests green across the licence flow, handler
and dialog suites; badge suite 30 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three things the UX audit found that are pure wording, no behaviour:

  - Title case: "No Licence For This Device" -> "for", "Stored On" -> "on",
    "Missing From" -> "from". Short prepositions go lower-case, and the
    neighbouring dialogs in the same flow already do it ("No Firmware
    Detected", "Connection Error").

  - The purchase-watch panel said "OpenPLC keeps checking for a few minutes".
    The window is PURCHASE_WATCH_WINDOW_MS = 10 minutes, and the hook's own
    docstring calls it "the 10-minute window". Says ten minutes now: a customer
    who just paid is watching that sentence to decide whether to wait.

  - Spelling: the UI is consistently British ("Licence Check Failed", "No
    Licence for This Device"), but four error strings injected INTO those same
    paragraphs were American, so the rendered text read "...holds a licence.
    the stored license has no OPLC magic...". Those four now say "licence", and
    two of them dropped internals while they were being touched: "crc32"
    became "checksum", and "the backend reported a license but returned no blob
    to write" became "the licence server reported a licence but returned
    nothing to write" — "backend" and "blob" are our words, not the user's.

The two shared-surface files are mirrored to openplc-web in the same pass and
verified byte-identical by git hash-object.

Verified: tsc clean; 113 tests green across the six licence suites. Two
assertions that matched the old wording were updated rather than the wording
reverted — they were pinning "crc32" and "no blob to write", which is exactly
what this commit removes from the user's screen.

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The copy pass lower-cased the short preposition in "No Licence For This
Device" (matching the neighbouring dialogs of the same flow), and this
assertion in the connect-flow test still pinned the old capitalisation. Found by
running the FULL suite rather than the licence suites -- the connect flow
asserts on the licence dialog it opens, which the six suites I had been running
do not cover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`npm run format` is a CI gate in both repos, and the comment blocks added in the
previous commits pushed two files past it. Formatting only -- tsc clean and the
seven licence suites still 139 green after.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nal errors

Follow-up to an adversarial review of the previous commits. Four real defects,
one of them a hole the previous commit opened.

1. THE `retryable` CONTRACT WAS DOCUMENTED AND NOT IMPLEMENTED. device-port.ts
   said the flag marks, among others, "a transport that carries no licensing at
   all" -- and none of the three producers of that condition set it:

     - 'this channel carries no identity read' (the comment right above it calls
       it a programming error, so a retry button is a loop with a friendly label)
     - 'this connection cannot carry the licensing protocol' (permanent for that
       kind of session)
     - 'this platform cannot check device licences' (permanent per platform)

   All three now set it. The type also became `retryable?: false` instead of
   `?: boolean`, so the invariant the docblock claims -- only ever written as
   false -- is one the compiler holds.

2. A TERMINAL FAILURE COULD END UP WITH NO SURFACE AT ALL. `quietCheckFailed`
   suppresses the modal on the automatic flow, and its comment justified that
   with "the badge already renders the check-failed state with its own recheck
   affordance". The previous commit made that false precisely for terminal
   failures, by removing the panel's recheck button. Concretely, a runtime-v4 on
   an x86 host: no modal (quiet), no recheck (terminal), no Device ID block (the
   report carries no deviceId on that path) -- a licensing failure with nothing
   on screen to act on. Quieting now applies only to retryable failures. The
   loud case it exists for -- a pre-licence runtime on every connect -- is
   retryable, so it stays quiet.

3. THE COPY PASS MISSED ITS OWN TARGETS. 'Check For Licence' was two lines from
   two titles the pass lower-cased. And five strings that reach the user through
   the same paragraph still said "license", three of them carrying values nobody
   outside this codebase can use: two 32-hex device ids, two 8-hex product ids,
   and a byte count. Those now say what differs -- "issued for a different
   device", "issued for a different VPP", "not a complete licence record" --
   which is the actionable half of the same information.

4. An empty flex row rendered when nothing was on offer, costing the popover's
   12px gap and reading as a control that failed to load.

Tests: `quietCheckFailed` had ZERO coverage and now has both halves (quiet when
retryable, speaks up when terminal). Six assertions pinning the old wording were
updated, and one of them now asserts the ABSENCE of the hex ids rather than
their presence.

Verified: tsc clean, prettier clean, 214 tests green across the 15 affected
suites. Shared surface re-mirrored to openplc-web, 5 files byte-identical by
hash-object.

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Review addressed (A1, A2, A3, B1), plus a pass over the flow it exposed

Head is now a4beecf1f. Your three blockers are fixed; B2 changed shape once I
went looking for where to apply it, and the answer is not in this repository.

A1 (blocker) — isLicenseChannel

Fixed as you suggested, and I took the type-level XOR you raised:

type LicenseChannel = LicenseReadWritable &
  (
    | { getDeviceId(): Promise<DebugDeviceIdResult>; getAnchor?: never }
    | { getAnchor(): Promise<DebugAnchorResult>; getDeviceId?: never }
  )

DeviceModbusTransport declares getAnchor?: never for the same reason: a
Modbus client that grew a getAnchor would report a raw serial the editor would
hash a second time.

Being explicit about what the XOR does NOT buy, because this bug got through
review once: it stops a transport declaring BOTH reads. It does not protect
isLicenseChannel, which inspects a DeviceDebugChannel at RUNTIME with
typeof, where both methods are legitimately optional. What catches this class
is A2, and the comment above the guard now says so.

A2 (blocker) — the suite, and the double that was testing nothing

The 5 assertions are updated. More to the point, the runtime-v4 block now drives
a double that matches reality — anchorClient(): getAnchor, no getDeviceId.
Both REST tests assert they receive kind: 'anchor', since a regression to
'device-id' there would mean the runtime's raw serial being published as an
identity. The partial-channel case and the two LIC_UNSUPPORTED / unknown-FC
cases moved to it too, so the whole REST block exercises the branch it names.

A3 (blocker) — the renamed error string

Fixed, and mirrored in openplc-web #713 in the same push, for the reason you
gave: the file is byte-identical there and web CI excludes the directory, so
"fixed in the editor only" was the likely outcome.

B1 — the collateral rename

Reverted. You were right that it inverted the PR's own argument, and
diskByBoard[deviceId] was the tell: the index into a per-board bucket cannot be
a device identity.

B2 — not changed here, and the reason is upstream

You are right that an id_len = 0 on bare metal is a permanent property of the
device. I went looking for where to apply the mapping and came back with a
different conclusion.

unsupported is the wrong state to carry it. Its documented meaning is "the
running firmware reports no licence STORAGE", and its entire message is "This
hardware supports it: the image was built without the storage backend, rebuild
and upload"
— wording written carefully after a NodeMCU that stores licences
fine cost a debugging session. For a board whose architecture has no identity,
that message is factually false and unactionable.

And the same defect already existed in the other direction: LIC_UNSUPPORTED on
0x48 (identity) was mapped to that same outcome, so a runtime-v4 host with no
device-tree serial was being told to rebuild its storage. That one is fixed
here
— it is now a terminal check-failed naming the real condition.

For bare metal, the mapping belongs in the packages gate rather than in the
editor, and openplc-packages #45 now has it: a licensable package cannot declare
silicon the license-core cannot identify. With that in place, a licensable board
answering id_len = 0 is a firmware built without licensing support — which a
rebuild DOES fix — and that is what the message now says.

If you would rather have the unsupported mapping anyway, say so and I will
change it; you are the one who would hit the retry nag, so it is more your call
than mine.

B3 — the asymmetry, recorded

Agreed: editor and firmware ship together, and it goes in the ticket and the
release notes. The direction with no diagnostic is new firmware + old editor —
the editor receives 16 already-derived bytes, hashes them again, and produces an
id no device can reproduce, with no error explaining why. The inverse is covered
by the length check.

Measured on the bench, which is worth more than the argument: an ESP32 WROOM
licensed before this change answered 0x48 with 6 bytes — e8:6b:ea:e0:23:cc,
the MAC, confirmed with esptool, which is the ESP32's UniqueIDsize. The check
refused it and the flow reported fail-closed, as designed. Its NVS was also
dumped (0x9000, 20 KB): the oplc-lic namespace, the blob key and the OPLC
magic have zero occurrences, so nothing was ever written there.

0x47 (MB_FC_DEBUG_GET_VERSION) exists and is parsed, so there is room for a
real generation gate later; today its only caller is the simulator.

The flow pass this exposed (043315b9da4beecf1f)

The bench session put four defects on one screen at once. That modal read:

"The editor could not determine whether this device holds a licence. the board
reported a 6-byte device id, expected 16. Its firmware and its license-core
disagree about the identity format. This is NOT the same as having no licence."
[Try Again] [Continue]

  1. The modal collapsed every paragraph break. debugger-message-modal.tsx
    rendered the message in a bare <p>, and every caller composes these texts
    with \n\n between paragraphs — so the sentence break vanished and the
    lower-case "the board reported" reads as a typo instead of an injected
    detail. One class, whitespace-pre-line. Not licence-specific: every modal
    routed through debugger-message was affected. The badge panel already had
    it; the modal never did.

  2. The message stated an internal contract. "a 6-byte device id, expected 16"
    is a width nobody outside this codebase can act on, and it was the FIRST
    thing a user saw connecting a board flashed by an older editor. It now names
    the action: the firmware reports its identity in a format this editor does
    not recognise, rebuild and upload. Same for the empty-identity case, which
    named license-core.

  3. "Try Again" was offered for causes that cannot change. check-failed
    gained retryable?: false for the terminal ones. Absent still means
    retryable, so a dropped link, a timeout and a backend blip keep the retry.
    The badge panel used to offer "Check again" even where the modal deliberately
    withheld it — the same disagreement in two places; both agree now.

  4. type was declared on the modal and never read, so an error and a question
    wore the same amber glyph.

Also, from a UX audit of every terminal state: five error strings still carried
two 32-hex device ids, two 8-hex product ids and a byte count into the same
paragraph. They now say what DIFFERS — "issued for a different device", "issued
for a different VPP", "not a complete licence record". Plus title case, and the
purchase panel saying "ten minutes" instead of "a few minutes" (the window is
PURCHASE_WATCH_WINDOW_MS = 10 min, and someone who just paid reads that
sentence to decide whether to wait).

Verification

What Result
npx tsc --noEmit clean
Licence suites 216 tests green across 15 suites
Full suite 7427 / 7453. The 6 failures are pre-existing and Windows-specific — a drive letter in board-info-resolver.test.ts and toLocaleString under pt-BR in stats-table.test.tsx. Neither file is touched here; both pass on the CI's Ubuntu
eslint · prettier 0 errors, format clean
Shared surface vs openplc-web 8 files, byte-identical by blob OID

Negative control on the earlier state: the same suites on the previous head are
the 6 red tests in this PR's own CI run — 5 + 1, exactly the ones you listed.

quietCheckFailed had no coverage at all and now has both halves, because the
retry removal opened a hole there: with the panel's recheck gone, silencing the
modal too would have left a terminal failure on the automatic flow with no
surface at all. Quieting now applies only to retryable failures.

Still open

The 6 CodeRabbit comments. Two are resolved by this work (the
isLicenseChannel one is A1; the modbus-rtu-client message is A3). Of the
other four, the substantive one: ANCHOR in the handler test is 4 bytes and
deviceIdClient() hands it back as a deviceId, where the real deriveIdentity
requires 16 — the suite passes because licenseFlow is mocked, so the fixture
models a device the flow would reject. It does not weaken what A2 proves (the
assertion is on which kind reaches the flow), but the double should not
describe an impossible device. I will take that one and the three nitpicks
separately.

…device-id-from-license-core

One conflict, in shared surface: `generate-defines.ts`. Both sides edited the
`GenerateDefinesInput` interface and its destructuring.

  - development added `retainBlobSize` (NODE-94, the retain-blob size the
    firmware static_asserts against its own buffer) -- KEPT.
  - this branch removed `isLicensable` (DOPE-589 dropped OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID:
    the open firmware links no unique-id library at all now, the identity comes
    from the closed license-core through license_gate_device_id) -- the removal
    STANDS.

So the resolution is development's side minus the `isLicensable` field and its
docblock. Nothing else in the file references it, and the comment explaining the
removal was already auto-merged in from this branch.

Unrelated to the conflict, worth recording because it looks like a merge break
and is not: `tsc` came out with two errors on `retainBlobSize` missing from
`DebugMapV2`. That type ships with strucpp, which is a pinned GitHub release
rather than an npm dependency, and development bumped `binary-versions.json`
from v0.6.4 to v0.6.5 -- where the field was added. `program-build-pipeline.ts`,
which uses it, was never touched by this branch. `npm run setup:strucpp` fixes
it; CI installs strucpp the same way after `npm ci --ignore-scripts`.

Verified after the merge: tsc clean, 472 tests green across 27 suites (licence,
compile, dialog, badge, handler and hooks).

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src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-rtu-client.ts (1)

668-668: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make getDeviceId() use size-aware RTU framing.

sendRequest() uses the 10 ms idle timeout when no options are supplied. A fragmented FC 0x48 response can therefore reach parseGetDeviceIdResponse() incomplete. Frame success responses from id_len (6 + id_len wire bytes), and complete non-success responses at 5 bytes. Add coverage for fragmented 16-byte responses and valid empty-ID responses.

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In `@src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-rtu-client.ts` at line 668, Update
getDeviceId() to pass size-aware RTU framing options to sendRequest() instead of
relying on the default idle timeout: frame successful FC 0x48 responses using
id_len plus the 6-byte header, and frame non-success responses at 5 bytes. Add
coverage for fragmented 16-byte responses and valid empty-ID responses.
src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts (1)

2462-2462: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate signature.json when signature enforcement is disabled.

When REQUIRE_SIGNATURE is false, this path parses and forwards values such as null, [], or {} without the warning used for unusable signatures. Parse the value as unknown and validate the signature shape before writing vpp_signature.json.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts` at line 2462, Update the
signature handling around the JSON.stringify call to parse signatureRaw as
unknown, validate it with the existing signature-shape validation used for
unusable signatures, and emit the corresponding warning instead of writing
invalid values when REQUIRE_SIGNATURE is false. Only forward the validated
signature object to vpp_signature.json.

Sources: Coding guidelines, Linters/SAST tools

src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts (1)

613-617: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The docblock contradicts the implementation.

This docblock states the archives "are re-read from the project's own archive rather than kept in memory between calls". Line 624 reads them from this.retrievedLibraries, and the map's own docblock at lines 650-659 states the bytes are kept in this process between calls. The two comments describe opposite designs, and the security argument in this one ("installing is always installing what that project actually carries") is really provided by the per-project map key, not by a re-read.

Update this docblock to describe the in-memory map, or move to an actual re-read from the materialized project.

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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts` around lines 613 - 617, Update the docblock for
the archive installation flow near retrievedLibraries to accurately describe
that archives are read from the in-memory per-project map between calls; remove
claims that they are re-read from the project’s archive, and retain only
security guarantees supported by the project-specific map key and validation.
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src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts (3)

638-639: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The retrieve-project docblock is attached to the wrong member.

The docblock at lines 638-649 describes handleRuntimeRetrieveProject, but the next declaration is the retrievedLibraries field, which has its own docblock at lines 650-658. handleRuntimeRetrieveProject starts at line 674 with no docblock.

Move this block directly above handleRuntimeRetrieveProject.

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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts` around lines 638 - 639, Move the docblock
describing project retrieval from the retrievedLibraries field to directly above
the handleRuntimeRetrieveProject method, leaving the field’s own documentation
unchanged.

715-717: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the pooled LibraryManagerModule instead of constructing one per library.

Line 716 constructs a new LibraryManagerModule inside the readLocalArchive callback, so describeRetrievedLibraries constructs one per retrieved library. The constructor resolves the bundled directory and calls mkdirSync on the libraries directory, so each library adds a synchronous filesystem call on the main process thread. Line 625 constructs another instance in handleInstallRetrievedLibraries.

The bridge already holds this.libraryManagerModule (line 245). Use it in both places so retrieval and install read the same registry instance the rest of the file uses.

♻️ Proposed change
-        libraries: await describeRetrievedLibraries(materialized.libraries, (name) =>
-          new LibraryManagerModule().readArchiveText(name),
-        ),
+        libraries: await describeRetrievedLibraries(materialized.libraries, (name) =>
+          this.libraryManagerModule.readArchiveText(name),
+        ),
     const archives = this.retrievedLibraries.get(projectPath) ?? []
-    const manager = new LibraryManagerModule()
+    const manager = this.libraryManagerModule
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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts` around lines 715 - 717, Reuse the existing
this.libraryManagerModule instance in the describeRetrievedLibraries
readArchiveText callback and in handleInstallRetrievedLibraries instead of
constructing new LibraryManagerModule objects, ensuring retrieval and
installation share the pooled registry.

346-346: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the retain-config body instead of casting it.

JSON.parse(data) as RetainConfig trusts the runtime response shape. An older or different runtime can answer a body without enabled, path, or flushSeconds, and the renderer then reads undefined from a value typed as present. Other handlers in this file already validate runtime bodies (handleRuntimeGetSerialPorts, handleEtherCATGetStatus), and retrieveProjectSnapshot uses a Zod schema.

Parse with a Zod schema or a type guard, and return a failure when the body does not match.

♻️ Proposed change
     const res = await this.makeRuntimeApiRequest<RetainConfig>(
       ipAddress,
       '/api/retain-config',
-      (data) => JSON.parse(data) as RetainConfig,
+      (data) => {
+        const parsed = RetainConfigSchema.safeParse(parseJsonOrNull(data))
+        if (!parsed.success) throw new Error('The runtime sent an unreadable retain configuration')
+        return parsed.data
+      },
     )

As per coding guidelines: "Validate external data at boundaries, including IPC payloads, project files, and downloaded-binary metadata, using Zod schemas or type guards instead of casts."

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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts` at line 346, Replace the unchecked JSON.parse
cast in the retain-config handler with runtime validation using a Zod schema or
type guard requiring enabled, path, and flushSeconds; return the handler’s
established failure result when validation fails, while preserving the valid
RetainConfig flow.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts`:
- Line 2462: Update the signature handling around the JSON.stringify call to
parse signatureRaw as unknown, validate it with the existing signature-shape
validation used for unusable signatures, and emit the corresponding warning
instead of writing invalid values when REQUIRE_SIGNATURE is false. Only forward
the validated signature object to vpp_signature.json.

In `@src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-rtu-client.ts`:
- Line 668: Update getDeviceId() to pass size-aware RTU framing options to
sendRequest() instead of relying on the default idle timeout: frame successful
FC 0x48 responses using id_len plus the 6-byte header, and frame non-success
responses at 5 bytes. Add coverage for fragmented 16-byte responses and valid
empty-ID responses.

In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts`:
- Around line 613-617: Update the docblock for the archive installation flow
near retrievedLibraries to accurately describe that archives are read from the
in-memory per-project map between calls; remove claims that they are re-read
from the project’s archive, and retain only security guarantees supported by the
project-specific map key and validation.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts`:
- Around line 638-639: Move the docblock describing project retrieval from the
retrievedLibraries field to directly above the handleRuntimeRetrieveProject
method, leaving the field’s own documentation unchanged.
- Around line 715-717: Reuse the existing this.libraryManagerModule instance in
the describeRetrievedLibraries readArchiveText callback and in
handleInstallRetrievedLibraries instead of constructing new LibraryManagerModule
objects, ensuring retrieval and installation share the pooled registry.
- Line 346: Replace the unchecked JSON.parse cast in the retain-config handler
with runtime validation using a Zod schema or type guard requiring enabled,
path, and flushSeconds; return the handler’s established failure result when
validation fails, while preserving the valid RetainConfig flow.

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These strings are written at one layer and rendered at another: `outcome.error`
is produced in license-flow, main and the activation client, and rendered as a
paragraph of its OWN by the licence modal and the badge panel. They were written
as fragments, to be spliced mid-sentence. With the paragraph breaks now
surviving (whitespace-pre-line), that produced:

    Licence Check Failed

    The editor could not determine whether this device holds a licence.

    this board did not report an identity a licence can be issued for. Its
    firmware was built without licensing support - rebuild and upload the
    program to this board.

A lower-case paragraph opening, and an em dash. Both read as machine-written.

Twenty messages rewritten as complete sentences: capital, full stop, no dash,
and no vocabulary that only means something inside this codebase. What went
out along the way:

  - two 32-hex device ids and two 8-hex product ids, replaced by what actually
    differs ("issued for a different device", "issued for a different VPP");
  - "OPLC magic", "crc32" and byte counts, replaced by the three conditions a
    user can distinguish: the licence is incomplete, is damaged, or the data is
    not a licence at all;
  - "Activation response shape", "not valid JSON", "timed out after 30000ms" and
    a raw HTTP line, replaced by what the licence server did;
  - one em dash, which is the only one that ever reached a dialog (the others
    live in trace lines and a console.warn).

The nesting is gone too. `verdict.reason` used to be interpolated after a colon
inside `outcome.error`, which was itself interpolated into the modal - three
levels, where the middle one added punctuation the inner one had not planned
for. Both are now sibling sentences.

WHY THIS COMES WITH A SOURCE-SCANNING TEST. Fixing these one at a time is
exactly what let the two conventions coexist: `main.ts` had one capitalised
message and one not, in the same file. The failure mode is a NEW message written
the old way, which no behavioural test catches - it would pass with any wording.
So `user-facing-messages.test.ts` reads the four files that produce this text and
pins five rules: capital, sentence punctuation, no em/en dash, no internal
vocabulary, British "licence" (the dialog titles are British, and these strings
land in the same paragraph).

The scan is scoped where it must be: `main.ts` is the whole IPC surface, so only
lines that BUILD a licensing outcome count - otherwise the guard reports on
downloads and file watching. And it reads values that start on the line BELOW
the `error:` key, which is how the two longest messages are written; the first
version of the guard silently skipped exactly the messages that motivated it.

The test is NOT mirrored to openplc-web: three of the four files it reads exist
only in the editor. The one shared file (`use-device-license.ts`) is mirrored.

Verified: tsc clean, prettier clean, 230 tests green across the 17 affected
suites. Each of the five rules confirmed non-vacuous by mutating one message in
turn - lower case, missing full stop, em dash, jargon, American spelling - and
watching the suite go red, then restored.

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Review of the trio: editor #1059, web #713, packages #45.

Second pass, after @JulioSergioFS's review of 2026-08-28. His was thorough and I have not repeated it — what follows is (a) independent verification that both of his blockers are actually closed, (b) a review of the ~13 commits pushed since, which his review never saw, and (c) the cross-repo property this change lives or dies by.

Both blockers are closed — verified, not taken on trust

Editor A1 — runtime-v4 licensing unreachable. main.ts:144 now reads:

return (
  (typeof client.getDeviceId === 'function' || typeof client.getAnchor === 'function') &&
  typeof client.readLicense === 'function' &&
  typeof client.writeLicense === 'function'
)

Either half satisfies it, and the comment above names the exact failure and why. The two suites his review found red are green: device-license.handler.test.ts and simulator/modbus-rtu-client.test.ts, 101 tests passing.

Packages A1 — plugin ABI regressed by 24 bytes. This was the best catch in his review, because it was invisible in every readable diff. I measured the same symbol on both refs:

development:  0000000000000470 b g_runtime_args
this PR:      0000000000000470 b g_runtime_args

Identical. The object was rebuilt against the current plugin_types.h and no longer diverges from development.

The property this change lives or dies by

If the device_id the board reports differs by one byte from the one the backend signed, every licence already issued stops verifying, silently, with the device dropping to demo and nothing saying why. So I checked the derivation on both sides at the byte level rather than trusting that two implementations of "sha256 of a prefix" agree:

value
C (license_core.c:36) `#define LIC_DEVICE_DOMAIN "openplc-dev-v1
TS (device-identity.ts:29) `const DEVICE_ID_PREFIX = 'openplc-dev-v1

The - 1u matters more than it looks: including the NUL would produce a different digest for every board, and the failure would only surface at a customer's checkout. It is correct.

And the property is observable, which is the part that makes it hold over time. device_id_report_host_test.c does not assert "returns 16 bytes" — it asserts the reported bytes equal LIC_GOLDEN_BLOB's device_id field, a signed vector. A wrong derivation, or a wrong offset, makes that test fail rather than pass quietly. Extracting lic_derive_device_id into one definition with two callers (license_core_verify step 4, and license_gate_device_id) is what turns "the two agree" from a code-structure preference into something a test can catch.

The one claim I'd soften

"There is no firmware in the field, so the code keeps its number and changes meaning."

That is doing more work than it needs to. Boards built before DOPE-587 did link ArduinoUniqueID and would answer 0x48 with raw anchor bytes — an AVR reports 9 of them. So a redefined 0x48 can meet a legacy firmware.

It does not matter, and that is to the PR's credit rather than the claim's: deriveIdentity checks the length of a reported id instead of trusting it, and license-flow.test.ts:325 pins exactly that case, with the comment naming the 9-byte AVR. The mismatch fails closed, with a message a user can act on, instead of sending someone to checkout for an identity no device can reproduce.

So the safety does not rest on "no firmware in the field" — it rests on the length check. Worth rewording, because the claim as written invites someone later to remove the check on the grounds that the case cannot happen.

Also checked

  • Stale references after the rename. Swept both repos for getBoardId, BoardIdResult, parseGetBoardIdResponse, MB_FC_DEBUG_GET_BOARD_ID, OPENPLC_NO_UNIQUE_ID, ArduinoUniqueID: the only survivors are two historical comments (modbus_debug.cpp:22, generate-defines.ts:136) explaining what the code used to do, and both are byte-identical across the pair. No orphan symbols.
  • The 0x48 handler cannot truncate. debugGetDeviceId passes MAX_MB_FRAME - 4 as the capacity and reports idLen as written; a refusal yields id_len = 0, which is a well-formed SUCCESS the licensing flow reads as "no licence can be bound here" — consistent with the design DOPE-587 established, where the successful reply rather than the bytes is the proof of firmware.
  • The work added since the prior review — the retryable contract and the dialog copy — marks exactly the two terminal outcomes retryable: false (no identity, wrong-length identity). Neither is fixed by pressing Try Again, so withholding it is right.
  • f8f8177e is the commit I would point other people at. An adversarial pass over the author's own two previous commits, finding that one of them repeated the defect it claimed to fix — three checks stayed gated on provisioning === 'prebuilt' from outside the function, so requiring buildMcu rescued two and left three open. Catching that in your own work, and saying so in the message, is rarer than catching it in someone else's.
  • Suites: 33 suites / 558 tests green across license, debug, hardware, ipc and compile in the editor.

A caveat on my local runs: this branch pins strucpp v0.6.5 and my node_modules carries 0.6.3, so I did not run the full editor suite — a type error of the retainBlobSize shape would be my environment, not this PR. The suites above do not touch that surface and are trustworthy; for the full run, CI is the authority.

What remains open

  1. The acceptance criteria are still unverified by anyone. The DOD box is unchecked and the PR body is honest about why: DOPE-589 asks for real compiles — a plain ST project on Arduino Mega and the simulator with no ArduinoUniqueID in the link line, plus the three mbed targets DOPE-587 fixed. Those need arduino-cli and the board cores. Criterion 5 (parity on a licensable board) is now provable on the packages side by the golden test, but the compile criteria are not, and they are the ones that would catch a link-line regression.
  2. lint / Lint Check was red on the editor at the time of this review, on a run still in progress so the logs were not yet readable. Worth confirming it settles green.
  3. Minor: resources/sources/Baremetal/ARCHITECTURE.md has no counterpart in the web's firmware tree. Pre-existing on development, not introduced here, and the sync check evidently tolerates it — noting it only so the asymmetry is on the record.

Mirror and dependency reviewed alongside this one: openplc-web#713 (29 shared files, byte-identical — verified) and openplc-packages#45 (the contract and the rebuilt archives).

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In `@src/backend/editor/license/__tests__/user-facing-messages.test.ts`:
- Line 83: Update the literal-collection logic in the test to inspect
expressions for string literals instead of skipping any blob that does not begin
with a quote. Ensure fallback literals in nullish-coalescing expressions such as
the write error message are collected and validated by the existing pieces-based
checks.

In `@src/backend/editor/license/license-activation-client.ts`:
- Line 175: Update the catch handler around the license activation flow to
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marconetsf and others added 3 commits September 2, 2026 12:31
Lint failure of my own making. Replacing the activation client's message

    `Activation response was not valid JSON: ${err.message}`

with a user-facing sentence left `catch (err)` with nothing reading `err`, and
`@typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars` is an error here, not a warning.

Renaming it to `_err` would have satisfied the rule and thrown the diagnosis
away. A JSON parse error is worth having when someone reports this and worth
keeping out of the modal, so it goes to `console.warn` and the rejection keeps
the sentence. Same split `license-flow.ts` already uses for a blob that fails
verification.

Only the editor failed: `license-activation-client.ts` lives under
`src/backend/editor/`, so it is not shared surface and openplc-web has no copy
of it. The asymmetry between the two lint checks was the tell.

Process note for me: I ran prettier after the message rewrite and not eslint.
Removing an interpolation can orphan the variable that fed it, which prettier
cannot see. `npx eslint "./src/**/*.{ts,tsx}"` — the whole tree, the way CI runs
it — now reports 0 errors (260 warnings, all pre-existing).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four findings from CodeRabbit on the previous commits. Three were mine, one was
older than this PR.

1. THE SEVERITY COLOUR WAS INERT, AND MY COMMIT MESSAGE CLAIMED OTHERWISE. I set
   `text-red-500` / `text-yellow-400` on `WarningIcon` and wrote that "severity
   is now carried by its colour". The icon's path hard-codes `fill='#0464FB'`,
   and `color` does not affect `fill` -- so every modal still rendered blue. It
   is visible in the bench screenshot of "Licence Check Failed": a blue icon on
   an error.

   The path now fills with `currentColor`. And the problem was older and wider
   than my line: `variantClasses` were `stroke-*` classes on a path with
   `stroke='none'`, so THEY never painted anything either. Three places in the
   app try to colour this icon -- `stroke-amber-500` in
   runtime-connection-lost-modal, `text-amber-500` in server-ip-mismatch-modal,
   and the licence severity -- and none worked. `default` is now `text-brand`
   rather than `text-brand-light` on purpose: `--primary-default` IS the
   #0464fb the path hard-coded, so all twelve existing callers keep exactly the
   colour they render today. NOTE: `server-ip-mismatch-modal`'s amber now takes
   effect, which is what its author intended.

2. A 22nd MESSAGE BELOW THE CONVENTION, AND MY OWN GUARD COULD NOT SEE IT.
   `error: stored.error ?? 'the device did not answer 0x4A'` -- lower case, no
   full stop, and a raw function code. It survived the sentence pass because the
   scanner skipped any value that did not START with a quote, so a fallback
   literal after an expression was invisible to it. That is the second time this
   guard missed exactly the class it exists for; `pieces` now decides, and the
   negative control confirms a lower-case fallback turns the suite red.

   Same fix reached `write.error ?? '...'` on the write path, which was also
   still lower case and unterminated.

3. `void retry()` created an unhandled rejection. `retry` re-runs the whole
   licensing flow, which reaches the network, so a rejection was plausible and
   the user would have seen the modal close with nothing happening. It now
   catches and logs.

   The test mocks passed `jest.fn()`, which returns undefined -- looser than the
   `() => Promise<void>` the type declares, and it broke the moment the code
   called `.catch`. They return a promise now.

4. The scanner also matched `(error: string)` in a function signature and read
   the union value `'check-failed'` sitting beside a message on the same line.
   Both excluded.

Verified: tsc clean, prettier clean, eslint 0 errors over the whole tree,
230 tests green across the 17 affected suites. Shared surface re-mirrored to
openplc-web (Warning.tsx, license-outcome-dialog.ts and its test) and verified
byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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marconetsf merged commit b2f1787 into development Sep 2, 2026
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marconetsf deleted the feat/DOPE-589-device-id-from-license-core branch September 2, 2026 13:07
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