The Wonderware historian backend is single-shot — it returns up to
NumValuesPerNode samples with a null continuation point — so paging is
synthesised server-side, time-based, for the only count-capped arm (Raw):
- A full page (count == NumValuesPerNode, NumValuesPerNode > 0) emits an
opaque 16-byte continuation point and stores a resume cursor; a short page
(or NumValuesPerNode == 0 "all values") emits none.
- A resume read takes the stored cursor, reads the next page from the boundary
forward, and emits a fresh CP only if that page is also full.
- The resume cursor is tie-safe (HistoryPaging.ComputeResumeCursor /
TrimBoundaryDuplicates): the next page resumes from the boundary timestamp
INCLUSIVE and drops the head ties already returned, so samples sharing the
boundary SourceTimestamp are neither duplicated nor skipped.
Continuation points are bound to the OPC UA session via the SDK's
ISession.SaveHistoryContinuationPoint / RestoreHistoryContinuationPoint store
(SessionHistoryContinuationStore) — capped by ServerConfiguration.
MaxHistoryContinuationPoints (default 100, oldest-evicted) and disposed on
session close. releaseContinuationPoints is honoured via an override of
HistoryReleaseContinuationPoints (the base dispatcher routes release-only reads
there, never to the per-details arms). An unknown / evicted / released point
resumes to BadContinuationPointInvalid.
Processed and AtTime stay single-shot: neither details type carries a client
count cap, so the single-shot backend returns the complete result in one read
and there is no "full page" signal to page on (spec-conformant). Modified-value
history remains out of scope.
The pure paging decisions + CP store contract are unit-tested via HistoryPaging
+ InMemoryHistoryContinuationStore; the full multi-page round trip is driven
end-to-end through the node manager with an in-memory store + a series-backed
fake historian (the in-process harness is session-less).
Joseph Doherty