How to pass a string argument to a service call

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asked 2016-10-17 16:42:29 -0600

Cerin
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I have a service that accepts a single string argument called "data". The .srv definition is simply:

string data
---

If I try to call my service with:

rosservice call /mynode/myservice "some text"

I get the error:

ERROR: service [/mynode/myservice] responded with an error: service cannot process request: handler returned invalid value: Invalid number of arguments, args should be [] args are(,)

The wiki's advice on specifying command-line strings doesn't seem to be correct.

What am I doing wrong?

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It seems like the caller is ok, and the error is on the server side.

ahendrix ( 2016-10-17 17:43:48 -0600 )edit

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answered 2016-10-20 08:43:28 -0600

Cerin
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updated 2016-10-20 08:46:00 -0600

I was returning the wrong response type in my callback. I was returning the auto-generated MyServiceResponse object for my service's srv file. Even though my service has no return types, this apparently means something's still returned. The fix was to to return EmptyResponse()...

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Thank you so much for posting your solution to this error - this was exactly what was happening to me.

madserEile ( 2020-04-12 10:13:21 -0600 )edit

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answered 2016-10-20 04:45:39 -0600

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updated 2016-10-20 04:46:50 -0600

Honestly, so far I can't find any problem with the way that you are calling your service. Assuming that there is not a problem with your service configuration (which based on the error message it is recognized by ROS), then I only can start guessing what could be the problem.

Did you try to call it in this way:

rosservice call /mynode/myservice "data: some text"

in any case, you should try to call it without the space in between the two words, just to check if it is the reason of the error ;-)

 rosservice call /mynode/myservice "some_text"

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