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In general, you cannot do that.

Rviz is not set up to do that. Part of the reason is that RVIZ is written in C++ and cannot do that kind of runtime introspection. It needs to have the full message class compiled into its binary in order to be able to receive, deserialize, and manipulate the object.

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