Please add unlisted data types to the PointField message so they can be seen in the PointCloud2 data struct
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Description
The PointField in https://github.com/ros2/common_interfaces/blob/rolling/sensor_msgs/msg/PointField.msg is missing FLOAT16, UINT64, and INT64. Can we please add these types?
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Open sensor_msgs/msg/PointField.msg and review how the existing datatype entries are declared. Done means the three requested entries are represented in the PointField message so they can be exposed through the PointCloud2 data structure; no test file is named in the issue.
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- cpp
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- api
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