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Publish/Get last message when a new subscriber subscribes to a topic

asked 2021-06-09 08:34:52 -0600

BhanuKiran.Chaluvadi
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updated 2021-06-09 08:42:30 -0600

Hi,

I have few publishers in my system, some of them publish at a pre-defined rate and other publish only when there is a change in their variable value. I was wondering if there is a way, when a new subscriber subscribes after the node has started and the subscriber should receive the last published message.

It's not related to loos of packet. It's just that the subscriber doesn't exists when the publisher published previous message.

Thank you

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answered 2021-06-09 10:35:20 -0600

shonigmann

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(With the preface that I haven't actually implemented this myself yet, so I can't guarantee that it works) it seems like setting the DDS Quality of Service setting of your publisher to transient local might do the trick. More on QoS options here

This tutorial may help with modifying the default QoS for a publisher.

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Thanks @shonigmann . I made a quick test and it is working.. But for the benefit of other people landing here: latch is the key word, Here is an example from other ros-answer