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I am trying to make a simple logger that given a list of topics via a service or an action, subscribes to and logs the data from these topics. This requires me to initiate subscribers on the fly and the callback data handlers are proving not easy to get around. Any ideas?
I'm doing a similar thing at the moment. So far, it only seems possible in rospy, not roscpp. I'm using the services:
rosapi/topics
rosapi/topic_type
to get a full list of topics and msg types, then a little (lots) of dodgy string manipulation getting the correct format of topic to use with:
__import__(pkg,globals(),locals(),[topictype],-1)
(this dynamically creates a from pkg import topictype C++ doesn't seem to have an equivalent)
once you have the topic name and type, it's easy to subscribe to it. You can filter the full list by comparing against your provided list to only subscribe to topics you are interested in.
_type_name = __import__('std_msgs.msg', globals(), locals(), ['String'], -1) and then rospy.Subscriber("/some_topic", _type_name.String, callback) works for me. However is there a way to eliminate having to type String? I want to invoke the above import and be able to use _type_name directly.
Asked: 2013-04-17 03:26:57 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 12 '13
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Have you looked at rosbag?
Yes, but what we need goes beyond rosbag, we need to be able to process the data independent of ROS