(rosjava) class files of custom messages cannot be found

asked 2011-10-19 13:55:19 -0600

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I'm making a custom stack using rosjava. After writing some code, rosmake successfully ends but I can't find the message class that I made.

This page says as quoted below. If so, where can I put .msg files, and where the .class files of those messages are generated in?

you cannot place msg or srv files in a rosjava-based package. They have to be in a separate package. This is not considered a major issue as this is generally best practice anyway.

.msg file I made (it is placed under %STACK_HOME%/msg currently though I know this doesn't work. Just had no idea where to put it.):

uint32 clockValue
geometry_msgs/Point[] points

.jar files of geometry_msgs and other messages provided by ROS are already generated under .ros/rosjava/lib as expected.

I need to know this because I can't use the custom message unless I know the class name and (Java's) package name of the .class file of the message. Thanks!

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@joq thank you, I've never thought about it (nor seen the direction like that). I'll try see how it works.

130s ( 2011-10-20 03:57:39 -0600 )edit

I tried referring to .msg in the existing .cpp package based on your hint (because I already tried similar stuff in .cpp so that I defined .msg in that package), and it worked. @joq 's suggestion should also work if you haven't made .msg definition. Thank you!

130s ( 2011-10-24 10:03:21 -0600 )edit

Good. Keeping all the messages in a separate package is a good idea, anyway. It minimizes dependencies between the other packages.