Obtain Value of Arbitrary TestStand Variable with Arbitrary Data type from LabVIEW?

[blackburnite]

I have a need to take a variable name, let's say:

Locals.Variable

and then from LabVIEW, retrieve its value regardless of data type (so a variant).  I tried to do this with the method

GetValVariant

but occasionally will receive an error:

-17308 Specified value does not have the expected type

 I'm wondering why this happens if a variant can handle any arbitrary type and if there is a way around this?

[Machop]

Here it is a previous forum that shows a similar issue

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/Specified-Value-Does-not-have-the-Expected-Type/td-p/389290

This can be useful for you. 

[blackburnite]

Similar but not quite the same.  In my case, the variable in question is a container with all its elements predefined, none are dynamically added as is the case with the ResultList.

I did however resolve this by using the GetXML method instead which seems to handle any type of variable regardless of structure.