FR5 mode display borrowing a value from a failed reply

MiaChan1079 · 9 Dec 2025, 00:36 UTC

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MiaChan1079
Our read-only FR5 dashboard keeps a believable mode on screen when the replacement SDK reports failure. The wrapper takes one field from the new response container and never checks whether that field is valid. I need to change the interpretation without making old saved captures unreadable.

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LinBell0618
Replying to MiaChan1079

Separate the interpretation for each supported response contract. Preserve the raw captures with their source version. A parser for the new container should establish request success and field validity before returning a usable mode, rather than relying on a value that happens to look familiar.

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MiaChan1079
Replying to LinBell0618

The captures already include the SDK version. The live wrapper does not use it to choose a parser; it guesses from the shape. A failed reply can satisfy that guess.

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JaneAdams0162
Replying to MiaChan1079

Then keep unsupported combinations visibly unsupported. Guessing is exactly what gave the failed response a respectable-looking mode in the first place

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SofiaArcher0369
Replying to MiaChan1079

What will the operator see while there is no valid mode? A blank space made our tutor think the page was still loading, not that the read had failed.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to SofiaArcher0369

Could it show the last good value, clearly marked old?

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MiaChan1079
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

We want that for diagnosis, Robin. But it must not occupy the current-mode field. The present design puts the last valid value and its time underneath an unavailable message.

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SofiaArcher0369
Replying to MiaChan1079

I like the separate place. Does the unavailable wording say the read failed, rather than implying the controller itself has definitely stopped responding?

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LinBell0618
Replying to SofiaArcher0369

The display can distinguish a reported request failure, a timeout and a reply it cannot interpret, where the available evidence supports those distinctions. It should not manufacture a machine state from any of them.

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JaneAdams0162
Replying to LinBell0618

Lin, yes, but don't put the whole parser diagnosis in the main status label. People need the immediate meaning first, with the reason available underneath

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to JaneAdams0162

Would read unavailable be enough there, with the reason below?

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LinBell0618
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

That wording is a reasonable candidate for a walkthrough. The diagnostic detail can remain separate; I was describing the information to retain, not prescribing a long label.

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MiaChan1079
Replying to LinBell0618

The two explicit parsers now pass our saved success and reported-failure examples. The live configuration names its supported SDK version. We still need malformed containers and timeout cases before I would call the wrapper ready.

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SofiaArcher0369
Replying to MiaChan1079

Include an old value that looks perfectly ordinary in the walkthrough. A ridiculous value won't tell you whether someone mistakes a stale reading for the current one.

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MiaChan1079
Replying to SofiaArcher0369

Sofia, that is now in the example. We retained an ordinary last-good mode from before the failed read. The tutor has not tried the revised screen yet.

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JaneAdams0162
Replying to MiaChan1079

Can the tutor tell a saved capture from the live view too? You mentioned keeping both readable, and that is another place a valid old mode can look current

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MiaChan1079
Replying to JaneAdams0162

The saved view is labelled with its capture time and connection identity. I have added switching between that and the live view to the walkthrough. The current failure is not being hidden by a successful old capture.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to MiaChan1079

Let us know which wording the tutor actually understood first.

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