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Closes DOPE-584.

What this is

Python and C++ function blocks now see the same Variables Table an ST block does. Before this, a native block was a second-class POU: it could name two variable classes and the elementary types, and everything else the editor lets a user declare — a structure, an enumeration, a function block instance, a VAR, a VAR_TEMP, a VAR_IN_OUT, a VAR_EXTERNAL, a multi-dimensional array — was accepted by the Variables Table and then rejected by the compiler as an undeclared identifier. That reads as a compiler bug, not an unimplemented feature.

Eight phases, each merged with its own hardware verification. Phases 1-3 fixed live defects found while mapping the machinery; 4 brought C++ to parity; 5-8 did the same for Python.

What a native block can do now

C++ Python
input / output
inOut / local
temp refused, with the reason
external (globals) ✓, under the global's lock ✓, under the global's lock
structures, enumerations
function block instances refused, with the reason
multi-dimensional arrays 1-D
execution control EN / ENO EN / ENO

Python refuses VAR_TEMP because it has no storage that fails to survive the scan — its variables are module globals in a process that outlives every cycle. Marshalling one would not make it temporary, only a VAR wearing the wrong name. It refuses a function block instance because it cannot call into a scan it is not part of; EN/ENO is the execution control that replaces it, and needed no implementation — strucpp's call-site guard already gates a native block, the spawning branch included.

Defects fixed along the way

  • Python blocks compiled to silent no-ops on targets that cannot run them, instead of being refused (phase 1).
  • The shared-memory type table existed twice and disagreed in three places. TIME/DATE/TOD/DT lost eight bytes from the format string; WSTRING was copied as bytes with a length counted in characters, and read back through the wrong pointer type. A dropped field does not go missing — it shifts every later field's offset, so the damage lands on unrelated variables (phase 2).
  • A block's outputs were overwritten with declaration defaults on every start, before the user's code had assigned anything. Harmless-looking today; destructive once a Python block can carry RETAIN (phase 3).
  • The C block interface struct was written twice, by two call sites into the same helper, and diverged the moment a user-defined type needed more than a name lookup — meeting in the POU glue as cannot convert IEC_MODE* to MODE* (phase 4).
  • Multi-dimensional arrays could not build at all, in any project, C blocks or not: strucpp's debug table indexed a container that has no operator[]. Fixed upstream in strucpp v0.6.3, which both repos already pin.

The shape of the fix

Each of these was one fact stated in several places. The interface selection was written three times for C++ and four for Python; the type table twice; the struct twice. Disagreement between them is never a caught error — for the C struct it is a dangling pointer the user's first write follows, and for the Python layout it is silent corruption of neighbouring fields. So each is now stated once and read by everyone: cBlockInterfaceVariables, pythonInboundVariables / pythonOutboundVariables, shm-leaves, and a single struct definition in c_blocks.h.

Where a fact belongs to the compiler, it is derived rather than restated: lambda parameters are deduced so nothing spells Array1D<IEC_INT, 0, 3>, and the leaf walk defines our own transport layout rather than mirroring strucpp's. The one deliberate exception is the member-mangling rule, restated in one place with the reason written down — the compiler exposes no way to ask, and the alternative is naming a member that does not exist.

Verification

Every phase ran on real hardware (slm-rp4, Runtime v4) and compiled for baremetal AVR, which is what validates the simulator path. Values were checked for exactness, not just for being non-zero — a VAR at exactly 406 x 10 after 406 scans, a gated instance exactly 50 counts behind a free-running one after 50 disabled scans, a structure's nested array at exactly twice its scalar member. The full detail is in each phase PR: #1037, #1038, #1039, #1040, #1041, #1043.

Follow-ups, deliberately not here

  • CONSTANT / RETAIN / NON_RETAIN wait on NODE-94 (feat(retain): CONSTANT, RETAIN and NON_RETAIN [NODE-94] #1034). Both interface builders are the single place they will need applying.
  • C++ member completion in Monaco is the agreed nice-to-have, to land as its own PR after this.
  • The AI prompts in autonomy-edge and the user docs describe the previous, narrower contract and now understate what a native block can do.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Python blocks now support user-defined structures, enumerations, nested types, arrays, strings, wide strings, and function-block instances.
    • Added library-based function-block pin resolution and bidirectional data exchange.
    • Improved Python editor type assistance for project-defined data types.
    • C++ generation now handles project types, external variables, multidimensional arrays, and broader variable interfaces.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added target-specific validation with clearer diagnostics.
    • Improved shared-memory handling and clarified supported STRING and WSTRING declarations.
    • Fixed generated firmware placement and Arduino macro compatibility.

thiagoralves and others added 17 commits August 25, 2026 20:06
`TargetCapabilities.pythonFunctionBlocks` has always declared the contract:
Runtime v3 / v4 run Python blocks natively, the Simulator compiles them as
no-op stubs, and arduino-cli targets reject them at build time. Only the
rejection was never implemented. The single consumer was a soft warning in the
board picker, and `preprocessPous` branched solely on `isSimulator`, so a real
baremetal target took the full Linux pipeline: the shared-memory glue was
emitted and then died inside the board toolchain with

    error: 'create_shm_name' was not declared in this scope
    error: 'python_block_loader' was not declared in this scope

which says nothing about Python blocks being unsupported there. The UI gate
(`isPythonBlockedForArduino`) only guards POU *creation* while an Arduino board
is selected, so it is bypassed by switching the board afterwards, by opening a
project authored elsewhere, or by the variables text view.

`preprocessPous` now takes an optional target-support hint and refuses before
any Python processing runs, naming the board and every offending POU. The
result carries `validationError` so callers stop reporting a Python problem as
a C/C++ setup()/loop() problem; the debug path gains the specific message it
never had.

The gate only applies to a board that actually resolved.
`resolveTargetCapabilities(undefined)` returns an all-false block, so keying off
an unresolved board would turn a catalog lookup miss into a Python build
failure. Library builds pass no hint and keep their behaviour.

Verified against the real toolchains, not only unit tests:
  - Arduino Mega  -> rejected with the message, avr-g++ never invoked
  - Simulator     -> still compiles Python as no-op stubs, unchanged
  - Runtime v4    -> uploaded to slm-rp4, PLC started, no regression

DOPE-584

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…python-non-linux

fix(python): reject Python blocks on targets that cannot run them [DOPE-584 P1]
… work

The C struct emitter and the Python format-string emitter each carried their
own hand-maintained type table, and the two disagreed in three places. Every
disagreement was silent and corrupting, because a field the Python format
omits does not go missing: struct.unpack reads every LATER field from the
wrong offset, so the damage lands on unrelated variables.

  - TIME / DATE / TOD / DT: C emitted int64_t, Python had no entry.
  - WSTRING: C emitted a byte-oriented STRING field, Python had no entry.
  - User-defined types: C emitted a one-byte pad, Python had no entry.

Rather than add three rows to two tables, the tables become one.
`shm-type-map.ts` names each type once with its C type, its Python struct
format and its packed size, and both emitters read it. A field can no longer
be added to one side alone. `shm-type-map.test.ts` asks a real python3 what
`struct.calcsize` measures for every descriptor and asserts it against the
declared size, so the correspondence is checked against the side that actually
decodes the buffer rather than restated.

WSTRING needed more than a table row. It shared STRING`s descriptor, and the
C stub copied STR_MAX_LEN *bytes* out of a char16_t buffer (63 code units, not
126) while writing a length counted in characters, then read back by
reinterpreting the body as char*. It now has its own shm_iec_wstring_t and
copies char16_t both directions.

Two further defects surfaced while proving it on hardware:

  - The string typedefs were emitted OUTSIDE the #pragma pack region. pack
    applies to the struct being defined, never to a member type already laid
    out, so shm_iec_wstring_t`s uint16_t body took a padding byte after the
    length and measured 254 where Python packs 253. shm_iec_string_t had
    survived only because uint8_t needs no alignment. One byte of shift
    corrupted every later field; a unit test on generated text could not see
    it, and it took a real compile plus a debugger read to find.
  - The string copy-in left the tail of the body undefined. It is now zeroed
    before the copy, so a shorter value cannot carry the previous one`s bytes.

Unsupported types are now refused in preprocessPous, naming the POU, the
variable and the type, instead of being skipped during encoding. Skipping was
the original defect.

Verified on real hardware (slm-rp4, Runtime v4). A Python block echoing DINT,
TIME, WSTRING, STRING and a second DINT, with scalars deliberately on both
sides of the previously-dropped fields:

  before  111 -> 111       (alignment held)
  dur     T#2s -> 2s       (was dropped entirely)
  wtext   "wide" -> wideW  (was `wid` + U+5765, the one-byte shift)
  text    narrow -> narrow!
  after   999 -> 999       (alignment held)

and a struct-typed variable on a Python POU is refused with its name.

DOPE-584

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…g-map-drift

fix(python): one table for the SHM layout, and make WSTRING work [DOPE-584 P2]
…ions

A Python block initialised its output globals from `initialValue || 0` and the
wrapper wrote them back after the first `block_loop()`, before the user code
had assigned anything. Whatever the IEC side held was replaced by a default on
every start. Today that discards a declared initial value; once a Python block
can carry RETAIN it destroys the retained value on every restart, which is the
opposite of what retain exists for.

Fixing this on the Python side alone is not possible. Shared memory is created
zeroed, so seeding from it would have read 0 rather than the IEC value, trading
one wrong default for another. Both sides move:

  - The stub publishes the live IEC output values into shared memory in the
    `first_run` branch, right after the loader maps the segment.
  - The script unpacks them into its output globals BEFORE `block_init()`, so
    a user`s `block_init` sees real values rather than zeros.

The declaration-based initialiser is removed rather than kept as a fallback: a
second source for the same fact is what produced the defect. The per-cycle
input read and the one-time output seed now share one generator, for the same
reason the type table is shared.

Verified on real hardware (slm-rp4, Runtime v4). A block declaring
`keeper : DINT := 777` and never assigning it:

  keeper  = 777   the PLC`s value survives the block`s first write-back
  counter = 777   counter is set from what block_init() SAW in keeper, so this
                  also proves the seed lands before block_init runs

Both were 0 before this change.

DOPE-584

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…seeding

fix(python): seed block outputs from the PLC, not their declarations [DOPE-584 P3]
A C++ function block could only ever name the elementary types. Anything the
Variables Table can actually hold — a structure, an enumeration, a function
block instance — was unreachable from the block's own code, so the promise that
a native block is just an IEC block with a C++ body stopped at the type system.

Two things stood in the way.

The block's translation unit declared nothing but the raw IEC typedefs, so even
a correctly-typed struct field had no type to be. It now includes the project's
own generated declarations, which cost nothing to reach: the file is already
pre-compiled at gnu++17 alongside the rest of the generated code, on the same
side of the isolation seam, and on the baremetal path the same flag is appended
to the arduino-cli invocation. The toolchain's namespace is aliased away for
the types this project defines, so a user writes `MOTOR`, not `strucpp::MOTOR`.

The second was structural. The interface struct was written twice, by two call
sites into the same helper — once into c_blocks.h and once, verbatim, into
c_blocks_code.cpp. Two spellings of one fact agree only while both are edited
together, and a user-defined type is exactly where they stop agreeing: strucpp
aliases a structure and an enumeration as `IEC_<NAME>` but leaves a function
block class bare, which a variable alone cannot tell you. Teaching one emitter
that rule left the other behind, and the two conflicting typedefs met in the
POU glue as `cannot convert IEC_MODE* to MODE*`.

So the struct is stated once now. c_blocks.h defines it; c_blocks_code.cpp
includes it and emits only the name bindings and the user's body. The
duplication is not a bug that can be reintroduced, because there is no longer a
second place for it to live, and the tests pin its absence.

Verified on hardware, one block reading a struct field, an array nested inside
that struct, an enumeration pin, and driving a function block instance it owns:
on Runtime v4 (slm-rp4) every value read back correct, the instance's output
matching the block's copy of it exactly; and compiling for baremetal AVR, where
the same block fits the ATmega2560 at 7% flash and 6% RAM.

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…lasses of it

A C++ function block could see its inputs and its outputs. A VAR, a VAR_TEMP, a
VAR_IN_OUT — all of them declared in the same table, in the same editor, by the
same user — simply were not there. The block's code referred to a name that had
been declared and got `undeclared identifier` back, which reads as a compiler
bug rather than an unimplemented feature.

Nothing stood in the way except the filter. strucpp already emits all three as
plain members of the block's class, VAR_TEMP included, so a pointer to each is
exactly as valid as a pointer to an input. Widening the selection is the whole
change.

What needed care was that the selection was written three times. The header
declares the struct, the ST glue fills its pointers, and the code file binds the
user's names to them, and each filtered `pou.variables` on its own. Three copies
of one rule is bad enough when they agree; here disagreement has no error to
report, because a field the glue skips is not a missing symbol but a dangling
pointer that the user's first write follows. So the rule moved into
`cBlockInterfaceVariables`, and the three emitters ask it.

That also gave the injected `hasBeenInitialized` latch somewhere to be excluded
once. It is the toolchain's own machinery for calling setup() exactly once, and
widening to VAR without excluding it would have handed every block a pointer to
its own initialisation flag.

VAR_EXTERNAL is deliberately still out. It is not a member but a `GlobalVar<V>*`
carrying the global's mutex, so a plain pointer to it would compile and quietly
drop the lock — it needs an accessor that holds it, and gets its own change.
CONSTANT / RETAIN / NON_RETAIN wait on NODE-94, which has yet to land the
qualifier on a POU variable.

Verified on slm-rp4, one block using all three: over 406 scans the VAR
accumulated to exactly 406 x 10, the VAR_TEMP held the value computed from the
input that scan, and the VAR_IN_OUT round-tripped through the calling program to
exactly 100 + 406.

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VAR_EXTERNAL was the last class a C++ block could not reach. A user could
declare a global, reference it from the block, and get `undeclared identifier`
back from the compiler for a name the editor had accepted.

The reason it was left out is that a global is not a member. strucpp holds one
as a `GlobalVar<V>` — the value together with that global's own mutex — and a
POU's VAR_EXTERNAL is a pointer to it. Taking `&NAME` and calling it a value
pointer would have compiled, and would have handed the block unsynchronised
access to memory another task writes. That is worse than the missing feature.

So the pointer is taken where it is legal to take it. `GlobalVar::with_lock`
runs a callable with a `V*` while holding the lock, and the glue now nests one
such callable per external around the block's entry points, filling each struct
field from the pointer that arrives. The field itself is spelled by the same
rule as every other field, so from inside the block a global reads and writes
like any other variable — which is exactly what it already does in ST.

Two details are load-bearing. The lambda parameter is `auto*`, deduced: `V` is
`IEC_DINT` for a scalar, `MOTOR` for a structure, `IEC_MODE` for an enumeration
and `Array1D<IEC_INT, 0, 3>` for an array, and writing those out would be this
generator restating the compiler's layout instead of deriving from it. And the
nesting is ordered by name, identically in every block, so two blocks can never
take the same pair of globals in opposite orders; an ST body never holds more
than one lock at a time, so it cannot close a cycle either. The lock is held
across the whole call rather than per access — stronger than an ST body gets,
and the right default for code that reads a global, computes, and writes back.

The array dereference is bound to a reference on its own line rather than
written inline as `(*g)[lo]`. This C++ sits inside an `{external}` block that
the ST front end still scans, and `(*` opens a block comment there: inline, it
swallowed the rest of the POU and failed as `Unclosed block comment`.

Verified on slm-rp4 with one block driving all four shapes. Over 333 scans the
scalar reached exactly 333, the structure's field 666, the array element 999,
and the enumeration RUNNING, with the block's own outputs mirroring each. The
same block compiles for baremetal AVR at 7% flash and 4% RAM.

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A one-dimensional array reaches a C++ block as a pointer to its first element,
offset by the lower bound, so the block writes `arr[i]` with the indices the
user declared. The same treatment was applied to an array of any rank, and past
rank one it does not work: `IEC_ARRAY_2D` deliberately has no `operator[]` — a
row subscript would have to return a view — and takes every index in one
`operator()` call instead. A two-dimensional array in a block's Variables Table
therefore produced code that could not compile.

So rank decides the shape. Rank one keeps the offset pointer, because `arr[i]`
is the better surface and rank one is the only place the trick is sound. Rank
two and three pass a pointer to the container itself and the block indexes it as
`grid(i, j)` — the same accessor the compiler's own generated code uses, and the
same one an ST body compiles down to. That covers inputs, locals and globals
alike: a `VAR_EXTERNAL` array simply hands over the pointer `with_lock` already
provides, instead of offsetting it.

Naming the container means naming `Array2D<T, L1, U1, L2, U2>`, which is
strucpp's own documented alias, with the bounds taken from the user's
declaration. Nothing here reconstructs how the container is laid out. Beyond
rank three strucpp declares no alias, so there is no type to name and the
generator says so rather than inventing one.

Two findings while getting here, neither in this diff. Multi-dimensional arrays
could not build at all until now: strucpp's debug table emitted `GRID[0][0]`,
against the same missing operator, for any project containing one, C++ block or
not. That is fixed in strucpp v0.6.3, which both repos already pin — my working
copy was resolving an older one, because `src/node_modules` symlinks to
`release/app/node_modules` and a stale strucpp there shadows the pinned version
during module resolution. Worth knowing before diagnosing a codegen bug that is
really a resolution one.

Verified on slm-rp4, one block holding all three at once: a 2-D input declared
`[1..2, 0..3]` summed its corners to exactly 11 + 22, a 3-D local accumulated
across scans, and a 2-D global incremented under its own lock — the two
independent counters agreeing on the scan count at both samples. The same block
compiles for baremetal AVR at 6% flash and 3% RAM.

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task(DOPE-584): C++ function blocks reach IEC parity [phase 4]
Same gap the C++ side had, with a harder boundary. A Python block could see its
inputs and its outputs; a VAR, a VAR_IN_OUT or a VAR_EXTERNAL declared in the
same table simply did not cross, so the block's code referred to a name the
editor had accepted and Python raised NameError at runtime.

A Python block is a separate process, so nothing can be passed by pointer.
Every variable is marshalled: the stub packs one struct on the way in, unpacks
another on the way out, and the driver decodes and re-encodes them by `struct`
format string. The direction each class travels now follows from what it means.
An input goes in, an output comes back, and VAR_IN_OUT travels both ways because
that is what it is. A VAR and a VAR_EXTERNAL also travel both ways, for a
different reason: the PLC owns the storage, so round-tripping is what makes a
VAR the block's own state, keeps it visible to the debugger, and lets it be
retained once NODE-94 lands. A block that never assigns one sends back what it
received.

VAR_TEMP is refused rather than approximated. It means storage that does not
survive the invocation, and Python has no such thing here — the block's
variables are module globals in a process that outlives every scan. Marshalling
it would not make it temporary, only a VAR wearing the wrong name. The refusal
names the variable and says to declare it under VAR instead.

An external needed care on the C side. It is a `GlobalVar<V>*` — the value plus
that global's mutex — so naming it in a copy statement would compile, convert
the pointer, and read the wrong memory holding no lock. Each one's copy is now
wrapped in `with_lock`, one at a time rather than nested: this stub only moves
values, it runs no user code, so a single lock at a time is enough and there is
no ordering to reason about. The lambda parameter is deduced, so nothing here
names `V`.

Four emitters had been filtering by class independently — the two structs, the
copy loops, the format strings, and the LSP preamble. That is the same shape of
bug the C++ side had, and worse here: a field one side omits does not go
missing, it shifts every later field's offset, so the corruption lands on
unrelated variables. One selection rule now, in `block-interface`.

Widening to VAR immediately proved why the exclusion list matters. `first_run`,
`shm_in_ptr` and `shm_out_ptr` are injected as locals, and the first run on
hardware swept them into the structs and handed the block its own mapped segment
addresses — Python died on every cycle and the loader respawned it dozens of
times. They are named and excluded now, as `hasBeenInitialized` is for C++.

Two coverage gaps closed on the way. P2 added the WSTRING pack and unpack paths
without tests, dropping `injectPythonRuntime` from 100%; they are pinned now, in
both directions, including the truncation that must land on a code-unit boundary.
And `generatePythonLspPreamble` had never covered STRING or an array of an
unmappable element type — the `list[` branch in its literal helper was dead code
its own caller already owned, and is gone.

Verified on slm-rp4: over 195 Python cycles the VAR accumulated to exactly
195 x 2, the VAR_IN_OUT reached 195 and round-tripped to the calling program,
and the VAR_EXTERNAL reached 195 x 2 with the configuration global agreeing.
Sampled three times; every counter stayed exact. A VAR_TEMP is refused at
compile time with the message above.

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…classes

task(DOPE-584): Python function blocks reach class parity [phase 5]
A Python block's interface was limited to elementary types and arrays of them.
A structure or an enumeration — declared in the same project, usable from every
other language — was refused. That is the last type gap between a native block
and an IEC one, and closing it is what makes "no different from a regular IEC
block" true rather than nearly true.

A composite cannot be memcpy'd across this boundary the way a scalar can: the
PLC holds `IECVar<T>` wrappers inside a strucpp struct, and Python holds an
object. What both sides can agree on is the list of scalar leaves, in order, so
that is what everything now works from. `shm-leaves` walks a declaration into
leaves once, and the transport struct, the copy statements, the format string
and the driver's unpack and pack are all generated from that one walk. A
structure can no longer be laid out one way and copied another.

The leaves are flattened rather than nested. The transport struct is ours to
define, so nesting buys nothing and would put `#pragma pack` inside
`#pragma pack`, where a member type already laid out keeps its own padding —
exactly the trap that made WSTRING 254 bytes against Python's 253.

On the Python side the flat wire is rebuilt into an object, because the user
should write `m.speed`, as they would in ST. A structure becomes a slotted
class, so assigning a name the structure does not have raises rather than
silently creating an attribute the PLC will never read back. An enumeration
becomes an `IntEnum`, so `mode == Mode.RUNNING` reads naturally while the value
crossing stays the integer the PLC stores. Nested types are declared before the
types that construct them.

Two compiler facts had to be met exactly, and both were found by running the
code rather than by reading it. An enumeration reaches C++ as an `IEC_ENUM_Var`,
whose `get()` yields an `IEC_ENUM_Value` that converts to the scoped enum but
not to an integer, so the read goes through both and then casts; the write goes
through `set()` rather than `operator=`, which would copy-assign a whole
temporary wrapper and take its forced state along. And a member whose name
matches its own user-defined type is emitted with a trailing underscore, because
GCC rejects a member that changes the meaning of its type name inside the class.
That rule is restated here, deliberately and in one place, with the reason
written down: the compiler exposes no way to ask, and the alternative is naming
a member that does not exist.

A function block instance stays refused, and now says why — a Python block runs
in its own process and cannot call into the scan it is not part of. Refusals in
general name the member rather than the variable containing it, and stop the
build: a field the format string omits does not go missing, it shifts every
later field's offset, so the damage lands on unrelated variables.

Verified on slm-rp4 with a structure carrying a scalar, a STRING and a nested
array, plus an enumeration input. Python incremented the member, grew the array
element by two, and rebuilt the label from the value; the PLC read back
`speed` 82 then 108, `trims[1]` at exactly twice that, `label` "motor-82" then
"motor-108" with the reported length agreeing, and the enumeration as RUNNING —
all through a VAR_IN_OUT, so every value round-tripped to the calling program.

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…y see

The Pyright preamble declared a POU's variables as module globals so the editor
stops calling them undefined. It skipped anything with a user-defined type,
which was correct while those could not cross the boundary at all — and became
wrong the moment they could. A structure variable had no type to be, so
`m.speed` was an error on code that compiles and runs.

So the preamble now declares the structures and enumerations too, mirroring what
`injectPythonRuntime` really defines: a class with typed attributes, an
`IntEnum` with its members, nested types named before the types that use them.
The stub bodies are annotations rather than the runtime's `__init__`, because
Pyright needs the shape and the preamble's line count feeds the diagnostic line
mapping — a shorter stub is a smaller offset to carry.

The two sides are kept in lockstep by construction: stubs are collected from the
variables that actually get a declaration line, so a shape the compiler will
refuse — an array of structures — gets neither. The editor never offers a name
the build would reject, and never withholds one it would accept.

`dataTypes` reaches the preamble through the LSP service the same way variables
already did, and the Monaco effect re-pushes on a data-type edit as it does on a
variable edit, so renaming a structure member updates the editor without a
reopen.

One service test had encoded the old class filter in its premise — it used a
`local` to mean "produces no preamble". A `local` is hoisted now; `temp` is the
class that genuinely never becomes a module global, being refused outright.

Also removes a depth guard in the type walk that could not fire: the `emitted`
set already breaks a cycle, and a structure containing itself is declared once
with a member annotation referring back to it — which is legal Python and
exactly what Pyright should see.

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task(DOPE-584): Python structures, enumerations, EN/ENO and editor stubs [phases 6-8]
Two call sites passed `(projectData.dataTypes ?? []).map(...)` inline, which
put both lines past the print width — neither had been run through Prettier when
they were added, and openplc-web's format check caught it. Naming the value is
shorter than wrapping the call and says what it is at the call site.

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The change adds shared PLC type handling for Python and C++ generation. It adds function-block pin resolution, direction-aware marshalling, user-defined type aliases, and target-specific preprocessing validation.

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Typed PLC code generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared type and interface contracts
src/frontend/utils/PLC/..., src/frontend/utils/python/shm-*, src/frontend/utils/python/block-interface.ts, src/frontend/utils/cpp/block-interface.ts
Shared helpers define PLC descriptors, function-block pin resolution, recursive shared-memory leaves, multidimensional C++ types, and deterministic variable selection.
Python shared-memory generation
src/frontend/utils/python/*.ts, src/frontend/components/_features/[workspace]/editor/monaco/..., src/frontend/services/python-lsp/...
Python generation uses project types and direction-aware contexts for LSP stubs, runtime declarations, function-block calls, composite values, strings, arrays, locking, and output seeding.
C++ block generation
src/backend/shared/utils/cpp/*.ts, src/frontend/utils/cpp/*.ts
C++ generation uses shared headers, user-defined aliases, supported interface classes, external variables, locks, and multidimensional containers.
Compilation and target validation
src/backend/shared/compile/..., src/backend/shared/utils/PLC/preprocess-pous.ts, src/middleware/adapters/editor/...
Compilation paths pass project types, library metadata, and board capabilities into preprocessing. Preprocessing returns specific Python and C++ validation errors.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c9d3c

This PR broadens Python and C++ native blocks to support more IEC variable types and structures, but several affected code-generation paths can still reject valid projects or emit invalid Python, including library-backed instances, composite pins, mixed-case declarations, and length-qualified string arrays. The changes should not merge until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MonacoEditor
  participant PythonLspService
  participant PreprocessPous
  participant ShmLeaves
  participant PythonRuntimeInjection

  MonacoEditor->>PythonLspService: pass dataTypes and variables
  PythonLspService->>PreprocessPous: build Python preamble inputs
  PreprocessPous->>ShmLeaves: walk inbound and outbound layouts
  ShmLeaves->>PythonRuntimeInjection: provide leaves and pin metadata
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A rabbit sorts each type by name
The pins and leaves now play the same
Arrays stand tall, both small and wide
With locks and stubs set side by side
The compiler hops with calmer pace
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thiagoralves and others added 3 commits August 26, 2026 01:14
`multiDimensionalContainerType` was appended to the export block rather than
placed in it, and openplc-web's Python-support helper left its import block
unsorted. Both are lint errors the repos enforce; I had read only the test half
of a combined lint-and-test run and missed them.

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Two adapter files kept unsorted import blocks from phase 1. My local
`npm run lint` glob was matching far fewer files than CI's, which is why these
survived the run that caught the earlier pair — `npx eslint src` reproduces
what CI checks.

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The C++ type map covered the numerics and STRING and stopped there. A block
declaring `TIME` got `strucpp::TIME` in its interface struct — a name that does
not exist — and the build failed inside generated code the user never wrote. The
same for DATE, TOD, DT and WSTRING.

They were absent rather than wrong, and nothing noticed because nothing had ever
declared one: the map was only ever exercised with the types the earlier examples
used. The Python side has carried all five since phase 2, so the two native
languages quietly disagreed about which types a block may hold.

The aliases here are the ones STruC++ declares — `IEC_TIME = IECVar<TIME_t>` and
so on — plus `IEC_WSTRING`, and the long spellings IEC 61131-3 also allows for
two of them (`TIME_OF_DAY`, `DATE_AND_TIME`).

A test now asserts the invariant that was violated: every type the Python
shared-memory table accepts has a C++ spelling, and resolves for a struct
member. A type either crosses into both languages or neither, and nothing but a
build would have caught the drift — nobody builds every type by hand.

Found by the end-to-end sweep: a project with one Python block and one C++ block
each declaring all 21 elementary types.

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In `@src/backend/shared/utils/PLC/preprocess-pous.ts`:
- Line 99: Remove the redundant ProjectDataWithCpp type assertions from
preprocess-pous.ts at lines 99, 127, 152, and 249, including the assertion on
processedProjectData. Use the existing PLCProjectData typing directly at all
four sites.

In `@src/frontend/services/python-lsp/__tests__/index.test.ts`:
- Around line 184-187: Update the makeBoolVar test helper to support the
temporary-variable fixture by adding 'temp' to its accepted type union, or
introduce a dedicated temp-variable fixture, so the service.attachPou call
remains type-safe.

In `@src/frontend/utils/PLC/__tests__/array-codegen-helpers.test.ts`:
- Line 401: Remove the non-null assertion from the assignment to v.type.data in
the array-codegen helper test; explicitly narrow or validate v.type and
v.type.data before setting baseType, or initialize the array with the required
user-defined element type.

In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts`:
- Around line 207-212: Update the “refuses an array of structures” fixture to
construct the bank array with its user-typed base type directly, rather than
mutating bank.type.data afterward. Remove the non-null assertion from the setup
while preserving the existing describeShmLeaves expectation.

In `@src/frontend/utils/python/generatePythonLspPreamble.ts`:
- Around line 122-128: Update annotationFor to accept the declared dataTypes and
return the user type name only when it matches a declared structure or
enumeration; otherwise return Any, and revise its comment to reflect this
fallback. Update generated class-annotated declarations in the relevant preamble
generation flow to initialize with an annotation-compatible value, matching the
existing str handling instead of assigning None.

In `@src/frontend/utils/python/shm-leaves.ts`:
- Around line 184-205: Update src/frontend/utils/python/shm-leaves.ts lines
184-205 so array elements requiring multiple format items—descriptor kinds
string or wstring, and enumeration arrays—are refused or expanded into one leaf
per element, ensuring the leaf count matches the struct format. Update lines
224-237 to carry an explicit array flag on each leaf, preserving array access
for ARRAY [0..0] OF INT and unparsable dimensions instead of relying on count >
1.

Apply the same fix in `@src/frontend/utils/python/shm-leaves.ts` around lines 224
- 237.

In `@src/middleware/adapters/editor/compiler-adapter.ts`:
- Around line 220-241: The compileForDebug tests must cover a Python POU with an
unsupported resolved board: assert the target-specific validation error is
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thiagoralves and others added 3 commits August 26, 2026 08:38
…ly pin types

A block holding `o : Outer`, where `Outer` has a `State` member, writes
`o.STATE_ = STATE::BUSY`. The alias emitter walked only the types a pin names
directly, so `STATE` — reachable only through a member — was never aliased and
the build failed with `'STATE' has not been declared`.

Every type the project declares is aliased now. Types named by a pin are still
added on top, which is what covers a function block instance: an FB is a POU, so
it never appears among the project's data types.

Also records, where the round-trip is described, what marshalling a
`VAR_EXTERNAL` into a Python block actually costs. Each access is atomic — the
stub takes the global's lock to read and again to write — but the
read-modify-write as a whole is not, because the modify happens in another
process a cycle later. So `g := g + 1` in a Python block loses updates another
task makes in between, where the same line in ST or C++ completes inside one
scan under one lock. Measured on hardware: a Python block and a C++ block each
adding 2 to one global reached about 70% of the total they had both added; with a
single writer the count is exact. Holding the lock across a whole Python cycle
would stall every other task touching that global, so lost updates under
contention is the better trade — but it is a real difference and belongs in the
user documentation.

Both found by the composite end-to-end sweep: one project with a Python block and
a C++ block, each carrying a nested structure with a STRING member, an array
inside that structure, an enumeration member, a 1-D input array, a VAR and a
VAR_EXTERNAL. After the fix, on slm-rp4, every derived value held its ratio —
the array element at exactly three times the nested counter, the REAL at half,
the per-instance STRING member distinct, the enumeration reading BUSY.

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A Python block declaring `acc : Accum` was refused with "ACCUM is not a type
Python can exchange", followed by a list of the types that are. Both sentences
are true and neither is the point: the problem is not the type, it is that the
instance would never be called.

The precise message existed but never fired. It was keyed on
`user-data-type`, and the variables parser marks a function block instance
`derived` — it resolves the name against the project's POUs and libraries first,
so a real instance never reaches the branch written for it. Only a hand-built
test variable did, which is why it looked covered.

Both markings are refused now with the reason and a way forward: a Python block
runs in its own process, so it cannot call the instance, and an uncalled instance
never updates its outputs — use EN/ENO on the block itself for execution control,
or call the instance from an ST block and pass its outputs in.

Each refusal is self-contained now. The supported-type list moved into the
refusal that is actually about types, and the blanket sentence the caller
appended to every message is gone: it was wrong for half of them.

`derived` also joins the C++ alias set, so a block can name a function block
class — to declare a local of it — as it can already name a structure or an
enumeration. The interface struct was already correct there, because it fully
qualifies every field.

Verified on slm-rp4: a C++ block holding a standard-library `TON` and a
user-defined FB drove both explicitly — the timer reached `Q` with `ET` at its
preset, and the user block's accumulator held exactly twice the call count at
every sample, so per-instance state persists across scans. The equivalent Python
block is refused at compile time with the message above.

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This is the half of phase 7 that was planned and never built. The plan read
"Python FB pins + EN/ENO"; EN/ENO was verified and the phase declared done, which
left the feature that motivated the phase unimplemented — and a later rewrite of
my own notes recorded only the half that shipped.

Python cannot call an instance: it runs in another process, and the instance
lives in the PLC's. But it does not need to. The block's ST wrapper is generated
and already runs every scan, in that process, so it calls the instances itself —
one `ton0();` per declaration, in declaration order. Python only uses the pins,
which marshal like a structure's members.

Direction is what makes the pins work rather than merely cross. A block's inputs
are the caller's to drive, so they travel outbound and Python may write them; its
outputs are the instance's to produce, so they travel inbound and Python reads
them. Writing an output from Python is simply not represented, which is the same
answer an input already gets. FB-internal `local` state never crosses at all: it
is the instance's own business, and a write from outside would corrupt the block.

The exchange had to be re-ordered to make this mean anything. It was one
`{external}` block that published the PLC's values and then took Python's back;
with an instance in the middle that would have run the block on last scan's pin
values. It now splits around the calls — take what Python wrote, run the
instances, publish what they produced — and stays a single block when there is no
instance, so nothing changes for a project without one.

Pins resolve from the project's own POUs first and then from the installed
library manifests, so `ton0 : TON` works and a project block of the same name
shadows the library, matching the precedence the variables parser already
applies. A generic pin (`ANY_NUM`) has no type until it is wired, so it is
refused by name rather than guessed at.

Two bugs found by running it, both from one rule written twice:

  - The pin-selection predicate existed in the walk and again where Python
    rebuilds the instance, and the second ignored direction. The output seed
    decodes the outbound layout, so it constructed the instance from a pin it
    had never decoded, and the block died on `NameError: _ton0_Q`. There is one
    predicate now, `pinCrossesInDirection`, and both sides ask it.
  - Pin names were upper-cased for the class slots but left as declared in the
    field paths, so a project block with a lowercase pin gave Python an
    attribute named differently from the slot it was built with:
    `AttributeError: 'Accum' object has no attribute 'step'`. Pins are
    upper-cased everywhere now, which is also what the compiler emits and what
    the C++ side writes.

Verified on slm-rp4. A Python block holding a standard-library `TON` and a
user-defined block: Python set `ton0.IN` and `ton0.PT`, and the timer reached
`Q` with `ET` at its 2-second preset; the user block accumulated by 3 per call.
The value Python last read sat exactly one call behind the live instance, which
is the one-cycle lag this design has always implied and which the docs now state.

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src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts (1)

424-428: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the non-null assertion.

Line 426 still uses bank.type.data!. The coding guidelines forbid non-null assertions in src/**/*.{ts,tsx}. Build the fixture with the user-typed base type directly, as the sibling fixture at lines 395-406 already does.

♻️ Proposed fixture without the assertion
     it('refuses an array of structures', () => {
-      const bank = arrayOf('bank', 'Motor')
-      bank.type.data!.baseType = { definition: 'user-data-type', value: 'Motor' }
+      const bank: PLCVariable = {
+        name: 'bank',
+        class: 'input',
+        type: {
+          definition: 'array',
+          value: 'ARRAY [0..3] OF Motor',
+          data: {
+            baseType: { definition: 'user-data-type', value: 'Motor' },
+            dimensions: [{ dimension: '0..3' }],
+          },
+        },
+        location: '',
+        documentation: '',
+        debug: false,
+      }
 
       expect(refusalOf(describeShmLeaves(bank, inbound([MOTOR])))?.reason).toContain('array of structures')

As per coding guidelines: "Do not use non-null assertions (!); handle undefined values or narrow explicitly."

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In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts` around lines 424 -
428, Update the “refuses an array of structures” fixture to avoid the non-null
assertion on bank.type.data; construct the array fixture with the user-typed
base type directly, following the sibling fixture’s established pattern.

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src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts (1)

316-333: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the test name and comment.

The test is named "omits a library block’s pins that are not declared" and the comment describes excluding a block's locals. The assertion expects both acc_STEP and acc_TOTAL, so nothing is omitted. A library manifest lists pins only, as the preceding test states, so there are no locals to exclude here. Rename the test to describe what it verifies: a library manifest resolves to its input and output pins.

♻️ Proposed rename
-    it('omits a library block’s pins that are not declared', () => {
-      // A block's own locals are its business; letting Python write them would
-      // corrupt the instance from outside.
+    it('resolves a library block’s pins from its manifest', () => {
+      // A manifest lists pins only — inputs, in-outs and outputs — so every
+      // entry crosses inbound.
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In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts` around lines 316 -
333, Rename the test around describeShmLeaves to state that a library manifest
resolves to its declared input and output pins, and replace the misleading
comment about excluding locals with wording that reflects the manifest-pins
behavior. Keep the existing setup and assertion unchanged.
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Do not assert the bridge result to StlibArchiveDTO[].

Line 318 casts an IPC payload with as StlibArchiveDTO[]. The coding guidelines forbid type assertions other than as const, and they require validating IPC payloads with a Zod schema or a type guard. The same pattern already exists on the unchanged lines 202 and 214, so a shared validated loader would remove all three casts.

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const parseArchives = (raw: unknown): StlibArchiveDTO[] => stlibArchiveArraySchema.parse(raw)

const libraryArchives = parseArchives(await window.bridge.loadAllLibraries())

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In `@src/middleware/adapters/editor/compiler-adapter.ts` around lines 318 - 319,
Replace the StlibArchiveDTO[] type assertions in compileProgram,
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In `@src/backend/shared/utils/PLC/preprocess-pous.ts`:
- Around line 80-87: Update compileForDebug to pass the loaded function-block
sources into preprocessPous via its libraries argument, rather than relying on
the default empty array. Preserve the existing preprocessing behavior for
project-declared blocks while enabling bundled instances such as TON to resolve
their pins.

In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/encodeCharactersFromVariable.test.ts`:
- Around line 38-44: Update the undefined and null fixtures in the tests for
encodeCharactersFromVariable to use a widened variable type instead of as
unknown as PLCVariable[]. Preserve both cases and their expected "=" results so
the !variables guard remains covered.

In `@src/frontend/utils/python/injectPythonRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 93-113: Update generateInstanceClasses to emit each function-block
class using the canonical type spelling used by buildValue, while retaining
case-insensitive deduplication. Ensure constructor references for variable type
values resolve to that same canonical class name, so declarations differing only
in casing instantiate successfully.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts`:
- Around line 424-428: Update the “refuses an array of structures” fixture to
avoid the non-null assertion on bank.type.data; construct the array fixture with
the user-typed base type directly, following the sibling fixture’s established
pattern.

---

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In `@src/frontend/utils/python/__tests__/shm-leaves.test.ts`:
- Around line 316-333: Rename the test around describeShmLeaves to state that a
library manifest resolves to its declared input and output pins, and replace the
misleading comment about excluding locals with wording that reflects the
manifest-pins behavior. Keep the existing setup and assertion unchanged.

In `@src/middleware/adapters/editor/compiler-adapter.ts`:
- Around line 318-319: Replace the StlibArchiveDTO[] type assertions in
compileProgram, compileForDebug, and compileLibrary with a shared validated
archive loader that parses the unknown IPC results using the existing Zod schema
or type guard; update the libraryArchives flow before mapping functionBlocks and
remove all three non-const assertions.
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`STRING[20]` is legal IEC and legal CODESYS, and STruC++ does not accept it. The
variables parser did not recognise it as a string at all: it fell through to the
user-data-type branch and became a type literally named "STRING[20]", which was
persisted, shown in the type cell, and emitted verbatim into the generated ST.
The user then got `Expected Semicolon, found [` pointing at a line of ST they
never wrote.

This was the fourth of the four live defects the plan listed to ship first, and
the only one that never got picked up.

It is refused now, naming the type and what to use instead. Refusing rather than
mapping it onto plain STRING is the alignment the CODESYS-string work was
descoped in favour of: the transport carries a fixed 126-character budget, so a
declared length would not be honoured even if it parsed. When the compiler grows
the declaration, this guard is the one place that changes.

The existing test asserted the old behaviour — it used a sized STRING as its
example of a bracketed type the comma guard must not touch, and expected the
user-data-type named "STRING[20]" to come back. Its example is now an ordinary
user type, and the sized string has tests of its own: both keywords, odd spacing
and casing, an empty length, and the two things that must keep working — a plain
STRING, and an ARRAY OF STRING.

Verified through the CLI: the message names the offending declaration and the
compile stops, where before it reached the compiler and failed there. A project
using plain STRING still builds and runs on slm-rp4.

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Two defects, both found only by compiling a real project for a real mbed target
through the editor's own pipeline. My earlier check drove gcc by hand over a
header list I chose myself, and passed — it omitted `iec_ptr.hpp`, so it proved
nothing. It was not a test.

**The generated C-blocks unit was on the wrong side of the isolation seam.**
`composeFirmwareBundle` wrote it next to the sketch, where arduino-cli compiles
it at whatever standard the core ships. That was survivable while the unit only
pulled in `iec_var.hpp` and `iec_string.hpp`, and stopped being survivable when
phase 4 gave it `generated.hpp` for the project's own types: `iec_ptr.hpp` uses
`std::is_arithmetic_v`, so on an mbed core (gnu++14) a project with a C++ block
failed with `'is_arithmetic_v' is not a member of 'std'`. The AVR targets hid it
because `hals.json` declares `-std=gnu++17` in their `cxx_flags`; a VPP board
such as Arduino Opta declares no such flag. The unit now goes under `src/`, where
the pre-compile step builds it at gnu++17 with the rest of the generated code —
which is where the editor's other path had been putting it all along.

**Arduino's `abs` macro breaks `<chrono>`.** The baseline undef'd `min` and `max`
and stopped there. `<chrono>`, reached transitively on the mbed cores, calls
`abs` with a template argument list the one-parameter macro cannot swallow —
`macro "abs" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1` — and the standard header then
fails to parse. AVR never showed this either: its libstdc++ is the vendored
freestanding port and never reaches `<chrono>`. `constrain` and `sq` are left
alone, since neither shadows a standard name.

The skeleton's static `examples/Baremetal/c_blocks_code.cpp` stays where it is.
It defines no symbols and pulls in no strucpp header, so it compiles at the
core's standard and cannot collide with the generated one.

Verified through `openplc-cli` on Arduino Opta (`arduino:mbed_opta`, Cortex-M7,
core standard gnu++14), with a C++ block using a 2-D input, a 3-D local and a
2-D global: `[precompile] ✓ c_blocks_code.cpp`, and both errors gone. What
remains on that board is DOPE-587 — `ArduinoUniqueID` does not support mbed, and
it fails a plain ST project with no native blocks the same way.

No regression elsewhere: the simulator still builds the same project at 6% flash
/ 3% RAM, and a Python block holding a TON still runs on slm-rp4.

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Eleven findings from review. Each verified against the code first — one was
invalid and is documented below rather than "fixed".

**Layout facts come from the compiler, not a second copy.** `shm-type-map`
restated the size and C type of all 19 elementary types beside strucpp's
`libs/iec-types.json`, which the project already reads through
`iec-types-registry`. `SHM_SCALAR_TYPES` is now derived from it: the only fact
this file still owns is `wireFormat → {cType, pyFormat}`, because the registry's
`cppType` is the `IEC_*` wrapper and a wrapper cannot be a packed-struct member.
Widths come from `byteSize`. `function-block-pins` carried a second hand-written
copy of the same list; it now calls `isBaseTypeName`. `DEBUG_STRING_CAP` is the
single home for the 126-character cap, re-exported as `SHM_STRING_CHARS` and read
by the parser's user-facing message, closing AC 10.

The drift was already observable: the registry aliases TOD to `TIME_OF_DAY` and
DT to `DATE_AND_TIME`, and the C++ path honoured both while the Python table had
only `tod`/`dt` with no alias resolution and no `.trim()` — so a library FB pin
spelled `TIME_OF_DAY` made the whole block refuse.

**A string wider than the transport is no longer destroyed.** The read clamped to
126 characters and the write-back then assigned that prefix into an
`IECStringVar` that holds 254. Now that `local`, `inOut` and `external`
round-trip, that turned a read into a permanent truncation with no user code
involved. The write-back is guarded on the current length: at or under the cap
Python holds the whole value and the write is faithful; over it, the IEC value is
left alone.

**Array-ness is stated, not inferred from `count > 1`.** That test mis-handled
every shape whose element count is not greater than one, and silently accepted
three it cannot express. `ShmLeaf` now carries `isArray`, and the walk refuses
what it cannot describe (AC 3: marshal correctly, or say why):

  - rank >= 2 — the exchange indexes `A[start + i]` while strucpp passes
    `Array2D`/`Array3D` indexed `(i, j)`, and the flat count was paired with only
    dimension 0's lower bound. Python blocks are one-dimensional by decision;
    higher ranks get their own message. This narrows AC 7 deliberately.
  - array of STRING/WSTRING — a repeat count applies only to the first item of a
    struct format, so `4b126s` is not four strings. Repeating the whole format
    emitted 2 slots per element while the decoder consumed 1, shifting every
    later variable.
  - array of an enumeration — the array branch short-circuited before the enum
    cast on the C side, and the seed emitted `Mode([0,0,0])`, which raises at
    module level before `block_init`.
  - unparsable dimensions — count 0 fell to the scalar path; the field size is
    unknown, so it is refused.
  - `ARRAY [0..0]` now crosses as a one-element array instead of a bare int.

**Adapters forward what they already hold.** `compileForDebug` loaded the library
archives and did not pass them, so a Python POU declaring `ton0 : TON` compiled
for upload and failed the debug compile. Web's `compileLibrary` verify pass ran
with three arguments and its `validationFailed` was never read, so it could
refuse a project the build pass accepted and then hand the un-lowered project to
the AVR verify compile. Web's preprocess saw bundled archives only while the
editor passes bundled + user-installed, so a user-installed library FB was
refused on web and accepted in the editor — one `fbPinSources` helper now feeds
every call site. Both repos' `compileLibrary` forward the real
`validationError` instead of reporting a Python refusal as missing
setup()/loop().

**A test suite that did not compile.** `python-lsp/index.test.ts` passed `'temp'`
to a helper typed `'input' | 'output' | 'local'`, so the suite ran zero tests.
Tests are excluded from `tsconfig.json`, so `tsc` never saw it and both test
workflows are `workflow_dispatch`, so CI never ran jest. Helper unions widened to
`PLCVariable['class']` here and in `generateSTCode.test.ts`.

**NOT a defect: the "case mismatch" regression.** Review held that uppercasing in
`mapUserTypeToIEC` / `generateUserTypeAliases` breaks any project with a
mixed-case data type, because "strucpp preserves the case it was given". It does
not: its lexer uppercases the whole ST source except string literals and
`{external}` bodies (`dist/frontend/lexer.js`), so the declared case never
reaches `type-codegen`. Verified by compiling a project with types `Inner` /
`Outer` / `State` and a C++ block declaring `o : Outer` — `struct OUTER`,
`using IEC_OUTER`, `strucpp::IEC_OUTER *O`, `using OUTER = strucpp::OUTER`,
clean build. Only the docstring's case spelling was wrong.

Tests: AC 9's two refusals had none — added, plus the rank/string/enum/single-
element cases, the alias resolution, the registry-exhaustiveness guard and the
guarded write-back. `frontend/utils/python` at 100% statements/lines/functions.

Verified end-to-end on real hardware (SLM-RP4, Runtime v4) through openplc-cli,
not unit tests alone:
  - IECLEN 200 / OLEN 126 — the IEC string keeps all 200 characters after many
    scans of Python assigning "CLOBBERED", while Python sees the 126-char prefix
  - GSHORT round-trips ('py-wrote-this'), so a string that fits still works
  - ONE[0] forced to 77 -> OONE 77: the single-element array crosses as a list
  - TON0.ET '2s' / OTONQ true — a library FB instance resolves, is called once
    per scan, and its pins reach Python through the debug path
  - rank2 / arrstr / arrenum refused with their own messages
  - no regression: pystructhw, pytimer, pyfb (Runtime v4), allclass + casebug
    (Mega, Opta, Simulator)

Refs DOPE-584

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224-231: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Construct composite function-block pins from their leaves.

For a structure pin, describeShmLeaves creates member temporaries such as _instance_PIN_member. This branch emits PIN=_instance_PIN, which is undefined in generated Python. The runtime then fails when it unpacks the function-block instance.

Build each pin value by its declared type. Include function-block pin types in collectReferencedTypes so generated structure and enumeration classes exist.


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The comment claimed a user would otherwise write `strucpp::Motor` / `(strucpp::Mode)`.
Neither spelling resolves: strucpp's lexer upper-cases the whole ST source except
string literals and `{external}` bodies, so a type declared `Motor` is `struct MOTOR`
by the time `type-codegen` names it. The emitter was right; the comment described
something the compiler never produces, which is what made this look like a bug in
review.

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**Two FB instances of one type, different casing, crashed the block.**
`generateInstanceClasses` de-duplicated on the upper-cased name but emitted
`class <raw spelling>`, while the constructor site spelled each instance's own
raw `type.value`. So `a : Accum` and `b : ACCUM` produced a single
`class Accum:` and then both `Accum(...)` and `ACCUM(...)` — the second a
`NameError` at module scope, before `block_init()`. Reproduced in the generated
program, not inferred. `pythonClassName` is now the one place that decides the
name, the de-duplication key IS the emitted name, and both sites read it.

**`ARRAY [..] OF STRING[n]` reached the compiler raw.** The declared-length
guard was anchored to the whole type, so it caught `msg : STRING[20]` but not
the array-element form — and `parseArrayType` only accepts a bare identifier
after `OF`, so the element form matched nothing and fell through every branch.
strucpp then reported `Expected Semicolon, found [` at a column the user never
wrote, plus two cascading errors on the FOLLOWING line, so even the line number
misled. This is live defect #4 on the ticket; the scalar half was already fixed,
the array half was not. Both shapes are now refused with the same message.

**The Pyright preamble was wrong for every composite variable.** Two faults,
one line apart:

  - `annotationFor` echoed the variable's own spelling, so `m : MOTOR` against a
    type declared `Motor` annotated a class that does not exist — Pyright
    reported `"MOTOR" is not defined` on generated code the user cannot see. It
    now resolves through the project's data types and returns the type's own
    declared name; a name the project does not declare becomes `Any` rather than
    a phantom class.
  - `initialValueFor` sent class annotations to `defaultPythonLiteralFor`, which
    fell through the four scalars to `None`, emitting `m: Motor = None` —
    correctly rejected by Pyright. A structure is now seeded `Motor()` (the stub
    declares members and no `__init__`, so it type-checks) and an enumeration
    with its first member, which is also where the PLC starts it.

    The `istanbul ignore` on that fallback claimed the path was unreachable. It
    was the commonest composite case. Removed, with the real reachability
    written down — one fewer exemption.

Verified output for a project carrying both an enumeration and a structure:

    class Irrigation_State(IntEnum): Stopped = 0 / Running = 1 / Manual = 2
    class Pump: speed: int / label: str
    state: Irrigation_State = Irrigation_State.Stopped
    pump: Pump = Pump()
    ghost: Any = None

**Three test-quality findings.** The non-null assertion in
`array-codegen-helpers.test.ts` is gone — the fixture takes the element
definition as a parameter instead of being mutated into shape afterwards. The
`as unknown as PLCVariable[]` casts in `encodeCharactersFromVariable.test.ts`
are gone by fixing the cause: the function has always accepted a missing list
and the signature claimed otherwise, so the tests had to lie to the compiler.
And `compileForDebug` now has the target-rejection test it lacked — a Python POU
on an Arduino board returns the board-naming error and never reaches the bridge.

Not addressed, with reasons posted on their threads: the 13 `istanbul ignore`
directives (the fix is the structural one the reviewer proposed and should not
ride this commit) and the unguarded `python3` shell-out in `shm-type-map.test.ts`.

Verified through openplc-cli: probe_case (two FB instances, mixed casing) now
emits one `class ACCUM` with matching constructors; probe_strlen
(`ARRAY [0..3] OF STRING[20]`) is refused with the declared-length message;
no regression on pystructhw / pytimer / pyfb / hwfix (Runtime v4) or
allclass / casebug (Mega, Opta, Simulator). 336 suites, 7230 tests;
`frontend/utils/python` and `generate-iec-string-to-variables.ts` at 100%
statements/lines/functions.

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…code

Found while validating the preamble fix in the browser, and it is the reason
that fix did not look right end to end.

`attachDiagnosticsBridge` assumed Monaco discards markers at non-positive line
numbers — its own comment says so: "markers that would fall in the preamble end
up at negative line numbers and Monaco silently discards them, which is the
right outcome". Monaco CLAMPS them to line 1 instead. So every diagnostic
basedpyright raised against the injected type stubs landed on the user's first
line, describing code the user cannot see, reach, or fix:

    Instance variable "speed" is not initialized in the class body or __init__
      method                     basedpyright(reportUninitializedInstanceVariable)
    Instance variable "label" is not initialized …
    Type `Any` is not allowed                    basedpyright(reportExplicitAny)

on a line reading `import os`. The first two come from the stub form itself
(`class Pump: speed: int` — annotations without assignment, which is what a
`.pyi` does); the third from the `Any` this branch introduced for a type the
project does not declare.

Filtered at the bridge, one predicate, rather than muting the three rules. Muting
would have weakened checking of the USER's code to hide a fault in ours, and it
does not generalise — the next strict rule to fire on a generated stub would need
finding and muting too. A diagnostic whose remapped line is above the body is by
construction about the preamble, and the preamble is not the user's to answer for.

Tried first and reverted: `diagnosticSeverityOverrides` in the
`/pyrightconfig.json` handed through `initializationOptions`. This fork does not
honour it — verified the edited source reached the browser and the diagnostics
were unchanged — so it would have been dead config.

Validated in the browser on openplc-web (`npm run dev:local`), Python POU with a
declared enumeration, a declared structure, and an undeclared type:

  - `pump.speed` hovers as `(variable) speed: int` — resolved through the
    generated `class Pump:` stub
  - `Irrigation_State.Running` hovers as
    `Literal[Irrigation_State.Running]` — resolved through the IntEnum stub
  - error markers: line 15 only, which is a `definitely_not_defined_xyz` planted
    to prove basedpyright was actually running rather than silent
  - line 1 carries only `Import "os" is not accessed`, a real finding about the
    user's own code

Before: 2 error rows (line 1 and line 15) and the three messages above.

Refs DOPE-584

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaSZK4LqFWtZpERcqnZ8uQ
CodeRabbit finding, posted as an "outside diff range" comment so it never became
a resolvable thread. Confirmed and reproduced before changing anything.

The walk emits a temporary per LEAF, never one for the composite it descended
into. A structure's MEMBER already got the matching recursion; a function block's
PIN did not — it emitted a flat `PIN=_instance_PIN`. So a block whose pin is a
structure generated

    drv = DRIVE(CFG=_drv_CFG)

against a decode that had produced `_drv_CFG_speed`, `_drv_CFG_label` and
`_drv_CFG_trims` and nothing called `_drv_CFG`. `NameError` at module scope,
before `block_init()` — the block never ran at all.

Second half, same finding: `collectReferencedTypes` stopped at the instance, so a
structure or enumeration reachable ONLY as a pin type got no class declaration.
Even with the constructor fixed it would have named a class that did not exist.

Both closed by one rule rather than two parallel ones. `valueFor(typeValue,
typeDefinition, path)` decides the expression for whatever sits at a path, and
the structure-member loop and the pin loop both call it — which is what stops
them drifting apart again, since drifting apart is exactly what happened. The
collector now walks pin types too, still members-first so a pin type is declared
before the block class that constructs it.

Also fixed in passing: the enumeration branch spelled the class from the
REFERENCE (`member.type.value`) while the class is emitted under the type's own
declared name, so a mixed-case reference named a class that does not exist. Same
failure as the FB class casing bug fixed in 9c53bb1, one level down.

Verified through openplc-cli and on hardware (SLM-RP4, Runtime v4), with a
function block whose input pin is a `Motor` structure and whose output is a
`Mode` enumeration:

    drv = DRIVE(CFG=Motor(speed=_drv_CFG_speed, label=_drv_CFG_label,
                          trims=_drv_CFG_trims))

  - `class Motor:` and `class DRIVE:` both declared, Motor first
  - every class named in the constructor exists (checked programmatically)
  - no NameError or Traceback in the runtime log; the block starts and stays up
  - Python writes `drv.CFG.speed = 42` and reads it back: OSPEED 42, ORPM 42,
    and the PLC side agrees at DRV.CFG.SPEED 42
  - no regression: pytimer, pyfb, pystructhw, hwfix, probe_case all compile

`injectPythonRuntime.ts` at 100% statements/lines/functions; 7235 tests.

Refs DOPE-584

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaSZK4LqFWtZpERcqnZ8uQ
The branch was CONFLICTING, which is why no CI ran on it: GitHub cannot compute a
merge commit for a dirty PR, so `pull_request` events never fire and no
check-suite is created. Not a quota or delivery problem, which is where I had
been looking.

Two textual conflicts, both from DOPE-585 (#1042) landing in the same adapter
functions:

  - `compile-program-flow.ts` — kept the Python target gate from this branch AND
    development's newer comment, which describes `injectLibraryBlocks` (C/C++ and
    Python) after the rename from `injectLibraryCppBlocks`. The merged code calls
    the new name, so the new comment is the accurate one.
  - `compiler-adapter.ts` `compileLibrary` — kept BOTH additions. Development's
    `collectNativePous(args.projectData)`, taken before preprocessing lowers the
    bodies and threaded to the IPC call, and this branch's `fbSources` passed to
    both preprocess passes. Neither substitutes for the other.

One semantic conflict, which no merge tool would have surfaced: DOPE-585 added
"grafts an enabled library's Python block too", building for Arduino Mega — and
this branch's P1 correctly refuses a Python block on an arduino-cli target, so
the graft was never reached and the test died on an unset callback. The test is
about the GRAFT, so it now builds for a Runtime v4 target, added to the shared
boards mock. The refusal has its own tests.

Also repaired `native-pou-list.test.ts`, which arrived with the merge and had
never compiled — so its 25 tests had never run. It imported `PouType` from
`open-plc-types`, which does not export it, and `PLCPou` from there too, which is
the `{ type, data }` union rather than the `{ name, pouType, … }` shape the
fixture builds. Both come from `ports/types`, which is also what
`collectNativePous` takes. Two follow-on errors fixed with it: `it.each` widening
the POU type to `string`, and a deliberately body-less POU asserted into a shape
it is not (now `Omit<PLCPou, 'body'>`).

That suite is the third this session found running zero tests, all for the same
reason: tests are excluded from `tsconfig.json` so `tsc` never sees them, and
both jest workflows are `workflow_dispatch` so CI never runs them.

Gates at this merge: tsc clean, eslint 0 errors, prettier clean, architecture
validation passed, 340 suites / 7321 tests. The 2 remaining suite failures
(`device-types`, `use-device-connect`) also fail on `development`.

Refs DOPE-584

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UaSZK4LqFWtZpERcqnZ8uQ
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