[ros-users] Can service answers be asynchronous?

[Josh Faust]

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> No really. Albeit actionlib provides asynchronous IPC-like interaction,
> as far as I have understood, their semantics are ones of an action in
> the robotic meaning, not of an IPC.


actionlib is probably your best bet right now.  It's not restricted for use
only with robotic actions.

Asynchronous service calls haven't been a priority for roscpp, and we're
trying to push most code away from service calls, either to actions or
something else.

Josh
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