TARIFF-09: ask the day-ahead feed for the horizon it was handed
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`generic_dayahead.fetch()` accepted `since` and `until` and requested the
bare `?bzn=BE`, which answers ONE Brussels day. Everything past today was
then filled from yesterday's profile by FCST-04, flagged provisional, and
§8.3 drops provisional hours from the trade set -- so the optimiser never
saw tomorrow as firm, at any hour of any day, and nothing reported it.

Measured on 4257e38 at 2026-09-10T09:00+02:00, 48 h horizon, live feed,
yesterday seeded through the shipped read path:

    60 firm points (15 whole hours) + 33 carried hours of 48 requested
    carried: 24 h on 2026-09-11, 9 h on 2026-09-12
    arbitrage(0.10): buy 11:45 and sell 19:45 -- BOTH on 2026-09-10
    firm local days = [2026-09-10]

The ceiling was structural: with a one-day window, at hour H a 48 h horizon
is at most 24-H firm and 24+H carried. At 23:00 that is 1 and 47, and the
remaining firm spread (0.0464 EUR/kWh) no longer clears the default 0.10
threshold, so arbitrage is refused outright. FCST-04's fill covers the
window until the ~13:00-14:00 CET auction; it was never meant to cover
every hour of every day.

The data exists and the endpoint serves it: verified 2026-09-10T07:45:49Z,
`?bzn=BE&start=2026-09-09&end=2026-09-10` returns 192 quarter-hours across
two local days. Committed unmodified beside TARIFF-08's captures, with the
URL, retrieval time and sha256 recorded and RE-DERIVED by the replay.

THE RANGE IS DERIVED ON THE BRUSSELS CALENDAR, not the UTC one. 22:30 UTC
in summer is already tomorrow in Belgium, so a UTC-derived start asks for
the day the controller has just left and drops the day it is standing in,
for the last one or two hours of every day. That is `_bdate()`'s lesson one
layer up with a worse consequence: `_bdate()` misfiles an hour, this never
fetches it. `until` is exclusive, so local midnight belongs to the day
before it; an inverted window collapses to one day rather than a backwards
range. Both ends are graded and both are driven red by mutation.

After, same code path and window, a feed serving both days: 39 firm hours
and 9 carried (was 15 and 33), firm across TWO Brussels days, and the
permitted cycle buys on one day and sells on the next.

`price_feed_url` IS THE EXACT URL AND THE PLUGIN APPENDS NOTHING. `start`/
`end` are this feed's spelling and the provider declares a second host
whose parameters are different, so merging would produce a request nobody
typed and the short horizon anyway. The cost is real, so it is not silent:
a WARNING on the shipped logger at fetch time names the consequence and the
start..end that would otherwise have been asked for. `dated_feed_url()`
refuses to append to a base that already carries a query string, so the
blind-append shape cannot come back by edit.
DECISIONS/TARIFF-09-the-range-and-the-override.md argues the alternative.

Before publication nothing regresses and it is graded, not assumed: at
09:46 CEST the two-day request came back byte-identical to the one-day
body, and that stays a `series` of what exists with FCST-04 filling the
rest. A `no_data` there would switch a working site's arbitrage off every
morning -- the mutation that adds that rule is red by name.

The plugin contract is still NOT enforced: three shipped plugins point at
endpoints nobody has verified, and a rule obliging them to pass a range
would be satisfied by an invented parameter name -- TARIFF-08's defect
moved from the response to the request. Which plugins consume the range is
pinned as a literal instead.

11 mutations, all red, no survivors; each applied to a fresh copy of the
tree rather than reverted, through tools/mutation_run.sh. One is +0 B (a
single price digit inside the committed capture) and the re-derived sha256
catches it. MUTATION.md habit 20 records why a fixture could never have
reached this: a captured body is the answer to a URL, and no property of a
body says which URL was asked for. All 29 suites green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from enum import Enum
from textwrap import dedent
from urllib.parse import urlencode
_LOG = logging.getLogger("goodwe.price")
@@ -184,6 +185,87 @@ def brussels(instant: datetime) -> datetime:
return instant.astimezone(brussels_offset(instant))
def brussels_date_range(since: datetime, until: datetime) -> tuple:
"""The Brussels calendar days a half-open window [since, until) touches.
Returns `(first, last)`, two `date`s, BOTH INCLUSIVE - which is the shape
`api.energy-charts.info` takes: `?bzn=BE&start=2026-09-09&end=2026-09-10`
answered 192 quarter-hours across exactly those two local days, measured
2026-09-10T07:45:49Z and committed as
`scenarios/energy-charts-be-price-2026-09-09_2026-09-10-twoday.json`.
THE DEFECT THIS EXISTS TO PREVENT (TARIFF-09). `generic_dayahead.fetch()`
accepted `since` and `until` and requested the bare default URL, so the
feed answered ONE Brussels day. Everything past today was then carried
forward from yesterday's profile, flagged provisional, and §8.3 dropped all
of it from the trade set - so the optimiser never saw tomorrow as firm, at
any hour. Measured on the merged tree at 2026-09-10T09:00+02:00 over a 48 h
horizon: 15 firm whole hours and 33 carried, and both ends of the only
permitted cycle inside ONE calendar day. The ceiling was structural: at
hour H of the local day a one-day window gives at most 24-H firm hours and
24+H carried - 1/47 at 23:00, where the firm spread no longer even clears
the round-trip cost. That is not what FCST-04's fill is for; it covers the
pre-publication window until the ~13:00-14:00 CET auction, after which a
healthy feed hands over tomorrow in full.
⚠️ THE CALENDAR IS BRUSSELS, NEVER UTC, AND THIS IS `_bdate()`'s LESSON ONE
LAYER UP. `since`/`until` are INSTANTS; the API takes DATES, and the two are
not the same question. 22:30 UTC in summer is already tomorrow in Belgium,
so a range derived from `since.date()` asks for the wrong FIRST day for the
last one or two hours of every single day - and the day it drops is the one
the controller is standing in. price_history.py made this mistake at the
cache layer and documents the same arithmetic; here it decides what is
fetched at all, so getting it wrong loses the hours rather than misfiling
them.
⚠️ `until` IS EXCLUSIVE, SO LOCAL MIDNIGHT BELONGS TO THE DAY BEFORE IT.
A 48 h horizon from local midnight ends at local midnight two days later,
and that instant is the first tick of a day the caller did not ask for.
Taking `brussels(until).date()` unconditionally would request a THIRD day
on every whole-hour horizon. This feed answers such a request without
complaint, so nothing would report it - which is the reason to get it right
here rather than to rely on the server's tolerance: the range is a claim
about what the caller asked for, and it should be true.
⚠️ AND AN EMPTY OR INVERTED WINDOW COLLAPSES TO ONE DAY RATHER THAN TO A
BACKWARDS RANGE. `start` after `end` is a request no feed has a defined
answer for; some return everything, some return an error, and neither is a
thing to hand a battery controller.
"""
first = brussels(since).date()
edge = brussels(until)
last = edge.date()
if (edge.hour, edge.minute, edge.second, edge.microsecond) == (0, 0, 0, 0):
last = last - timedelta(days=1)
if last < first:
last = first
return first, last
def dated_feed_url(base: str, **params) -> str:
"""`base` plus a query string. Refuses a `base` that already carries one.
⚠️ THE REFUSAL IS THE POINT, NOT THE FORMATTING. Appending `&start=...` to
a URL that may already hold its own query string is how a plugin produces a
request nobody intended - `?bzn=BE?bzn=BE&start=...`, or a duplicated
parameter whose winner is the server's choice rather than ours. So the base
is required to be parameterless and the parameters are added exactly once,
by `urlencode`, which is also what keeps a date out of the escaping
question. A future edit that folds the query back into the constant is a
refused fetch with a sentence, not a silently malformed URL.
⚠️ IT IS NOT REACHED BY AN OPERATOR'S `price_feed_url`. See
`GenericDayAhead.fetch()`: an override is used exactly as given.
"""
if "?" in base or "#" in base:
raise SourceUnavailable(
f"the feed base {base!r} already carries a query string or "
f"fragment, and this builder appends parameters. Adding a second "
f"'?' produces a URL the server parses differently from the one "
f"anybody intended; put the fixed parameters in the call instead")
return f"{base}?{urlencode(params)}" if params else base
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Absence, borrowed wholesale from sim/riglock.py (TEST-04).
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
@@ -731,6 +813,24 @@ class PriceProvider(ABC):
`transport(url, timeout_s) -> bytes` is injected so the checks never
touch a network and `manual_csv` never needs one. `opts` is a
`PluginOptions`, so the markup and taxes are not reachable from here.
⚠️ `since`/`until` ARE THE RANGE THE CALLER WANTS, AND A PLUGIN THAT
IGNORES THEM GETS WHATEVER ITS FEED DEFAULTS TO (TARIFF-09). That is
not a small difference: `generic_dayahead` ignored both, the public
EPEX feed answered ONE Brussels day, and §8.3 then dropped every hour
past today from the trade set as provisional - so the optimiser never
saw tomorrow as firm, at any hour of any day, and nothing reported it.
This promise is NOT mechanically enforced, and the honest reason is
TARIFF-08's: three of the five shipped plugins point at endpoints
nobody has verified (TARIFF-07 is the open decision on withdrawing
them), so nobody knows how those feeds spell a date range. A rule
obliging them to pass one would be satisfied by an INVENTED parameter
name - the parser-graded-against-its-own-guess defect, moved from the
response to the request. What exists instead is a roster pin in
test_price.py: which plugins consume the range and which do not is
asserted as a literal, so a sixth supplier, or a change to one of the
three, forces the decision rather than inheriting the silence.
"""
@@ -1171,9 +1271,63 @@ class GenericDayAhead(PriceProvider):
sources=frozenset({Component.ENERGY}),
egress_hosts=("api.energy-charts.info", "web-api.tp.entsoe.eu"))
FEED_BASE = "https://api.energy-charts.info/price"
BZN = "BE"
async def fetch(self, opts, since, until, transport):
url = opts.get("price_feed_url") or \
"https://api.energy-charts.info/price?bzn=BE"
"""Request the range the CALLER asked for, on the Brussels calendar.
⚠️ THE ARGUMENTS ARE USED. Until TARIFF-09 this method took `since` and
`until` and asked for the bare `?bzn=BE`, which answers ONE Brussels
day - so a 48 h horizon was 15 firm hours and 33 carried at 09:00, and
1 firm and 47 carried at 23:00, with the whole trade set inside a
single calendar day at every hour of every day. See
`brussels_date_range()` for the measurement and for why the calendar
is Brussels rather than UTC.
⚠️ AN OVERRIDE IS THE EXACT URL AND THIS METHOD APPENDS NOTHING TO IT,
WHICH COSTS THE OVERRIDING SITE THE RANGE. That is a decision, not an
oversight, and the sentence below is why it is not a footnote:
* `price_feed_url` says "override the plugin's default feed", and an
override that is silently rewritten is not one. Merging parameters
into an operator's query string means parsing and re-serialising a
URL they wrote - which reorders, de-duplicates and re-escapes it,
and can hand the server a request nobody typed.
* `start`/`end` are ENERGY-CHARTS' spelling, and this provider
DECLARES A SECOND HOST: `web-api.tp.entsoe.eu`. Nothing here has
verified that host's day-ahead parameters and nothing here should
guess them - but they are not `start`/`end`, so an override to the
other DECLARED host is exactly the case where appending our
vocabulary adds two parameters that host ignores and yields the
short horizon anyway, with nothing saying so.
* and blind appending is refused outright: `dated_feed_url()` will
not add a query string to a base that has one.
So the cost is real and it is REPORTED, at fetch time, on the shipped
logger, naming the horizon consequence rather than the substitution.
§11.4 is what makes a price defect quiet; an operator who has taken the
short horizon has to be able to find out from the log that they did.
"""
override = str(opts.get("price_feed_url") or "").strip()
if override:
url = override
_LOG.warning(
"price_feed_url is set, so %s is requesting %s exactly as "
"given and is adding NO date range to it. The public feed "
"answers a single Brussels day to a request that names no "
"range, and every hour past that day is then carried forward "
"from yesterday's profile and flagged provisional - §8.3 "
"drops provisional hours from the trade set, so arbitrage "
"would never see tomorrow as firm. Clear price_feed_url to "
"let this plugin ask for the %s..%s it was given.",
self.id, url, *(d.isoformat()
for d in brussels_date_range(since, until)))
else:
first, last = brussels_date_range(since, until)
url = dated_feed_url(self.FEED_BASE, bzn=self.BZN,
start=first.isoformat(),
end=last.isoformat())
check_egress(url, self.capabilities())
body = await transport(url, float(opts.get("price_timeout_s")))
return _points_from_columnar_json(body, expect_unit="EUR / MWh",