Creating a ROS subscriber within a class constructor?

asked 2012-11-09 06:06:04 -0500

Ammar
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Hello All, I have a callback to some topic that is a method of a class. This works perfectly, except for the fact that I need to initialize this Subscriber within the main() function of my node. Ideally I would like to initialize it within the constructor of my class. Is there a way to do this? In simple terms I would like to add this line to the class constructor rather than main(): ros::Subscriber sub = n.subscribe("chatter", 1000, &Listener::callback, &listener);

Thanks Ammar

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answered 2012-11-09 06:46:23 -0500

yigit
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updated 2012-11-09 14:48:45 -0500

Hi Ammar,

I think you have this problem because your subscriber object doesn't live outside its scope (constructor). You need to declare it as a private object in your class

private:
    ros:Subscriber sub;

then you can initialize it in the constructor:

sub = n.subscribe("chatter", 1000, &Listener::callback, &listener);

In the main function, when you create the object, you will have a running subscriber in your object.

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Ahhh.... Great catch.. Thank you!!

Ammar ( 2012-11-09 07:16:14 -0500 )edit

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answered 2015-06-29 03:04:55 -0500

Mehdi.

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Just in case somebody is wondering why it doesn't compile, In my case the accepted answer doesn't work and I have to do as follows:

sub = n.subscribe("chatter", 1000, &Listener::callback, this);

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