Writing a type plugin from an existing IDL file

The Fast RTPS service uses IDL files to define its supported data types. You can make any such data type available for use by the Fast RTPS provider (and hence, within the PiPS framework) by creating a type implementation based on one of these IDL files and compiling it into a plugin.

The main tasks involved are:

Generating the Fast RTPS type definition in C++
Defining the type implementation, which performs all data serialization and deserialization tasks
Writing a pluggable C module to make the data type available to the provider