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In light of no better answer being given, I'll show my hacky workaround. It was as simple as just using the system() function built into C++ for use on linux systems.

system("rosrun gazebo_ros spawn_model -database coke_can -sdf -model coke_can3 -y 2.2 -x -0.3");

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