// Shows how to obtain data type description object for complex data node with OPC UA Complex Data plug-in, and the actual
// content of the data type dictionary.
//
// Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
using System;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using OpcLabs.BaseLib.OperationModel.Generic;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace.Standard;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.DataTypeModel;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.DataTypeModel.Extensions;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.InformationModel;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Plugins.ComplexData;
namespace UADocExamples.ComplexData._IUADataTypeDictionaryProvider
{
class ResolveDataTypeDescriptorFromDataTypeEncodingId
{
public static void Main1()
{
// Define which server we will work with.
UAEndpointDescriptor endpointDescriptor =
"opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer";
// or "http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer" (currently not supported)
// or "https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/"
// Instantiate the client object.
var client = new EasyUAClient();
// Obtain the data type ID.
//
// In many cases, you would be able to obtain the data type ID of a particular node by reading its DataType
// attribute, or easier, by calling the extension method ReadDataType on the IEasyUAClient interface. The sample
// server, however, shows a more advanced approach in which the data type ID refers to an abstract data type,
// and the actual values are then sub-types of this base data type. This abstract data type does not have any
// encodings associated with it and it is therefore not possible to extract its description from the server.
// We therefore use a hard-coded data type ID for one of the sub-types in this example.
//
// The code to obtain the data type ID for given node would normally look like this:
// UANodeId dataTypeId = client.ReadDataType(
// endpointUriString,
// "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10239"); // [ObjectsFolder]/Data.Static.Scalar.StructureValue
//
UANodeId dataTypeId = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=9440"; // ScalarValueDataType
// Get the IEasyUAClientComplexData service from the client. This is needed for advanced complex data
// operations.
IEasyUAClientComplexData complexData = client.GetService<IEasyUAClientComplexData>();
// Get the data type model provider. Provides methods to access data types in OPC UA model.
IUADataTypeModelProvider dataTypeModelProvider = complexData.DataTypeModelProvider;
// Resolve the data type ID from our data type ID, for encoding name "Default Binary".
ValueResult<UAModelNodeDescriptor> encodingIdResult = dataTypeModelProvider.ResolveEncodingIdFromDataTypeId(
new UAModelNodeDescriptor(endpointDescriptor, dataTypeId),
UABrowseNames.DefaultBinary);
// Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if (!encodingIdResult.Succeeded)
{
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", encodingIdResult.ErrorMessageBrief);
return;
}
UAModelNodeDescriptor encodingId = encodingIdResult.Value;
// Get the data type dictionary provider. Provides methods to access data type dictionaries in OPC UA model.
IUADataTypeDictionaryProvider dataTypeDictionaryProvider = complexData.DataTypeDictionaryProvider;
// Resolve the data type descriptor from the encoding ID.
ValueResult<UADataTypeDescriptor> dataTypeDescriptorResult =
dataTypeDictionaryProvider.ResolveDataTypeDescriptorFromDataTypeEncodingId(encodingId);
// Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if (!dataTypeDescriptorResult.Succeeded)
{
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", dataTypeDescriptorResult.ErrorMessageBrief);
return;
}
UADataTypeDescriptor dataTypeDescriptor = dataTypeDescriptorResult.Value;
// The data type descriptor contains two pieces of information:
// The data type dictionary ID: This determines the dictionary where the data type is defined.
Console.WriteLine(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId);
// And the data type description: It is a "pointer" into the data type dictionary itself, selecting a specific
// type definition inside the data type dictionary. The format of it depends on the data type system;
// in our case, it is a string that is the name of one of the type elements in the XML document of the data type
// dictionary.
Console.WriteLine(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDescription);
// Obtain the actual content of the data type dictionary.
ValueResult<byte[]> dataTypeDictionaryResult =
dataTypeDictionaryProvider.GetDataTypeDictionaryFromDataTypeDictionaryId(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId);
// Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if (!dataTypeDictionaryResult.Succeeded)
{
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", dataTypeDictionaryResult.ErrorMessageBrief);
return;
}
byte[] dataTypeDictionary = dataTypeDictionaryResult.Value;
// The data type dictionary returned is an array of bytes; its syntax and semantics depends on the data type
// system. In our case, we know that the data type dictionary is actually a string encoded in UTF-8.
string text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(dataTypeDictionary);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine(text);
// Example output (truncated):
//
//http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer; NodeId="nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;ns=2;i=11422"
//ScalarValueDataType
//
//<opc:TypeDictionary
// xmlns:opc="http://opcfoundation.org/BinarySchema/"
// xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
// xmlns:ua="http://opcfoundation.org/UA/"
// xmlns:tns="http://test.org/UA/Data/"
// DefaultByteOrder="LittleEndian"
// TargetNamespace="http://test.org/UA/Data/"
//>
// <!-- This File was generated on 2013-01-22 and supports the specifications supported by version 1.1.334.0 of the OPC UA deliverables. -->
// <opc:Import Namespace="http://opcfoundation.org/UA/" Location="Opc.Ua.BinarySchema.bsd"/>
//
// <opc:StructuredType Name="ScalarValueDataType" BaseType="ua:ExtensionObject">
// <opc:Field Name="BooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Boolean" />
// <opc:Field Name="SByteValue" TypeName="opc:SByte" />
// <opc:Field Name="ByteValue" TypeName="opc:Byte" />
// <opc:Field Name="Int16Value" TypeName="opc:Int16" />
// <opc:Field Name="UInt16Value" TypeName="opc:UInt16" />
// <opc:Field Name="Int32Value" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
// <opc:Field Name="UInt32Value" TypeName="opc:UInt32" />
// <opc:Field Name="Int64Value" TypeName="opc:Int64" />
// <opc:Field Name="UInt64Value" TypeName="opc:UInt64" />
// <opc:Field Name="FloatValue" TypeName="opc:Float" />
// <opc:Field Name="DoubleValue" TypeName="opc:Double" />
// <opc:Field Name="StringValue" TypeName="opc:String" />
// <opc:Field Name="DateTimeValue" TypeName="opc:DateTime" />
// <opc:Field Name="GuidValue" TypeName="opc:Guid" />
// <opc:Field Name="ByteStringValue" TypeName="opc:ByteString" />
// <opc:Field Name="XmlElementValue" TypeName="ua:XmlElement" />
// <opc:Field Name="NodeIdValue" TypeName="ua:NodeId" />
// <opc:Field Name="ExpandedNodeIdValue" TypeName="ua:ExpandedNodeId" />
// <opc:Field Name="QualifiedNameValue" TypeName="ua:QualifiedName" />
// <opc:Field Name="LocalizedTextValue" TypeName="ua:LocalizedText" />
// <opc:Field Name="StatusCodeValue" TypeName="ua:StatusCode" />
// <opc:Field Name="VariantValue" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
// <opc:Field Name="EnumerationValue" TypeName="ua:Int32" />
// <opc:Field Name="StructureValue" TypeName="ua:ExtensionObject" />
// <opc:Field Name="Number" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
// <opc:Field Name="Integer" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
// <opc:Field Name="UInteger" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
// </opc:StructuredType>
//
// <opc:StructuredType Name="ArrayValueDataType" BaseType="ua:ExtensionObject">
// <opc:Field Name="NoOfBooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
// <opc:Field Name="BooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Boolean" LengthField="NoOfBooleanValue" />
// <opc:Field Name="NoOfSByteValue" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
}
}
}
# Shows how to obtain data type description object for complex data node with OPC UA Complex Data plug-in, and the
# actual content of the data type dictionary.
#
# Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
# OPC client and subscriber examples in Python on GitHub: https://github.com/OPCLabs/Examples-QuickOPC-Python .
# The QuickOPC package is needed. Install it using "pip install opclabs_quickopc".
import opclabs_quickopc
# Import .NET namespaces.
from Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection import *
from System import *
from System.Text import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace.Standard import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.DataTypeModel.Extensions import *
#from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Extensions import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.InformationModel import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Plugins.ComplexData import *
endpointDescriptor = UAEndpointDescriptor('opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer')
# or 'http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer' (currently not supported)
# or 'https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/'
# Instantiate the client object.
client = EasyUAClient()
# Obtain the data type ID.
#
# In many cases, you would be able to obtain the data type ID of a particular node by reading its DataType
# attribute, or easier, by calling the extension method ReadDataType on the IEasyUAClient interface.
# The sample server, however, shows a more advanced approach in which the data type ID refers to an abstract
# data type, and the actual values are then sub-types of this base data type. This abstract data type does not
# have any encodings associated with it and it is therefore not possible to extract its description from the
# server. We therefore use a hard-coded data type ID for one of the sub-types in this example.
#
# The code to obtain the data type ID for given node would normally look like this:
# dataTypeId = IEasyUAClientExtension2.ReadDataType(client,
# endpointDescriptor,
# UANodeDescriptor('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10239')) # [ObjectsFolder]/Data.Static.Scalar.StructureValue
dataTypeId = UANodeId('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=9440') # ScalarValueDataType
# Get the IEasyUAClientComplexData service from the client. This is needed for advanced complex data
# operations.
complexData = ServiceProviderServiceExtensions.GetService[IEasyUAClientComplexData](client)
if complexData is None:
print('The client complex data service is not available.')
exit()
# Get the data type model provider. Provides methods to access data types in OPC UA model.
dataTypeModelProvider = complexData.DataTypeModelProvider
# Resolve the data type ID from our data type ID, for encoding name "Default Binary".
encodingIdResult = IUADataTypeModelProviderExtension.ResolveEncodingIdFromDataTypeId(dataTypeModelProvider,
UAModelNodeDescriptor(endpointDescriptor, UANodeDescriptor(dataTypeId)),
UABrowseNames.DefaultBinary)
# Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if not encodingIdResult.Succeeded:
print('*** Failure: ', encodingIdResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
exit()
encodingId = encodingIdResult.Value
# Get the data type dictionary provider. Provides methods to access data type dictionaries in OPC UA model.
dataTypeDictionaryProvider = complexData.DataTypeDictionaryProvider
# Resolve the data type descriptor from the encoding ID.
dataTypeDescriptorResult = IUADataTypeDictionaryProviderExtension.ResolveDataTypeDescriptorFromDataTypeEncodingId(
dataTypeDictionaryProvider, encodingId)
# Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if not dataTypeDescriptorResult.Succeeded:
print('*** Failure: ', dataTypeDescriptorResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
exit()
dataTypeDescriptor = dataTypeDescriptorResult.Value
# The data type descriptor contains two pieces of information:
# The data type dictionary ID: This determines the dictionary where the data type is defined.
print(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId)
# And the data type description: It is a "pointer" into the data type dictionary itself, selecting a specific
# type definition inside the data type dictionary. The format of it depends on the data type system;
# in our case, it is a string that is the name of one of the type elements in the XML document of the data type
# dictionary.
print(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDescription)
# Obtain the actual content of the data type dictionary.
dataTypeDictionaryResult = IUADataTypeDictionaryProviderExtension.GetDataTypeDictionaryFromDataTypeDictionaryId(
dataTypeDictionaryProvider, dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId)
# Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
if not dataTypeDictionaryResult.Succeeded:
print('*** Failure: ', dataTypeDictionaryResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
exit()
dataTypeDictionary = dataTypeDictionaryResult.Value
# The data type dictionary returned is an array of bytes; its syntax and semantics depends on the data type
# system. In our case, we know that the data type dictionary is actually a string encoded in UTF-8.
text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(dataTypeDictionary)
print()
print(text)
print()
print('Finished.')
' Shows how to obtain data type description object for complex data node with OPC UA Complex Data plug-in, and the actual
' content of the data type dictionary.
'
' Find all latest examples here: https://opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/OPCLabs-OpcStudio/Latest/examples.html .
Imports System
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
Imports OpcLabs.BaseLib.OperationModel.Generic
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.AddressSpace.Standard
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.DataTypeModel
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.DataTypeModel.Extensions
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.InformationModel
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Plugins.ComplexData
Namespace ComplexData._IUADataTypeDictionaryProvider
Friend Class ResolveDataTypeDescriptorFromDataTypeEncodingId
Public Shared Sub Main1()
' Define which server we will work with.
Dim endpointDescriptor As UAEndpointDescriptor =
"opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer"
' or "http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer" (currently not supported)
' or "https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/"
' Instantiate the client object.
Dim client = New EasyUAClient
' Obtain the data type ID.
'
' In many cases, you would be able to obtain the data type ID of a particular node by reading its DataType
' attribute, or easier, by calling the extension method ReadDataType on the IEasyUAClient interface. The sample
' server, however, shows a more advanced approach in which the data type ID refers to an abstract data type,
' and the actual values are then sub-types of this base data type. This abstract data type does not have any
' encodings associated with it and it is therefore not possible to extract its description from the server.
' We therefore use a hard-coded data type ID for one of the sub-types in this example.
'
' The code to obtain the data type ID for given node would normally look like this:
' UANodeId dataTypeId = client.ReadDataType(
' endpointUriString,
' "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10239"); // [ObjectsFolder]/Data.Static.Scalar.StructureValue
'
Dim dataTypeId As UANodeId = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=9440" ' ScalarValueDataType
' Get the IEasyUAClientComplexData service from the client. This is needed for advanced complex data
' operations.
Dim complexData As IEasyUAClientComplexData = client.GetService(Of IEasyUAClientComplexData)
' Get the data type model provider. Provides methods to access data types in OPC UA model.
Dim dataTypeModelProvider As IUADataTypeModelProvider = complexData.DataTypeModelProvider
' Resolve the data type ID from our data type ID, for encoding name "Default Binary".
Dim encodingIdResult As ValueResult(Of UAModelNodeDescriptor) = dataTypeModelProvider.ResolveEncodingIdFromDataTypeId(
New UAModelNodeDescriptor(endpointDescriptor, dataTypeId),
UABrowseNames.DefaultBinary)
' Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
If Not encodingIdResult.Succeeded Then
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", encodingIdResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
Exit Sub
End If
Dim encodingId As UAModelNodeDescriptor = encodingIdResult.Value
' Get the data type dictionary provider. Provides methods to access data type dictionaries in OPC UA model.
Dim dataTypeDictionaryProvider As IUADataTypeDictionaryProvider = complexData.DataTypeDictionaryProvider
' Resolve the data type descriptor from the encoding ID.
Dim dataTypeDescriptorResult As ValueResult(Of UADataTypeDescriptor) =
dataTypeDictionaryProvider.ResolveDataTypeDescriptorFromDataTypeEncodingId(encodingId)
' Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
If Not dataTypeDescriptorResult.Succeeded Then
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", dataTypeDescriptorResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
Exit Sub
End If
Dim dataTypeDescriptor As UADataTypeDescriptor = dataTypeDescriptorResult.Value
' The data type descriptor contains two pieces of information:
' The data type dictionary ID: This determines the dictionary where the data type is defined.
Console.WriteLine(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId)
' And the data type description: It is a "pointer" into the data type dictionary itself, selecting a specific
' type definition inside the data type dictionary. The format of it depends on the data type system;
' in our case, it is a string that is the name of one of the type elements in the XML document of the data type
' dictionary.
Console.WriteLine(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDescription)
' Obtain the actual content of the data type dictionary.
Dim dataTypeDictionaryResult As ValueResult(Of Byte()) =
dataTypeDictionaryProvider.GetDataTypeDictionaryFromDataTypeDictionaryId(dataTypeDescriptor.DataTypeDictionaryId)
' Check if the operation succeeded. Use the ThrowIfFailed method instead if you want exception be thrown.
If Not dataTypeDictionaryResult.Succeeded Then
Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", dataTypeDictionaryResult.ErrorMessageBrief)
Exit Sub
End If
Dim dataTypeDictionary() As Byte = dataTypeDictionaryResult.Value
' The data type dictionary returned is an array of bytes; its syntax and semantics depends on the data type
' system. In our case, we know that the data type dictionary is actually a string encoded in UTF-8.
Dim text As String = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(dataTypeDictionary)
Console.WriteLine()
Console.WriteLine(text)
' Example output (truncated):
'
'http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer; NodeId="nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;ns=2;i=11422"
'ScalarValueDataType
'
'<opc:TypeDictionary
' xmlns:opc="http://opcfoundation.org/BinarySchema/"
' xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
' xmlns:ua="http://opcfoundation.org/UA/"
' xmlns:tns="http://test.org/UA/Data/"
' DefaultByteOrder="LittleEndian"
' TargetNamespace="http://test.org/UA/Data/"
'>
' <!-- This File was generated on 2013-01-22 and supports the specifications supported by version 1.1.334.0 of the OPC UA deliverables. -->
' <opc:Import Namespace="http://opcfoundation.org/UA/" Location="Opc.Ua.BinarySchema.bsd"/>
'
' <opc:StructuredType Name="ScalarValueDataType" BaseType="ua:ExtensionObject">
' <opc:Field Name="BooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Boolean" />
' <opc:Field Name="SByteValue" TypeName="opc:SByte" />
' <opc:Field Name="ByteValue" TypeName="opc:Byte" />
' <opc:Field Name="Int16Value" TypeName="opc:Int16" />
' <opc:Field Name="UInt16Value" TypeName="opc:UInt16" />
' <opc:Field Name="Int32Value" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
' <opc:Field Name="UInt32Value" TypeName="opc:UInt32" />
' <opc:Field Name="Int64Value" TypeName="opc:Int64" />
' <opc:Field Name="UInt64Value" TypeName="opc:UInt64" />
' <opc:Field Name="FloatValue" TypeName="opc:Float" />
' <opc:Field Name="DoubleValue" TypeName="opc:Double" />
' <opc:Field Name="StringValue" TypeName="opc:String" />
' <opc:Field Name="DateTimeValue" TypeName="opc:DateTime" />
' <opc:Field Name="GuidValue" TypeName="opc:Guid" />
' <opc:Field Name="ByteStringValue" TypeName="opc:ByteString" />
' <opc:Field Name="XmlElementValue" TypeName="ua:XmlElement" />
' <opc:Field Name="NodeIdValue" TypeName="ua:NodeId" />
' <opc:Field Name="ExpandedNodeIdValue" TypeName="ua:ExpandedNodeId" />
' <opc:Field Name="QualifiedNameValue" TypeName="ua:QualifiedName" />
' <opc:Field Name="LocalizedTextValue" TypeName="ua:LocalizedText" />
' <opc:Field Name="StatusCodeValue" TypeName="ua:StatusCode" />
' <opc:Field Name="VariantValue" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
' <opc:Field Name="EnumerationValue" TypeName="ua:Int32" />
' <opc:Field Name="StructureValue" TypeName="ua:ExtensionObject" />
' <opc:Field Name="Number" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
' <opc:Field Name="Integer" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
' <opc:Field Name="UInteger" TypeName="ua:Variant" />
' </opc:StructuredType>
'
' <opc:StructuredType Name="ArrayValueDataType" BaseType="ua:ExtensionObject">
' <opc:Field Name="NoOfBooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
' <opc:Field Name="BooleanValue" TypeName="opc:Boolean" LengthField="NoOfBooleanValue" />
' <opc:Field Name="NoOfSByteValue" TypeName="opc:Int32" />
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace