diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 52c2cde..dfd4751 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ exactly 140.
dependencies. `@larvit/log` implements it structurally and stays a devDependency, where
`test/tls.test.ts` passing a real `Log` as the server's logger keeps that compatibility compiled.
+- **`esm_class` decides what a `deliver_sm` is, and the body is only read when it names nothing.**
+ Message type `MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT` (0x04) makes it a receipt whatever the body parses to, so a
+ receipt in a format `dlrFromPdu()` cannot read reaches `dlr` with `smsId` undefined instead of
+ arriving as an inbound SMS. Any other named type — delivery or user acknowledgement, conversation
+ abort, intermediate notification — is not a receipt and its body is not scraped. Message type 0
+ keeps the scrape: SMSCs that send text-only receipts leave `esm_class` at 0, and reading that as
+ the spec's "default message type" would lose every one of them.
+
- **The TLS tests build their own self-signed certificate in DER** (`test/tls.test.ts`) instead of
adding a devDependency or shelling out to openssl. Maintainer's call, 2026-08-26: the dev image
`node:24.18.0-bookworm-slim` ships no openssl binary, so a shelled-out fixture would pass in CI
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8fa98e2..3b8c9e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ session.on('sms', async sms => {
```
Delivery receipts travel on the same SMPP command but reach you as `dlr`, so nothing you write has
-to tell the two apart.
+to tell the two apart. `esm_class` is what tells them apart; a peer that marks no message type
+there has the message body read for the standard `id:` and `stat:` receipt fields instead.
## Server
@@ -294,8 +295,8 @@ TypeScript users can import `SmppLog` to have the compiler check one.
| Event | Fires when |
| --- | --- |
| `sms` | An SMS arrives, reassembled if it was multipart. Carries `sendResp()`, `sendDlr()` and the `smsId` it was answered with. |
-| `dlr` | A delivery report arrives, one per segment. |
-| `messageDlr` | Every segment of a multipart message sent with `dlr: true` has been reported on, carrying the worst status of the segments. |
+| `dlr` | A delivery report arrives, one per segment. `smsId` is undefined when the peer marked a receipt whose body carries no readable id. |
+| `messageDlr` | Every segment of a multipart message sent with `dlr: true` has been reported on, carrying the worst status of the segments. Merging needs the SMSC to number its segment ids `-`, which is this library's own server's convention — an SMSC that hands out unrelated ids per segment never fires it. |
| `close` | The connection closed. |
| `reconnected` | The client re-bound after a drop (only with `reconnect` configured). |
| `sessionError` | Something failed on a live session, including a hook or listener that threw. |
diff --git a/src/dlr-merger.ts b/src/dlr-merger.ts
index 3778faf..a33b62d 100644
--- a/src/dlr-merger.ts
+++ b/src/dlr-merger.ts
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ export class DlrMerger {
collect(dlr: Dlr): MessageDlr | undefined {
this.sweep();
+ if (dlr.smsId === undefined) return undefined;
+
const match = numbered.exec(dlr.smsId);
const base = match?.[1];
const part = match?.[2];
diff --git a/src/dlr.ts b/src/dlr.ts
index 0a6c7bd..80d84aa 100644
--- a/src/dlr.ts
+++ b/src/dlr.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import type { MessageState } from './defs/constants.ts';
+import type { ParamValue } from './defs/types.ts';
import type { PduObject } from './pdu.ts';
import { consts, constsById } from './defs/constants.ts';
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ export type Dlr = {
doneDate: Date | undefined;
errorCode: string | undefined;
receipt: Receipt | undefined;
- smsId: string;
+ smsId: string | undefined;
statusId: number;
statusMsg: string;
};
@@ -120,34 +121,59 @@ export function parseReceipt(message: string): Receipt {
};
}
+/** esm_class bits 5-2 name the message type; the rest are the messaging mode and the GSM features. */
+const messageTypeBits = 0x3c;
+
+type MessageType = 'other' | 'receipt' | 'unmarked';
+
+function messageType(pduObj: PduObject): MessageType {
+ const esmClass = pduObj.params.esm_class;
+
+ if (typeof esmClass !== 'number') return 'unmarked';
+
+ const type = esmClass & messageTypeBits;
+
+ if (type === consts.ESM_CLASS.MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT) return 'receipt';
+
+ return type === 0 ? 'unmarked' : 'other';
+}
+
+function receiptId(tlvId: ParamValue | undefined, receipt: Receipt | undefined): string | undefined {
+ if (typeof tlvId === 'string' && tlvId !== '') return tlvId;
+
+ return receipt?.id === '' ? undefined : receipt?.id;
+}
+
+function receiptStatus(
+ tlvState: ParamValue | undefined,
+ receipt: Receipt | undefined,
+): { statusId: number; statusMsg: string | undefined } {
+ if (typeof tlvState === 'number') {
+ return { statusId: tlvState, statusMsg: constsById.MESSAGE_STATE?.[tlvState] };
+ }
+
+ const state = receiptStates[receipt?.stat?.toUpperCase() ?? ''];
+
+ return { statusId: consts.MESSAGE_STATE[state ?? 'UNKNOWN'], statusMsg: state };
+}
+
/**
- * Builds a delivery report from a deliver_sm. The message_state and receipted_message_id TLVs are
- * authoritative when present; otherwise the receipt text is parsed, which is the only thing Kannel
- * and several other SMSCs send.
+ * Builds a delivery report from a deliver_sm, or nothing if the PDU carries a message rather than a
+ * receipt. `esm_class` decides that where the peer sets a message type; where it sets none, the body
+ * is read for the standard receipt fields, which is the only thing Kannel and several other SMSCs
+ * send. The message_state and receipted_message_id TLVs are authoritative over the body.
*/
export function dlrFromPdu(pduObj: PduObject): Dlr | undefined {
+ const type = messageType(pduObj);
+
+ if (type === 'other') return undefined;
+
const message = pduObj.params.short_message;
const receipt = typeof message === 'string' ? parseReceipt(message) : undefined;
- const receiptState = receiptStates[receipt?.stat?.toUpperCase() ?? ''];
+ const smsId = receiptId(pduObj.tlvs.receipted_message_id?.tagValue, receipt);
+ const { statusId, statusMsg } = receiptStatus(pduObj.tlvs.message_state?.tagValue, receipt);
- const tlvState = pduObj.tlvs.message_state?.tagValue;
- const tlvId = pduObj.tlvs.receipted_message_id?.tagValue;
-
- const smsId = typeof tlvId === 'string' && tlvId !== ''
- ? tlvId
- : receipt?.id;
-
- if (smsId === undefined || smsId === '') return undefined;
-
- const statusMsg = typeof tlvState === 'number'
- ? constsById.MESSAGE_STATE?.[tlvState]
- : receiptState;
-
- if (statusMsg === undefined) return undefined;
-
- const statusId = typeof tlvState === 'number'
- ? tlvState
- : consts.MESSAGE_STATE[receiptState ?? 'UNKNOWN'];
+ if (type === 'unmarked' && (smsId === undefined || statusMsg === undefined)) return undefined;
return {
doneDate: receiptDate(receipt?.doneDate),
@@ -155,6 +181,6 @@ export function dlrFromPdu(pduObj: PduObject): Dlr | undefined {
receipt,
smsId,
statusId,
- statusMsg,
+ statusMsg: statusMsg ?? 'UNKNOWN',
};
}
diff --git a/test/dlr.test.ts b/test/dlr.test.ts
index c7bb2cb..153803d 100644
--- a/test/dlr.test.ts
+++ b/test/dlr.test.ts
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
import test, { describe } from 'node:test';
+import { consts } from '../src/defs/constants.ts';
import { dlrFromPdu, parseReceipt, receiptCodes } from '../src/dlr.ts';
import { objToPdu, pduToObj } from '../src/pdu.ts';
import type { PduObject, TlvInput } from '../src/pdu.ts';
const receiptText = 'id:0195f0c7 sub:001 dlvrd:001 submit date:2508251430 done date:2508251431 stat:DELIVRD err:000 text:hello';
-function deliverSm(message: string, tlvs?: Record): PduObject {
+function deliverSm(
+ message: string,
+ tlvs?: Record,
+ esmClass: number = consts.ESM_CLASS.MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT,
+): PduObject {
const { buffer } = objToPdu({
cmdName: 'deliver_sm',
params: {
destination_addr: '46701113311',
- esm_class: 4,
+ esm_class: esmClass,
short_message: message,
source_addr: '46709771337',
},
@@ -112,8 +117,40 @@ describe('dlrFromPdu()', () => {
assert.equal(dlrFromPdu(deliverSm('id:x stat:DELIVRD done date:2501012560'))?.doneDate, undefined);
});
- test('returns nothing when the PDU identifies no message', () => {
- assert.equal(dlrFromPdu(deliverSm('just a normal sms')), undefined);
+ test('returns nothing when an unmarked deliver_sm identifies no message', () => {
+ assert.equal(dlrFromPdu(deliverSm('just a normal sms', undefined, 0)), undefined);
+ });
+
+ test('still reads the body when the peer marks no message type', () => {
+ const dlr = dlrFromPdu(deliverSm(receiptText, undefined, 0));
+
+ assert.ok(dlr);
+ assert.equal(dlr.smsId, '0195f0c7');
+ assert.equal(dlr.statusMsg, 'DELIVERED');
+ });
+
+ test('reports a marked receipt whose body it cannot read, rather than an inbound message', () => {
+ const dlr = dlrFromPdu(deliverSm('a receipt in a format nobody documented'));
+
+ assert.ok(dlr);
+ assert.equal(dlr.smsId, undefined);
+ assert.equal(dlr.statusMsg, 'UNKNOWN');
+ assert.equal(dlr.statusId, 7);
+
+ const withUdh = consts.ESM_CLASS.MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT | consts.ESM_CLASS.UDH_INDICATOR;
+
+ assert.ok(dlrFromPdu(deliverSm(receiptText, undefined, withUdh)));
+ });
+
+ test('leaves a message the peer marked as another type to arrive as an SMS', () => {
+ for (const esmClass of [
+ consts.ESM_CLASS.CONVERSATION_ABORT,
+ consts.ESM_CLASS.DELIVERY_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
+ consts.ESM_CLASS.INTERMEDIATE_DELIVERY,
+ consts.ESM_CLASS.USER_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
+ ]) {
+ assert.equal(dlrFromPdu(deliverSm(receiptText, undefined, esmClass)), undefined);
+ }
});
test('exposes the raw receipt alongside the resolved fields', () => {
diff --git a/test/session-extras.test.ts b/test/session-extras.test.ts
index c0d1e78..1f37467 100644
--- a/test/session-extras.test.ts
+++ b/test/session-extras.test.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ describe('merged delivery reports', () => {
const merged = once(resolve => { session.on('messageDlr', resolve); });
const perSegment: string[] = [];
- session.on('dlr', dlr => perSegment.push(dlr.smsId));
+ session.on('dlr', dlr => perSegment.push(dlr.smsId ?? ''));
const [sms] = await Promise.all([
incoming.then(async received => {
diff --git a/test/session.test.ts b/test/session.test.ts
index f8607c8..16f9cc5 100644
--- a/test/session.test.ts
+++ b/test/session.test.ts
@@ -711,6 +711,34 @@ describe('receiving', () => {
assert.equal(answered.pduObj.params.message_id, 'inbound-id');
});
+ test('hands a client a receipt it cannot read as a dlr rather than as an sms', async t => {
+ const { peer, session } = await inbound(t);
+ const reported = once(resolve => { session.on('dlr', resolve); });
+ let messages = 0;
+
+ session.on('sms', () => { messages++; });
+
+ const delivered = peer.send({
+ cmdName: 'deliver_sm',
+ params: {
+ destination_addr: '46709771337',
+ esm_class: consts.ESM_CLASS.MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT,
+ short_message: 'a receipt in a format nobody documented',
+ source_addr: '46701113311',
+ },
+ });
+ const dlr = await raceWithin(2000, reported);
+
+ assert.ok(dlr, 'esm_class marks it a receipt, so nothing else may claim it');
+ assert.equal(dlr.smsId, undefined);
+ assert.equal(messages, 0);
+
+ const answered = await delivered;
+
+ assert.ok(answered.pduObj);
+ assert.equal(answered.pduObj.cmdName, 'deliver_sm_resp');
+ });
+
test('reassembles a multipart inbound SMS before the sms event', async t => {
const message = 'Inbound lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur, '.repeat(6);
const { peer, session } = await inbound(t);
@@ -757,7 +785,7 @@ describe('delivery reports', () => {
assert.ok(session);
- const dlr = once<[{ smsId: string; statusMsg: string }, PduObject]>(resolve => {
+ const dlr = once<[Dlr, PduObject]>(resolve => {
session.on('dlr', (report, pduObj) => { resolve([report, pduObj]); });
});
@@ -873,7 +901,7 @@ describe('delivery reports', () => {
const perSegment: string[] = [];
let merged = 0;
- session.on('dlr', dlr => perSegment.push(dlr.smsId));
+ session.on('dlr', dlr => perSegment.push(dlr.smsId ?? ''));
session.on('messageDlr', () => { merged++; });
const [sms] = await Promise.all([
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 9d59b91..1582cc5 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rules there constrain every item below.
## Status
-The rewrite is **feature complete and green**: 223 tests, lint and typecheck clean, verified on Node
+The rewrite is **feature complete and green**: 227 tests, lint and typecheck clean, verified on Node
18, 20, 22 and 24. What is left is release work and a few things worth adding before or after 1.0.0.
```bash
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Rules the API follows:
| Session, client, server: bind, auth, send, reassembly, DLRs, timeouts, abort, send window | `test/session.test.ts` |
| Merged multipart DLRs, reconnect, reassembly bounds, per-send abort, the segment cap | `test/session-extras.test.ts` |
| Every runnable README example | `test/readme.test.ts` |
+| Receipt-versus-message classification by `esm_class` | `test/dlr.test.ts`, `test/session.test.ts` |
| Cross-checked against node-smpp both ways and over a live session | `test/interop.test.ts` |
| CI on Node 18/20/22/24, Renovate, tag-triggered publish | `.github/workflows/` |
@@ -100,10 +101,6 @@ session message is a change to every call site.
## Before publishing 1.0.0
-- [ ] **`messageDlr` is documented without its precondition.** The README event table says it fires
- once every segment of a multipart message has been reported on. `DlrMerger` only merges ids
- shaped `-`, which is this library's own server's convention, so against most SMSCs it
- never fires at all. `src/dlr-merger.ts` states the precondition; the README must too.
- [ ] Create the `@larvit/smpp` package on npm and add `NPM_TOKEN` to the repository secrets, which
`.github/workflows/release.yaml` needs.
- [ ] Tag `v1.0.0` to publish.
@@ -164,13 +161,6 @@ session message is a change to every call site.
function) applied to both ids before they are compared covers the whole class. The smallest
change on this list for the most real-world breakage removed.
-- [ ] **Detect a receipt by `esm_class`, not by what happens to parse.** `dlrFromPdu()` treats a
- `deliver_sm` as a receipt exactly when it can scrape an id and a state out of it, and never
- reads `esm_class` — `MC_DELIVERY_RECEIPT` (0x04) sits in the constants table unused. That
- misclassifies both ways: a receipt in a format we cannot parse arrives as an inbound `sms`,
- and a mobile-originated message whose text happens to contain `id:… stat:DELIVRD` arrives as a
- `dlr`. Read the bits first and keep the scrape as the fallback for a peer that sets none.
-
- [ ] **An `onReceipt` hook.** Receipt text is only loosely specified and operators disagree on it,
but `dlrFromPdu()` is wired into `IncomingRequests` with no way past it: an application facing
a format we do not parse has to listen on `incomingPduObj` and reimplement the dispatch.