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generic way to test message equality

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asked 2014-10-03 08:53:39 -0600

galou
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Is there a generic way to test for message equality (or even better for almost equality) in C++?

It would be useful for me, when writing cpp unit-tests.

There should be a way with serialization, at least for strict equality, but how to implement it in a generic manner?

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answered 2014-10-04 08:42:36 -0600

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If you want something really strict and low level, you can follow your idea and serialize the messages into binary blobs and compare those. I would not recommend that for any algorithms though.

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Is there a base class for all ROS message classes for this purpose?

galou ( 2014-10-07 03:37:34 -0600 )edit

No, but I think the serialization traits are specialized.

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