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Mirror of https://github.com/Autonomy-Logic/openplc-web/pull/728

Closes DOPE-557 — sub-task of DOPE-577 (Family A: one identifier namespace).

The bug

Naming a project element after a symbol that ships in a bundled library produces a project that cannot be compiled, and the only diagnostic is a C++ error in a generated file the user has never seen:

generated.hpp:94:7: error: using typedef-name 'using MATRIX = strucpp::Array2D<strucpp::IECVar<int>, 0, 9, 0, 3>' after 'class'
 class MATRIX;
generated.hpp:60:44: note: 'using MATRIX = ...' has a previous declaration here
 using MATRIX = Array2D<IEC_INT, 0, 9, 0, 3>;

Captured fresh on avr-g++ 7.3.0 with strucpp v0.6.6, the current pin. The card quoted v0.6.2 output; cee7131f reordered the declarations, so the line numbers moved (104/70 → 94/60) and the forward declaration now produces a second error.

Worth stating plainly: compile() returns success: true with zero errors and zero warnings. strucpp emits a generated.hpp that cannot compile. Nothing warns the user until the C++ stage.

The user cannot avoid it either — the five bundled archives are in every build regardless of the project's libraries list, so no setting makes such a name safe, and nothing in the UI hints the name is taken.

The fix

DOPE-538 established elementNameCollision(state, name, kind, ignoring?) as the single gate for POU, data type and global variable list names. This extends that function with the library symbol table rather than adding a third validator, per DOPE-577's requirement that one helper be the only place a candidate name is checked.

"Matrix" is a function block in the oscat-basic library
"Sin" is a function in the iec-std-functions library
"Limits" needs the type name "Limits_TYPE", which is a function block in the oscat-basic library

Case-insensitive, via the existing nameMatches. Applies to create, rename and duplicate, for all three element kinds.

Two decisions worth reviewing

The whole installed pool is checked, not just the bundled five. Bundled archives are unconditional so they must be blocked; installed-but-not-enabled libraries are blocked too, so enabling one later cannot turn a compiling project into a broken one. The cost is a refusal for a name that would compile today. Flag it if you'd rather scope it to bundledLibraryNames ∪ enabledLibraries.

The gate stays entry-point only. There is no load-time validation and none was added — a project that already carries a colliding name still opens, stays editable, and can be renamed out of the collision. That is a card acceptance criterion: validation must not lock a user out of a project they can no longer fix.

Verification

Check Result
shared-slice.test.ts 230 pass (13 new)
Full suite 367 suites / 7713 tests pass, 20 skipped
tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json 0 errors
prettier / eslint clean
Shared surface parity match: true, total_diffs: 0 (1081 files)

Beyond the unit tests, the gate was driven against the real bundled archives — 682 symbols across the five libraries — confirming Matrix/matrix → oscat-basic, Sin → iec-std-functions, RTC → additional-function-blocks, and Widget → allowed.

Manually validated in the app against a fixture project that already carries the colliding names: it opens, the refusals appear with the library named in both the toast and the inline field error, and ordinary names are unaffected.

Note for reviewers

While validating this, renaming a POU with its editor open and committing the rename by clicking into the code editor throws BugIndicatingError: Model is disposed!. It is pre-existing on development, unrelated to this change (the refusal returns before updateInProject runs), root-caused to services/st-lsp/monaco-model-sync.ts:105-112, and recorded on DOPE-581, whose scope section had already deferred exactly this question.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented user-created POUs, data types, and global variable lists from conflicting with names reserved by system libraries.
    • Name checks now ignore letter casing and also cover derived global-variable-list type names.
    • Improved conflict messages by identifying the library and symbol type involved.
    • Existing projects with naming conflicts can still be opened and renamed.
    • Names that do not conflict with library symbols remain available for use.

…OPE-557)

POUs, data types and global variable lists share one generated namespace
with the bundled .stlib archives, and those archives are in every build
regardless of the project's `libraries` list. A name reused from one emits
a second declaration of the same symbol, reported only as a C++ error in a
generated file the user never sees — strucpp itself returns success.

Extend the existing element-name gate with the library symbol table rather
than adding a third validator. The refusal names the conflicting library
and whether the symbol is a function or a function block. The whole
installed pool counts, not only the bundled set, so enabling a library
later cannot turn a project that compiles into one that does not.

The gate stays entry-point only — create, rename and duplicate. A project
that already carries a colliding name still opens, and can be renamed out
of the collision.

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The shared slice now blocks case-insensitive name collisions with system-library functions and function blocks. Tests cover creation, renaming, duplication, derived global-variable-list types, valid names, and existing projects with collisions.

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Library symbol collision prevention

Layer / File(s) Summary
System-library symbol lookup
src/frontend/store/slices/shared/slice.ts
The shared slice maps library POU types to display names and finds matching symbols across installed system libraries without case sensitivity.
Element collision validation and coverage
src/frontend/store/slices/shared/slice.ts, src/frontend/store/__tests__/shared-slice.test.ts
elementNameCollision rejects collisions for POUs, data types, and global variable lists, including derived <name>_TYPE names. Tests cover library fixtures, rejection messages, valid names, and existing projects with collisions.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a8934

Projects can still be created or renamed with library-conflicting names during startup, bypassing the new collision protection and potentially reintroducing the symbol-resolution failures this change is intended to prevent. Library readiness must be enforced before these name actions are merge-ready.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ProjectAction
  participant elementNameCollision
  participant SystemLibraries
  ProjectAction->>elementNameCollision: validate element name
  elementNameCollision->>SystemLibraries: scan installed POUs
  SystemLibraries-->>elementNameCollision: return library and symbol kind
  elementNameCollision-->>ProjectAction: accept name or return collision error
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Library symbols answer back
Functions and blocks share the space
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`handleOpenProjectResponse` takes `OpenProjectResponseData`, whose
`projectData` is already `PLCProjectData`, so the `ReturnType<...>` and
`as unknown` assertions the fixture carried were noise standing in for
contextual typing.

Addresses the CodeRabbit review on #1078.

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Approving. No findings. What I have is an answer to the question you put to the reviewer, plus one observation about scope.

Answering your question

"The whole installed pool is checked... Flag it if you'd rather scope it to bundledLibraryNames ∪ enabledLibraries."

Keep it as it is. The costs are asymmetric. The cost of the broad scope is refusing a name that would compile today — visible, immediate, and the user picks another name. The cost of the narrow scope is a project that compiles today and stops compiling when somebody enables a library, with the diagnostic being a C++ error in a generated file they have never seen, arriving after compile() returned success: true. The second is far worse and lands much later.

Worth naming a consequence the body does not: the installed pool varies per machine. The same name can be accepted on one developer's machine and refused on another's, depending on what each has installed. That does not change my answer, but it is an argument for the message naming the library — which it does, and which is what turns a confusing refusal into an actionable one.

What I verified

A gap that looked real and is not. librarySymbolOwning scans only state.libraries.system, and the same file also touches libraries.user, so user libraries looked excluded. I went and checked: libraries.user entries are { name, type } with no .pous — it is a record of which library blocks the project uses, not a pool of symbols. libraries.system is the authoritative structure, so scanning it is complete. Flagging that would have been wrong.

The derived name is checked too. A global variable list occupies two symbols, and <name>_TYPE goes through the same gate — hence "Limits" needs the type name "Limits_TYPE", which is a function block in the oscat-basic library. Easy to forget, and it is the case a user would find hardest to diagnose.

LIBRARY_SYMBOL_KIND is an exhaustive Record<LibraryPouType, string>, so adding a member to LibraryPouType becomes a type error rather than undefined in the message.

The tests are load-bearing. 230 pass; I neutralised the main gate and 10 fail.

Entry-point only, no load-time validation — a card acceptance criterion, and the reasoning is right: validating on load would lock a user out of a project they can no longer fix.

Mirror 2/2 byte-identical. CI green on both. CodeRabbit's fixture-assertion finding was addressed in d24110227 and confirmed by the bot.

One observation on scope

This gate covers element names — POU, data type, global variable list. It does not cover variable names, and the compile error in the description confirms that is the right read of the bug: the collision is between a project data type and the library's typedef.

Looking at the DOPE-577 family — 538 (done), this one, 598 and 600 (backlog), 599 (in review) — nothing covers a POU-local variable named after a library symbol. Most likely a non-issue, since a local becomes a struct member in the generated C++ (pou.MATRIX) rather than a top-level name. Raising it only because the report that prompted this work was described to me in terms of variables, so it is worth confirming the reproduction was an element and not a variable before the card is closed.

Worth noting

The PR reports a collateral defect that is not its own: renaming a POU with its editor open and committing by clicking into the code editor throws BugIndicatingError: Model is disposed!. It is root-caused to monaco-model-sync.ts:105-112, confirmed pre-existing on development, and filed as DOPE-581. Finding a bug while validating, tracing it, and filing it rather than leaving it because it is out of scope is worth saying out loud.

Mirror: openplc-web#728 — same review posted there; both files are byte-identical across the pair.

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174-177: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Block name actions until library hydration completes. librarySymbolOwning scans all installed libraries after loadAll() resolves, including disabled libraries. App.tsx initially exposes an empty state.libraries.system, so create, rename, and duplicate actions can accept a matching name during hydration. Add a readiness gate and a pre-hydration regression test.

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…DOPE-557)

The test harness seeds the real bundled .stlib archives into the store, so
the new library-symbol gate is live in every test. `SCALE` is a function in
both oscat-basic and plcopen-softmotion, so creating a POU named `Scale`
is now refused and the duplicate had no source to copy.

Renamed the fixture to `Scaler`. The gate is behaving as intended — a POU
named `Scale` produces a project that cannot be compiled, which is the
defect this branch fixes.

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@Gustavohsdp heads-up on a commit added after your approval, since it edits a test you had just approved.

The branch update brought in element-duplicate.test.ts, whose registers a duplicated function as a function case creates a POU named Scale. Both test harnesses seed the real bundled .stlib archives into the store, so this gate is live in every test — and SCALE is a function in oscat-basic and plcopen-softmotion. The create is refused, the duplicate finds no source, and the assertion sees undefined. That is the gate working as intended: a POU named Scale produces a project that cannot be compiled, which is the defect this PR fixes.

Fixture renamed to Scaler (verified free against all 682 bundled symbols), with a comment so it does not come back. Nothing else touched.

Worth knowing more generally: this PR makes 682 names unavailable for POUs, data types and global variable lists. SCALE, MATRIX, SIN, RTC and LIMITS are all in there. Existing projects are unaffected — the gate is entry-point only and never runs on load — but new elements and renames will be refused, and this test was the first casualty.

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