Need a way to set type metadata on global variables

[laanwj]

According to Opus 4.7:

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can you actually change the type of variables in the metadata? eg try to make tof_timing_budget_table float tof_timing_budget_table[5]

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Short answer: no — not for global data symbols, with the tools this MCP server exposes. The retyping tools here are retype_variable / set_local_variable_type, which only apply to function-local variables, and set_function_prototype for functions. For data labels I only have rename_data (name), set_comment, and declare_c_type/define_types (create a type in the library, but no endpoint to bind that type to an address). There's no "set data type at address" call available — that's why the correction tables only got typed when you did it in the BN UI.

According to the README here's get_data_decl:

| `get_data_decl(name_or_address, length)`                             | Return a C-like declaration and a hexdump for a data symbol or address.                                      |

But no associated setter. Closest is rename_data, but that seems to be strictly about the name.

From what i understand from the binja API this would require use of define_user_data_var