Enhance request pipeline with safe operation dispatch, support for paused server states, and bridge status updates.

Contents/mods/RconDataBridge/common/media/lua/server/RconDataBridge/Ops/RDB_OpBridgeStatus.lua

@@ -1,8 +1,18 @@
+---@diagnostic disable: need-check-nil
+
 -- Registration deferred to register(), called from RDB_Bootstrap's
 -- onServerStarted, see RDB_OpWorldGetStats.lua.
 
 RDB_OpBridgeStatus = {}
 
+-- Mirrors zombie.GameTime.isGamePaused()'s server-side branch exactly
+-- (decompiled: `GameServer.Players.isEmpty() && ServerOptions.instance.pauseEmpty.getValue()`),
+-- true precisely when RDB_RequestPipeline would be relying on Events.OnTickEvenPaused
+-- instead of Events.OnTick to even see this request.
+local function isPaused()
+    return ServerOptions.instance:getBoolean("PauseEmpty") and getOnlinePlayers():size() == 0
+end
+
 function RDB_OpBridgeStatus.register()
     RDB_OpRegistry.register("get_bridge_status", {
         handler = function(_)
@@ -13,6 +23,7 @@ function RDB_OpBridgeStatus.register()
                 version       = RDB_Constants.PROTOCOL_VERSION,
                 bootedAt      = bootedAt,
                 uptimeSeconds = (now - bootedAt) / 1000,
+                paused        = isPaused(),
                 rateLimit     = RDB_Security.getRateLimitStatus(),
                 config        = RDB_Config.getAll(),
             }

Contents/mods/RconDataBridge/common/media/lua/server/RconDataBridge/RDB_RequestPipeline.lua

@@ -44,6 +44,19 @@ local function audit(id, op, ok, code)
     RDB_AuditLog.record({ id = id, op = op, ok = ok, code = code })
 end
 
+-- If an op handler throws (a bug, a bad deploy, a version mismatch between
+-- files), surface it as a fast INTERNAL_ERROR response instead of silently
+-- swallowing it. The raw Lua error is logged server-side only, never
+-- sent to the client.
+local function safeDispatch(op, args)
+    local ok, a, b, c = pcall(RDB_OpRegistry.dispatch, op, args)
+    if not ok then
+        RDB_Log.error("op '" .. tostring(op) .. "' handler threw: " .. tostring(a))
+        return false, RDB_Constants.ERROR_CODES.INTERNAL_ERROR, "Unhandled error in operation handler."
+    end
+    return a, b, c
+end
+
 -- Handles one raw request string end to end. raw is base64: RCON's
 -- changeoption command strips every literal double-quote character from
 -- every argument (see RESEARCH_LOG.md), so a client can't send raw JSON --
@@ -109,7 +122,7 @@ local function processRequest(rawBase64)
         return
     end
 
-    local dispatchOk, dataOrCode, message = RDB_OpRegistry.dispatch(op, args)
+    local dispatchOk, dataOrCode, message = safeDispatch(op, args)
     local response
     if dispatchOk then
         response = buildOkResponse(id, dataOrCode)
@@ -148,14 +161,28 @@ end
 
 local initialized = false
 
--- Guarded: Events.OnServerStarted fires more than once per boot (see
--- RESEARCH_LOG.md), and Events.OnTick.Add does not deduplicate identical
--- listeners, so calling this twice would otherwise double-register onTick.
+-- Guarded: Events.OnServerStarted fires more than once per boot,
+-- and Events.OnTick.Add does not deduplicate identical listeners,
+-- so calling this twice would otherwise double-register onTick.
+--
+-- Registered on BOTH OnTick and OnTickEvenPaused: decompiling GameWindow's
+-- main loop shows these two are mutually exclusive per real engine tick;
+-- normal ticks fire OnTick (via IngameState's update path), while a tick
+-- where the server is paused (PauseEmpty=true and no players connected;
+-- see zombie.GameTime.isGamePaused) fires OnTickEvenPaused instead, never
+-- both. Without the second registration, the entire bridge (every op, not
+-- just one) goes completely inert on any server running PauseEmpty=true
+-- whenever it's empty: no event ever calls onTick, so a request just sits
+-- in RconDataBridge_Request forever with no response and no error, and a
+-- client sees a silent timeout with nothing to diagnose.
 function RDB_RequestPipeline.init()
     if initialized then
         return
     end
+
     initialized = true
     lastSeenRaw = RDB_OptionsRegistry.get(RDB_Constants.OPT.REQUEST)
+
     Events.OnTick.Add(onTick)
+    Events.OnTickEvenPaused.Add(onTick)
 end