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Rust implementation of Data Distribution Service
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Support for DDS dynamic types? #269

Open kyle-figure opened 1 year ago

kyle-figure commented 1 year ago

Is there a plan to support dynamic types in the future?

DDS Spec: https://www.omg.org/spec/DDS-XTypes EProsima Fastdds implementation: https://fast-dds.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastdds/dynamic_types/dynamic_types.html

jhelovuo commented 1 year ago

No, there is no such plan at the moment.

What would be your application of that?

kyle-figure commented 1 year ago

My team is using dynamic types to log internal variables in our program for debugging. We currently log on the order of tens of thousands of variables. This application wouldn't be feasible if we needed to specify each variable in an IDL file.

I would be happy to help with the implementation of dynamic types support in RustDDS if I am able to.

ariaameri commented 7 months ago

@kyle-figure hi!

I was wondering if you were able to do the implementation of the xtypes? I specifically am looking for XCDR2 (like fastdds: https://fast-dds.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastdds/dds_layer/core/policy/xtypesExtensions.html#datarepresentationid) to provide types that can evolve and are backward compatible.

I would appreciate any help!

kyle-figure commented 7 months ago

@kyle-figure hi!

I was wondering if you were able to do the implementation of the xtypes? I specifically am looking for XCDR2 (like fastdds: https://fast-dds.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastdds/dds_layer/core/policy/xtypesExtensions.html#datarepresentationid) to provide types that can evolve and are backward compatible.

I would appreciate any help!

No, sorry. I am not planning on working on this anymore either.