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Cannot Declare Reference to tf2_msgs::TFMessage

Background:

I had a great callback function in a Gazebo plugin. I declared it with

void OnMsg(ConstVector3dPtr &msg)

and subscribed-to by my plugin's Load function with

subscriber = node->Subscribe("~/eb/vel_cmd", &MyPlugin::OnMsg, this);

Problem:

Instead of subscribing to "~/eb/velcmd", I'm subscribing to "/tf", so I need to change the message type of the callback (MyPlugin::OnMsg) to tf2msgs::TFMessage. I followed the convention of the question in the link below to create a constant pointer for a tf2_msgs::TFMessage message.

http://answers.ros.org/question/214814/subscribing-to-ros-and-gazebo-topic-in-one-node-ros-callback-failing/

Following the positionCb callback declaration in that code, now my callback is declared with:

private: void OnMsg(const tf2_msgs::TFMessage::ConstPtr& &msg)

I'm getting all kinds of compiling errors, but the biggest problem appears to be "Cannot declare reference to tf2msgs::TFMessagestd::allocator<void >::ConstPtr& {aka class boost::sharedptr<const tf2msgs::TFMessage_std::allocator<void>&}' (picture below).

Any ideas on what I'm doing incorrectly?

Compiling Errors:

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Asked by ElizabethA on 2016-11-02 09:36:16 UTC

Comments

private: void OnMsg(const tf2_msgs::TFMessage::ConstPtr& &msg) Do you need two ampersands here? Cannot declare reference to ... which is not a typedef or a template type argument I'm no c++ wizard, but it sounds like that might not be a thing you can do because TFMessage doesn't support it?

Asked by Robot_Cpak on 2016-11-02 10:16:07 UTC

Thanks for the idea! It turned out that I was using the wrong kind of subscribing options - I was using the Transport objects/methods to connect to ROS messages, when the two are separate communications channels.

Asked by ElizabethA on 2016-11-04 08:51:05 UTC

Answers

My question was answered on the Gazebo forum.

See http://answers.gazebosim.org/question/14768/cannot-declare-reference-to-tf2_msgstfmessage/

I ended up needing to use ROS subscribing methods, as used here: http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=guided_i6

and here: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/frc_red_team/src/3af1ba4bc832c06e282a825c50f9d2a51cf1a140/frcred_gazebo/src/joy_to_joints/JoyToJoints.cc?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#JoyToJoints.cc-66

Asked by ElizabethA on 2016-11-04 08:51:59 UTC

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I also had to update my CMakeLists and add SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-std=c++11") to get the 'auto' and 'thread' stuff to compile.

Asked by ElizabethA on 2016-11-04 09:12:46 UTC