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I have a program where multiple nodes publish to the same topic. Is there a way to know which Node write which message? Or is there a way to echo just the messages sent by a certain node?
Example: Node1, Node2 and Node3 publish to Topic. How I can just read the messages written by Node1 in Topic (without reading the ones sent by Node 2 and Node3)
As far as I know, there is no such option - but you can achieve a similar result with a custom message composed of NodeID and original message.
Other approach like filtering based on the timestamps or headers can "work", but it will be unreliable and quite messy.
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I agree with @ljaniec - the correct design is that you put some kind of sender_id in the message.
I would suggest to take a step back and ask yourself why there is an apparent need to know the identity of the publisher of a message. It seems to go against the idea of anonymous publish-subscribe.
I've seen people state they must know the identity of the sender, while in reality they wanted to filter messages based on some other characteristic (such as the location of a specific sensor). There would be better ways to achieve those kind of things than looking at node identities.
Asked: 2022-12-14 05:29:11 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 14 '22
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