startTask.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python
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## Simple demo of a rospy service client that calls a service to add
## two integers. 

PKG = 'launchman' # this package name

import roslib; roslib.load_manifest(PKG) 

import sys
import os
import string

import rospy

# imports the AddTwoInts service 
from launchman.srv import *

def startTask(task):
    rospy.wait_for_service('start_task')
    
    try:
        # create a handle to the add_two_ints service
        start_task = rospy.ServiceProxy('start_task', StartTask)
        resp1 = start_task(task, "hassan")

        return resp1.status
    except rospy.ServiceException, e:
        print "Service call failed: %s"%e

if __name__ == "__main__":
  startTask(sys.argv[1])