library providing xml nodeset import for open62541

[matko...@gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

just want to inform you that there is a library available, that provides functionality for loading xml nodesets with the open62541, you can find it here: https://github.com/matkonnerth/nodesetLoader

The library is currently in a beta stadium (a 0.1 release is available), so please test and give feedback.

Best regards,

Matthias.

[Twoshrubs]

Looks fab, thank you.

Now what we need is an exporter... Running server to a xml nodeset.

[Mariusz Postol]

Working on the Address Space Prototyping Tool (asp.exe) (https://commsvr.gitbook.io/ooi/semantic-data-processing/addressspacecompliancetesttool) I have gathered experiences, so let me contribute to this thread.

Populating Address Space using the UANodeSet is a bootstrap operation and adding full-featured code to the codebase could be recognized as wasting resources. This code should provide a validation procedure that yields a few hard questions. An alternative is to populate Address Space using a custom format requiring minimal resources and delegating the validation and translation functionality to external tools (like asp) that may be used at the design time before deploying the server in a production environment. 

My point is that export functionality to UANodeSet is required only and only in case the Address Space (AS - source of the model) is embedded in a design tool - it is not required that it is an OPC UA Server. To save the current state of a full-featured server the AS content can be written to any custom file format without breaking any compliance rules. 

Hope it helps. Let me know how it works for you.

Mariusz

[matko...@gmail.com]

@Twoshrubs: I'm curious about the use case for exporting a nodeset from a server at runtime, what is the intention there, what are you trying to solve?