From 8e97b5e414293c5b15a8e5e50e328cee8c3f0037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:21:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a helper function which converts the template typename
 into a topic name.

---
 simgear/io/SGDataDistributionService.hxx | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/simgear/io/SGDataDistributionService.hxx b/simgear/io/SGDataDistributionService.hxx
index 92613fe0..a135ef6a 100644
--- a/simgear/io/SGDataDistributionService.hxx
+++ b/simgear/io/SGDataDistributionService.hxx
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <simgear/compiler.h>
 #include <simgear/math/sg_types.hxx>
 #include <simgear/io/iochannel.hxx>
+#include <simgear/structure/intern.hxx>
 
 #define FG_DDS_DOMAIN           DDS_DOMAIN_DEFAULT
 
@@ -67,6 +68,12 @@ public:
     // a custom topic name.
     void setup(const char* topic, const dds_topic_descriptor_t *desc, size_t size);
 
+    template<typename T>
+    void setup(const dds_topic_descriptor_t *desc) {
+        std::string type = simgear::getTypeName<T>();
+        setup(type.c_str(), desc, sizeof(T));
+    }
+
     // If specified as a server start a publishing participant.
     // If specified as a client start a subscribing participant.
     bool open(const SGProtocolDir d);