The prior 'hand'-ack fix worked in test but failed in prod because both
the handler and the test used the wrong wire shape. Re-tracing the
client emit path:
RealTimeNetworkAgent.cs:783-786 (msg path):
return MessagePackSerializer.Serialize(
CryptAES.encryptForNode(JsonMapper.ToJson(info))); // ← encrypted
RealTimeNetworkAgent.cs:815-817 (hand path):
return MessagePackSerializer.Serialize(
JsonMapper.ToJson(info)); // ← NOT encrypted
And EmitFrontStockData:717-723 picks "hand" as the SIO event name only
when frontData["StockHandData"] exists; in that branch it passes the
StockHandData list (NOT the dict) to CreatePackEmitHandData. So the
wire body is:
msgpack_string(JsonMapper.ToJson(List<object>))
i.e. a JSON array, unencrypted. EmitMsgUriPack:1456-1458 puts pubSeq at
index 3 of that array (after uri_int / viewerId / udid). The dict's
top-level pubSeq stays client-local for stockEmitMessageMgr.GetSelectData.
Handler now:
- Skips NodeCrypto.DecryptForNode (was throwing FormatException on the
unencrypted bytes — caught and swallowed silently by the existing
outer try/catch, so the bug presented as 'no warning, no ack')
- Parses RootElement.ValueKind:
- Array → arr[3] is the pubSeq
- Object → top-level "pubSeq" (defensive; not used by prod today)
- Falls back to ack arg=0 if neither extraction works (the client's
GetSelectData lookup misses but its OnAck path still fires — same as a
normal cache-miss — so the queue still drains)
Diagnostic [hand-rx] log added (gated by DiagnosticLogging) so we can
see the actual body content per-frame during verification.
Test was also wrong (encrypted dict shape); rewritten to use the real
wire shape (unencrypted JSON array). +1 net new test covering the
dict-shape defensive path.
176 battle-node tests passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scripted-bot softlock root cause: client-stocked SELECT_SKILL_URI /
SLIDE_OBJECT_URI hand emits (e.g. target selection on unit play / leader
attack) arrive as SIO BinaryEvent("hand", ...) with an ack-id. Our
DispatchSocketIo only had cases for "msg" and "alive" — "hand" fell to
the default Debug-drop with no SIO ack going back. Client's
stockEmitMessageMgr (RealTimeNetworkAgent.cs:1463) blocks subsequent
emits until the previous one is acked, so all follow-up PlayActions /
TurnEndActions / TurnEnd frames were stocked but never transmitted. The
loader hooks at EmitMsg (intent) not the socket layer, which is why
battle-traffic.ndjson shows the frames as sent while the server never
received them. ~10s later the client gives up and aborts the WS.
Wire-shape proof from data_dumps/captures/logs/websocket_output.txt:
line 619: [sio-in] uri=TurnStart pubSeq=17 ackId=16 ... (T3 start)
line 689: [ws-rx-text] preview=451-26["hand", {...}] ← unhandled
line 691: [ws-rx-bin] binLen=58 pendingFrame=hand
(no further [sio-in] entries — server received nothing else)
line 709: [ws-recv-exit] reason=OperationCanceled wsState=Aborted
New HandleHandEventAsync (RealParticipant.cs):
- Fire-and-forget hand frames (no ack-id; TOUCH_URI / SELECT_OBJECT_URI /
TURN_END_READY_URI) are silently swallowed — no queue-blocking risk
- Stocked hand frames decode the binary attachment via the same
msgpack-string + NodeCrypto.Decrypt pipeline as HandleMsgEventAsync,
parse the JSON, extract top-level "pubSeq", and SendSioAckAsync with
that pubSeq as the ack arg (matches what stockEmitMessageMgr.GetSelectData
expects to look up)
- Body shape is {"StockHandData":[uri_int, viewerId, udid, ...params,
pubSeq], "try":0, "pubSeq":N} — NOT a MsgEnvelope (no top-level "uri"),
so we can't reuse HandleMsgEventAsync as-is
- Missing-pubSeq fallback acks with arg=0 (rare path, logged at Warning)
so we never softlock from a malformed body
WireConstants gets the HandEvent = "hand" constant for the dispatch case.
In scripted/Bot mode the ack-only handler is correct (no opponent to
forward touches to). PvP-side forwarding semantics are unverified — see
docs/audits/battle-node-sio-events-2026-06-02.md (outer repo) for the
full event inventory and remaining gaps.
Tests:
- RealParticipantHandEventTests covers the three paths: stocked-with-ack,
fire-and-forget (no ack expected), missing-pubSeq fallback (arg=0). Each
drives a real hand frame through RunAsync via TestWebSocket and asserts
the SIO ack frame shape (43<ackId>[<arg>]) in outbound sends.
- 175 battle-node tests passing (was 172; +3 new). Full suite green.
Diagnostic logs ([sio-in] / [sio-out] / [ws-rx-text] / [ws-rx-bin] /
[ws-recv-exit] / [ws-loop-exit]) are left in place for one verification
cycle. After a live re-run confirms the fix, they should be stripped per
the audit doc's recommended-order step 2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
