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OPC UA Write Exception

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20 May 2016 12:55 #4060 by support
Replied by support on topic OPC UA Write Exception
I know you have written that you are using the latest version, but please check whether you have build 5.35.1173.1 or later (released around April 20, 2016). We have fixed an issue in this build that could cause a non-recovery.

QuickOPC for UA does not automatically create subscriptions for reads or writes, therefore the parameters you needed to tweak for that purpose in "Classic" QuickOPC do not apply and are not needed. We do automatically create one subscription per session, but that is independent of the reads/writes, and has to do with checking of the server status, as mandated by the OPC compliance conditions. It is possibly to turn it off, but I do not recommend it unless there is a reason.

There is currently no way to set the timeout on UA operations with just a single number, as it were in QuickOPC "Classic". There are internal timeouts on various parts of the process (e.g. discovery, session creation, some communication timeouts). If you intended to tweak the timeout to prevent the connection timeout error, then it probably won't help, because 1 minute is already quite a long time, so there is probably something more at play than just a "slowness".

Regards

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20 May 2016 12:46 #4059 by support
Replied by support on topic OPC UA Write Exception
In that case, to me it looks like that there is something problematic on the server side, and the only difference between UA Expert and QuickOPC is that the UA Expert does not indicate the problem. It would be possible to capture the communication between the client and the server using Wireshark and then analyze it (the capture is relatively easy if they are on different computers; it should be doable when they are on the same computer but there are complications with that).

I will answer your other questions separately.

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20 May 2016 11:57 #4055 by sebpinski
Replied by sebpinski on topic OPC UA Write Exception
That's correct.

We're fairly worried about the change to OPC UA, it seems that the EasyUAClient is less likely to recover from a fault (i.e. Server has stopped publishing). We also very often get this error:

An OPC-UA operation failure with error code -1 (0xFFFFFFFF) occurred, originating from ''. The inner exception, of type 'OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.UAClientEngineException', contains details about the problem.
Timeout connecting the OPC-UA client session. The total timeout value was 60000 milliseconds, and we have waited for 0 milliseconds. The actual waiting time is lower than the total timeout (or even zero) if the connection operation has already started earlier.

We find that writes and reads generally take longer than with the DA client.

With the DA client we have a lot of setup code to increase timeouts and prevent caching and subscriptions, but we're unaware as to how to implement this with the UA client:

// Prevent creation of subscriptions on read
EasyDAClient.SharedParameters.Topic.SlowdownWeight = 0.0f;
EasyDAClient.SharedParameters.Topic.SpeedupWeight = 0.0f;

_opcClient = new EasyDAClient() { Isolated = true };
// Force asynchronous read/writes
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.Mode.DesiredMethod = OpcLabs.EasyOpc.DataAccess.Engine.DAReadWriteMethod.Asynchronous;
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.Mode.AllowAsynchronousMethod = true;
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.Mode.AllowSynchronousMethod = false;

// Reduce timeouts on Async methods
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.Timeouts.ReadItem = 60000;
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.Timeouts.WriteItem = 60000;

// Prevent creation of subscriptions on read
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.UpdateRates.ReadAutomatic = Timeout.Infinite;
_opcClient.InstanceParameters.UpdateRates.WriteAutomatic = Timeout.Infinite;

Is there anyway we can do this using UA too, as I cannot see how to add these options.

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20 May 2016 10:41 #4054 by support
Replied by support on topic OPC UA Write Exception
Thank you. I do not see anything wrong with your code.

Do I understand it correctly that the effects on the server are the same even if you do the Write using the UA Expert, and that the only difference is that the UA Expert does not show you any error from the Write?

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19 May 2016 14:46 #4052 by sebpinski
Replied by sebpinski on topic OPC UA Write Exception
With UA expert we find that the write does occur, but the status code of the written item goes to Bad as soon as the write occurs. If we delete the tag from the watch list and add it again, it goes back to Good again, until another write comes from the service.

I agree regarding the more restrictive writing in UA when it comes to data types, I found myself in a situation where attempting to write a C# object without specifying the type resulted in a BadTypeMismatch error hence the changing of the code which has led to this.

The written item in this case is a boolean, the DataType in the OPC Server and UA expert appears as Boolean, a one liner of how we write is:

EasyUAClient.WriteValue(
new UAWriteValueArguments(
new UAEndpointDescriptor(<string>),
new UANodeDescriptor(<string>),
true <o-bject {bool}>,
Boolean <System.Type>))

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19 May 2016 14:28 #4051 by sebpinski
Replied by sebpinski on topic OPC UA Write Exception
Apologies for the poor formatting but I believe this is the correct stack trace:

" at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAClientSession.WriteAttributes(UAWriteEntry[] writeEntryArray, Exception[]& exceptionArray, UAWriteOutcome[]& outcomeArray, List`1[]& warningsArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.EasyUAEngine.InternalWriteList(UASmartSession smartSession, List`1 writeList, UAWriteResult[] writeResultArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.EasyUAEngine.WriteList(EasyUASession session, List`1 writeList, UAWriteResult[] writeResultArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.EasyUAEngine.Write(ICollection`1 writeListDictionary, UAWriteResult[] writeResultArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.EasyUAEngine.WriteAttributes(UAWriteArguments[] writeArgumentsArray, EasyUAAdaptableParameters easyUAAdaptableParameters)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient.DisposeGuard[TResult](Func`1 func)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient.DisposeGuardNotNull[TResult](Func`1 func)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient.WriteMultiple(UAWriteArguments[] writeArgumentsArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.IEasyUAClientExtension.WriteMultipleValues(IEasyUAClient easyUAClient, UAWriteValueArguments[] writeValueArgumentsArray)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.IEasyUAClientExtension.WriteValue(IEasyUAClient easyUAClient, UAWriteValueArguments writeValueArguments)\r\n at OpcService.OpcUaExtensions.WriteItem(KeyValuePair`2 refs, Boolean rethrow)\r\n at OpcService.OpcExtensions.ProcessList(Queue`1 actions)\r\n at OpcService.Jobs.RtuData._opcExtensions_ThrowEvent(Object sender, OperationEventArgs e)\r\n at OpcService.OpcUaExtensions.EasyUAMonitoredItemChangedEventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EasyUAMonitoredItemChangedEventArgs args)\r\n at OpcService.OpcUaExtensions.OpcClient_ItemChanged(Object sender, EasyUAMonitoredItemChangedEventArgs e)\r\n at OpcLabs.BaseLib.ComponentModel.NotifyingComponent.SafeCallback(String name, Action action)\r\n at OpcLabs.BaseLib.ComponentModel.NotifyingComponent.Raise[TEventArgs](Handler`1 handler, TEventArgs eventArgs)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.EasyUAClient.RaiseMonitoredItemChanged(EasyUAMonitoredItemChangedEventArgs eventArgs)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Engine.EasyUAEngine.OnMonitoredItemNotification(UASmartMonitoredItem smartMonitoredItem, Exception exception, UAAttributeData attributeData, List`1 warnings)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UASmartEngine.OnMonitoredItemNotification(UAClientMonitoredItem clientMonitoredItem, Exception exception, UAAttributeData attributeData, List`1 warnings)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAClientSessionBase.OnMonitoredItemNotification(UAClientMonitoredItem clientMonitoredItem, Exception exception, UAAttributeData attributeData, List`1 warnings)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAClientSubscription.OnMonitoredItemNotification(UAClientMonitoredItem clientMonitoredItem, Exception exception, UAAttributeData attributeData, List`1 warnings)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAClientMonitoredItem.SendNotification(Exception exception, MonitoredItemNotification sdkMonitoredItemNotification)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAClientMonitoredItem.OnSdkNotification(MonitoredItem sdkMonitoredItem, MonitoredItemNotificationEventArgs sdkMonitoredItemNotificationEventArgs)\r\n at OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Toolkit.UAEngineBase.SdkCallbackEnvelope(Func`1 usingFunction, String name, Action callback)\r\n at Opc.Ua.Client.MonitoredItem.SaveValueInCache(IEncodeable newValue)\r\n at Opc.Ua.Client.Subscription.SaveDataChange(NotificationMessage message, DataChangeNotification notifications, IList`1 stringTable)\r\n at Opc.Ua.Client.Subscription.OnMessageRecieved(Object state)\r\n at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)\r\n at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)\r\n at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()\r\n at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()"

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19 May 2016 12:39 #4050 by support
Replied by support on topic OPC UA Write Exception
Thank you.

Have you tried to make the Write using other OPC client (UA Expert)? Does it work?

To explain the situation: The error you are getting is either (1) originating in the server, and we are simply passing it over to you, or (2) can also be that something went on the client side (in this case, because it *does* something on the server, it would be that something went bad during processing of the response). In our own code, we never "substitute" a UA status code (and even less such generic, noninformative one) for an error - we always throw a different exception kind, and with a meaningful description, to make it possible to differentiate from case (1). Unfortunately, we also rely on OPC UA stack code from OPC Foundation, and there are places in that code where such error is generated on the client side of things. That's why I at the moment cannot tell from sure whether the origins are in the server or the client.

There, is, however, one common issue with Write-s, and that is with the data types. OPC UA is more restrictive about the types than "Classic" OPC - it does not require the server to convert the value. QuickOPC attempts to figure out the proper type and convert the value to it before writing, but I can imagine that a problem may be there.

What data type is the tag?

And, how do you write to it - can you please post the piece of code? (There are several overloads of Write methods, and they differ in the way they handle data types).

Many thanks

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19 May 2016 10:39 #4049 by sebpinski
Replied by sebpinski on topic OPC UA Write Exception
1. Reading works fine, though it is a handshake mechanism where a single tag is written to, all other tags are read from. We don't have any tags that require to be both read/written to.

2. It seems that the write does occur, regardless of whether we've had the exception returned or not. If we view the current value of the tag simultaneously using UA Expert, the status code is 'Good' until it has been written to. Once we write to it, the status code goes to 'Bad' the value and the data type become Null.

3. We'll work on capturing the call stack, for the moment we do not have it.

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19 May 2016 10:05 #4048 by support
Replied by support on topic OPC UA Write Exception
Hello.

Some questions:
1. Does reading work fine?
2. Do I understand it correctly that you always get this error when trying to write anything? I.e. you are unable to write at all?
3. Can you capture the call stack of the exception?

Thank you

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19 May 2016 10:02 #4047 by sebpinski
We're trying to just do some basic writes using the latest DLLs in a windows service. In my local environment it appears to work and we get the occasional comms error that we can live with. Moving the exact same code to a live environment (Both environments use the same TopServer) where we have almost zero opportunity to debug, we get the following errors on a basic write using the method with arguments:

WriteValue(new UAWriteValueArguments(serverDescriptor, itemDescriptor, refs.Value, refs.Key.ItemType))

Exception:
An OPC-UA operation failure with error code -2147418112 (0x80010000) occurred, originating from 'OpcLabs.EasyOpcUAInternal'. The inner OPC-UA service exception with service result 'BadUnexpectedError' contains details about the problem.

Inner:
OPC-UA service result - An error specific to OPC-UA service occurred.
---- SERVICE RESULT ----
StatusCode: {BadUnexpectedError} = 0x80010000 (2147549184)


Exception:
An OPC-UA operation failure with error code -2147483648 (0x80000000) occurred, originating from 'OpcLabs.EasyOpcUAInternal'. The inner OPC-UA service exception with service result 'Bad' contains details about the problem.

Inner:
OPC-UA service result - An error specific to OPC-UA service occurred.
---- SERVICE RESULT ----
StatusCode: {Bad} = 0x80000000 (2147483648)

Can you shed any light on this?

Regards,
Seb

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