Why can't I send "123" via rostopic pub?

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asked 2014-05-28 02:03:01 -0500

NEngelhard
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Hey

I'm using an std_msgs/String topic to send some messages between nodes. During testing, I tried to send the string "123" via rostopic pub:

rostopic pub /topic_name std_msgs/String "123"

My rostopic echo received nothing, and I got the msg: [WARN] [WallTime: 1401278233.697819] Inbound TCP/IP connection failed: field data must be of type str

So i tried to do: rostopic pub /topic_name std_msgs/String "123a"

And the msg was sent perfectly.

Is there any reason for this behaviour? "123" is a valid string so there should be no reason to throw this error.

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answered 2014-05-28 07:44:31 -0500

tfoote

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The command line arguments are interpreted as yaml. However bash is parsing it before it runs. You either need to escape the quotes or quote the quotes otherwise they yaml parser will interpret it as a integer, which does not match str type.

Try:

$ rostopic pub /topic_name std_msgs/String \"123\"

Or:

$ rostopic pub /topic_name std_msgs/String "'123'"

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answered 2014-05-28 03:23:47 -0500

Hamid Didari

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Try this:

$rostopic pub -1 topic_name std_msgs/Char '123'

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No. It's a String-Topic so that I get a Could not process inbound connection: topic types do not match: [std_msgs/String] vs. [std_msgs/Char]{'message_definition': 'string data\n\n', 'callerid': '/listener', 'tcp_nodelay': '0', 'md5sum': '99d1', 'topic': '/poll_sub', 'type': 'std_msgs/String'}

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