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This is one of the problems that ros_type_intorspection can solve for you.

I created an example here just for you ;)

https://github.com/facontidavide/type...

As you can see, you can deserialize __any__ ROS message into a list of Key/Value pairs, one for each field of the message.

In your particular case, to keep the example simple, we just used the fact that we know that all the fields are bool. here you can see an incomplete snippet of the solution:

void DeserializeAndPrint(RosIntrospection::Parser* parser,
                         const std::string& topic_name,
                         std::vector<uint8_t> & buffer) {

    using namespace RosIntrospection;
    FlatMessage flat_container;
    parser->deserializeIntoFlatContainer( topic_name,
                                          absl::Span<uint8_t>(buffer),
                                          &flat_container, 100 );

    RenamedValues renamed_numerical_values;
    parser->applyNameTransform( topic_name,
                               flat_container,
                               &renamed_numerical_values );

    for(auto& it: flat_container.value)
    {
        bool value = it.second.convert<int8_t>();

        if( value )
        {
            std::cout << it.first.toStdString() << " : "
                      << it.second.convert<double>() <<  std::endl;
        }
    }    
}