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ByteString vs. Byte Array
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ImperatorHUN
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02/15/2018 - 02:13
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Hi Everyone!

I’m currently developing an OPCUA server with the ‘UA.NET Standard’ library for testing services. The Device Under Test (DUT) runs an OPCUA Client, which automatically connects to a pre-defined server, discovers certain variables and subscribes to them.

My problem is that the DUT only subscribes to variables with the type ‘Byte Array’, and I could only configure the .NET server to create a variable with the type ‘ByteString’.

 

My variable is defined as a ‘BaseDataVariableState’ object.

DataType: NodeId – NamespaceIndex: 0, Identifier: 3 (DataTypeIds.Byte)

ValueRank: 1 (ValueRanks.OneDimension)

ArrayDimensions is also set

Value is set as a byte[] .NET object

 

How can I change the configuration to report it’s type as ‘Byte Array’?

Thank you for your help.

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02/15/2018 - 14:11
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The specification requires clients to treat Byte[] and ByteString as equivalents on the wire.

The .NET code base cannot distinguish between the two.

If the client does not handle a ByteString in place of a Byte[] then it is not conforming to the specification.

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