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PackedElementField

A field present within each element in a byte array of packed elements.

Parent schemas​

PackedElementField appears in the Grid and PointCloud message schemas.

Schema​

fieldtypedescription
namestringName of the field
offsetuint32Byte offset from start of data buffer
typeNumericTypeType of data in the field. Integers are stored using little-endian byte order.

Reference implementations​

Foxglove schemas are framework-agnostic, and can be implemented using any supported message encoding:

encodingschema
ROS 1foxglove_msgs/PackedElementField
ROS 2foxglove_msgs/msg/PackedElementField
JSONfoxglove.PackedElementField
Protobuffoxglove.PackedElementField
FlatBuffersfoxglove.PackedElementField
OMG IDLfoxglove::PackedElementField

You must use the schema names specified above for Foxglove to recognize the schema.