This is a set of tools for recording from and playing back ROS message without relying on the ROS client library.
rosbag is a set of tools and API's for recording/writing messages to bag files and playing/reading them back.
The C++ and Python API's are provided for serializing bag files. The C++ API consists of the following classes:
Here's a simple example of writing to a bag file:
#include "rosbag/bag.h" ... rosbag::Bag bag("test.bag", rosbag::bagmode::Write); std_msgs::Int32 i; i.data = 42; bag.write("numbers", ros::Time::now(), i); bag.close();
Likewise, to read from that bag file:
#include "rosbag/bag.h" ... rosbag::Bag bag("test.bag"); rosbag::View view(bag, rosbag::TopicQuery("numbers")); BOOST_FOREACH(rosbag::MessageInstance const m, view) { std_msgs::Int32::ConstPtr i = m.instantiate<std_msgs::Int32>(); if (i != NULL) std::cout << i->data << std::endl; } bag.close();
The Python API is similar. Writing to a bag file:
import rosbag from std_msgs.msg import Int32, String bag = rosbag.Bag('test.bag', 'w') i = Int32() i.data = 42 bag.write('numbers', i); bag.close();
Example usage for read:
import rosbag bag = rosbag.Bag('test.bag') for topic, msg, t in bag.read_messages('numbers'): print msg.data bag.close();