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How to read data from "/rosout" topic using c++ node.

asked 2019-10-11 04:38:57 -0500

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I want to write a c++ node which subscribe the topic /rosout read data from it and print the extracted data on terminal using ROS_INFO().

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You just need a subscriber to the topic to read the data it contains. You can follow example here

Choco93 gravatar image Choco93  ( 2019-10-11 04:59:20 -0500 )edit

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answered 2019-10-11 05:54:46 -0500

Hello,

ROS_INFO() will display the message in the terminal, but ROS_INFO() will also send a message to /rosout. If you create a node that subscribe to /rosout and use ROS_INFO(), you will write an infinite loop because :

1 . Node receive message from /rosout

2 . Node print with ROS_INFO()

3 . ROS_INFO() Send a message to /rosout

4 . Go back to 1

For a simple example of how to do a subscriber, you can subscribe to /rosout and simply use std::cout for displaying the message (or your favorite logging system that doesn't use /rosout).

If you want to extract Warning, Error or Fatal level message, you can use a message filter, or just discarding message with logger level less than warning in the beginning of the callback function.

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Ok. I have written a node using C++ but i am unable to extract "msg" field data from it. The type of rosout is rosmsgs_graph/Log. I want to extract the data from "msg" field and convert it into string.

kjitender469 gravatar image kjitender469  ( 2019-10-11 07:24:11 -0500 )edit

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