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c++ api to get message md5sum from string msg type (e.g. std_msgs/Int32)

asked 2013-10-08 11:11:51 -0500

jbrindza
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updated 2014-01-28 17:18:10 -0500

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Is there a c++ equivalent to retrieve the md5sum of a message type from the string msg type?

In python you can do:

import roslib
int32_msg_class = roslib.message.get_message_class('std_msgs/Int32');
int32_msg_md5sum = int32_msg_class._md5sum;

Is there a C++ API for doing the same?

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answered 2013-10-08 15:24:30 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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updated 2013-10-08 15:25:50 -0500

In C++ you can "ask" the message type instead of using an API like in Python.

#include "mypackage/MyMessage.h"
#include "ros/message_traits.h"
std::string md5sum = message_traits::md5sum<MyMessage>();

Since you need to have the message type for that at compile time this won't work when you have the message type as a string only.

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Thanks. That is what I thouhgt, just wanted to make sure it wasn't possible to do at runtime without a system call.

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