dOPCDA.TdOPCItem

class for an OPCItem

Delphi

TdOPCItem = class(TdOPCItemData);

C++

class TdOPCItem : public TdOPCItemData;

Description

A OPC item also called ("variable","tag" or "node") represents a value in the underlying device or system. To identify OPC Items the TdOPCDAClient works with unique ItemIds. The ItemId is a string. To get e.g. data changes for an OPC item you have add the ItemId to a OPC group (see also TdOPCGroup).

Here an example how to add an ItemId to a OPC group:

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G.OPCItems.AddItem('Random.String');

In OPC UA, every entity in the address space is a unique node.

Each node has a NodeId object, which is has 3 properties:

Property
NamespaceIndex	The namespace index as a number. Default is 0.
IdentifierType	The data type of the identifier. Default is string
Identifier	The identifier for a node.

Following Identifier types are supported:

IdentifierType	character
number	i
string	s
globally unique identifier (GUID)	g
opaque value (ByteString)	b

To convert a NodeId object to a string based ItemId you have to use following format:

ItemId := ns=<NamespaceIndex>;<Identifiertype>=<Identifier>

Examples:

G.OPCItems.AddItem('ns=0;i=2256'); // NodeId with IdentifierType i = number and NamespaceIndex = 0

G.OPCItems.AddItem('ns=5;s=Random1'); // NodeId with IdentifierType s = string and NamespaceIndex = 5

Remarks

Associated with each item is, amongst other things, a Value, Quality and a TimeStamp.