smpp-js/todo.md

todo.md

Remaining work for @larvit/smpp. Read AGENTS.md first — the goals and hard rules there constrain every item below.

This is a working file that sets its own rules. The documentation conventions in AGENTS.md do not govern it, and nothing here is a source anything else may cite.

Status

The rewrite is feature complete and green: the suite, lint and typecheck are clean on Node 18 to 26, and 0.5.0 is on npm. What is left is housekeeping around the release, a few things worth adding, and the gaps a comparison with other SMPP libraries found.

The agreed API

Settled with the maintainer before implementation. Do not change any of it without asking. The public surface is documented in README.md; this is the short form.

import { client, server } from '@larvit/smpp';

const { err, session } = await client({ host, password, port, username });
const { err: sendErr, pduObjs, smsIds } = await session.sendSms({ dlr, from, message, to });
await session.unbind();

const { err: serverErr, server: smpp } = await server({ authenticate, port });
smpp.on('session', session => {
	session.on('sms', async sms => {
		await sms.sendResp();
		if (sms.dlr) await sms.sendDlr('DELIVERED');
	});
});
await smpp.close();

Rules the API follows:

• Never throws. Everything fallible resolves to { err?, … }. See AGENTS.md rule 1.
• Named exports only, no default export. defs is exported as a group alongside the individual tables.
• The PDU codec is synchronous and returns { err?, pduObj? } / { err?, buffer? }.
• Low-level surface stays public, including session.sock, session.send() and session.sendReturn().

Done

	Covered by
Definition tables: constants, errors, encodings, wire types, TLVs, commands	test/encodings.test.ts, test/types.test.ts, test/commands.test.ts
Message helpers: splitting, bit counting, SMPP dates and times	test/message.test.ts
PDU codec: parse, build, respond, per-command typing, bounds checks	test/pdu.test.ts
Stream framing	test/pdu-framer.test.ts
Delivery receipt parsing, TLV and text	test/dlr.test.ts
Session, client, server: bind, auth, send, reassembly, DLRs, timeouts, abort, send window	test/session.test.ts
Merged multipart DLRs including across a reconnect, reassembly bounds, per-send abort, the segment cap	test/session-extras.test.ts
smsIdFormat: a peer's submit_sm_resp and receipt ids read into one notation before they are compared	test/dlr.test.ts, test/session-extras.test.ts
A draining close() and unbind(), bounded by shutdownTimeout or an abort	test/session-extras.test.ts
A drain that also waits out the messages the application has not answered, with sendDlr() the one send that passes it	test/session-extras.test.ts
OutgoingRequests: the gate, the window, the pending map and the retry under one owner, told when a link comes up or goes down	test/session-extras.test.ts, test/session.test.ts
Held messages capped and expiring, so an application that answers nothing cannot grow them	test/session-extras.test.ts
A send with no link held for the next one, and one the link dropped under counted as unanswered	test/session-extras.test.ts
A message whose link dropped refused an answer, with its receipt still allowed out	test/session-extras.test.ts
The hold released exactly when the peer was answered: a refused sendResp() keeps it, a listener that rejected drops it	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
An intermediate delivery notification read as a report marked intermediate, as is a receipt reporting ENROUTE or SCHEDULED, and never counted into a merge	test/dlr.test.ts, test/session.test.ts, test/session-extras.test.ts
A transient state sent under the marker the spec gives it, off the same list the reader uses	test/session-extras.test.ts
A listener that throws, or rejects, reaching sessionError/serverError rather than the process	test/session.test.ts, test/error-from.test.ts
Cross-checked against node-smpp both ways and over a live session	test/interop.test.ts
CI on Node 18 to 26, Renovate, tag-triggered publish	.gitea/workflows/

Every defect listed in the AGENTS.md table has a regression test naming the behaviour.

Move the repository to Gitea

gitea.larvit.se/larvit/smpp-js is the repository. github.com/larvit/smpp-js becomes a push mirror of it and the place issues are filed. Maintainer's calls, 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-14.

• larvit/smpp-js holds main, from typescript, and v0.4.0, from master. rewrite-base and the renovate/* branches stayed behind.
• Fast-forward is the only merge style. main takes no pushes, requires Test / lint (pull_request) and Test / test (*) (pull_request), blocks an outdated branch, and gives admins no override. Every other branch takes force pushes.
• The workflows are in .gitea/workflows/. Tests run on pull requests only, the event the gate reads; Renovate runs as a scheduled workflow, as on adf-codec.
• The release publishes without provenance, which npm generates only on GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.
• package.json names Gitea, and the GitHub mirror's issues as bugs. The README links absolutely: npmjs.com resolves a relative link against itself when the repository is not on GitHub. Its test badge is gone, since Gitea reports a workflow's status per branch and no workflow runs on main.
• RENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKEN exists nowhere, so Renovate queries github.com unauthenticated, as adf-codec's nightly run already does without a warning. RENOVATE_TOKEN is the Gitea token and cannot stand in for it. Add a github.com token only if lookups hit the rate limit.

Before publishing 0.5.0

• 0.5.0 rather than 1.0.0, while usage is this low. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14.
• NPM_TOKEN, which .gitea/workflows/release.yaml needs, is a Gitea organization secret.
• Tag v0.5.0 on Gitea to publish. The first publish creates @larvit/smpp on npm, provided the token can publish under @larvit.
• npm deprecate larvitsmpp pointing at @larvit/smpp. Maintainer's call to run it; not something CI should do.

Retire the GitHub repository

Nothing here starts before 0.5.0 is published. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14. Then in this order: the push mirror replaces GitHub's branches with Gitea's, which closes every pull request based on master without a reply, and GitHub refuses to delete the default branch it syncs over.

• Close the backlog below.
• Close #71, pointing at Gitea.
• Rename larvit/larvitsmpp to larvit/smpp-js. GitHub redirects the old URLs, and the bugs URL in package.json resolves from then on.
• Push main and make it GitHub's default branch.
• Remove Renovate and CodeRabbit from the GitHub repository.
• Add it to Gitea as a push mirror, with a GitHub credential that can write to it.

Close the GitHub backlog

Answer and close as fixed by 0.5.0, the reply naming what fixed it:

• #2 Tests for the README examples: test/readme.test.ts.
• #3 Tests for flash messages: test/session.test.ts.
• #4 DLR errors with message_state missing: dlrFromPdu() parses the stat: receipt text when the TLVs are absent.
• #13 Limit a long SMS to fewer segments: the maxSegments send option.
• #16 Support all three bind types: bound and enforced in both directions.
• #17 addr_ton/addr_npi should be settable: sendSms() takes all four, documented and tested.
• #20 Tests fail on current dependency versions: the mocha suite is gone; node:test on Node 18 to 26.
• #33 Large inbound text arrives as raw Buffer segments: IncomingRequests reassembles a UDH-carrying deliver_sm into one sms event.
• #68, a pull request: message_id in submit_sm_resp, spec DLR codes. All four hold: sendResp() always answers a message_id, per segment; stat:UNDELIV is the 7-character code. Credit the reporter — the fork found real defects.

Close as superseded, all against 0.4.0 dependencies the rewrite does not have — async, coveralls, eslint, iconv-lite, larvitutils, mocha, mocha-eslint, portfinder, uuid:

• #40, #41, #42, #45, #46, #47, #59, #63, #64, #67, #70, #77. #70 is the open uuid advisory GitHub reports on the default branch; it disappears with the runtime dependencies rather than being fixed.

#60 is Renovate's dashboard and stays open after the rewrite, for a dependency added later. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14.

Close as tracked here, the reply saying it will be implemented on Gitea:

• #8 The socket's remote host and port on log messages: under Worth doing, not blocking. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14.

Worth doing, not blocking

• A send the codec will refuse waits for a link and a window slot first. refuse() in outgoing-requests.ts runs misuse() and the abort check before the wait, precisely so a call that can never go out does not queue for what it will never use; a body objToPdu() refuses on every attempt is the same case, and #98 made it a common one. On a down link the caller waits responseTimeout and is told the link failed rather than that the body could not be built — goal 2's wrong answer about what happened. The cheap fix builds the PDU twice, so the shape is the open half. Raised by the architecture review of #98, 2026-09-09.

• message.ts answers two questions. Message coding and the SMPP time format (smppDate, smppTime) share the file, which the architecture map in AGENTS.md already spells out as four concerns. Nothing is wrong today; if the file has to move for another reason, smpp-time.ts is the split. Raised by the architecture review of #98, 2026-09-09.

• A gate that refuses a floating version anywhere in the repo. Maintainer's ask on #71, 2026-09-06, on the release.yaml pinning thread. Pinning every action and runner by hand is what the ask followed; the gate is what keeps them pinned. It has to cover workflow uses: and runs-on:, compose image:, and Dockerfile FROM, and the conventions differ per kind — actions take a semver tag, images the full patch version — so one grep for latest is not it.

• A gate that fails when the test matrix misses the current Node. Maintainer's ask on #71, 2026-09-06, on the Node 26 thread. Node 26 was added by hand; nothing notices when 27 ships. Needs a source for what Current is — the Node release schedule is published as JSON — and a decision on whether a new Current fails the build or opens a PR, which is what Renovate already does for everything else here.

• CodeRabbit reviews through the GitHub mirror. CodeRabbit does not support Gitea, so mirror each Gitea pull request to GitHub for it to review there. Maintainer's ask, 2026-09-14; not started until asked.

• Group the session's collaborators under src/session/. session.ts imports dlr-merger, incoming-requests, link-timers, outgoing-requests, pdu-transport, reconnect-loop and send-sms, and nothing else does, so the directory would make that boundary visible. The OutgoingRequests extraction this was to be done with landed on 2026-09-01, so it is the remaining half. Raised by review, 2026-09-01.

• leftOf() and the link gate's own budget are one concept counted twice. idle-waiters.ts reads what is left of a budget as Math.max(1, deadline - now), because 0 means "forever" there; link-gate.ts runs the same subtraction and calls <= 0 expired. Neither is reachable from the other, so nothing can disagree today, but a reader who learns one and applies it to the other is wrong. A budget type both take would close it. Raised by review, 2026-09-01.

• err: on a receipt for a state that neither delivered nor failed. receiptText() now writes err:000 for DELIVERED and for the two transient states, and err:001 for every other — so ACCEPTED, SKIPPED, UNKNOWN and DELETED still announce an error code the SMSC never had. Which of those are failures is the open half. Raised by review, 2026-09-03; needs a decision.

• once() is copied into four test files, and two copies never give up. session-extras.test.ts and readme.test.ts reject after 5000 ms; session.test.ts and tls.test.ts wait forever, so an event that never fires still hangs the run the way an unclosed listener used to. One shared, guarded copy closes the rest of that class.

• The peer's address and bind on every session log message. remoteAddress and remotePort reach only server - incoming connection, and systemId only the bind messages, so with several peers connected one session's lines cannot be told apart, and a reconnect leaves nothing stable to filter on. Carrying them in every session message's metadata is a change to every call site. From #8, closed there as tracked here; maintainer's call, 2026-09-14.

• A peer whose message ids share one base logs a refused merge on every send. smsc01-000123 and smsc01-000124 carry the same base, so DlrMerger merges the first message and refuses every one after it, one log line per send. Left at info — nothing the operator can fix is wrong — but a rate guard or silence may suit it better. Raised by review, 2026-08-30.

• submit_multi and the broadcast commands encode and decode, but nothing exercises them end to end. The interop suite is the natural place.

• Move to TypeScript 7 once typescript-eslint supports it; renovate.json pins TypeScript below 6.1 for exactly that reason.

• An onReceipt hook. Receipt text is only loosely specified and operators disagree on it, but dlrFromPdu() is wired into IncomingRequests with no seam of its own: an application facing a format we do not parse has to take the whole PDU on onRequest and reimplement the dispatch, which owns the response as well. Mirror the onRequest seam — return a Dlr to own the receipt, undefined to fall through to the built-in parser.

Gaps against other SMPP libraries

From comparing 0.5.0 with smpp, @semyonf/smpp, @leissner/node-red-smpp, node-smpp-next, smpp-js-sdk, smppjs, cloudhopper-smpp, jsmpp, go-smpp, Kannel, Jasmin and php-smpp, 2026-09-14. Each lands under AGENTS.md goal 6: an option or a hook, with the call that passes none unchanged.

Sending

• A limiter hook, with a messages-per-second cap built on it. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14, reversing the earlier decline: Kannel, Jasmin, go-smpp and smpp-js-sdk all limit throughput. Count PDUs, not sendSms() calls — a long message is one submit_sm per segment and the operator counts those, which an application wrapping sendSms() cannot see. The hook takes a limiter the application already runs; the built-in cap counts per session until the store at the bottom lets it span sessions and processes. The default stays uncapped. Open: the hook's shape (a wait that resolves when a PDU may go, cut short by the send's signal), which requests it gates — messages, never enquire_link, unbind or a response — and whether its wait counts against responseTimeout.

• Back off and resend on ESME_RTHROTTLED. The SMSC refused the PDU, so resending cannot duplicate it and goal 2 holds, and the retry needs nothing wider than the session. Needs a decision: on by default with a bounded budget, as goal 5 suggests, and whether ESME_RMSGQFUL counts too. A throttled answer is also what a limiter hook wants to hear about.

• sendSms() takes the rest of submit_sm. service_type, priority_flag, protocol_id, replace_if_present_flag and TLVs on every segment, and registered_delivery beyond final receipts: on failure only, and intermediate notifications. Today each needs send(), which gives up splitting, the alphabet checks and receipt merging. TLVs are the common case: India's DLT rules put PE_ID (0x1400) and TEMPLATE_ID (0x1401) on every submit_sm, and USSD rides on ussd_service_op. Refuse a TLV the send composes itself (sar_*, message_payload). Open: one spelling for receipts, since dlr: true and a raw registered_delivery could disagree, and whether goal 4's rule on optional parameters binds a TLV the caller named.

• Choose how a long message is spelled on the wire. Only an 8-bit UDH reference goes out (message.ts), though the reader takes a 16-bit UDH, sar_* and message_payload alike. Some SMSCs take only sar_* or message_payload; php-smpp offers all three. A 16-bit reference also makes a collision rarer: the 8-bit one wraps every 255 sends on a session.

• Failover across SMSC hosts. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14. client() takes one host and port; Kannel, Jasmin and php-smpp take several. A list the reconnect loop walks holds only which host the one session is on, so it needs no store. Two options, both maintainer's calls: - Order, fixed or round robin, default fixed. Fixed starts every reconnect at the first host; round robin at the host after the one the link was last on. - Starting over, a boolean, default on: once the last host has been tried, go back to the first. Off ends the session once the last host fails, as a drop does under reconnect: false. Open: how the list and today's host and port share one spelling; whether the backoff grows per host or per pass; and whether round robin with starting over off still tries the hosts before the one it started at.

The server

• sendSms() on a server() session sends submit_sm toward the ESME. Kannel answers ESME_RINVCMDID (interop-tests/kannel.test.ts, "MO to Kannel"), and goal 1 says that PDU never goes out. A server has no other way to send an MO message either: sendMo() in that test builds one from submitSmParams() and ConcatReference, neither exported. Choosing deliver_sm by linkEnd gives MO messages the splitting and checks, keeps one method for one goal, and refuses the options 3.4 has deliver_sm leave empty (scheduleDeliveryTime, validityPeriod).

• Error TLVs on a response this library builds. buildBody() in pdu.ts writes no body for any non-zero status, so a server cannot answer a data_sm with delivery_failure_reason, network_error_code or additional_status_info_text, and a 5.0 peer gets none of its error TLVs. 3.4 omits the body on error for submit_sm_resp by name; read each response's section before widening it. Reading needs nothing: an error response carrying a body already parses.

• PROXY protocol on server(). Behind HAProxy or an AWS NLB every session's remote address is the balancer's, so authenticate cannot allow-list by IP and logs name the wrong peer. v1 is text; v2 is binary and the only one an NLB sends. smpp accepts v1 from anyone; accept either only from addresses the option names.

• outbind. In the command table, handled nowhere: a client cannot take an SMSC's outbind and bind back, and server() cannot send one. Rare; take it on with a peer that uses it.

• Register vendor-specific commands. 3.4 reserves command_id 0x00010200–0x000102FF for SMSC vendors; today one arrives as a PduRefusedError. smpp has addCommand(). The same shape question as registering an encoding.

Encodings

• Register a custom encoding. Maintainer's ask, 2026-09-14. EncodingName is a closed union of three (defs/encodings.ts). An entry needs a name, a data_coding, encode, decode, match, whether detect() may pick it, and enough for splitMessage() to budget a segment without halving a character. Take encodings as a client or server option rather than mutating a module table as smpp does, so two sessions in one process cannot disagree about a name. A taken name is an err. Settle consts.ENCODING's names first.

• The alphabets SMPP 3.4 names that no encoding carries. consts.ENCODING lists the data_coding ids (5.2.19); only ASCII, LATIN1 and UCS2 can be sent. Those with a published definition, and what each costs: - 0x01 IA5 (ITU-T T.50, ASCII in practice): trivial. - 0x06 ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) and 0x07 ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew): 96-entry tables. - 0x05 JIS X 0208, 0x0D JIS X 0212, 0x0A ISO-2022-JP and 0x0E KS C 5601: two-octet sets. TextDecoder reads them through ICU — EUC-JP and EUC-KR once each octet's high bit is set, iso-2022-jp as is; checked for JIS X 0208 and KS C 5601 on Node 24.18.0. Nothing built in encodes them, so ship tables or build the reverse map on first use by decoding the 94×94 grid. A Node without full ICU throws from new TextDecoder(), which hard rule 1 wraps into an err. - 0x09 pictogram has no published definition; leave it out.

• GSM 7-bit national language shift tables. 3GPP TS 23.038 defines them for Turkish, Spanish (single shift only), Portuguese and ten Indian languages — Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu — selected per message by UDH elements 0x25 (locking) and 0x24 (single). They keep that text near GSM's segment size instead of UCS2's 67 characters. Reading means honouring those elements in decodeMessage(); sending means detect() picking a table, with each element's 3 octets off the segment budget. smpp has Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese, used only when the caller writes the UDH.

• Packed GSM 7-bit, opt-in. Everything goes out unpacked, SMPP's convention (AGENTS.md, "GSM 7-bit is sent unpacked"); go-smpp carries a packed codec for SMSCs that want septets. Find an SMSC that needs it before building it.

• consts.ENCODING spells five alphabets twice. CYRILLIC/ISO_8859_5, HEBREW/ISO_8859_8, JIS/X_0208_1990, EXTENDED_KANJI_JIS/X_0212_1990 and LATIN1/ISO_8859_1; FLASH is a message class, not an alphabet. One name each before registration starts taking names. A breaking change to an export.

Observability

• Metrics. Inbound traffic has data, incomingPdu and incomingPduObj; outbound has no event, and nothing counts requests in flight, queued for a window slot, waiting for a link, or unanswered. smpp and @semyonf/smpp emit metrics; cloudhopper keeps per-session counters. An outgoingPdu/outgoingPduObj pair mirrors the inbound events; the counters can be one read-only snapshot, read from the owner of each count rather than a second tally that can drift.

Packaging, tests and CI

• Ship src, so the source maps lead somewhere. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14. sourceMap and declarationMap write maps whose sources are ../src/*.ts, but files publishes only dist, so 82 of the package's 167 files, 225 KB of its 555 KB unpacked, point at nothing. Adding src (41 files, 209 KB) makes go to definition land in the TypeScript, and lets a debugger or --enable-source-maps show it.

• A coverage report and a floor in the gate. node --test --experimental-test-coverage --test-coverage-include='src/**' test/*.test.ts on Node 24.18.0, 2026-09-14: 98.77% lines, 93.85% branches, 98.28% functions. Gate at 98, 93 and 98 with --test-coverage-lines, --test-coverage-branches and --test-coverage-functions, which Node 22 and later take — a job of its own on 24, since the matrix runs compiled JavaScript — and add it to main's required checks. Raise the floor as coverage rises; never lower it.

• Mutation testing. @stryker-mutator/tap-runner runs node:test suites and measures whether a test notices a change, which coverage cannot; @semyonf/smpp runs Stryker in CI. The session suites are timer-heavy, so start with the codec and the encodings.

• A Node-RED node, as a package of its own. @leissner/node-red-smpp is the only SMPP node in the Node-RED library, and by a read of its source it never parses a receipt and never answers the SMSC's enquire_link. Its UI is a fair list of what operators set. It builds on this package, never inside it.

Declined

• CommonJS. ESM only, maintainer's call reaffirmed 2026-09-14, though node-smpp-next ships both. require() of an ES module works unflagged from Node 20.19 and 22.12.

An optional store

• Pooling, and state that survives a restart, through an optional store. Maintainer's call, 2026-09-14. It replaces two declines — merge state surviving a restart, and a pool of sessions — and AGENTS.md goal 8 was rewritten for it. Big: design before code. - What it holds. Receipts still awaited and the groups DlrMerger collects. Segments of a message already answered but not yet whole, which the peer will not send again (goal 2). The concatenation reference, so a restart does not reuse one. For a pool, the ids every session sent, since an SMSC may deliver a receipt on any bind of the account, and the messages-per-second budget the sessions share. - What it cannot hold. A response belongs to the link its request arrived on, so a message left unanswered at a restart stays unanswerable; the peer's own timeout settles it. - Pooling. Several sessions, in one process or many, behind one send: a message goes to a bound session with a free window slot, all its segments on that one. In one process the in-memory store is enough; across processes the application supplies one. - The interface. Narrow, with keys and records of the library's own making, versioned, with expiry: a record from an older version is read or refused, never misread, and DlrMerger's group shape is never published (goal 7). What processes share needs an atomic operation — compare-and-set or increment — since get-then-set races. - Adapters live elsewhere. Redis, Postgres or SQLite stores are packages of their own; this one ships the interface and the in-memory store, and no runtime dependency (goal 9). - When the store fails. Open: a send whose awaited receipt cannot be recorded is refused, or sent and reported as undetermined (goal 2); a pool whose store is down stops, or falls back to memory. Either way, an application that supplied no store never waits on one. - One spelling. A store-backed cap and the limiter hook both reach a limit shared between processes; settle which owns that case before building the second.