readMessages

Read messages from ros2bag object

Syntax

msgs = readMessages(bag)

msgs = readMessages(bag,rows)

Description

msgs = readMessages(bag) returns data from all of the messages in the ros2bag object bag. The messages are returned as a cell array of structures.

msgs = readMessages(bag,rows) returns data from the messages in the rows specified by rows. The range of the rows is [1 bag.NumMessages].

Examples

Read Messages from ROS 2 Bag Log File

Extract the zip file that contains the ROS 2 bag log file and specify the full path to the log folder.

unzip('ros2_netwrk_bag.zip');
folderPath = fullfile(pwd,'ros2_netwrk_bag');

Create a ros2bag object that contains all messages in the log file.

bag = ros2bag(folderPath);

Get information on the contents of the ros2bag object.

bag2info = ros2("bag","info",folderPath)

bag2info = struct with fields:
         Path: '/tmp/Bdoc22a_1891349_146723/tp4bb54338/ros-ex96596996/ros2_netwrk_bag/ros2_netwrk_bag.db3'
      Version: '1'
    StorageId: 'sqlite3'
     Duration: 207.9020
        Start: [1x1 struct]
          End: [1x1 struct]
         Size: 16839538
     Messages: 166867
        Types: [4x1 struct]
       Topics: [4x1 struct]

Get all the messages in the ros2bag object.

msgs = readMessages(bag);

Select a subset of the messages, filtered by topic.

bagSel = select(bag,"Topic","/odom");

Get the messages in the selection.

msgsFiltered = readMessages(bagSel);

Input Arguments

bag — Messages in ros2bag object

ros2bag object

Messages in the ros2bag object, specified as a ros2bag object.

rows — Rows of ros2bag object

n-element vector

Rows of the ros2bag object, specified as an n-element vector. n is the number of rows to retrieve messages from. Each entry in the vector corresponds to a numbered message in the bag. The range of the rows is [1 bag.NumMessages].

Output Arguments

msgs — ROS 2 message data

cell array of structures

ROS 2 message data, returned as a cell array of structures.

Version History

Introduced in R2021a