From 8e8432dbc10a121d98bbe8855191b487077f0a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlosespicur <carlosespicur@proton.me>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 10:22:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Refs #21458: Add IDL getter for Monitor controller
 communication

Signed-off-by: Carlosespicur <carlosespicur@proton.me>
---
 .../StatisticsBackend.hpp                           | 10 ++++++++++
 src/cpp/StatisticsBackend.cpp                       | 13 +++++++++++++
 src/cpp/database/database.cpp                       |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/fastdds_statistics_backend/StatisticsBackend.hpp b/include/fastdds_statistics_backend/StatisticsBackend.hpp
index 873876f84..236cd5630 100644
--- a/include/fastdds_statistics_backend/StatisticsBackend.hpp
+++ b/include/fastdds_statistics_backend/StatisticsBackend.hpp
@@ -263,6 +263,16 @@ class StatisticsBackend
     static Info get_info(
             EntityId entity_id);
 
+    /**
+     * @brief Get the IDL representation of a data type in string format for a given topic entity
+     *
+     * @param entity_id The entity for which the data type IDL is retrieved.
+     * @return String object describing the entity's data type IDL.
+     */
+    FASTDDS_STATISTICS_BACKEND_DllAPI
+    static std::string get_type_idl(
+            EntityId entity_id);
+
     /**
      * @brief Provides access to the data measured during the monitoring.
      *
diff --git a/src/cpp/StatisticsBackend.cpp b/src/cpp/StatisticsBackend.cpp
index a05858a3f..83b8a3c46 100644
--- a/src/cpp/StatisticsBackend.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/StatisticsBackend.cpp
@@ -537,6 +537,19 @@ Info StatisticsBackend::get_info(
     return StatisticsBackendData::get_instance()->database_->get_info(entity_id);
 }
 
+std::string StatisticsBackend::get_type_idl(
+        EntityId entity_id)
+{
+    // Check if the entity is a topic
+    if (EntityKind::TOPIC != get_type(entity_id))
+    {
+        throw BadParameter("EntityId received does not match with a valid topic entity");
+    }
+    Info topic_info = StatisticsBackend::get_info(entity_id);
+    return StatisticsBackendData::get_instance()->database_->get_type_idl(topic_info[DATA_TYPE_TAG]);
+
+}
+
 std::vector<StatisticsData> StatisticsBackend::get_data(
         DataKind data_type,
         const std::vector<EntityId>& entity_ids_source,
diff --git a/src/cpp/database/database.cpp b/src/cpp/database/database.cpp
index ef5eb8730..44774b764 100644
--- a/src/cpp/database/database.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/database/database.cpp
@@ -5352,8 +5352,7 @@ Info Database::get_info(
             break;
         }
     }
-    // __FLAG__
-    std::cout << "Info:" << info << std::endl;
+    
     return info;
 
 }