Getting Started with client

Creating a Server

The OPC-UA stack is provided as a Lua module and must be loaded as follows:

local ua = require("opcua.api")

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The returned value ‘ua’ is a table with functions that may be used to create an OPC-UA server and client.

To create a server you need to call ‘ua.newServer’ function. The Lua function “newServer” returns an OPC-UA server instance. Before it can be started, the server instance must be initialized.

-- Create new OPC UA server instance.
-- Pass configuration table to server.
local server = ua.newServer()

-- Initialize server.
server:initialize()

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It is possible to pass a Lua table with configuration parameters into function ‘newServer’. See the section Configuration table for additional details

local config = {
  endpoints = {
    {
      endpointUrl = "opc.tcp://localhost:4845",
    }
  },

  securePolicies = {
    { -- #1
      securityPolicyUri = ua.SecurityPolicy.None,
    },
  },
}

local server = ua.newServer(config)
server:initialize()

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Adding Nodes on server

Once the server is initialized, you can customize the server by adding new nodes.

local ObjectsFolder = "i=85"

-- Add two variables:
--   1. Boolean scalar value
--   2. Boolean array value

-- required Node ID for variable
local scalarBooleanId = "i=1000000"

-- Initial boolean scalar value
local scalarBoolean = {
  Type = ua.VariantType.Boolean,
  Value = true
}

local arrBooleanId = "i=1000001"
-- Initial boolean array value
local arrBoolean = {
  Type = ua.VariantType.Boolean,
  IsArray = true,
  Value = {true, false, true, false}
}

local model = server.model:edit()
local objects = model:objectsFolder()
local folder = objects:addFolder("NewFolder")
folder:addVariable("Boolean", scalarBoolean, nil, scalarBooleanId)
folder:addVariable("BooleanArray", arrBoolean, nil, arrBooleanId)
model:save()

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Managing nodes is described in Address Space API section.

Starting the Server

After calling the ‘ run ‘ method, you may connect to the OPC-UA server instance using any OPC-UA client . See the How to Connect Third-Party Clients for details.

-- Start listening and dispatch incomming messages.
server:run()

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Stopping the Server

The server can be stopped, and the server’s listening socket can be closed by calling the ‘shutdown’ method.

-- Stop server.
server:shutdown()

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