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What should be the messageType for a custom message?

asked 2016-11-28 11:20:09 -0500

nerdyTurtle gravatar image

updated 2016-11-28 12:09:41 -0500

HI,

I created a custom ROS message:

string message
int32 a
int32 b

I will need to publish the messages from the web browser (roslibjs) and show it on the terminal, using python. Roslibjs requires us to specify a messageType when we start a topic, for example:

var msgTopic = new ROSLIB.Topic({
ros: ros,
name: 'chatter',
messageType: <messageType??>
});

I don't know what would be the messageType here, for my custom message. I would appreciate any help with this. Thank you!

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answered 2016-11-28 16:22:59 -0500

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The message type is the name of the package plus the name of the file. For example if your package name is my_pkg_msgs and the file where you defined the message is MyMsg.msg, then the message type is my_pkg_msgs.MyMsg.

You might want to check this tutorial (point 3.).

Hope this helps.

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Great! Thank you! :)

nerdyTurtle gravatar image nerdyTurtle  ( 2016-11-29 08:48:04 -0500 )edit

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