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Examples - OPC UA File Providers - Use text reader to read a file
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The example below shows how to open a file stream for reading, and read its content using a text reader object, using OPC UA file provider model.

// Shows how to open a file stream for reading, and read its content using a text reader object, using OPC UA file provider
// model.

using System;
using System.IO;
using OpcLabs.BaseLib.Extensions.FileProviders;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA;
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.FileTransfer;

namespace UADocExamples.FileProviders._FileInfo2
{
    class ReadText
    {
        public static void Main1()
        {
            // Unified Automation .NET based demo server (UaNETServer/UaServerNET.exe)
            UAEndpointDescriptor endpointDescriptor = "opc.tcp://localhost:48030";

            // A node that represents an instance of OPC UA FileType object.
            UANodeDescriptor fileNodeDescriptor = "nsu=http://www.unifiedautomation.com/DemoServer/ ;s=Demo.Files.TextFile";
            
            // Instantiate the file transfer client object
            var fileTransferClient = new EasyUAFileTransferClient();

            Console.WriteLine("Getting file info...");
            IFileInfo2 fileInfo2 = fileTransferClient.GetFileInfo2(endpointDescriptor, fileNodeDescriptor);
            // From this point onwards, the code is independent of the concrete realization of the file provider, and would
            // be identical e.g. for files in the physical file system, if the corresponding file provider was used.

            try
            {
                // Get a stream reader object that corresponds to an OPC UA file.
                Console.WriteLine("Opening the file for reading...");

                // We know that the file contains text, so we read it using a stream reader. If the file content was
                // binary, you would process the stream according to the data format.
                using (StreamReader streamReader = fileInfo2.CreateStreamReader())
                {
                    // Read in the text from the file and display it line by line.
                    Console.WriteLine();
                    Console.WriteLine("Reading text lines:");

                    int i = 0;
                    while (!streamReader.EndOfStream)
                    {
                        string line = streamReader.ReadLine();
                        Console.WriteLine($"[{i}] {line}");
                        i++;
                    }
                }
            }
            // Methods in the file provider model throw IOException and other exceptions, but not UAException.
            catch (Exception exception)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"*** Failure: {exception.GetBaseException().Message}");
                return;
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Finished...");
        }
    }
}

 

See Also

Examples - OPC UA File Transfer

Conceptual