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Using Class Methods as Callbacks

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Subscriptions

Suppose you have a simple class, Listener:

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  35 class Listener
  36 {
  37 public:
  38   void callback(const std_msgs::String::ConstPtr& msg);
  39 };

Where the NodeHandle::subscribe() call using a function would have looked like this:

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  75   ros::Subscriber sub = n.subscribe("chatter", 1000, chatterCallback);

Using a class method looks like this:

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

If the subscriber is inside the class Listener, you can replace the last argument with the keyword this, which means that the subscriber will refer to the class it is part of.

Service Servers

Suppose you have a simple class, AddTwo:

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  31 class AddTwo
  32 {
  33 public:
  34   bool add(roscpp_tutorials::TwoInts::Request& req,
  35            roscpp_tutorials::TwoInts::Response& res);
  36 };

Where the old NodeHandle::advertiseService() call would look like:

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  45   ros::ServiceServer service = n.advertiseService("add_two_ints", add);

The class version looks like this:

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  52   AddTwo a;
  53   ros::ServiceServer ss = n.advertiseService("add_two_ints", &AddTwo::add, &a);

For the full set of subscribe(), advertiseService(), etc. overloads, see the NodeHandle class documentation