Document the contract facts a backend author needs

Connect-timing ownership (the backend integrates with its platform's
scan/connect arbitration), the asynchronous-completion rule for accepted
ops, and the reserved error ranges with the wire-frozen values - all learned
the hard way by the first out-of-tree backend.
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J. Nick Koston
2026-08-19 09:10:05 -05:00
parent 5c6e62ffe0
commit 0a28a5b023
@@ -11,13 +11,16 @@
// interface. All listener calls are delivered on the ESPHome main loop;
// borrowed data pointers are valid only for the duration of the call.
//
// Error domain (plain int, forwarded to the API without translation):
// Error domain (plain int, forwarded to the API without translation, so the
// values are wire-frozen - API clients interpret them):
// 0 success
// 1..0x11 ATT error codes (Bluetooth spec; BTstack and Bluedroid agree)
// 1..0x11 ATT error codes (Bluetooth spec) - reserved; a backend whose
// native error codes land in this window must remap them out
// GATT_ERR_NOT_CONNECTED (-1) no connection to the peer (on esp32 a raw
// ESP_FAIL from the stack shares this value; both read as a
// failed, unusable connection on the client side)
// GATT_ERR_NO_MEMORY (-2) backend storage exhausted
// -1..-15 reserved for future contract sentinels
// anything else: platform stack error/status code, surfaced opaquely.
// Connection events carry HCI status/disconnect reason codes (same code
// space on every controller).
@@ -99,9 +102,18 @@ class GattClientListener {
// The BLEGattConnection op surface, asserted where the alias binds
// (bluetooth_connection_gatt_backend.h). Operations return 0 when accepted (completion arrives
// through the listener) or a synchronous error (busy, not connected, stack
// rejection); one operation may be outstanding at a time. Semantics beyond
// the signatures:
// rejection); one operation may be outstanding at a time. An accepted
// operation's completion is delivered from the event loop, NEVER
// synchronously from inside the op call - a synchronous terminal
// on_connection_state from within gatt_disconnect() would re-enter the
// consumer mid-teardown. Semantics beyond the signatures:
// - connect: addr_type is a BLE_ADDR_TYPE_* constant (ble_device.h).
// Returning 0 means the request is accepted, not that the radio acted: the
// backend owns integration with its platform's scan/connect arbitration
// (Bluedroid parks the request for the tracker's promote loop, which owns
// scan-stop/coex/one-connect-at-a-time; the rp2 backend opens immediately
// and relies on sighting-gated consumers). Consumers must not assume
// connect timing.
// - gatt_disconnect: also cancels a connect in progress (named to coexist
// with a platform stack's own void disconnect() on one backend class).
// Nonzero means nothing to tear down and no completion will follow; an