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+#ifndef DISCOVERY_NODES_CONFIG_H
+#define DISCOVERY_NODES_CONFIG_H
+
+/**
+ * @file  nodes_config.h
+ * @brief Dot-indexed node configuration parser and server-side node creator.
+ *
+ * Reads a config file containing node.N.field entries, parses them into
+ * an array of node descriptors, and creates corresponding OPC UA variable
+ * nodes in the server address space.  Each node gets a string NodeId in
+ * namespace 1 (ns=1;s=<name>).
+ *
+ * Supported types (scalar and 1D array via "type[]" suffix):
+ *   bool, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64, float, double, string
+ *
+ * Access levels: read, readwrite.
+ */
+
+#include <open62541/server.h>
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+/* ========================================================================
+ * Types
+ * ======================================================================== */
+
+/**
+ * @brief OPC UA data types supported by the nodes config parser.
+ */
+typedef enum
+{
+  NODE_TYPE_BOOL,
+  NODE_TYPE_INT16,
+  NODE_TYPE_UINT16,
+  NODE_TYPE_INT32,
+  NODE_TYPE_UINT32,
+  NODE_TYPE_INT64,
+  NODE_TYPE_UINT64,
+  NODE_TYPE_FLOAT,
+  NODE_TYPE_DOUBLE,
+  NODE_TYPE_STRING
+} node_type;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Access level flags for a variable node.
+ */
+typedef enum
+{
+  NODE_ACCESS_READ,
+  NODE_ACCESS_READWRITE
+} node_access_level;
+
+/**
+ * @brief Describes a single variable node to be created on the server.
+ *
+ * All string pointers are heap-allocated copies owned by this struct.
+ * Call nodes_config_free() to release them.
+ */
+typedef struct
+{
+  char *name;          /**< DisplayName, browseName, and string NodeId. */
+  char *description;   /**< Optional description text (NULL when absent). */
+  node_type type;      /**< OPC UA data type. */
+  UA_Boolean is_array; /**< true when the type name ended with "[]". */
+  char *value_str;     /**< Raw value string (comma-separated for arrays). */
+  node_access_level access; /**< Read or read-write. */
+} node_config;
+
+/**
+ * @brief A parsed set of variable node definitions.
+ */
+typedef struct
+{
+  node_config *nodes;
+  size_t count;
+} nodes_config;
+
+/* ========================================================================
+ * Public API
+ * ======================================================================== */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Parses a nodes configuration file.
+ *
+ * Reads dot-indexed keys (node.N.name, node.N.type, etc.) from the
+ * file at @p path, groups them by index, validates required fields,
+ * and populates a nodes_config struct.  The caller must free the
+ * result with nodes_config_free().
+ *
+ * When the file contains no node.* keys the function succeeds with
+ * out->count == 0 and out->nodes == NULL.
+ *
+ * @param path  Path to the nodes configuration file.
+ * @param out   Output: parsed nodes configuration.
+ * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (logged via UA_LOG_ERROR/FATAL).
+ */
+int nodes_config_load (const char *path, nodes_config *out);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Adds all configured variable nodes to a server.
+ *
+ * For each node_config entry, parses the value string into the
+ * appropriate UA type, constructs a UA_VariableAttributes, and calls
+ * UA_Server_addVariableNode with a string NodeId in namespace 1
+ * under the Objects folder.
+ *
+ * Individual node failures are logged but do not stop processing of
+ * remaining nodes.
+ *
+ * @param server  The UA_Server to add nodes to.
+ * @param nc      The parsed nodes configuration.
+ * @return 0 when all nodes were added, -1 if any node failed.
+ */
+int nodes_config_add (UA_Server *server, const nodes_config *nc);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Frees all memory owned by a nodes_config structure.
+ *
+ * After this call the structure is zeroed and must not be used
+ * unless nodes_config_load() is called again.
+ *
+ * @param nc  The nodes configuration to free.
+ */
+void nodes_config_free (nodes_config *nc);
+
+#endif /* DISCOVERY_NODES_CONFIG_H */