# Description `MachineryMeasurementValue` gets an additive init-only `NodeId`; the positional constructor is unchanged. `ReadMeteringPointAsync` fills it, and so do `ReadMainMeteringPointAsync` and `ReadSubMetersAsync`, which use it. The values are now read by the NodeIds the browse returned, in one batched Read, instead of translating each browse name back to a NodeId first. That is one round trip less, and value and NodeId come from the same node. `docs/Machinery.md` shows how to subscribe to the measurements. Tests: - New end-to-end test `MeteringPointMeasurementsCarryTheNodeIdOfTheirVariableAsync` against `MachineryIntegrationServer`, covering the main metering point and the sub-meter. It reads `BrowseName` and `Value` behind every returned NodeId. It fails on master. - `Opc.Ua.Machinery.Tests` 165/165 on net10.0; all target frameworks build with 0 warnings. - Fork CI (full matrix incl. macOS) and CodeQL: green on `afa00065a` (the same change on master `ce88955f7`) — [CI run 36826789991](https://github.com/biancode/UA-.NETStandard/actions/runs/36826789991) (189 jobs), [CodeQL run 36826793071](https://github.com/biancode/UA-.NETStandard/actions/runs/36826793071). Rebasing onto master with #4607 needed one conflict resolution in `MachineryEndToEndTests.cs` (both new tests kept); `Opc.Ua.Machinery.Tests` passes 165/165 on net10.0 locally afterwards and CodeQL is green on that state ([run 36979020583](https://github.com/biancode/UA-.NETStandard/actions/runs/36979020583)). The run on the current head is in progress: [CI run 37016200389](https://github.com/biancode/UA-.NETStandard/actions/runs/37016200389). ## Related Issues - Fixes #4641 ## Checklist - [x] I have signed the [CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf) and read the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) doc. - [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works and increased code coverage. - [x] I have added all necessary documentation. - [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or analyzer warnings. - [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed. (Affected suites on net10.0 and net8.0 locally on macOS; .NET Framework is covered by the fork CI's Windows net48 legs.) - [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and **all** CodeQL warnings. - [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
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OPC UA for Machinery (OPC 40001)
The Opc.Ua.Machinery* packages implement the OPC 40001 specification series —
the building blocks every machine shares, plus the four specialised parts that
production equipment adds depending on its use case.
Contents
- Library layout
- Models and namespaces
- Dependency specifications
- Quick start — server
- Quick start — client
- Server hosting model
- Coexisting with a server that already owns DI or ISA-95
- Builder reference
- Abstract event types
- State machines are server-driven
- Client
- Conformance matrix
- Model sources, identifier tables and repairs
- Generator gaps found while adding these models
Library layout
Each part is its own model assembly, so a server takes only what it serves. A machine tool that reports jobs and results does not have to carry PADIM.
| Package | Specification | Model URI |
|---|---|---|
Opc.Ua.Machinery |
OPC 40001-1 Basic Building Blocks | http://opcfoundation.org/UA/Machinery/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues |
OPC 40001-2 Process Values | …/UA/Machinery/ProcessValues/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs |
OPC 40001-3 Job Management | …/UA/Machinery/Jobs/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy |
OPC 40001-4 Energy Management | …/UA/Machinery/Energy/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Result |
OPC 40001-101 Result Transfer | …/UA/Machinery/Result/ |
Two more packages turn those models into a running server and a client:
| Package | What it adds |
|---|---|
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Server |
MachineryNodeManager, the fluent machine builder, the state-machine controllers, the OPC 40001-101 download path, and the AddMachinery() hosting pipeline |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Client |
MachineryClient — discovery from the Machines folder, identification, state observation, job control and result download |
Models and namespaces
The generated C# namespace of each model is derived from its model URI by
NodeSetToModelDesign.CreateNamespace, and every project pins the derived value
explicitly — it is part of the contract each assembly publishes through
[assembly: ModelDependencyAttribute] (see ModelDependencies.md).
| Model URI | C# namespace | Namespaces member |
Model loader |
|---|---|---|---|
…/UA/Machinery/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery |
Machinery |
AddOpcUaMachinery |
…/UA/Machinery/ProcessValues/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues |
MachineryProcessValues |
AddOpcUaMachineryProcessValues |
…/UA/Machinery/Jobs/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs |
MachineryJobs |
AddOpcUaMachineryJobs |
…/UA/Machinery/Energy/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy |
MachineryEnergy |
AddOpcUaMachineryEnergy |
…/UA/Machinery/Result/ |
Opc.Ua.Machinery.Result |
MachineryResult |
AddOpcUaMachineryResult |
…/UA/IA/ |
Opc.Ua.IA |
IA |
AddOpcUaIA |
…/UA/ECM/ |
Opc.Ua.ECM |
ECM |
AddOpcUaECM |
…/UA/PADIM/ |
Opc.Ua.PADIM |
PADIM |
AddOpcUaPADIM |
…/UA/Dictionary/IRDI |
Opc.Ua.IRDI |
IRDI |
AddOpcUaIRDI |
Note on placement: the Machines folder (FolderType) that OPC 40001-1 defines
is Organizes-referenced from Objects, not from the DI DeviceSet. There
is no MachineryItems folder in 1.04.1, and no MachineryBuildingBlocksType —
the building blocks are AddIn instances (Identification, Monitoring,
Components, MachineryEquipment, Notifications).
Dependency specifications
Adding OPC 40001 pulled in three specifications the repository did not have, and
moved a fourth out of Opc.Ua.Robotics:
| Package | Specification | Why |
|---|---|---|
Opc.Ua.IA |
OPC 10000-200 Industrial Automation | 40001-1 types MonitoringType.Status.Stacklight with IA's BasicStacklightType. IA used to be generated inside Opc.Ua.Robotics; two assemblies generating the same model URI under the same C# prefix collide at the consumer, so it moved to its own package and Robotics now references it. The generated types keep living in the Opc.Ua.IA namespace and AddOpcUaIA is unchanged. |
Opc.Ua.PADIM |
OPC 30081 PADIM + the IRDI dictionary | 40001-2 derives ProcessValueType / ProcessValueVariableType from PADIM's AnalogSignalType / AnalogSignalVariableType. IRDI ships in the same assembly because PADIM references it several hundred times and is unusable without it. |
Opc.Ua.ECM |
OPC 34100 Energy Consumption Management | 40001-4's energy carriers are instances of ECM's EnergyMeasurementValueType. |
Opc.Ua.ISA95 (existing) |
OPC 10031-4 ISA-95 Job Control V2 | 40001-3's JobManagementType composes the Job Control V2 receiver and response provider. |
The resulting reference graph:
Opc.Ua.Core
└── Opc.Ua.Di ──┬── Opc.Ua.IA ──┬── Opc.Ua.Robotics
│ ├── Opc.Ua.ECM ─── Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy
│ └── Opc.Ua.Machinery
└── Opc.Ua.PADIM (+ IRDI) ─── Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues
Opc.Ua.Core ─── Opc.Ua.Machinery.Result
Opc.Ua.ISA95 ─── Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs
Quick start — server
builder.Services
.AddOpcUa()
.AddServer(options =>
{
options.ApplicationName = "MachineryServer";
options.ApplicationUri = "urn:localhost:OPCFoundation:MachineryServer";
options.EndpointUrls.Add("opc.tcp://localhost:62546/MachineryServer");
})
.AddMachinery(options => options.Parts = MachineryParts.All)
.ConfigureMachinery(async machinery =>
{
IMachineHandle<BaseObjectState> press = await machinery
.AddMachine("Press-1")
.WithIdentification(id =>
{
id.Manufacturer = new LocalizedText("Acme");
id.Model = new LocalizedText("P-500");
id.SerialNumber = "SN-0001";
id.ProductInstanceUri = "urn:acme:press:1";
})
.WithMonitoring(monitoring => monitoring
.WithMachineryItemState()
.WithOperationMode())
.BuildAsync();
// The handle is how the application drives the machine afterwards.
await press.ItemState!.SetStateAsync(MachineryItemStateValue.NotExecuting);
});
Nothing reaches the address space until BuildAsync runs, and a failure
anywhere in the chain rolls the machine back — the server is never left with
half a machine.
MachineryParts decides which models the manager loads, which namespaces it
announces and which conformance units it can advertise. Trim it so the server
carries only what it serves:
| Value | Needs |
|---|---|
BuildingBlocks |
DI + IA |
ProcessValues |
BuildingBlocks + PADIM + IRDI |
Jobs |
ISA-95 Job Control V2 only — no DI |
Energy |
BuildingBlocks + ECM |
Result |
UA core only — no DI, no machine model |
A server that publishes nothing but measurement results skips the machine model entirely:
builder.Services
.AddOpcUa()
.AddServer(/* … */)
.AddMachineryResults(options => options.RootBrowseName = "ResultManagement");
That registers MachineryResultNodeManager,
which shares its method binder with the ResultManagement object below a
machine, so both answer a client identically.
Quick start — client
MachineryClient machinery = session.Machinery(telemetry);
await foreach (MachineEntry machine in machinery.EnumerateMachinesAsync(ct))
{
MachineIdentification? id = await machinery
.ReadIdentificationAsync(machine.NodeId, ct);
FiniteStateSnapshot? state = await machinery
.GetItemStateAsync(machine.NodeId, ct);
Console.WriteLine(
$"{id?.Manufacturer.Text} {id?.Model.Text} — {state?.CurrentState.Text}");
}
Every accessor returns null rather than throwing when a machine does not
publish the block: OPC 40001-1 makes nearly everything optional, so a client
that insists on a block would work against one vendor and fail against the next.
Server hosting model
AddMachinery() registers MachineryNodeManager, a DiNodeManager subclass —
the same shape RoboticsNodeManager has. One manager serves every configured
part, because the parts share one instance tree: a machine's process values,
jobs, energy carriers and results all hang off the same object.
ConfigureMachinery(...) runs during server startup, after the models are
loaded and the address space is wired. Three overloads take a delegate
(sync, async, async with token) and one takes an IMachineryConfigurator
class, which is the one to reach for when the configuration needs services
from the container.
Instances are minted into an application-owned namespace,
MachineryServerOptions.InstanceNamespaceUri
(default urn:opcua-netstandard:machinery:instances). It must not be a model
namespace, and the options validate that.
Coexisting with a server that already owns DI or ISA-95
AddMachinery() claims the Device Integration address space, and — when the
Jobs part is selected — the ISA-95 namespaces as well. A second registration
that would load the same models fails immediately with a message naming the
current owner, rather than producing a server with two DeviceSet trees.
A server that already owns either one loads the Machinery models into its own manager and drives them through the same builder:
protected override ValueTask<NodeStateCollection> LoadPredefinedNodesAsync(
ISystemContext context, CancellationToken ct = default)
{
var nodes = new NodeStateCollection();
nodes.AddMachineryTypeSystem(context, MachineryParts.BuildingBlocks);
nodes.AddOpcUaPumps(context);
return new ValueTask<NodeStateCollection>(nodes);
}
builder.ConfigureMachineryFor<PumpNodeManager>(async machinery =>
{
await machinery.AddMachine(pump, new QualifiedName("Pump-1"))
.WithIdentification(/* … */)
.BuildAsync();
});
AddMachine<TState>(TState machine, …) adopts an instance a companion
specification created — an OPC 40223 PumpState, an OPC 40223-style
GeneratorSetState — so the vendor model keeps its own type definition and
still answers the Machinery browse paths. The custom manager only has to expose
an IMachineryNodeIdFactory; MachineryNodeManager implements it, and a
custom manager implements it with a thread-safe allocator for the configured
instance namespace.
Builder reference
OPC 40001-1 building blocks
Every block is attached to its machinery item with HasAddIn, which is what
OPC 40001-1 uses — not HasComponent.
| Call | What it adds |
|---|---|
WithIdentification(…) |
Identification, typed MachineIdentificationType. The browse name comes from the DI namespace because the type derives from DI's FunctionalGroupType. Manufacturer, SerialNumber and (for a machine) ProductInstanceUri are mandatory and validated. |
WithMonitoring(…) |
Monitoring, and below it Status/MachineryItemState, Status/MachineryOperationMode, Status/Stacklight (OPC 10000-200 IA), Health, Process, Consumption — each only when asked for |
WithComponents(…) |
Components, and one AddComponent per machine component. A component gets the narrower MachineryComponentIdentificationType. |
WithMachineryEquipment(…) |
MachineryEquipment and the equipment below it. MachineryEquipmentTypeId is mandatory and required by the call; WithEquipmentLife(…) adds the DI LifetimeVariableType the equipment interface declares. |
WithNotifications(…) |
Notifications, with EventNotifier set, registered as a root notifier, and a publisher the application reports its own events on |
WithOperationCounters(…) |
OperationCounters — PowerOnDuration, OperationDuration, OperationCycleCounter |
WithLifetimeCounters(…) |
LifetimeCounters and one DI LifetimeVariableType per AddLifetimeVariable |
The MachineryBuildingBlocks organizer
OPC 40001-1 §7.1 puts the building blocks below a FolderType object named
MachineryBuildingBlocks (Machinery namespace), referenced from the machinery
item with HasComponent, and the blocks themselves with HasAddIn from that
folder. Table 12 of the specification says the item state, the operation mode,
both counters, monitoring, equipment and notifications shall be reachable
that way, and identification and the components folder may be.
This is not presentation. Every conformance unit for those blocks is worded
"has this AddIn under its MachineryBuildingBlocks folder", and OPC 40001-3's
Machinery Job Management Base is worded the same way — so a server without
the folder satisfies none of them. The builder creates it on first use and
references every block it builds; §7.3 forbids duplicating the node, so the
second path is a reference to the same node, not a copy. The blocks keep their
direct HasAddIn from the machinery item as well, which §7.1 recommends as the
top-level entry point.
There is no MachineryItems folder and no MachineryBuildingBlocksType in
1.04.1 — both appear in older drafts and in reduced NodeSet copies. The folder
has no type of its own: it is a plain FolderType identified by its browse
name, which is why the builder assembles it rather than a generated factory.
The Machines folder is Organizes-referenced from Objects.
Default instance browse names are load-bearing
Every OPC 40001-1 conformance unit is worded "using the
DefaultInstanceBrowseName", so the namespace a block's browse name sits in is
part of the contract, and it is not always the Machinery one:
MachineryOperationCounterType declares 2:OperationCounters — the Device
Integration namespace — because OPC 40001-1 reuses the OPC 10000-100 functional
group so a client written against Device Integration finds it.
MachineryItemIdentificationType and its two subtypes do the same with
2:Identification. MachineryNodeSetConformanceTests pins all ten values
against the vendored NodeSet.
OPC 40001-2 process values
.WithProcessValue(new QualifiedName("OilTemperature"), pv => pv
.WithEngineeringUnits(degreeCelsius, new Range { Low = -20, High = 120 })
.WithLimits(lowLow: 5, low: 15, high: 65, highHigh: 80)
.WithSetpoint(45)
.WithDeviationLimits(low: -10, high: 10)
.WithPercentageValue()
.WithStatus()
.WithLimitAlarm()
.WithDeviationAlarm()
.WithZeroPointAdjustment(async (processValue, ct) => await ZeroAsync(ct))
.WithValue(45)
.Bind(out IProcessValueHandle oilTemperature))
The application drives the value through the handle afterwards, and everything derived from it follows:
await oilTemperature.SetValueAsync(70.0); // percentage, both alarms
await oilTemperature.SetSetpointAsync(55); // deviation alarm
WithLimitAlarm() and WithDeviationAlarm() do more than create the objects
the model declares. Each one mirrors the limits onto the alarm — absolute
limits from WithLimits, deviations from WithDeviationLimits — points the
condition at the signal as its InputNode, gives it the source, name and
enable state OPC 10000-9 needs, registers it as a root notifier, and
re-evaluates it on every SetValueAsync. An alarm that is only created never
activates and never reports, which is what the objects alone amount to.
WithZeroPointAdjustment binds the optional OPC 30081 method and reports a
ZeroPointAdjustmentEventType event on every call — the part's conformance
unit says all instances supporting the method do — with the handler deciding
only the ZeroPointAdjustmentResult status the event carries. Because that
event type is abstract, the event is reported with a concrete subtype; see
Abstract event types.
ProcessValueType derives from PADIM's AnalogSignalType, and its mandatory
AnalogSignal child keeps PADIM's AnalogSignalVariableType as its declared
type — OPC 40001-2 does not narrow it. What the part adds is
ProcessValueVariableType, a subtype of that variable type carrying
LowLowLimit / LowLimit / HighLimit / HighHighLimit and
PercentageValue. An instance may use a subtype in a declared slot, so the
builder puts the richer type there and the limits become reachable. The
generated factory alone would leave the PADIM type in place and
WithLimits(...) would have nowhere to write.
Substituting the subtype costs one repair. Two PADIM members the derived types
inherit used to come out of the generator without their reference type — and,
for EngineeringUnits, without its namespace-0 browse name — when
ProcessValueVariableType is instantiated on its own, which is exactly the path
the substitution takes. A node whose ReferenceTypeId is null is in the node
tree but produces no reference in a filtered Browse, so no client ever sees it:
SignalTag is mandatory on PADIM's AnalogSignalType, and EngineeringUnits
is where every Data Access client reads the unit — and what the
0:Data Access AnalogUnitType unit of the OPC 40001-2 base facet rests on.
The generator carries both through the dependency payload now; see
Generator gaps.
OPC 40001-3 job management
.WithJobManagement(jobs => jobs
.WithJobOrderReceiver(provider)
.WithJobResponseProvider(provider)
.WithJobOrderCatalog(provider))
JobManagementType has exactly two mandatory children: JobOrderControl, an
ISA-95 JobOrderReceiverObjectType, and JobOrderResults, an ISA-95
JobResponseProviderObjectType. The eleven job verbs — Store,
StoreAndStart, Start, Stop, Abort, Pause, Resume, Clear,
Cancel, Update, RevokeStart — belong to the ISA-95 type, not to
OPC 40001-3, and are bound by the shared
Isa95JobControlV2Binder
that Isa95NodeManager uses. A client therefore sees the same verbs with the
same semantics whether it reaches them through a stand-alone ISA-95 root or
through a machine.
When no provider is supplied explicitly the builder resolves
IIsa95JobOrderReceiverV2 from the application services, so
AddInMemoryIsa95JobControlProvider() is enough for a demo server.
MachineryEndToEndTests.JobControlPausesResumesAndRevokesStartThroughAMachineAsync
drives Pause, Resume and RevokeStart through a machine over opc.tcp,
both the accepted transitions and the refused ones (revoking a running order,
pausing one that is not running, resuming one that is), and checks the state
the published JobOrderList reports after each.
JobOrderList and JobOrderResponseList are snapshots the builder keeps
current from the provider's change streams, because a machine changes its
orders by routes that never pass an OPC UA method: IIsa95JobStatusSourceV2
and IIsa95JobOrderCatalogChangeSource refresh both lists, and
IIsa95JobResponseChangeSource refreshes the response list when the machine
reports a response while the order keeps running — progress such as
RunsCompleted, which changes neither the order's state nor the catalog.
InMemoryIsa95JobControlProvider implements all three.
OPC 40001-4 energy
.WithEnergy(energy => energy
.AddResource(MachineryEnergyCarrier.CompressedAir, air =>
{
air.Main
.WithApplicationTag("press/CompressedAir")
.WithNonElectricalEnergy(importHighPrecision: 0, exportHighPrecision: 0)
.WithVolumeFlow(volume: 184_320f, volumeFlowRate: 18.4f)
.WithBaseFlow(pressure: 620_000f, temperature: 294.65f);
air.AddMeteringPoint(
new QualifiedName("ClampingCylinders"),
point => point.WithNonElectricalEnergy(0, 0));
}))
OPC 40001-4 is an extension of the OPC 40001-1 Monitoring building block
rather than a block of its own (§6.1), and its structure is three levels deep:
Monitoring
Consumption ← OPC 40001-1 MonitoringType
CompressedAir ← well-known FolderType browse name, §9.1
Main ← well-known EnergyMeasurementType name, §9.2
ClampingCylinders ← further metering points
A metering point is an OPC 34100 EnergyMeasurementType object that
implements INonElectricalEnergyType and the flow interfaces; the interfaces
are abstract, so nothing is ever an instance of them. WithEnergy materialises
the monitoring add-in and the Consumption folder when the machine does not
already publish them, and AddResource always creates Main — the
Machinery Energy Main grouping unit requires one for each resource folder,
so a resource without it would make the server non-conformant for every other
resource too.
Contains (§8.1) runs from the main metering point to a sub-meter whose
readings are part of it. Both ends must be EnergyMeasurementType objects,
which is why it never points at a resource folder or at the same-named Object
the Energy model carries — those Objects exist only to publish the well-known
browse names.
Electricity is the one resource OPC 40001-4 describes with no interfaces of its
own: §6.5 defers it to OPC 34100's energy profiles. WithInterface and
AddMeasurementValue are how a metering point takes one:
.AddResource(MachineryEnergyCarrier.Electricity, electricity =>
electricity.Main
.WithApplicationTag("press/Electricity")
.WithInterface(NodeId.Create(
Opc.Ua.ECM.ObjectTypes.IEnergyProfileE1Type,
Opc.Ua.ECM.Namespaces.ECM,
context.Context.NamespaceUris))
.AddMeasurementValue(
new QualifiedName(Opc.Ua.ECM.BrowseNames.AcActivePowerTotal),
Variant.From(41_250.0f),
watt))
The units OPC 40001-4 pins are the UNECE Recommendation 20 codes from its
attribute tables and are applied by the builder: watt hours for the two energy
readings, pascal for Pressure, kelvin for Temperature.
OPC 40001-101 results
.WithResultManagement(results => results
.WithInMemoryStore(capacity: 32)
.WithResultsFolder(publishedResults: 4)
.WithFileTransfer())
All five methods of ResultManagementType are optional; the builder publishes
GetLatestResult, GetResultById, GetResultIdListFiltered,
AcknowledgeResults and ReleaseResultHandle once a store is bound, and the
ResultTransfer object only when downloads are enabled.
Bringing your own store
Substitute a real store by implementing
IMachineryResultStore
and passing it to WithStore(...), or by registering it in the container. The
machine's result publisher (IMachineHandle.Results, and Publisher on the
stand-alone MachineryResultNodeManager) works with any store:
- a store that also implements
IWritableMachineryResultStorereceives every published result throughAddResultAsync—InMemoryMachineryResultStoreis one; - a store that fills itself through a path of its own — a database a PLC
gateway writes to — does not implement it. Publishing then only announces
the result: the result variables and the
ResultReadyEventTypeevent. The store has to hold the result already; one it cannot return fromGetResultByIdAsyncis refused withBad_InvalidState, because an event must not announce a result the methods cannot hand out.
With WithPredefinedResultMetaData() the metadata check runs before the store
sees the result, whichever kind of store it is.
Filtering and ordering the result list
GetResultIdListFiltered evaluates both arguments OPC 40001-101 §7.1.3
defines:
filteris aContentFilterwhose BrowsePaths "can be built from the fields of theResultReadyEventType, theResultTypeVariableType or theResultDataType". All three spellings resolve to the same field — an optional leadingResult, thenResultMetaData(with its fields, andProcessingTimesone level further down) orResultContent— and names are matched without their namespace index, because a DataType field has none. The comparison, logical andLike/Between/InList/OfType/bitwise operators are supported;InViewandRelatedToneed a node and are FALSE.orderedBysorts by each RelativePath in turn, ascending. Results that leave a key unset sort last, and results that tie keep the store's newest-first order. An emptyorderedBy"executes no ordering", so the store's own order stands.maxResultscaps the list after filtering and ordering; zero means no cap.
Most metadata fields are optional, so NULL handling decides what a filter
returns. The evaluator follows OPC 10000-4 §7.7.3: a comparison with an unset
field is NULL and never selects a result — neither does its negation — and only
IsNull sees the missing value. An optional field counts as set when its
encoding-mask bit is set or when it carries a non-default value; deciding that
needs the structure, which is why the result query carries
its own evaluator
next to the stack's node-oriented FilterEvaluator. Both apply the same NULL
rules.
An invalid filter is refused with Bad_ContentFilterInvalid, an orderedBy
path that names no field with Bad_InvalidArgument.
The query reads the candidates through GetResultIdsAsync(0) and
GetResultByIdAsync, so a custom store is filtered and ordered without
implementing anything new. The timeout argument of the three getters is the
client's hint for how long it will need the data (§6.4); it is not a deadline
for the call.
Downloads, and the refused write side
ResultTransferType derives from TemporaryFileTransferType, so the download
is the standard OPC 10000-5 sequence: GenerateFileForRead returns a transient
FileType object and a handle that is already open, the client reads from
it and closes it.
MachineryResultTransferManager
serves it in the shape SoftwareUpdateFileTransferManager uses for DI
software uploads: one transient FileState per handle, the handle bound to
the session that opened it, a cap on concurrent handles, and a timeout after
which an abandoned handle is reclaimed. Reclaiming is swept at the start of
each GenerateFileForRead rather than driven by a per-object timer, so an
abandoned handle survives until the next download — where it costs nothing
but a transient node.
GenerateFileForWrite and CloseAndCommit are mandatory on every
TemporaryFileTransferType (OPC 10000-20 §4.4.1), so a ResultTransfer
object always carries them, and they answer. OPC 40001-101 §7.2.1 leaves
GenerateFileForWrite unspecialised "as results are supposed to be only
generated by the Server, not received", which is the read-only case
OPC 10000-20 names a code for: GenerateFileForWrite returns
Bad_NotWritable (§4.4.4), and CloseAndCommit returns
Bad_InvalidArgument (§4.4.5) for any handle — a download handle included,
which stays open and is closed with the file's own Close.
WithResultsFolder publishes the most recent results as ResultType variables
as well, which is what the Machinery-Result ResultVariables unit asks for —
an empty folder satisfies nothing. The variables are a fixed ring created with
the machine: the newest result lands in the first slot and the others shift
down, so a client can subscribe to a slot once and keep receiving results, and
the server never adds or deletes nodes while it runs.
GetLatestResult, GetResultById and GetResultIdListFiltered each return a
ResultHandle that pins what they handed out until the client calls
ReleaseResultHandle. The handle is bound to the calling session, and
releasing one twice is refused.
Because the payload is materialised from the store synchronously,
GenerateFileForRead returns NodeId.Null for completionStateMachine — the
value OPC 10000-5 defines for "no completion state machine".
Abstract event types
Two of the event types the series declares are abstract:
OPC 40001-101's ResultReadyEventType and OPC 40001-2's
ZeroPointAdjustmentEventType. OPC 10000-3 forbids an instance of an abstract
type, and a client filtering on a concrete EventType never sees an event
reported with an abstract one — so a server that means to publish them has to
derive a concrete subtype of its own.
MachineryConcreteEventTypes
mints one per node manager into the application-owned instance namespace and
every object reporting that event shares it; deriving one per instance would
multiply types a client has to know about for no gain. Both the
TypeDefinitionId and the EventType field are set, because the second is
what an event filter actually selects on.
Isa95NodeManager.CreateV2StatusEventTypeAsync does the same for the ISA-95
job-order status event.
The client side mirrors it. An OfType filter on the abstract type still
selects the subtype — that is what OfType means — but the generated decoder
registry is keyed by the exact event type, so
MachineryClient.Events
re-decodes against the declared abstract type once the session's type cache
confirms the subtype relationship.
State machines are server-driven
Both OPC 40001-1 state machines — MachineryItemState_StateMachineType with
Executing / NotExecuting / NotAvailable / OutOfService, and
MachineryOperationModeStateMachineType with None / Maintenance / Setup /
Processing — declare four states and sixteen transitions each, including the
self-transitions. Neither declares a cause method. The whole Machinery
NodeSet contains no UAMethod at all, so a client can never request a
transition.
The server surface follows: IMachineryItemStateController.SetStateAsync and
IMachineryOperationModeController.SetModeAsync, reachable from the machine
handle. There is deliberately no WithCause.
await press.ItemState!.SetStateAsync(MachineryItemStateValue.Executing);
await press.OperationMode!.SetModeAsync(MachineryOperationModeValue.Processing);
The state and transition tables live in
MachineryStateMachineTables,
spelled out from the generated *TypeIds constants — the generator emits these
two types as plain FiniteStateMachineState subclasses without the stack's
StateTable / TransitionTable / TransitionMappings overrides, so the
stack's own SetState would write nothing. The driver still invokes the
machine's OnBeforeTransition / OnAfterTransition delegates around the
variable update, which is exactly where StateMachineBuilder.For(...) installs
its guards and observers, so the repository's state-machine lifecycle surface
keeps working.
Client
MachineryClient starts at the Machines folder, so it needs no configured
NodeIds and works against a server it has never seen.
| Concern | API |
|---|---|
| Discovery | EnumerateMachinesAsync, DiscoverMachinesAsync, EnumerateComponentsAsync, EnumerateBuildingBlocksAsync |
| Identification | ReadIdentificationAsync — one TranslateBrowsePaths plus one batched Read |
| State | ItemStateAsync / OperationModeAsync return the generated FSM proxies; GetItemStateAsync / ObserveItemStateAsync wrap them |
| Health | ReadDeviceHealthAsync |
| Counters | ReadOperationCountersAsync, ReadLifetimeCountersAsync |
| Equipment | EnumerateEquipmentAsync — including EquipmentLife |
| Process values | EnumerateProcessValuesAsync, ReadProcessValueAsync, ZeroPointAdjustmentAsync, ObserveZeroPointAdjustmentsAsync |
| Energy | ResolveConsumptionAsync, EnumerateEnergyResourcesAsync, EnumerateMeteringPointsAsync, ReadMainMeteringPointAsync, ReadMeteringPointAsync, and for the sub-meters a point Contains EnumerateSubMetersAsync / ReadSubMetersAsync |
| Jobs | JobManagementAsync returns the ISA-95 Isa95JobControlV2Client; ReadJobOrdersAsync / ReadJobResponsesAsync read the published lists; ReadJobOrderParametersAsync / ReadJobResponseParametersAsync return the predefined OPC 40001-3 parameters typed |
| Results | ResultManagementAsync (whose GetResultIdListFilteredAsync takes the filter and order), DownloadResultAsync, ReadPublishedResultsAsync, ObserveResultsAsync |
| Notifications | ResolveNotificationsAsync, ObserveNotificationsAsync |
| Device Integration | Topology — for a machine that is also a DI device |
Process values are found by type definition rather than by browse path:
OPC 40001-2 does not fix where they hang — its examples put them on a sensor
component, on the machine, and below Monitoring — so every object below the
item whose type is ProcessValueType counts.
A metering point's measurements are read with one browse and one batched
Read. Each MachineryMeasurementValue carries the NodeId of the variable
its reading came from next to the value, so a client that wants live values
subscribes to those nodes without browsing the point again:
MachineryMeteringPoint? main = await machinery.ReadMainMeteringPointAsync(resource, ct);
foreach (MachineryMeasurementValue measurement in main!.Measurements)
{
subscription.TryAddMonitoredItem(
measurement.BrowseName.Name!,
measurement.NodeId,
options => options with { SamplingInterval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1) },
out _);
}
State observation rides the generated *StateMachineTypeClient proxies, which
inherit GetCurrentFiniteStateAsync, ObserveFiniteTransitionsAsync and
WaitForStateAsync from FiniteStateMachineTypeClient — so a vendor subtype of
either state machine is observed the same way. See
StateMachines.md.
Constructing the client registers the OPC 40001-101 and OPC 40001-3
structured types, and the ISA-95 Job Control V2 ones the job lists travel as,
with the session's encodeable factory, so GetLatestResult decodes into
ResultDataType and JobOrderList into ISA95JobOrderAndStateDataType
instead of an opaque ExtensionObject.
The predefined job parameters of OPC 40001-3 §7.2 Table 1 travel as ISA-95
key-value pairs rather than as nodes, so the client reads them out of the
payload: MachineryJobOrderParameters.FromJobOrder and
MachineryJobResponseParameters.FromJobResponse return each one with the
type the table declares — Duration in milliseconds, the series' own
enumerations as JobExecutionMode / JobResult, and Overproduction from
where Table 1 puts it, below PlannedOrderQuantity — and keep every
parameter as received in Parameters. A parameter with the wrong type counts
as not carried. Optional fields of the generated ISA-95 structures, such as
JobOrderParameters and Subparameters, only reach the wire when their
EncodingMask bit is set.
Conformance matrix
Status key: ✅ implemented and tested · 📄 static NodeSet structure only · 🔲 optional per the published modelling rule · ❌ not shipped.
Conformance units are advertised at runtime, not statically. The series has two kinds of unit and the manager answers them differently:
- a type-exposure unit — "the server exposes this type and all its
supertypes" — is satisfied by loading the model, so it follows
MachineryParts; - every other unit talks about instances, methods or references, and is reported only once a build actually materialised and wired the structure behind it.
A server that builds no machine therefore advertises nothing but
Machinery Find Machines and whatever types its parts loaded.
OPC 40001-1 building blocks
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machines folder organized from Objects (Machinery Find Machines) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryNodeManager |
MachineryModelLoadingTests |
MachineryBuildingBlocks organizer (Machinery Building Block Organization) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryItemBlocks |
MachineryBuildingBlockTests |
Machine identification (Machinery Machine Identification) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryBlockBuilders |
MachineBuilderTests |
Component identification and discovery (Machinery Component Identification, Machinery Find Components of Machines) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineBuilderTests |
Monitoring add-in (Machinery Monitoring) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineBuilderTests |
Monitoring/Health with DI DeviceHealth and DeviceHealthAlarms |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryHealthBuilder |
MachineBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Item state machine, four states / sixteen transitions, no causes (Machinery MachineryItem State) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryStateMachineTables |
MachineBuilderTests; MachineryStateMachineTests |
Operation-mode state machine (Machinery Operation Mode) |
✅ | ✅ | same | same |
Operation counters (Machinery Operation Counter) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryBlockBuilders |
MachineBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Lifetime counters (Machinery Lifetime Counter) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineBuilderTests |
Machinery equipment (Machinery MachineryEquipment) incl. EquipmentLife |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Notifications (Machinery Notifications) with a publish seam |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryNotificationsBuilder |
MachineBuilderTests |
| Stacklight over OPC 10000-200 IA | ✅ | 🔲 | MonitoringBuilder |
MachineBuilderTests |
Writable identification (Machinery Machine Identification Writable, Component Identification Mandatory, Component Identification Writable) |
✅ | ✅ opt-in via MachineryIdentificationData.Writable |
MachineryBlockBuilders |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
OPC 40001-2 process values
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ProcessValueType instances over the ProcessValueVariableType subtype (… Base Types, … Analog Object Instances) |
✅ | ✅ | ProcessValueBuilder |
MachineryProcessValueTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Setpoint (… Base SetpointType, … Base Process Value Setpoint) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryProcessValueTests |
Limits on the signal (… Limits Base) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryProcessValueTests |
Exclusive limit alarm driven by the value (… Limits Alarm, … Limits Alarm Object) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryProcessValueAlarm |
MachineryProcessValueTests |
Deviations on the setpoint (… Deviation Base, … Deviation AutoAdjustment, … Deviation Sensitivity) |
✅ | ✅ | ProcessValueBuilder |
MachineryProcessValueTests |
Exclusive deviation alarm against the setpoint (… Deviation Alarm, … Deviation Alarm Object) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryProcessValueAlarm |
MachineryProcessValueTests |
PercentageValue kept in step with the range (… Percentage Value) |
✅ | ✅ | ProcessValueBuilder |
MachineryProcessValueTests |
Status and AlarmSuppression (… Monitoring, … AlarmSuppression) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryProcessValueTests |
ZeroPointAdjustment method and its event (… Base EventTypes, … ZeroPointAdjustment Events) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryProcessValueTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Simulation (PA-DIM AnalogSignalVariable Simulation) |
✅ | ✅ opt-in via WithSimulation() |
ProcessValueBuilder |
MachineryProcessValueTests |
Device object (… Device Object, … Simple Device Info) |
✅ | ✅ opt-in via WithProcessValueDevice() |
MachineBuilder |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
OPC 40001-3 job management
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
JobManagement as an AddIn under the organizer, composing ISA-95 Job Control V2 (Machinery Job Management Base, … Minimum String Length) |
✅ | ✅ | JobManagementBuilder |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Job verbs through a machine, including Pause, Resume and RevokeStart and their refusals |
✅ | ✅ | Isa95JobControlV2Binder |
MachineryEndToEndTests |
JobOrderList and JobOrderResponseList kept current, including responses reported while an order runs |
✅ | ✅ | JobManagementBuilder |
MachineryEndToEndTests |
Job results (Machinery Job Management Result Base) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
The predefined Planned … / Result … job-order parameters (42 units) |
✅ | ✅ opt-in via WithPredefinedParameters() — the 37 IDs of §9 are recognised and their declared types enforced; anything the series does not predefine still travels untouched |
MachineryJobParameters |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
OPC 40001-4 energy
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Resource folders below Monitoring/Consumption (Machinery Energy Base Structure) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryEnergyBuilder |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
A Main metering point per resource (Machinery Energy Main grouping) |
✅ | ✅ — checked at build time, so a resource folder attached to Consumption past the builder fails the build instead of breaking the unit |
same; check in MachineryBuildScope |
same; MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
INonElectricalEnergyType on a metering point (… Non Electrical Base) |
✅ | ✅ | same | same |
Volume- and mass-flow interfaces (… Volume Flow, … Mass Flow) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
Contains from Main to a sub-meter (Machinery Energy Contains) |
✅ | ✅ | same | same; MachineryEndToEndTests |
| Electricity | ✅ | ✅ | same — OPC 40001-4 defers it to OPC 34100's own interfaces, which WithInterface and AddMeasurementValue attach |
MachineryEndToEndTests |
OPC 40001-101 results
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Result types (Machinery-Result Types) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultManagementBinder |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
The five optional methods (… GetLatestResult, … GetResultById, … GetResultsFiltered, Machinery Result AcknowledgeResults) |
✅ | ✅ | same | MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
filter, orderedBy and maxResults of GetResultIdListFiltered (§7.1.3), with OPC 10000-4 NULL semantics |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultQuery, MachineryResultFilterEvaluator |
MachineryResultQueryTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Mandatory GenerateFileForWrite / CloseAndCommit answering for a read-only result file |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultTransferManager |
MachineryResultQueryTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
| Publishing through an application-supplied store, writable or self-ingesting | — | ✅ | MachineryResult |
MachineryResultQueryTests |
GenerateFileForRead download path with session-bound handles, cap and timeout (… ResultFiles) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultTransferManager |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Result variables in the Results folder (… ResultVariables) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultVariables |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
Predefined result metadata (Machinery-Result PredefinedResultMetaData) |
✅ | ✅ opt-in via WithPredefinedResultMetaData() — refused on publish and on the way out of a bound store |
PredefinedResultMetaData |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests |
Result-ready events with a concrete event type (… ResultEvents) |
✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultManagementBinder |
MachineryPartsBuilderTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
| Stand-alone result server without DI or the machine model, reporting the same units and facets | ✅ | ✅ | MachineryResultNodeManager |
MachineryResultServerTests |
| Durable result store | ❌ not shipped — the storage technology is an open decision; an application plugs its own in through IMachineryResultStore and publishes through it |
— | — | — |
Client and hosting
| Area | Static | Runtime | Source | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery, identification, components, building blocks | — | ✅ | MachineryClient |
MachineryClientTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
| State observation over both state machines | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.StateMachines |
same |
| Process values, zero-point adjustment | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.ProcessValues |
MachineryEndToEndTests |
| Energy resources, metering points and sub-meters | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.Energy |
same |
| Counters, equipment, device health | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.Counters |
same |
| Job control | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.Accessors |
same |
| Job lists and predefined job parameters | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.Jobs, MachineryJobParameters |
MachineryJobParameterClientTests; MachineryEndToEndTests |
| Result download, published result variables, result and zero-point events | — | ✅ | MachineryClient.Events |
same |
Server/client DI wiring (AddMachinery, AddMachineryResults, AddMachineryClient) |
— | ✅ | OpcUaServerMachineryBuilderExtensions |
MachineryHostingTests; MachineryAotTests |
Facet URIs on ServerProfileArray |
— | ✅ | ServerProfiles |
MachineryEndToEndTests reads them back over the wire |
Where the facet URIs come from
Each URI in ServerProfiles
is the published value from the "Profile URIs" table of the matching part, at
the exact model version this repository vendors. The three URI shapes are the
specifications' own and are reproduced verbatim, because conformance tooling
matches a facet URI literally:
| Part | Shape | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 40001-1, -3, -101 | …/UA-Profile/Machinery/…, no trailing slash |
http://opcfoundation.org/UA-Profile/Machinery/Server/State |
| 40001-2 | …/UA/Machinery/ProcessValues/…, with a trailing slash |
http://opcfoundation.org/UA/Machinery/ProcessValues/Server/Base/ |
| 40001-4 | …/UA-Profile/Machinery/Energy/… |
http://opcfoundation.org/UA-Profile/Machinery/Energy/Server/Base |
A facet is advertised only when every conformance unit the specification marks
mandatory for it, and that this library is responsible for, was
materialised and wired. The base-server units each facet also inherits —
address space, view, attribute, method and event subscription — are the stack's
to report and already appear in base.ServerProfiles.
Model sources, identifier tables and repairs
Every NodeSet is vendored unmodified from
OPCFoundation/UA-Nodeset (branch
latest). Two files are renamed on the way in, because upstream's names do not
match the assembly they belong to; renaming is safe because
NodeSetToModelDesign.IsNodeSet inspects the document, not the file name.
| Repository path | Upstream path |
|---|---|
src/Opc.Ua.Machinery/Model/Opc.Ua.Machinery.NodeSet2.xml |
Machinery/Opc.Ua.Machinery.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues/Model/Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues.NodeSet2.xml |
Machinery/ProcessValues/Opc.Ua.Machinery.ProcessValues.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs/Model/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs.NodeSet2.xml |
Machinery/Jobs/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Jobs.Nodeset2.xml (lower-case s) |
src/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy/Model/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy.NodeSet2.xml |
Machinery/Energy/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Energy.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Result/Model/Opc.Ua.Machinery.Result.NodeSet2.xml |
Machinery/Result/Opc.Ua.Machinery_Result.NodeSet2.xml (underscore) |
src/Opc.Ua.IA/Model/Opc.Ua.IA.NodeSet2.xml |
IA/Opc.Ua.IA.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.ECM/Model/Opc.Ua.ECM.NodeSet2.xml |
ECM/Opc.Ua.ECM.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.PADIM/Model/Opc.Ua.PADIM.NodeSet2.xml |
PADIM/Opc.Ua.PADIM.NodeSet2.xml |
src/Opc.Ua.PADIM/Model/Opc.Ua.IRDI.NodeSet2.xml |
PADIM/Opc.Ua.IRDI.NodeSet2.xml |
What the identifier table is and is not
Each model carries a Model/*.NodeIds.csv wired up as
ModelSourceGeneratorIdentifierFile. It is not a NodeId source — for a
NodeSet2 input the NodeIds come from the XML
(ModelDesignValidator.LoadDesignFile routes NodeSet2 documents through
NodeSetToModelDesign.Import; only ModelDesign inputs use the CSV fallback).
It is a drift guard: the generator validates every row against the imported
symbols and fails the build with MODELGEN022…MODELGEN029 when the vendored
model and the pinned mapping disagree. That is how a silently dropped type gets
caught instead of quietly disappearing from the generated API.
Model/*.Upstream.NodeIds.csv is the OPC Foundation's publication unmodified
and is deliberately kept out of <AdditionalFiles>, so the two can be diffed to
review exactly what the derivation changed — the convention src/Opc.Ua.ISA95
established.
Why the published tables need deriving
The published tables carry the UA-ModelCompiler's symbolic names, which differ
from the ones this repository's generator derives. Three differences occur; all
three are handled by
tools/nodesets/derive-identifier-table.py,
which reimplements NodeSetToModelDesign.ImportSymbolicName / BuildSymbolicId:
| Published | Derived | Why |
|---|---|---|
Server_Namespaces_http___…_ |
http___…_ |
the publication qualifies the namespace-metadata object with its server path |
X_ControlChannel |
X_ControlChannel_Placeholder |
a <Placeholder> BrowseName maps to Name_Placeholder |
DefaultBinary |
RGBWDataType_Encoding_DefaultBinary |
encoding nodes are qualified with the data type they encode |
Two publications also deviate in shape rather than in naming, and the script
reads both: ECM publishes its table as Opc.Ua.ECM.NodeSet2.csv rather than
*.NodeIds.csv, and PADIM publishes a tab-separated table with an
ID / Browsename / Node Class header — identifier first, and BrowseNames rather
than symbolic names. IRDI has no published table at all and therefore
carries no drift guard.
No numeric id or node class disagreed with its NodeSet in any of the nine
models, so no NodeSet needed a normative repair of the kind docs/ISA95.md
documents for OPC-10030.
Generator gaps found while adding these models
Three defects in the cross-assembly dependency machinery only surfaced once a
model consumed a dependency through a referenced assembly's payload rather
than through <AdditionalFiles>. All three are now fixed in the generator.
They are worth knowing about when adding the next companion specification.
A VariableType's data type restriction was not carried. DependencyNode
recorded base type, numeric id, abstractness, data type fields and children, but
never a VariableType's own DataType / ValueRank. A consumer that typed a
variable with such a VariableType resolved a null DataTypeNode, and
ModelDesignExtensions.GetNodeStateClassName dereferenced it — a bare
NullReferenceException surfaced as MODELGEN003. OPC 40001-1's
EquipmentLife and <LifetimeVariable>, typed by DI's LifetimeVariableType,
are the first nodes in this repository to hit it. This is what the reduced
Machinery NodeSet copies in the samples were working around.
The payload now carries the restriction behind a new node flag, so payloads
written before the change stay readable, and GetNodeStateClassName throws a
message naming the variable and its type rather than a bare null dereference if
a gap ever remains.
A method declaration was not chained to its method state. When a payload
child carried both a method-state identity and a declaration identity, the
consumer replaced the method-state node with the declaration node without
linking the two. ResolveMethodStateIdentity then stopped at the declaration —
whose symbolic id is the composed OwnerType_Method — and a consumer that
re-declares an inherited method emitted a reference to an
OwnerType_MethodMethodState class the producer never generated. OPC 34100 ECM
re-declaring the DI LockingServices methods is the first model to hit it.
An inherited child lost its reference type and its browse-name namespace.
DependencyChild carried the child's browse name as a bare string and no
reference type, so when a derived type in a consuming model was instantiated
on its own, the generator emitted the inherited child with
ReferenceTypeId = NodeId.Null and the browse name qualified with the
declaring model's namespace. Both were wrong, and the first was not cosmetic: a
node with a null reference type is in the node tree but produces no reference
in a filtered Browse, so no client ever saw it.
Two OPC 40001-2 members were affected, both inherited from OPC 30081 PA-DIM:
| Member | Reference type | Browse name |
|---|---|---|
ProcessValueType.SignalTag |
lost | correct (3:SignalTag) |
ProcessValueVariableType.EngineeringUnits |
lost | wrong (PA-DIM, should be namespace 0) |
The same member reached the other way — ProcessValueType.AnalogSignal's
EngineeringUnits, generated as a grandchild of the object type — was correct,
which is what made the inconsistency visible. SignalTag is mandatory, and
EngineeringUnits in namespace 0 is where a Data Access client reads the unit,
so both matter for the OPC 40001-2 base facet.
DependencyChild now carries a BrowseNameNamespace and a
ReferenceTypeName / ReferenceTypeNamespace, behind two flag bits in the
per-child flag byte, the way the VariableType restriction was added — so a
payload written before the change stays readable. The producer records a browse
namespace only when it differs from the declaring model and a reference type
only when it departs from the kind default, which keeps the payload byte-identical
for the ordinary case. The consumer (MaterialiseDependencyChild) now always
assigns a reference type: the carried one when present, otherwise the same kind
default ImportInstance applies to a locally declared instance. That last part
matters — it means a model still consuming an older prebuilt payload is fixed
too, not only one rebuilt against the new generator.
The former stop-gap ProcessValueBuilder.RepairInheritedPadimMembers is gone;
what remains of it is ApplyDefaultSignalTag, which was never a workaround but
the OPC 30081 default value for a mandatory tag. Only the in-process tests
missed the defect; the end-to-end test over opc.tcp is what surfaced it,
because a filtered Browse is where a null reference type finally shows, and
MachineryProcessValueTests .TheSignalKeepsThePadimBrowseNameAndTheNarrowerTypeAsync pins all four
attributes.
See also
- Machinery samples — a simulated press that exercises all five parts, and a client that walks it
- Device Integration (DI) developer guide
- ISA-95 developer guide — OPC 40001-3 sits on Job Control V2
- Cross-assembly model dependencies
- Robotics developer guide — shares
Opc.Ua.IA