The terminal has been driving the mock since it was built. This is the firmware
side, so it works on hardware.
Same 202 + reqid + poll contract as a config save, for the same reason:
CommonCLI touches prefs, the radio and the filesystem, none of which may be
reached from the async_tcp task. Commands go into the deferred slot and tick()
drains them on the loop task. Unlike a save this is not allowlisted — reaching
what the serial console reaches is the point, and execCommand() already passes
sender_timestamp 0, so the terminal gets exactly the serial console's
privilege. Authentication is the boundary, as it is there.
The CLI shares the config batch's slot rather than owning a second MAX_BATCH
array: both drain on the loop task, both are single-slot, and a duplicate would
cost ~8 KB of permanently resident RAM. Sharing also makes a save and a CLI run
mutually exclusive, which they must be. Each reader checks the kind, so neither
can serve the other's results.
Three things the mock could not have taught us:
- Board::reboot() does not return, so a drained `reboot` would take the node
down before the client read a single result. It is answered rather than
executed, and the batch arms the existing deferred-reboot path once the
results have been read — withheld if any command failed, exactly as a save
withholds one. clkreboot/poweroff/ota update do real work on the way down
and cannot be faked, so they still drop the connection; the UI warns first.
- `password <new>` echoes the new password in its reply. The config path
already scrubbed that by key; a CLI entry has no key, so it is matched on
the command. CLI commands are also kept out of the serial log entirely —
the browser session and the serial console are different audiences.
- MAX_BATCH is 24, not the 64 the page assumed. It is reported as
status.max_cmds instead of hardcoded, so the cap cannot drift.
Results stream and page (kCliResultPage = 8), and "done" means the client has
been handed every result, not merely that execution finished — otherwise a
client that stops polling at "done" loses the last page. Commands are never
echoed back: they may carry a secret, and the client matches by index.
New decisions live in WebConfigBatch.h with the rest, covered by three host
tests. Builds clean for heltec_v4_repeater_observer_mqtt; 22 batch + 14 keys
tests pass; the CLI audit reports 119/119 against the updated mock.
The WebConfig POST/result/reboot/stop batch state machine was the largest
remaining Phase 6 coverage gap (all inline in WebConfigServer.cpp, coupled to
AsyncWebServer/ArduinoJson and untestable on host). Extract its decision + timing
CORE into a pure, dependency-free spec mirroring MQTTLifecycle.h:
- src/helpers/WebConfigBatch.h: classifyPost (replay/busy/accept/no-changes with
the DONE-vs-PENDING reqid asymmetry), drain pacing (signed 25 ms gate, sticky
all_ok, 30 s reboot fallback), result classification + arm-once 3 s reboot,
signed-wrap-safe reboot-due / isRebootPending, and stop gating (finalize when
refs==0, warn-once, never force teardown). Constants verbatim from the source.
- test/test_webconfig_batch/: full host coverage incl. exact boundaries and
millis() rollover.
Spec-first, exactly like Phase 4's MQTTLifecycle.h: this is NOT yet wired into
WebConfigServer.cpp. That server is hardware-tuned (debugged against real iOS
captive-portal + HTTP-caching + route-ordering behavior), so making the spec
load-bearing is a deliberately separate, hardware-validated follow-up.
Faithfulness independently reviewed against WebConfigServer.cpp; native suite
green (14 dirs). No production behavior change.
agessaman