Add rosservice for retrieving the human-readable object name

[bit-pirate]

The old household_object_database implementation offered an useful service for retrieving details about a model with a given key. Among this information was the human-readable object name, such as can. See: http://www.ros.org/doc/api/household_objects_database_msgs/html/srv/GetModelDescription.html

What would be the best way to implement this? Where should I start looking?

PS: Remember I am an absolute beginner with ORK and Ecto. I just got the tabletop pipeline running ...

[bit-pirate]

Looks like the object_information_server from the object_recognition_ros package already does something similar.

rosrun object_recognition_ros object_information_server

Unfortunately, the returned human-readable name contains the key one already provides ...

[corot]

👍 Seems easy to get the info on Python, but I failed to find anything similar on C++. 😰