Exporting Device Data

The main purpose with an OPC-UA server is to provide access to real world objects. External information is stored in the address space in the form of variable nodes. Variable nodes have value attributes. The following section shows how to connect attributes with real world objects.

Value Callback

The value callback is a function and is used for both reading and writing.

callback(nodeId[, value])

Writing Callback Parameters

nodeId:

of type NodeID The Node ID of the node to modify.

value:

of type :DataValue For write The new variable value set by the client.

return:

ignored

Reading Callback Parameters

nodeId:

of type NodeID The Node ID of the node to read.

return:

DataValue Data from device for read operation. Ignored for write operation.

Error reporting

To report an error, the callback should raise a LUA error with a suitable OPC-UA status code.

Custom data source example

-- Callback that will be called for Read/Write operations
function callback(nodeId, newValue)
  if newValue ~= nil then
    -- writing data
    ua.Tools.printTable("newValue", newValue, trace)
    ua.Tools.printTable("deviceData", deviceData, trace)

    if newValue == nil then
      error(ua.StatusCode.BadInvalidArgument)
    end

    deviceData = newValue
  else
    -- reading data
    ua.Tools.printTable("read deviceData", deviceData, trace)
    return deviceData
  end
end

server:setVariableSource(dataNodeId, callback)

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