Using the orocos/rtt rosparam service in c++

asked 2012-04-18 15:34:08 -0500

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I'd like to use the rtt_ros_integration rosparam service from within one of my own components in c++. The only documentation I can find for accessing the interface of a service plugin through c++ requires that the service has a class declaration in some header that can be included: http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-plugins.html#idp216560

Is there a way to do this by leveraging the rtt operations defined in rtt_rosparam_service.cpp?

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answered 2012-04-18 15:58:39 -0500

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updated 2012-04-18 15:59:23 -0500

What you need to do for this particular service is to first load the service:

// In your TaskContext subclass:
PluginLoader::Instance()->loadService("rosparam", this);

And then you could dynamic_cast the service pointer:

boost::shared_ptr<RosParam> rp = boost::dynamic_pointer_cast<RosParam>( this->provides("rosparam") );

rp->storeProperties(); // etc.

UNFORTUNATELY, this service was implemented fully in the .cpp file, so no header is available. What you can do, if you don't want to submit a patch which creates a nice hpp/cpp file and installs the hpp, you can write this as a workaround:

OperationCaller<bool(void)> storeProperties = this->provides("rosparam")->getOperation("storeProperties");

storeProperties(); // calls the Service's Operation.

Peter

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Ahh! I see. After loading the plugin, I was trying this->requires("rosparam")->getOperation("storeProperties"). Thanks!

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answered 2016-08-18 21:48:48 -0500

Thach Do
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In my case, I used a simpler method to require the service.


// Within TaskContext class
if (this->loadService("rosparam"))
{
OperationCaller<bool(void)> storeProperties = this->provides("rosparam")->getOperation("storeProperties");
}

The benefit is that my code can try to load the service more than one time if it fails at the beginning.

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