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December 5, 2019 19:49
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Alternative implementation of get_unique_node_name for https://github.com/ros2/geometry2/pull/182
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std::string get_unique_node_name() | |
{ | |
const static std::string chars = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; | |
static std::random_device rd; | |
static std::minstd_rand g{rd()}; | |
// The uniform_int_distribution takes a closed interval of [a, b]; since that | |
// would include the \0, we remove one from our string length. | |
static std::uniform_int_distribution<std::string::size_type> pick(0, chars.length() - 1); | |
std::string s("static_transform_publisher_"); | |
size_t orig_length = s.length(); | |
s.resize(orig_length + 16); | |
for (size_t i = orig_length; i < s.length(); ++i) { | |
s[i] = chars[pick(g)]; | |
} | |
return s; | |
} |
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