'Declaration
 
<ExtensionAttribute()>
Public Overloads Shared Sub TestConnection( _
   ByVal subscriber As IEasyUASubscriber, _
   ByVal pubSubConnectionDescriptor As UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor, _
   ByVal waitMilliseconds As Integer _
) 

'Usage
 
Dim subscriber As IEasyUASubscriber
Dim pubSubConnectionDescriptor As UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor
Dim waitMilliseconds As Integer
 
IEasyUASubscriberExtension2.TestConnection(subscriber, pubSubConnectionDescriptor, waitMilliseconds)

[Extension()]
public static void TestConnection( 
   IEasyUASubscriber subscriber,
   UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor pubSubConnectionDescriptor,
   int waitMilliseconds
)

[Extension()]
public:
static void TestConnection( 
   IEasyUASubscriber^ subscriber,
   UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor^ pubSubConnectionDescriptor,
   int waitMilliseconds
) 

Parameters

subscriber

The subscriber object that will perform the operation.

This is typically the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.EasyUASubscriber object.

The value of this parameter cannot be null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

pubSubConnectionDescriptor

Descriptor for a PubSub connection (using physical parameters, or logical name).

Because the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor has an implicit conversion from OpcLabs.BaseLib.Networking.ResourceAddress and System.String, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a OpcLabs.BaseLib.Networking.ResourceAddress object, or a string (the so-called resource description string, usually a resource URL) in place of this parameter, and the corresponding OPC UA PubSub connection descriptor will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can use the FromResourceAddress or FromString static method instead.

Also, because the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.Configuration.UAPubSubConnectionElement has an implicit conversion to OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.Configuration.UAPubSubConnectionElement (from PubSub configuration) in place of this parameter, and the corresponding OPC UA PubSub connection descriptor will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can convert a OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.Configuration.UAPubSubConnectionElement to OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.PubSub.UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor using the ToUAPubSubConnectionDescriptor static method instead.

The value of this parameter cannot be null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

waitMilliseconds

Number of milliseconds to wait before the connection test can pass.

Valid values of this parameter are in the range from 0 to 2147483647 (Int32.MaxValue).

The method tests synchronously whether an OPC UA PubSub connection can be successfully established. It returns normally when the test passes. The method throws a OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAException when there is an error establishing the connection.

Due to asynchronous nature of some communication channels, successful test outcome does not always imply that a connection has been fully established.

The waitMilliseconds parameter is not a timeout in its traditional sense, i.e. a maximum time allowed for the operation. Here, this method actually waits for the time given by waitMilliseconds parameter unless a failure occurs.

This is a synchronous method. For an asynchronous alternative, see TestConnectionAsync(IEasyUASubscriber,UAPubSubConnectionDescriptor,Int32).

This is an extension method (info: C#, VB.NET). In languages that have support for extensions methods (such as C# and VB.NET), you can use the extension method as if it were a regular method on the object that is its first parameter. In other languages (such as with Python.NET), you will call the extension as a static method, and pass it the object on which it acts as its first parameter.

Target Platforms: .NET Framework: Windows 10 (selected versions), Windows 11 (selected versions), Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2022; .NET: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows