Flattened Variant Data Format

Issue Details

Solution

1. A u32 that represents the LabVIEW version number. This is used to interpret the data differently if there are data mutations.
2. A type descriptor
3. The flattened data of the variant
4. An i32 representing the number of attributes (0 means none)
5. Repeat the following for a number of times equal to the integer read in step 4:
   1. string of name
   2. type descriptor of attribute data
   3. flattened data of the attribute

Additional Information

• The integers are in big endian form
• You have to use Flatten to string function to manipulate the variant and its contents
• Be aware, that variant datatype can be modified within each LabVIEW version release depending on environment needs. To stay up to date with the variant components, take a moment to go through the release notes of the newest LabVIEW versions. 
• The mentioned solution applies to the situation, where there is a direct need of using Flatten to String function to get all the metadata of the Variant data type. Refer to the KnowledgeBase article mentioned in Related links to learn more details.