/* This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 Universal License. * See http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ for more information. */ /** * Generating events * ----------------- * To make sense of the many things going on in a server, monitoring items can be useful. Though in many cases, data * change does not convey enough information to be the optimal solution. Events can be generated at any time, * hold a lot of information and can be filtered so the client only receives the specific attributes he is interested in. * * Emitting events by calling methods * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * The following example will be based on the server method tutorial. We will be * creating a method node which generates an event from the server node. */ #include #include "open62541.h" UA_Boolean running = true; static void stopHandler(int sig) { running = false; } /** The event we want to generate should be very simple. Since the `BaseEventType` is abstract, * we will have to create our own event type. `EventTypes` are saved internally as `ObjectTypes`, * so add the type as you would a new `ObjectType`. */ static UA_NodeId eventType; static UA_StatusCode addNewEventType(UA_Server *server) { UA_ObjectTypeAttributes attr = UA_ObjectTypeAttributes_default; attr.displayName = UA_LOCALIZEDTEXT_ALLOC("en-US", "SimpleEventType"); attr.description = UA_LOCALIZEDTEXT_ALLOC("en-US", "The simple event type we created"); UA_Server_addObjectTypeNode(server, UA_NODEID_NULL, UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_BASEEVENTTYPE), UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_HASSUBTYPE), UA_QUALIFIEDNAME(0, "SimpleEventType"), attr, NULL, &eventType); UA_LocalizedText_deleteMembers(&attr.displayName); UA_LocalizedText_deleteMembers(&attr.description); return UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD; } /** Setting up an event * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * In order to set up the event, we can first use ``UA_Server_createEvent`` to give us a node representation of the event. * All we need for this is our `EventType`. Once we have our event node, which is saved internally as an `ObjectNode`, * we can define the attributes the event has the same way we would define the attributes of an object node. It is not * necessary to define the attributes `EventId`, `ReceiveTime`, `SourceNode` or `EventType` since these are set * automatically by the server. In this example, we will only be setting `Severity` and `Message`. */ static UA_StatusCode setUpEvent(UA_Server *server, UA_NodeId *outId) { UA_StatusCode retval; retval = UA_Server_createEvent(server, eventType, outId); if (retval != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD) { UA_LOG_WARNING(UA_Log_Stdout, UA_LOGCATEGORY_SERVER, "createEvent failed. StatusCode %s", UA_StatusCode_name(retval)); return retval; } UA_Variant value; UA_RelativePathElement rpe; UA_RelativePathElement_init(&rpe); rpe.referenceTypeId = UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_HASPROPERTY); rpe.isInverse = false; rpe.includeSubtypes = false; UA_BrowsePath bp; UA_BrowsePath_init(&bp); bp.startingNode = *outId; bp.relativePath.elementsSize = 1; bp.relativePath.elements = &rpe; /* severity */ rpe.targetName = UA_QUALIFIEDNAME(0, "Severity"); UA_BrowsePathResult bpr = UA_Server_translateBrowsePathToNodeIds(server, &bp); if (bpr.statusCode != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD || bpr.targetsSize < 1) { UA_LOG_WARNING(UA_Log_Stdout, UA_LOGCATEGORY_USERLAND, "Event is missing severity attribute.\n"); return bpr.statusCode; } UA_UInt16 eventSeverity = 100; UA_Variant_setScalar(&value, &eventSeverity, &UA_TYPES[UA_TYPES_UINT16]); UA_Server_writeValue(server, bpr.targets[0].targetId.nodeId, value); UA_BrowsePathResult_deleteMembers(&bpr); /* message */ rpe.targetName = UA_QUALIFIEDNAME(0, "Message"); bpr = UA_Server_translateBrowsePathToNodeIds(server, &bp); if (bpr.statusCode != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD || bpr.targetsSize < 1) { UA_LOG_WARNING(UA_Log_Stdout, UA_LOGCATEGORY_USERLAND, "Event is missing message attribute.\n"); return bpr.statusCode; } UA_LocalizedText eventMessage = UA_LOCALIZEDTEXT("en-US", "An event has been generated."); UA_Variant_setScalar(&value, &eventMessage, &UA_TYPES[UA_TYPES_LOCALIZEDTEXT]); UA_Server_writeValue(server, bpr.targets[0].targetId.nodeId, value); UA_BrowsePathResult_deleteMembers(&bpr); return UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD; } /** Triggering an event * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * First a node representing an event is generated using ``setUpEvent``. Once our event is good to go, we specify * a node which emits the event - in this case the server node. We can use ``UA_Server_triggerEvent`` to trigger our * event onto said node. Passing ``NULL`` as the second-last argument means we will not receive the `EventId`. * The last boolean argument states whether the node should be deleted. */ static UA_StatusCode generateEventMethodCallback(UA_Server *server, const UA_NodeId *sessionId, void *sessionHandle, const UA_NodeId *methodId, void *methodContext, const UA_NodeId *objectId, void *objectContext, size_t inputSize, const UA_Variant *input, size_t outputSize, UA_Variant *output) { /* set up event */ UA_NodeId eventNodeId; UA_StatusCode retval = setUpEvent(server, &eventNodeId); if (retval != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD) { UA_LOG_WARNING(UA_Log_Stdout, UA_LOGCATEGORY_USERLAND, "Creating event failed. StatusCode %s", UA_StatusCode_name(retval)); return retval; } retval = UA_Server_triggerEvent(server, eventNodeId, UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_SERVER), NULL, UA_TRUE); if (retval != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD) { UA_LOG_WARNING(UA_Log_Stdout, UA_LOGCATEGORY_USERLAND, "Triggering event failed. StatusCode %s", UA_StatusCode_name(retval)); return retval; } return retval; } /** Now, all that is left to do is to create a method node which uses our callback. We do not * require any input and as output we will be using the `EventId` we receive from ``triggerEvent``. The `EventId` is * generated by the server internally and is a random unique ID which identifies that specific event. * * This method node will be added to a basic server setup. */ static void addGenerateEventMethod(UA_Server *server) { UA_MethodAttributes generateAttr = UA_MethodAttributes_default; generateAttr.description = UA_LOCALIZEDTEXT("en-US","Generate an event."); generateAttr.displayName = UA_LOCALIZEDTEXT("en-US","Generate Event"); generateAttr.executable = true; generateAttr.userExecutable = true; UA_Server_addMethodNode(server, UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(1, 62541), UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_OBJECTSFOLDER), UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_HASORDEREDCOMPONENT), UA_QUALIFIEDNAME(1, "Generate Event"), generateAttr, &generateEventMethodCallback, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL); } int main (void) { /* default server values */ signal(SIGINT, stopHandler); signal(SIGTERM, stopHandler); UA_ServerConfig *config = UA_ServerConfig_new_default(); UA_Server *server = UA_Server_new(config); addNewEventType(server); addGenerateEventMethod(server); /* return value */ UA_StatusCode retval = UA_Server_run(server, &running); UA_Server_delete(server); UA_ServerConfig_delete(config); return (int) retval; }