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Invalid Cast Error with Ros Subscriber

Discussion in 'Robotics' started by unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw, Dec 6, 2022.

  1. unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

    unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

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    Hello,

    I publish and subscribe to a ROS topic in Unity with my own msg and srv. I followed this tutorial: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Unity-Robotics-Hub/tree/main/tutorials/ros_unity_integration
    Publishing works without issues but the subscriber gets this error: I still receive the message and can print it.

    InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
    (wrapper castclass) System.Object.__castclass_with_cache(object,intptr,intptr)
    Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.ROSConnection+<>c__DisplayClass78_0`1[T].<Subscribe>b__0 (Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.MessageGeneration.Message msg) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.robotics.ros-tcp-connector@c27f00c6cf/Runtime/TcpConnector/ROSConnection.cs:194)
    Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.RosTopicState+<>c__DisplayClass56_0.<OnMessageReceived>b__0 (System.Action`1[T] item) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.robotics.ros-tcp-connector@c27f00c6cf/Runtime/TcpConnector/RosTopicState.cs:94)
    System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T].ForEach (System.Action`1[T] action) (at <c2a97e0383e8404c9fc0ae19d58f57f1>:0)
    Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.RosTopicState.OnMessageReceived (System.Byte[] data) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.robotics.ros-tcp-connector@c27f00c6cf/Runtime/TcpConnector/RosTopicState.cs:94)
    Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.ROSConnection.Update () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.robotics.ros-tcp-connector@c27f00c6cf/Runtime/TcpConnector/ROSConnection.cs:600)
    UnityEngine.Debug:LogException(Exception)
    Unity.Robotics.ROSTCPConnector.ROSConnection:Update() (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.robotics.ros-tcp-connector@c27f00c6cf/Runtime/TcpConnector/ROSConnection.cs:605)


    My subscriber:

    void Start()
    {
    //subscribe to topic name and call funtion Print
    ROSConnection.GetOrCreateInstance().Subscribe<DigitalTwinMsg>(topicName, Print);
    }

    //msg is the data from the publisher
    void Print(DigitalTwinMsg msg)
    {
    Debug.Log(msg);
    }
     
  2. LaurieUnity

    LaurieUnity

    Unity Technologies

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    Hmm, it's not obvious what's happening here. Is it just your custom message that's failing in this way? Are you able to subscribe to other message types?
     
  3. unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

    unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

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    Yes, other custom messages worked, although I only tried with a single string as a message, apart from the ones from the tutorial.
     
  4. unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

    unity_NDDcRuLP5Tq6Jw

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    The error was caused by a similar but different .srv file. I deleted it and rebuild my services and messages and its now working fine.