Access Methods At Client Side

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milublues
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Access Methods At Client Side

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There are methods at server end and most of the methods are associated with method nodes,
and , can be accessed easily by calling the method at client's object browser.

But, if there is a method at server which is not associated with any node and needs to be used at client side to get some values, how do we access those methods.

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Re: Access Methods At Client Side

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Hi,

Like for all other information access methods like Read, Write and monitoring you need the NodeIds of the nodes to access and maybe additional meta data like data types. Where you get the necessary information from is not relevant for the actual Read, Write or method Call execution. You can get the information from Browse results, from a configuration file or from compiled in knowledge. It is not necessary to 'see' this information through browsing.

To call a method, you need the Object NodeId, the Method NodeId and the number and data type of the input arguments. If you do not know this information you cannot call the method.

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