FastRTPS Topic & ROS2 Topic list

asked 2018-06-21 09:55:24 -0500

Kei
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Hi, All.

When using the HelloWorld example of the C++ example in ROS2, it appears in the node list, but not in the topic list. Of course, when node_demos_cpp is used, it appears in the Topic list.

But I would like to use another DDS topic other than ROS2. (E. G., Using microRTPS, FastRTPS, etc.) Is there anything I have to do separately?

Does not the topic list of ROS2 fetch the topic list registered in DDS?

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answered 2018-06-21 10:35:44 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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Can you please link to the example you are referring to or share the code. Otherwise it is unclear what are a referencing.

Yes, it is supposed to show all ROS 2 specific DDS topics. But it doesn't show all native DDS topics.

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Thanks for your answer!

HelloWorld Example

Can you tell me the difference between ROS2 specific DDS topics and native DDS topics? Are the ROS2 specific DDS topics such as std_msgs in ROS2?

Kei ( 2018-06-21 10:48:40 -0500 )edit

The referenced example is not from ROS 2 but from FastRTPS - it doesn't contain any ROS specific code an won't appear in the ROS topic list. Please see http://design.ros2.org/articles/topic... how ROS topic names are represented in DDS. Only those are reported by ros2 topic.

Dirk Thomas ( 2018-06-21 11:08:50 -0500 )edit

Oh, thank you! The link you gave me was a great help :)

Kei ( 2018-06-21 11:16:31 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-06-21 13:48:56 -0500

William

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Just FYI, the ros2 topic command is not capable of this right now, but you can use ROS 2 to list all topics even the ones not formatted as ROS 2 topics. See the Node.get_topic_names_and_types() method in rclpy has a no_demangle option:

https://github.com/ros2/rclpy/blob/60...

Here's a short Python script that should list all topics, even non-ROS 2 ones:

import rclpy
rclpy.init()
node = rclpy.create_node('list_all_topics_example')
print(node.get_topic_names_and_types(no_demangle=True))

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Cool! It can check native DDS topics! It has really been a lot of help :)

Thanks!

Kei ( 2018-06-21 18:53:57 -0500 )edit

Super cool... Thank you for the script!

mhallak ( 2020-07-21 09:59:49 -0500 )edit

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