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Hey, Jeff. I actually stumbled across the answer to this not too long ago. When you use logging macros in ROS2, the first argument is an rclcpp::Logger which you would normally get from calling get_logger() on an rclcpp::Node. However, the rclcpp namespace also provides a get_logger() function which can be used to generate an rclcpp::Logger without a node instance by just giving it a name. I believe the only difference between this type of rclcpp::Logger instance and the one you would get from a node is the logger maintaining a reference to the node and changing its name if the node name changes.