'Declaration
<ExtensionAttribute()> <NotNullAttribute()> Public Overloads Shared Function DiscoverGlobalServers( _ ByVal client As IEasyUAClient, _ ByVal gdsEndpointDescriptor As UAEndpointDescriptor, _ ByVal flat As Boolean _ ) As UADiscoveryElementCollection
'Usage
Dim client As IEasyUAClient Dim gdsEndpointDescriptor As UAEndpointDescriptor Dim flat As Boolean Dim value As UADiscoveryElementCollection value = IEasyUAClientExtension.DiscoverGlobalServers(client, gdsEndpointDescriptor, flat)
[Extension()] [NotNull()] public static UADiscoveryElementCollection DiscoverGlobalServers( IEasyUAClient client, UAEndpointDescriptor gdsEndpointDescriptor, bool flat )
[Extension()] [NotNull()] public: static UADiscoveryElementCollection^ DiscoverGlobalServers( IEasyUAClient^ client, UAEndpointDescriptor^ gdsEndpointDescriptor, bool flat )
Parameters
- client
- The client object that will perform the operation.
This is typically the EasyUAClient object.
The value of this parameter cannot be
null
(Nothing
in Visual Basic). - gdsEndpointDescriptor
- The endpoint descriptor of the Global Discover Server (GDS) that will be used for performing the discovery.
Because the UAEndpointDescriptor has implicit conversions from System.String and System.Uri, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a string (representing the endpoint URL, or a so-called OPC UA endpoint descriptor string), or a System.Uri object, in place of this parameter, and the corresponding endpoint descriptor will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can use the UAEndpointDescriptor.FromString or UAEndpointDescriptor.FromUri static method instead.
Also, because the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UAApplicationElement and OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UADiscoveryElement have an implicit conversion to UAEndpointDescriptor, in languages that support implicit conversion operators (such as C# or VB.NET), you can simply use a OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UAApplicationElement or OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UADiscoveryElement (results from OPC UA discovery) in place of this parameter, and the corresponding endpoint descriptor will be constructed automatically. When the implicit conversion operators are not supported (such as with Python.NET), you can convert a (non-null) OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UAApplicationElement or OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UADiscoveryElement to UAEndpointDescriptor using the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UAApplicationElement.ToUAEndpointDescriptor or OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UADiscoveryElement.ToUAEndpointDescriptor method instead.
If you are using OPC Wizard (for server development), an implicit conversion from EasyUAServerCore can be used in the same way to simply pass the server object in place of this parameter, which will use its OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAServerCore.EffectiveServerDescriptor property for the connection.
The value of this parameter cannot be
null
(Nothing
in Visual Basic). - flat
- Determines whether one element will be returned for each discovery URI.
Return Value
This method never returns null
(Nothing
in Visual Basic).
The individual elements of the returned value are never null
(Nothing
in Visual Basic).