Examples - OPC Unified Architecture - Read value of specific attribute of a single node

// This example shows how to read a value of a specific attribute of a single node, and display it.

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

namespace UADocExamples._EasyUAClient
{
    partial class ReadValue
    {
        public static void Overload2()
        {
            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/"

            UANodeDescriptor nodeDescriptor = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10853";

            // Instantiate the client object
            var client = new EasyUAClient();

            // Obtain value of a DataType attribute
            object value;
            try
            {
                value = client.ReadValue(endpointDescriptor, nodeDescriptor, UAAttributeId.DataType);
            }
            catch (UAException uaException)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"*** Failure: {uaException.GetBaseException().Message}");
                return;
            }

            // Display results
            Console.WriteLine($"value type: {value?.GetType()}");
            Console.WriteLine($"value: {value}");
        }
    }
}

# This example shows how to read a value of a specific attribute of a single node, and display it.

#requires -Version 5.1
using namespace OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA
using namespace OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel

# The path below assumes that the current directory is [ProductDir]/Examples-NET/PowerShell/Windows .
Add-Type -Path "../../../Components/Opclabs.QuickOpc/net472/OpcLabs.EasyOpcUA.dll"
Add-Type -Path "../../../Components/Opclabs.QuickOpc/net472/OpcLabs.EasyOpcUAComponents.dll"

[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.
$client = New-Object EasyUAClient

# Obtain value of a DataType attribute
try {
    $value = [OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.IEasyUAClientExtension]::ReadValue($client,
        $endpointDescriptor, "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10853",
        [OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.UAAttributeId]::DataType)
}
catch [UAException] {
    Write-Host "*** Failure: $($PSItem.Exception.GetBaseException().Message)"
    return
}

# Display results
Write-Host "value type: $($value.GetType())"
Write-Host "value: $($value)"

# This example shows how to read a value of a specific attribute of a single node, and display it.

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

# Import .NET namespaces.
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/'

nodeDescriptor = UANodeDescriptor('nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10853')

# Instantiate the client object.
client = EasyUAClient()

# Obtain value of a DataType attribute.
try:
    value = IEasyUAClientExtension.ReadValue(client, endpointDescriptor, nodeDescriptor, UAAttributeId.DataType)
except UAException as uaException:
    print('*** Failure: ' + uaException.GetBaseException().Message)
    exit()

# Display results.
print('value type: ', type(value), sep='')  # The output will differ from pure .NET languages such as C# or VB.NET.
print('value: ', value, sep='')

print()
print('Finished.')

' This example shows how to read a value of a specific attribute of a single node, and display it.

Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA
Imports OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.OperationModel

Namespace _EasyUAClient
    Partial Friend Class ReadValue
        Public Shared Sub Overload2()

            ' 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/"

            Dim nodeDescriptor As UANodeDescriptor = "nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/ ;i=10853"

            ' Instantiate the client object.
            Dim client = New EasyUAClient()

            ' Obtain value of a DataType attribute.
            Dim value As Object
            Try
                value = client.ReadValue(endpointDescriptor, nodeDescriptor, UAAttributeId.DataType)
            Catch uaException As UAException
                Console.WriteLine("*** Failure: {0}", uaException.GetBaseException.Message)
                Exit Sub
            End Try

            ' Display results
            Console.WriteLine("value type: {0}", value.GetType())
            Console.WriteLine("value: {0}", value)
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Conceptual

Reading just the value (OPC UA)