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roslaunch python api access node class

asked 2021-03-02 04:49:19 -0500

joao.aguizo gravatar image

updated 2021-03-03 12:51:57 -0500

Hello, I have been trying to use the roslaunch python API (http://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch) to instantiate a node and launch it. My question is, is it possible to access the node to be dispatched variables using this API? I tried applying this example to my use-case but without any success:

import roslaunch

package = 'rqt_gui'

executable = 'rqt_gui'

node = roslaunch.core.Node(package, executable)

launch = roslaunch.scriptapi.ROSLaunch()

launch.start()

process = launch.launch(node)

print process.is_alive()

process.stop()

(from http://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch/API%20U...)

EDIT: Is there any way of getting the launched node name? That would work as well for my use-case.

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answered 2021-03-03 12:52:51 -0500

joao.aguizo gravatar image

updated 2021-03-29 18:31:32 -0500

jayess gravatar image

Found out that in the "process" variable you can access the name of the node in the name property.

process = launch.launch(node)

It does not answer the original question, but it works well enough for my use-case, just needed the node name, which is anonymous, in order to subscribe to an output topic generated by that same node.

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