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Get all topics that publish a given message?

asked 2020-12-11 14:43:01 -0500

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How to get the names of all topics that publish a given message? E.g. when I add an image viewer in RVIZ, it already lists for you all topics that publish a sensor_msgs/Image message, so you choose which one you want to subscribe to! How can I achieve something like this in C++? Say I have a message called A, I want to get the names of all topics that publish A. Appreciate any help or suggestions:-)

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answered 2020-12-11 23:27:05 -0500

Apologies if this is the wrong part of the rviz code that does what you're asking, but I think what you're looking for is ros::master::getTopics()which is used here https://github.com/ros-visualization/... in rviz to get the list of topics and add them to the display for drop downs (~85% sure this is the right thing, but it was a quick glance, either way this will do what you're asking).

Here's the API docs for that file http://docs.ros.org/en/melodic/api/ro... and it clearly shows the basic "get info" style calls to get all the topics and nodes on the network graph.

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These links are more than enough for my question to be answered! Thanks a lot for the references:-)

Martian gravatar image Martian  ( 2020-12-12 05:56:05 -0500 )edit

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