HelloWorld keys steps¶

The Hello World! example has a minimal ‘data layer’ with a data model made of one data type Msg that represents keyed messages.

To exchange data with Eclipse Cyclone DDS, applications’ business logic needs to:

Declare its participation and involvement in a DDS domain. A DDS domain is an administrative boundary that defines, scopes, and gathers all the DDS applications, data, and infrastructure that must interconnect by sharing the same data space. Each DDS domain has a unique identifier. Applications declare their participation within a DDS domain by creating a Domain Participant entity.
Create a Data topic with the data type described in a data model. The data types define the structure of the Topic. The Topic is therefore, an association between the topic’s name and a datatype. QoSs can be optionally added to this association. The concept Topic therefore discriminates and categorizes the data in logical classes and streams.
Create the Data Readers and Writers entities specific to the topic. Applications may want to change the default QoSs. In the Hello world! Example, the ReliabilityQoS is changed from its default value (Best-effort) to Reliable.
When the previous DDS computational entities are in place, the application logic can start writing or reading the data.

At the application level, readers and writers do not need to be aware of each other. The reading application, now called Subscriber, polls the data reader periodically until a publishing application, now called The publisher writes the required data into the shared topic, namely HelloWorldData_Msg.

The data type is described using the OMG IDL language located in the HelloWorldData.idl file and is the data model of the example.

This data model is preprocessed and compiled by the IDL Compiler to generate a C representation of the data as described in Chapter 2. These generated source and header files are used by the HelloworldSubscriber.c and HelloworldPublishe.c programs to share the Hello World! Message instance and sample.

This data model is preprocessed and compiled by Cyclone DDS C++ IDL-Compiler to generate a C++ representation of the data as described in Chapter 6. These generated source and header files are used by the HelloworldSubscriber.cpp and HelloworldPublisher.cpp application programs to share the Hello World! Message instance and sample.