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Operating with a dds library on i386, trying to pull samples repeatedly. I am explicitly 'reading' not 'takeing' the sample, so they should never expire or be removed.

  • Start two blackboard applications, (1) and (2)
  • Perform a read in both applications. This will return "Cache is empty".
  • Write from (1), sensor id: 1, event id: 1, value: 1.
  • Read from (1), confirm values
  • Read from (2), confirm values
  • Write from (2), sensor id: 1, event id: 1, value: 2.
  • Read from (2), "cache is empty"
  • Read from (1), "cache is empty"

It seems like I "broke" it! I believe the lifetime for samples should be inifinity (or so I have come to understand... but cannot confirm!) -- but I can't set it explicitly. topicQos.lifespan.duration is of the type Duration_t, but I cannot set it to a "new Duration_t(Duration_t.DURATION_INFINITY_SEC,Duration_t.DURATION_INFINITY_NSEC)" because it is already finalized?

public class Main {

  private static final String EVENT_TOPIC_NAME = "EVENTS";
  private static BufferedReader in = null;
  private static PrintStream out = null;
  /**
   * @param args the command line arguments
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    out = new PrintStream(new BufferedOutputStream(System.out));

    DomainParticipantFactory factory = DomainParticipantFactory.TheParticipantFactory;
    DomainParticipant participant = factory.create_participant(100,
            DomainParticipantFactory.PARTICIPANT_QOS_DEFAULT,
            null,
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_NONE);

    EventTypeSupport.register_type(participant, EventTypeSupport.get_type_name());

    TopicQos topicQos = new TopicQos();
    topicQos.durability.direct_communication = true;
    topicQos.durability.kind = DurabilityQosPolicyKind.TRANSIENT_DURABILITY_QOS;
    topicQos.reliability.kind = ReliabilityQosPolicyKind.RELIABLE_RELIABILITY_QOS;
    topicQos.resource_limits.max_instances = 100;
    topicQos.resource_limits.max_samples = 100;
    topicQos.resource_limits.max_samples_per_instance = 1;
    topicQos.ownership.kind = OwnershipQosPolicyKind.SHARED_OWNERSHIP_QOS;
    topicQos.history.kind = HistoryQosPolicyKind.KEEP_LAST_HISTORY_QOS;
    topicQos.history.depth = 1;
    topicQos.history.refilter = RefilterQosPolicyKind.ALL_REFILTER_QOS;
    // Since this is on the same computer, and being typed by a human, we can exepct source timestamps to be useful in ordering
    topicQos.destination_order.kind = DestinationOrderQosPolicyKind.BY_SOURCE_TIMESTAMP_DESTINATIONORDER_QOS;

    Topic topic =
            participant.create_topic(EVENT_TOPIC_NAME,
            EventTypeSupport.get_type_name(),
            topicQos,
            new EventTopicListener(),
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_ALL);
    exitIfNullBecause(topic, "Could not create topic");

    Subscriber subscriber = participant.create_subscriber(DomainParticipant.SUBSCRIBER_QOS_DEFAULT,
            null,
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_NONE);
    exitIfNullBecause(subscriber, "Could not create subscriber");

    DataReader reader = subscriber.create_datareader(participant.lookup_topicdescription(EVENT_TOPIC_NAME),
            subscriber.DATAREADER_QOS_USE_TOPIC_QOS,
            null,
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_NONE);
    exitIfNullBecause(reader, "Could not create reader");
    EventDataReader eventReader = (EventDataReader) reader;

    Publisher publisher = participant.create_publisher(DomainParticipant.PUBLISHER_QOS_DEFAULT,
            null,
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_NONE);
    exitIfNullBecause(publisher, "Could not create publisher");

    DataWriter writer = publisher.create_datawriter(topic,
            publisher.DATAWRITER_QOS_USE_TOPIC_QOS,
            null,
            StatusKind.STATUS_MASK_NONE);
    exitIfNullBecause(writer, "Could not create writer");
    EventDataWriter eventWriter = (EventDataWriter)writer;

    boolean loop = true;
    byte inputBuffer[] = new byte[1024];
    String command;
    while(loop){
      print("Enter action [read|write|exit]: ");

      command = in.readLine();
      if(command.startsWith("r")){
        dumpCache(eventReader);
      } else if(command.startsWith("w")) {
        writeCache(eventWriter);
      } else if(command.startsWith("e")){
        println("exiting...");
        System.exit(0);
      } else {
        println("Unknown: '" + command + "'");
      }
    }

    System.exit(0);
  }

  private static void print(String output){
    out.print(output);
    out.flush();
  }
  private static void println(String output){
    out.println(output);
    out.flush();
  }

  private static void exitIfNullBecause(Object thing, String string) {
    if (thing == null) {
      println("ERROR: " + string);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }
  private static void dumpCache(EventDataReader eventReader) {
    // Something interesting here: I can creat it with a collection as a paramter. TODO: Investigate!
    EventSeq eventSeq = new EventSeq();
    SampleInfoSeq infoSeq = new SampleInfoSeq();

    Event event = null;
    SampleInfo info = null;

    try{
      eventReader.read(eventSeq, infoSeq, 100, SampleStateKind.ANY_SAMPLE_STATE, ViewStateKind.ANY_VIEW_STATE, InstanceStateKind.ANY_INSTANCE_STATE);
    } catch (Exception e){
      println("Cache is empty");
      return;
    }

    Iterator<SampleInfo> infoIter = infoSeq.iterator();
    out.printf("| Sensor ID | Event ID | Value |\n");
    for(int i=0; i<infoSeq.size(); i++){
      event = (Event)eventSeq.get(i);
      out.printf("| %9d | %8d | %5d |\n", event.sensor_id, event.event_id, event.value);
    }
    out.flush();
  }

  private static void writeCache(EventDataWriter eventWriter) throws IOException {
    Event event = new Event();

    print("Sensor ID: ");
    String sensor_id_str = in.readLine();
    print("Event ID: ");
    String event_id_str = in.readLine();
    print("Value: ");
    String value_str = in.readLine();

    Event sample = new Event();
    sample.sensor_id = Integer.parseInt(sensor_id_str);
    sample.event_id = Integer.parseInt(event_id_str);
    sample.value = Integer.parseInt(value_str);

    InstanceHandle_t handle = eventWriter.register_instance(sample);
//    eventWriter.write(sample, handle);
    eventWriter.write_w_timestamp(sample, handle, Time_t.now());


    out.printf("SensorID: %s, EventID: %s, Value: %s\n",sensor_id_str,event_id_str,value_str); out.flush();
  }
}
Brian Cain
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The problem does not seem to be related to lifespan.

I'm not sure which DDS implementation you are using but the according to DDS spec, you are performing a zero-copy operation in your dumpCache method. Maybe the implementation that you use behaves like this if you forget to return the loan.

You should normally return_loan after a read/take with zero-copy.

So please add the following code at the end of your dumpCachemethod:

try{
  eventReader.return_loan(eventSeq, infoSeq);
} catch (Exception e){
  println("Error returning loan");
  return;
}
Ertan D.
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