Subscribing and publishing in the same node

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Edit: What I am trying to accomplish is getting multiple nodes (each node representing a robot) to share their exploration data. To achieve this sharing of data, I thought publishing to the same ros_topic would do the task. To secure the sharing, I was thinking to add multi-threading via mutex. I am yet to write code for sharing map, but I am trying to proceed as indicated by the code below. The reason I am trying to subscribe and publish in the same topic is because I want the functionality where I get the latest object from the ros_topic, add new data to the object, then publish it.

I am trying to subscribe and publish in the same node. I have two such nodes (arbitrary names) -

listener_talker_node

and

talker_listener_node

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <std_msgs/String.h>
#include <sstream>
void chatterCallback(const std_msgs::String::ConstPtr& msg)
{
  ROS_INFO("I heard: [%s]", msg->data.c_str());
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  ros::init(argc, argv, "listener_talker");
  ros::NodeHandle n;   
  ros::Publisher chatter_pub = n.advertise<std_msgs::String>("chatter_by_listener_talker", 1000);
  ros::Rate loop_rate(10);
  int count = 0;
  while (ros::ok())
  {
    ros::Subscriber sub = n.subscribe("chatter_by_talker_listener", 1000, chatterCallback);
    loop_rate.sleep();
    std_msgs::String msg;
    std::stringstream ss;
    ss << "listener_talker says: hello world " << count;
    msg.data = ss.str();
    ROS_INFO("%s", msg.data.c_str());
    loop_rate.sleep();
    chatter_pub.publish(msg);
    ros::spinOnce();
    loop_rate.sleep();
    ++count;
  }
  return 0;
}

The result that I expect is:

Terminal One:

The following two statements repeating till SIGINT received.

[ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: talker_listener says: hello world 6
[ INFO] [1452182374.277333351]: I heard: [listener_talker says: hello world 82]

Terminal Two:

The following two statements repeating till SIGINT received.

[ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: listener_talker says: hello world 82
[ INFO] [1452182374.277333351]: I heard: [talker_listener says: hello world 6]

I have tried obtain the above result in two ways:

1. Both nodes publish and subscribe to the same topic
2. There are two topics, eg. Topic A, Topic B. node1 subscribes to TopicA and publishes to TopicB. Similarly for node2.

Instead I only get the print statement of the Publisher ie.

In Terminal 1:

 [ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: listener_talker says: hello world 82
 [ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: listener_talker says: hello world 83
 ....

In Terminal 2:

[ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: talker_listener says: hello world 6
[ INFO] [1452183178.353935870]: talker_listener says: hello world 7
....