.NET Based OPC UA Client/Server SDK  2.6.1.422
UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest Class Reference

Asynchronous call to get the Endpoints supported by a Server and all of the configuration information required to establish a SecureChannel and a Session. More...

Inherits UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.IServiceRequest, and UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.IEncodeable.

Public Member Functions

 GetEndpointsRequest ()
 The default constructor. More...
 
virtual void Encode (IEncoder encoder)
 
virtual void Decode (IDecoder decoder)
 
virtual bool IsEqual (IEncodeable encodeable)
 Checks if encodeable is the same object or has the same content More...
 
virtual object Clone ()
 

Properties

RequestHeader RequestHeader [get, set]
 
string EndpointUrl [get, set]
 The network address that the Client used to access the Discovery Endpoint. More...
 
StringCollection LocaleIds [get, set]
 List of locales to use. More...
 
StringCollection ProfileUris [get, set]
 List of Transport Profile that the returned Endpoints shall support. More...
 
virtual ExpandedNodeId TypeId [get]
 
virtual ExpandedNodeId BinaryEncodingId [get]
 
virtual ExpandedNodeId XmlEncodingId [get]
 
- Properties inherited from UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.IServiceRequest
RequestHeader RequestHeader [get, set]
 The header for the request. More...
 
- Properties inherited from UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.IEncodeable
ExpandedNodeId TypeId [get]
 Returns the UA type identifier for the encodable type. More...
 
ExpandedNodeId BinaryEncodingId [get]
 Returns the UA type identifier for the default binary encoding for the type. More...
 
ExpandedNodeId XmlEncodingId [get]
 Returns the UA type identifier for the default XML encoding for the type. More...
 

Detailed Description

Asynchronous call to get the Endpoints supported by a Server and all of the configuration information required to establish a SecureChannel and a Session.

This Service shall not require any message security, but it may require transport layer security.

A Client may reduce the number of results returned by specifying filter criteria based on LocaleIds and Transport Profile URIs. The Server returns an empty list if no Endpoints match the criteria specified by the client.

A Server may support multiple security configurations for the same Endpoint. In this situation, the Server shall return separate EndpointDescription records for each available configuration.

Clients should treat each of these configurations as distinct Endpoints, even if the physical URL happens to be the same.

The security configuration for an Endpoint has four components:

  • Server application instance certificate
  • Message Security Mode
  • Security Policy
  • Supported User Identity Tokens

The ApplicationInstanceCertificate is used to secure the OpenSecureChannel request. The MessageSecurityMode and the SecurityPolicy tell the Client how to secure messages sent via the SecureChannel. The UserIdentityTokens tell the client which type of user credentials shall be passed to the Server in the ActivateSession request.

If the securityPolicyUri is NONE and none of the UserTokenPolicies requires encryption, the Client shall ignore the ApplicationInstanceCertificate.

Each EndpointDescription also specifies a URI for the Transport Profile that the Endpoint supports. The Transport Profiles specify information such as message encoding format and protocol version and are defined in Part 7 of the OPC UA Specification. Clients shall fetch the Server’s SoftwareCertificates if they want to discover the complete list of Profiles supported by the Server.

Messages are secured by applying standard cryptography algorithms to the messages before they are sent over the network. The exact set of algorithms used depends on the SecurityPolicy for the Endpoint. Part 7 of the OPC UA Specification defines Profiles for common SecurityPolicies and assigns a unique URI to them. It is expected that applications have built in knowledge of the SecurityPolicies that they support. As a result, only the Profile URI for the SecurityPolicy is specified in the EndpointDescription. A Client cannot connect to an Endpoint that does not support a SecurityPolicy that it recognizes.

An EndpointDescription may specify that the message security mode is NONE. This configuration is not recommended unless the applications are communicating on a physically isolated network where the risk of intrusion is extremely small. If the message security is NONE, it is possible for Clients to deliberately or accidentally hijack Sessions created by other Clients.

A Server may have multiple HostNames. For this reason, the Client shall pass the URL it used to connect to the Endpoint to this Service. The implementation of this Service shall use this information to return responses that are accessible to the Client via the provided URL.

This Service can be used without security and it is therefore vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks. A Server should minimize the amount of processing required to send the response for this Service. This can be achieved by preparing the result in advance. The Server should also add a short delay before starting processing of a request during high traffic conditions.

Some of the EndpointDescriptions returned in a response shall specify the Endpoint information for a Gateway Server that can be used to access another Server. In these situations, the gatewayServerUri is specified in the EndpointDescription and all security checks used to verify certificate s shall use the gatewayServerUri instead of the serverUri.

To connect to a Server via the gateway, the Client shall first establish a SecureChannel with the Gateway Server. Then the Client shall call the CreateSession service and pass the serverUri specified in the EndpointDescription to the Gateway Server. The Gateway Server shall then connect to the underlying Server on behalf of the Client.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.GetEndpointsRequest ( )
inline

The default constructor.

Member Function Documentation

virtual bool UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.IsEqual ( IEncodeable  encodeable)
inlinevirtual

Checks if encodeable is the same object or has the same content

Parameters
encodeable
Returns

Implements UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.IEncodeable.

Property Documentation

string UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.EndpointUrl
getset

The network address that the Client used to access the Discovery Endpoint.

The Server uses this information for diagnostics and to determine what URLs to return in the response.

The Server should return a suitable default URL if it does not recognize the HostName in the URL.

StringCollection UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.LocaleIds
getset

List of locales to use.

Specifies the locale to use when returning human readable strings.

If the server supports more than one of the requested locales, the server shall use the locale that appears first in this list. If the server does not support any of the requested locales, it chooses an appropriate default locale.

The server chooses an appropriate default locale if this list is empty.

StringCollection UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.ProfileUris
getset

List of Transport Profile that the returned Endpoints shall support.

Part 7 of the OPC UA Specification defines URIs for the Transport Profiles.

All Endpoints are returned if the list is empty.

RequestHeader UnifiedAutomation.UaBase.GetEndpointsRequest.RequestHeader
getset


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