Figure A.6 shows the resulting JSON encoding for the Properties field of the FieldMetaData structure according to Figure A.5 in A.5.

The amount of metadata associated with the ‘pure’ data exceeds the data values it describes by far (the JSON snippet only shows the metadata for 2 Variables), demonstrating the usefulness of excluding the metadata from the SerializationScope especially for low-bandwidth requirements.

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Figure A.6 – JSON encoding of FieldMetaData Properties