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The Variant Class

The protobuf wire format uses the Variant class to determine how to transmit a single piece of data. May be used by other formats; see Protocol Buffers Encoding for more information.

Variant is provided by the protorpc.messages module.

Variant has the following values:

BOOL: Boolean value (True or False)
BYTES: String of 8-bit bytes.
DOUBLE: 64-bit floating point number.
ENUM: Enum value (an integer).
FLOAT: 32-bit floating point number.
INT32: 32-bit signed integer.
INT64: 64-bit signed integer.
MESSAGE: Embedded message as byte string.
SINT32: 32-bit signed integer. Uses ZigZag encoding.
SINT64: 64-bit signed integer. Uses ZigZag encoding.
STRING: String of UTF-8-encoded text.
UINT32: 32-bit unsigned integer.
UINT64: 64-bit unsigned integer.