Hi,

I am pleased to announce a new package that focuses on deserialization of ROS Messages when the original type is unknown at compilation time.
This is a common problem in any generic piece of code that should be able to extract information from any rosbag/topic that does exist or will exist.

http://wiki.ros.org/ros_type_introspection

The typical use cases are:

1) Rosbag importers (the library is partially influenced by https://github.com/bcharrow/matlab_rosbag).
2) Tools similar to rqt_plot and rqt_bag that can be used with any rosbag and/or ros topic.

Regards

Davide