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Hi guys! I'm begginer studying ros at this moment. When I do tutorials that make talker and listener (Publisher & Subscriber), I really wonder weather it is necessary to using callback function in subscriber. If I dosen't use callback function, I could get the message? Or If I can use it, How to I get the message?
Thanks guys! Have a good day also.
The short answer is yes they are necessary. Callbacks are triggered when messages are received. They are required to be able to do something useful with new data.
There are other approaches which would require the user to poll for new messages that could be implemented, but that's generally a completely different programming model.
Also, to answer "How to I get the message?": The function you supply as a callback is provided with the message as an argument, so that is how you access it.
Asked: 2015-11-22 19:14:10 -0500
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Never seen such a possibility and I think the fact that ros works heavily with callbacks is one of the good things about ros. Why would you avoid callbacks?
I just curious about it for understanding ros system. Thanks a lot comment to me!