Two faults found while checking whether today's live bills had landed. They
had — 17 of them, complete — but both of these were sitting in the same data.
**Health existed only over MQTT.** The consumer subscribes to the health topic
and has done since startup, but a terminal on the HTTP route has no way to
reach it. Today's terminal was on HTTP, so it reported nothing and the board
showed "online 0 of 1" while the till was demonstrably alive and selling.
POST /pos/health now takes the same payload the broker carries, into the same
Redis record, so the board cannot tell the two routes apart and does not need
to. It answers 202 and swallows failures: a till that cannot say how it is must
still sell.
**terminalid was empty on 16 of 17 bills.** The consumer backfills a missing
terminal code from the topic, but onto the batch, while the row was built from
the order — the two never met, and importPosOrder was not handed the batch's
value at all. Over HTTP there was no topic to fall back on either. So the
invoice numbers read INV-2608-T5EDD-000NN while the column they should have
matched was blank, and `byterminal` on the sales summary grouped almost
everything under "". The bill's own terminal now wins with the batch's as the
fallback, trimmed, so whitespace is not mistaken for a code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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