NI Labs – Generic Containers

One of the new NI Labs technologies now available on NI Labs is Generic Containers. LabVIEW provides a set of standardized interfaces for manipulating data (saving, reading, writing, etc.) to the developer which are called APIs. These APIs are grouped into “containers”. By using generic container methods the user can store, read or handle any type of data. These APIs provide type-independent interfaces and abstract away most of the common operations such as search, sort, insert, delete, etc.

A “container” is a data structure used in a wide range of applications. It provides methods for accessing its elements which are data type independent. A generic container can store elements of any data type. The Generic Container tool on NI Labs is geared toward searching large amounts of data of varying types. Since the container is data type independent, it can handle any kind of data. I’m interested in hearing from you about the use of G programming tools. Please contact me with ideas for tools you would like to see.

Best regards,
Hall T.