IDL Type Description

The data type to be disseminated by RTI Connext is described in language independent IDL. The IDL file is input to rtiddsgen, which produces the following files.

The programming language specific type representation of the type Foo = HelloWorld, for use in the application code.

HelloWorld.h
HelloWorld.cxx

User Data Type Support types as required by the DDS specification for use in the application code.

HelloWorldSupport.h
HelloWorldSupport.cxx

Methods required by the RTI Connext implementation. These contains the auto-generated methods for serializing and deserializing the type.

HelloWorldPlugin.h
HelloWorldPlugin.cxx

HelloWorld.idl

struct HelloWorld {
    string<128> msg;
};