[Rock-dev] Conversion functions creation for ROS-ROCK bridge

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 06/07/2013 04:17 PM, Pierre Letier wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> When I want to create a Rock-ROS bridge based on a own type defined in
> my Rock component, I compile the component after inserting:
> typekit do ros_mappings "Rock_type" => "ROS type".
>
> This creates templates of conversion functions in the typekit folder of
> my component. But I see there 4 functions per conversion, the two that
> are explained in the documentation (to and from ROS) but also two
> functions for conversion with "Rock_type_m" type. What is it ? Has it to
> be used ?
My guess is that you can ignore those.

The _m types are orogen-generated types that are used to automatically 
marshal "opaque types". These should not be needed since you do the 
convertion manually.

   http://rock-robotics.org/master/documentation/orogen/opaque_types.html
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Sylvain Joyeux (Dr.Ing.)
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