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I have one node which is receiving data from socket and publishing on some topic. I have another node which is sending data through socket to first node. Now I want second node to block until my first node is started. One way to wait is create subscriber for the topic and call getPublishers() but I dont want to create publisher. How do I wait?
Which node is listening on the socket and which is connecting to it? If your first node is the listener then it would be relatively simple to get the second node to check if there is a listener on the socket every second, thereby blocking until the first node has started.
Asked: 2018-10-05 12:03:20 -0500
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Last updated: Oct 08 '18
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Would rospy.wait_for_message help? This does implicitly create a subscriber, but it does give you a timeout and is blocking for that timeout length until a message is received.
Note there is also a C++ implementation
it wont publish anything until I send it. I just need to check whether publisher is registered.