WriteMultiple Method (

Writes data into multiple attributes, using array of argument objects as an input.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#
C++/CLI

'Declaration
 
<ElementsNotNullAttribute()>
<NotNullAttribute()>
Function WriteMultiple( _
   ByVal writeArgumentsArray As Object _
) As Object()

'Usage
 
Dim instance As _EasyUAClient
Dim writeArgumentsArray As Object
Dim value() As Object
 
value = instance.WriteMultiple(writeArgumentsArray)

[ElementsNotNull()]
[NotNull()]
object[] WriteMultiple( 
   object writeArgumentsArray
)

[ElementsNotNull()]
[NotNull()]
array<Object^>^ WriteMultiple( 
   Object^ writeArgumentsArray
)

Parameters

writeArgumentsArray: Array of OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments. Array of argument objects specifying what to write from an OPC-UA server.

Return Value

Array of OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteResult. The method returns an array of OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteResult objects. The indices of elements in the output array are the same as those in the input arrays.

This is a multiple-operation method. In a properly written program, it does not throw any exceptions. You should therefore not put try/catch statements or similar constructs around calls to this method. The only exceptions thrown by this method are for usage errors, i.e. when your code violates the usage contract of the method, such as passing in invalid arguments or calling the method when the state of the object does not allow it. Any operation-related errors (i.e. errors that depend on external conditions that your code cannot reliably check) are indicated in the result objects returned by the method. For more information, see Multiple-operation Methods and Do not catch any exceptions with asynchronous or multiple-operation methods.

Exceptions

Exception Description

Exception	Description
System.ArgumentNullException	A `null` reference (`Nothing` in Visual Basic) is passed to a method that does not accept it as a valid argument. This is a usage error, i.e. it will never occur (the exception will not be thrown) in a correctly written program. Your code should not catch this exception.

System.ArgumentNullException

A null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) is passed to a method that does not accept it as a valid argument.

This is a usage error, i.e. it will never occur (the exception will not be thrown) in a correctly written program. Your code should not catch this exception.

Remarks

The size of the input array will become the size of the output array. The element positions (indices) in the output array are the same as in the input array.

This method does not throw an exception in case of OPC operation failures. Instead, the eventual exception related to each item is returned in Exception property of each returned OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteResult element.

Example

.NET

// This example shows how to write data (a value, timestamps and status code) into 3 nodes at once, test for success of each 
// write and display the exception message in case of failure.

using System;
using OpcLabs.BaseLib.OperationModel;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel;

namespace UADocExamples._EasyUAClient
{
    class WriteMultiple
    {
        public static void TestSuccess()
        {
            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();

            // Modify data of nodes' attributes
            OperationResult[] operationResultArray = client.WriteMultiple(new[]
                {
                    new UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10221", 
                        new UAAttributeData(23456, UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, DateTime.UtcNow)),
                    new UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10226", 
                        new UAAttributeData(2.34567890, UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, DateTime.UtcNow)),
                    new UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10227", 
                        new UAAttributeData("ABC", UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, DateTime.UtcNow))
                });

            // The target server may not support this, and in such case failures will occur.

            for (int i = 0; i < operationResultArray.Length; i++)
                if (operationResultArray[i].Succeeded)
                    Console.WriteLine("Result {0}: success", i);
                else
                    Console.WriteLine("Result {0}: {1}", i, operationResultArray[i].Exception.GetBaseException().Message);
        }
    }
}

# This example shows how to write data (a value, timestamps and status code) into 3 nodes at once, test for success of
# each write and display the exception message in case of failure.

# The QuickOPC package is needed. Install it using "pip install opclabs_quickopc".
import opclabs_quickopc

# Import .NET namespaces.
from System import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA import *
from OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel 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()

print("Modifying data of nodes' attributes...")
writeResultArray = client.WriteMultiple([
    UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, UANodeDescriptor('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10221'),
                     UAAttributeData(23456, UAStatusCode(UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess), DateTime.UtcNow)),
    UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, UANodeDescriptor('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10226'),
                     UAAttributeData(2.34567890, UAStatusCode(UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess), DateTime.UtcNow)),
    UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, UANodeDescriptor('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10227'),
                     UAAttributeData('ABC', UAStatusCode(UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess), DateTime.UtcNow)),
    ])

# The target server may not support this, and in such case failures will occur.
for i, writeResult in enumerate(writeResultArray):
    if writeResult.Succeeded:
        print('writeResultArray[', i, ']: success', sep='')
    else:
        print('writeResultArray[', i, '] *** Failure: ', writeResult.Exception.GetBaseException().Message, sep='')

print()
print('Finished.')

' This example shows how to write data (a value, timestamps and status code) into 3 nodes at once, test for success of each 
' write and display the exception message in case of failure.

Imports System
Imports OpcLabs.BaseLib.OperationModel
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel

Namespace _EasyUAClient
    Friend Class WriteMultiple
        Public Shared Sub TestSuccess()

            ' 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()

            ' Modify data of nodes' attributes
            Dim operationResultArray() As OperationResult = client.WriteMultiple(New UAWriteArguments() _
              {
                  New UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10221",
                                       New UAAttributeData(23456, UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, Date.UtcNow)),
                  New UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10226",
                                       New UAAttributeData(2.3456789, UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, Date.UtcNow)),
                  New UAWriteArguments(endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10227",
                                       New UAAttributeData("ABC", UASeverity.GoodOrSuccess, Date.UtcNow))
              }
            )

            ' The target server may not support this, and in such case failures will occur.

            For i As Integer = 0 To operationResultArray.Length - 1
                If operationResultArray(i).Succeeded Then
                    Console.WriteLine("Result {0}: success", i)
                Else
                    Console.WriteLine("Result {0}: {1}", i, operationResultArray(i).Exception.GetBaseException().Message)
                End If
            Next i
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

PHP
VBScript

// This example shows how to write data (a value, timestamps and status code) into 3 nodes at once, test for success of each 
// write and display the exception message in case of failure.

$GoodOrSuccess = 0;

// Instantiate the client object
$Client = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient");

$StatusCode = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAStatusCode");
$StatusCode->Severity = $GoodOrSuccess;

$WriteArguments1 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments");
$WriteArguments1->EndpointDescriptor->UrlString = 
    //"http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer";
    //"https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/";
    "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer";
$WriteArguments1->NodeDescriptor->NodeId->ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10221";
$AttributeData1 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData");
$AttributeData1->Value = 23456;
$AttributeData1->StatusCode = $StatusCode;
$AttributeData1->SourceTimestamp = (time() - 25569)/86400.0;    // works in PHP v5.6, does not work in PHP 7.3.10
$WriteArguments1->AttributeData = $AttributeData1;

$WriteArguments2 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments");
$WriteArguments2->EndpointDescriptor->UrlString = 
    //"http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer";
    //"https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/";
    "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer";
$WriteArguments2->NodeDescriptor->NodeId->ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10226";
$AttributeData2 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData");
$AttributeData2->Value = 2.3456789;
$AttributeData2->StatusCode = $StatusCode;
$AttributeData2->SourceTimestamp = (time() - 25569)/86400.0;    // works in PHP v5.6, does not work in PHP 7.3.10
$WriteArguments2->AttributeData = $AttributeData2;

$WriteArguments3 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments");
$WriteArguments3->EndpointDescriptor->UrlString = 
    //"http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer";
    //"https://opcua.demo-this.com:51212/UA/SampleServer/";
    "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer";
$WriteArguments3->NodeDescriptor->NodeId->ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10227";
$AttributeData3 = new COM("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData");
$AttributeData3->Value = "ABC";
$AttributeData3->StatusCode = $StatusCode;
$AttributeData3->SourceTimestamp = (time() - 25569)/86400.0;    // works in PHP v5.6, does not work in PHP 7.3.10
$WriteArguments3->AttributeData = $AttributeData3;

$arguments[0] = $WriteArguments1;
$arguments[1] = $WriteArguments2;
$arguments[2] = $WriteArguments3;

// Modify data of nodes' attributes
$results = $Client->WriteMultiple($arguments);

// Display results
for ($i = 0; $i < count($results); $i++)
{
    $WriteResult = $results[$i];
    // The target server may not support this, and in such case failures will occur.
    if ($WriteResult->Succeeded)
        printf("Result %d success\n", $i);
    else
        printf("Result  s \n", $i, $WriteResult->Exception->GetBaseException()->Message);
}

Rem This example shows how to write data (a value, timestamps and status code) into 3 nodes at once, test for success of each 
Rem write and display the exception message in case of failure.

Option Explicit

Const GoodOrSuccess = 0

' Instantiate the client object
Dim Client: Set Client = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient")

Dim StatusCode: Set StatusCode = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAStatusCode")
StatusCode.Severity = GoodOrSuccess

Dim WriteArguments1: Set WriteArguments1 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments")
WriteArguments1.EndpointDescriptor.UrlString = "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer"
WriteArguments1.NodeDescriptor.NodeId.ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10221"
Dim AttributeData1: Set AttributeData1 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData")
AttributeData1.Value = 23456
AttributeData1.StatusCode = StatusCode
AttributeData1.SourceTimestamp = Now
WriteArguments1.AttributeData = AttributeData1

Dim WriteArguments2: Set WriteArguments2 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments")
WriteArguments2.EndpointDescriptor.UrlString = "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer"
WriteArguments2.NodeDescriptor.NodeId.ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10226"
Dim AttributeData2: Set AttributeData2 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData")
AttributeData2.Value = 2.3456789
AttributeData2.StatusCode = StatusCode
AttributeData2.SourceTimestamp = Now
WriteArguments2.AttributeData = AttributeData2

Dim WriteArguments3: Set WriteArguments3 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel.UAWriteArguments")
WriteArguments3.EndpointDescriptor.UrlString = "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer"
WriteArguments3.NodeDescriptor.NodeId.ExpandedText = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10227"
Dim AttributeData3: Set AttributeData3 = CreateObject("OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeData")
AttributeData3.Value = "ABC"
AttributeData3.StatusCode = StatusCode
AttributeData3.SourceTimestamp = Now
WriteArguments3.AttributeData = AttributeData3

Dim arguments(2)
Set arguments(0) = WriteArguments1
Set arguments(1) = WriteArguments2
Set arguments(2) = WriteArguments3

' Modify data of nodes' attributes
Dim results: results = Client.WriteMultiple(arguments)

' Display results
Dim i: For i = LBound(results) To UBound(results)
    Dim WriteResult: Set WriteResult = results(i)
    ' The target server may not support this, and in such case failures will occur.
    If WriteResult.Succeeded Then
        WScript.Echo "Result " & i & " success"
    Else
        WScript.Echo "Result " & i & ": " & WriteResult.Exception.GetBaseException().Message
    End If
Next

Requirements

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

Reference

_EasyUAClient Interface
_EasyUAClient Members

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