Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Java)

asked 2014-01-23 13:44:26 -0600

updated 2014-01-31 07:23:19 -0600

I'm going through the three rosjava tutorials at http://wiki.ros.org/rosjava .

I successfully reached the end of Creating Rosjava Packages, and I am now attempting to fill in apparent gaps between that tutorial and the third, Unofficial Messages.

Specifically, I am hoping to find a Java version of Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (C++) and Writing a Simple Service and Client (C++), along with information about running the resultant Java-based nodes, as in the associated "Examining" tutorials that follow those above.

Could someone point me in the right direction or verify that such information is not yet available?

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What was the blocker here at this last step?

Daniel Stonier ( 2014-01-24 12:25:16 -0600 )edit

FYI, the above comment was only relevant to an intermediate version of this question. See my answer below for a link to the directions I was seeking.

bradknox ( 2014-01-31 16:32:32 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-01-31 07:28:08 -0600

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After discussing this question with Daniel Stonier over email, I received directions that got me to (1) having a compiled publisher and a compiled subscriber and (2) running them as ROS nodes.

I added a tutorial page that documents the additional steps needed. The page is Writing a Simple Publisher and Subscriber (Java) and is now in the tutorial sequence at http://wiki.ros.org/rosjava .

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answered 2014-01-23 14:54:26 -0600

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Hi, this link contains links to getting started documentation relating to rosjava core and android core, mainly for porting ros applications to android. It has the basic examples you are after.

I've used these guides when the released early 2013, if there is an update to rosjava, these should still be relevant.

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Thanks, Peter. I found some newer documentation at http://rosjava.github.io/rosjava_core/latest/index.html, covering rosjava_core 0.1.6 (instead of 0.0.0). In particular, "Getting Started" gives helpful code, though it seems to not cover all of the current rosjava features (e.g., no catkin_make).

bradknox ( 2014-01-24 09:10:04 -0600 )edit

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The rosjava docs pretty much concentrate on java-gradle workflows right now, the wiki docs cover the various ways you can integrate rosjava (sources or debs in a ros environment or a totally non-ros maven environment).

Daniel Stonier ( 2014-01-24 12:27:33 -0600 )edit

I was building for Android deployment so gradle for build was about as much as I used the gradle system except if I created a new msg. One thing that didn't work in ROSJava 0.0.0 was the Action Server and messages. Do you know if it works now? Otherwise you'll have problems integrating.

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answered 2014-01-24 12:24:51 -0600

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updated 2014-01-28 22:59:36 -0600

The catkin_make and gradle workflows are compatible, but probably haven't been explained very well. There was just a very brief comment on the installation page. I just added a section to the creating rosjava packages tutorial. I'll paste below just in case that link ever moves:

You can of course keep doing entire workspace recompiles every time you make an edit with catkin_make, but you can speed things up. Just as running ''make'' in build project folders for c++ will only make the targets you're interested in, you can do the same for rosjava with ''gradle''.

Source devel/setup.bash - this makes sure all the environment variables are correctly set.
From the root of your gradle super projects run './gradlew tasks' and pick the task you want to build (hint: check CMakeLists.txt).
From a gradle subprojects, use '../gradlew' instead.

Some extra information on getting to the point of being able to provide the finishing touches of an executable java project are being discussed in this thread on the ros-sig-java google group.

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Thanks, Daniel. Your answer adds clarity to the build process.

bradknox ( 2014-01-27 08:17:25 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-01-30 20:13:12 -0600

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I was also facing the same problem. So I just downloaded the entire rosjava_core-hydro folder from github https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_co... . This folder contains another sub folder called rosjava_tutorial_pubsub. Now when you enter into the build folder of this package you will find that the path matches exactly with what is given on the snapshot documentation which is

source your devel/setup.bash roscd rosjava_core cd rosjava_tutorial_pubsub ../gradlew installApp roscore & ./build/install/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub/bin/rosjava_tutorial_pubsub org.ros.rosjava_tutorial_pubsub.Talker

You can now run these commands and see hello world being passed from your talker.java to listener.java.

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This is exactly the kind of answer I would have needed if Daniel Stonier didn't help me work with the deb installation. I expect it will be useful for others to see. Thanks!

bradknox ( 2014-01-31 07:29:42 -0600 )edit

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