Plugin Inter-communication and Timing
Hi,
I have the following setup in Gazebo 2.2.5:
Plugin A publishes a .proto message at every ConnectWorldUpdateBegin event.
Plugin B: subscribes to the above message AND runs a method at every ConnectWorldUpdateBegin event. This method works on the last received message.
Now my questions are:
Is there any synchronization happening between the Gazebo message passing and raising the ConnectWorldUpdateBegin events? Can I assume the maximum delay in the messages in my setting above is one period (i.e., one update step)
Is there a mechanism to directly call another plugin's public method? Is there a reason for having the following variable private in Model.hh? (calling directly would make things more deterministic)
private: std::vector
plugins;
Thank you for your time.
G
Asked by gajan on 2014-12-05 04:52:17 UTC
Answers
The transport mechanism run independently from events, including the ConnectWorldUpdateBegin
event.
You can't call another plugin's public method directly. You can talk between plugins using pub/sub.
Asked by nkoenig on 2014-12-05 17:38:24 UTC
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