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publishing file stream with ros

asked 2011-06-27 03:21:44 -0500

cmsoda
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Hi, I would like to create a service which publish as a topic a byte stream with the content of a file. It is possible to define inside a Ros service a data type variables ifstream? or could it be possible to use a primitive type for this purpose? Best Regards

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answered 2011-06-27 04:39:45 -0500

dornhege

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You can only use some basic data types. For your application you would use a primitive type (probably an uint8[]).

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answered 2011-06-27 06:47:46 -0500

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You might be able to send your data as a String, encoded using something like Base64 and decoded on the other end. I'm not sure if you'll run into any issues to due string lengths.

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