How to read a array value from the opcua server by client - client

Question

I have been trying to do a simple OPC UA client server application using the open62541 stack. I can access the value from the open62541 implemented server. But i need to know, how a array value from the server can be interpreted/retrieved by the open62541 client?
Ex:
This is how i do for single value-
UA_Client_readValueAttribute(client, UA_NODEID_STRING(1, "value"), &value);
if(status == UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD &&
UA_Variant_hasScalarType(&value, &UA_TYPES[UA_TYPES_INT32])) {
printf("value is: %i\n", *(UA_Int32*)value.data);
}

Answer 1

Here is an example how to read the namespace array.
It works in the same way as any other array value:
UA_ReadRequest request;
UA_ReadRequest_init(&request);
UA_ReadValueId id;
UA_ReadValueId_init(&id);
id.attributeId = UA_ATTRIBUTEID_VALUE;
id.nodeId = UA_NODEID_NUMERIC(0, UA_NS0ID_SERVER_NAMESPACEARRAY);
request.nodesToRead = &id;
request.nodesToReadSize = 1;
UA_ReadResponse response = UA_Client_Service_read(client, request);
UA_StatusCode retval = UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD;
if(response.responseHeader.serviceResult != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD)
retval = response.responseHeader.serviceResult;
else if(response.resultsSize != 1 || !response.results[0].hasValue)
retval = UA_STATUSCODE_BADNODEATTRIBUTESINVALID;
else if(response.results[0].value.type != &UA_TYPES[UA_TYPES_STRING])
retval = UA_STATUSCODE_BADTYPEMISMATCH;
if(retval != UA_STATUSCODE_GOOD) {
UA_ReadResponse_deleteMembers(&response);
return retval;
}
retval = UA_STATUSCODE_BADNOTFOUND;
UA_String *ns = (UA_String *)response.results[0].value.data;
for(size_t i = 0; i < response.results[0].value.arrayLength; ++i){
printf("The NS is %*.s", (int)ns[i].length, ns[i].data);
}
UA_ReadResponse_deleteMembers(&response);
The important thing is that response.results[0].value.data holds the array, and response.results[0].value.arrayLength the length of the array itself.