Simple example of custom rqt plugin

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Hi.

I would like to understand how to subscribe to a ROS topic from custom rqt plugin with Python. As for now i couldn't make it work. Can you provide some very simple example (or reference) to how to write a subscriber that updates some text in GUI based on topic data?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have gone through rqt package tutorial from here and I created my own plugin. Now I want to subscribe to the data from the topic contains array of 8 integers to update 8 text labels. My problem is that the plugin is working for some time and eventually going down after 20-30seconds because of memory leakage This is my_module.py:

import os
import rospy
import rospkg
from std_msgs.msg import Int32MultiArray, String
import time
from qt_gui.plugin import Plugin
from python_qt_binding import loadUi
from python_qt_binding.QtWidgets import QWidget

class MyPlugin(Plugin):

def __init__(self, context):
    super(MyPlugin, self).__init__(context)
    # Give QObjects reasonable names
    self.setObjectName('MyPlugin')

    # Process standalone plugin command-line arguments
    from argparse import ArgumentParser
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    # Add argument(s) to the parser.
    parser.add_argument("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true",
                  dest="quiet",
                  help="Put plugin in silent mode")
    args, unknowns = parser.parse_known_args(context.argv())
    if not args.quiet:
        print 'arguments: ', args
        print 'unknowns: ', unknowns

    # Create QWidget
    self._widget = QWidget()
    # Get path to UI file which should be in the "resource" folder of this package
    ui_file = os.path.join(rospkg.RosPack().get_path('rqt_mypkg'), 'resource', 'MyPlugin.ui')
    # Extend the widget with all attributes and children from UI file
    loadUi(ui_file, self._widget)
    # Give QObjects reasonable names
    self._widget.setObjectName('MyPluginUi')
    # Show _widget.windowTitle on left-top of each plugin (when
    # it's set in _widget). This is useful when you open multiple
    # plugins at once. Also if you open multiple instances of your
    # plugin at once, these lines add number to make it easy to
    # tell from pane to pane.
    if context.serial_number() > 1:
        self._widget.setWindowTitle(self._widget.windowTitle() + (' (%d)' % context.serial_number()))
    # Add widget to the user interface
    context.add_widget(self._widget)

    #Subscriber
    self.sub_status = rospy.Subscriber('/random_status', String, self.callback_string, queue_size=20)
    self.sub = rospy.Subscriber("/random_ints", Int32MultiArray, self.callback, queue_size=20)

def shutdown_plugin(self):
    # TODO unregister all publishers here
    pass
def callback(self, msg):
    self._widget.label_10.setText(repr(msg.data[0]))
    self._widget.label_12.setText(repr(msg.data[1]))
    self._widget.label_14.setText(repr(msg.data[2]))
    self._widget.label_15.setText(repr(msg.data[3]))
    self._widget.label_17.setText(repr(msg.data[4]))
    self._widget.label_19.setText(repr(msg.data[5]))
    self._widget.label_21.setText(repr(msg.data[6]))
    self._widget.label_23.setText(repr(msg.data[7]))
def callback_string(self, msg):
    self._widget.label_2.setText(msg.data)

def save_settings(self, plugin_settings, instance_settings):
    # TODO save intrinsic configuration, usually using:
    # instance_settings.set_value(k, v)
    pass

def restore_settings(self, plugin_settings, instance_settings):
    # TODO restore intrinsic configuration, usually using:
    # v = instance_settings.value(k)
    pass

#def trigger_configuration(self):
    # Comment in to signal that the plugin has a way to configure
    # This will enable a setting button (gear ...