Hello,

In general, there is no way to get a NodeId from a “String path” to the Node. Some Nodes in some OPC UA Servers might use this type of convention for their NodeIds, but the NodeIds could be just numbers or GUID so you can’t assume this type of logic would always work.

However, there is TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds Service(see https://reference.opcfoundation.org/Core/Part4/v105/docs/5.8.4). Various overloads of translateBrowsePathsToNodeIds are available in the com.prosysopc.ua.client.AddressSpace class that can be accessed by calling the getAddressSpace method of UaClient instance. These methods require you to know the BrowsePath to the Node, but if you do know these, then you could use these methods to get the NodeIds. And do note that these Methods can return multiple NodeIds if there are multiple Nodes that match the BrowsePath.

But, it seems to me that you already know that the NodeId is “ns=2;s=WI_OPC/Database.FreeSpace”. Thus, you can just use

NodeId freeSpaceNodeId = new NodeId(2, “WI_OPC/Database.FreeSpace”);

or

NodeId freeSpaceNodeId = NodeId.parse(“ns=2;s=WI_OPC/Database.FreeSpace”);

to generate the NodeId and then call

UaNode node = client.getAddressSpace().getNode(freeSpaceNodeId);

to get the Node. If you already know the NodeId, there is no need to get it by browsing the AddressSpace starting from the root. Or am I missing something?