Allow for implicitly convertable loggers as well (#2922) (#2936)

Timple · web-flow · commit 8a4cb48b2c5e · 2025-08-18T13:59:13.000+02:00
Signed-off-by: Tim Clephas &lt;tim.clephas@nobleo.nl&gt;
diff --git a/rclcpp/resource/logging.hpp.em b/rclcpp/resource/logging.hpp.em
@@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ def get_rclcpp_suffix_from_features(features):
 ) \
   do { \
     static_assert( \
-      ::std::is_same<typename std::remove_cv_t<typename std::remove_reference_t<decltype(logger)>>, \
-      typename ::rclcpp::Logger>::value, \
+      ::std::is_convertible_v<decltype(logger), ::rclcpp::Logger>, \
       "First argument to logging macros must be an rclcpp::Logger"); \
 @[ if 'throttle' in feature_combination]@ \
     auto get_time_point = [&c=clock](rcutils_time_point_value_t * time_point) -> rcutils_ret_t { \
diff --git a/rclcpp/test/rclcpp/test_logging.cpp b/rclcpp/test/rclcpp/test_logging.cpp
@@ -253,9 +253,19 @@ bool log_function_const_ref(const rclcpp::Logger & logger)
   return true;
 }
 
+class DerivedLogger : public rclcpp::Logger
+{
+public:
+  explicit DerivedLogger(const rclcpp::Logger & logger)
+  : rclcpp::Logger(logger) {}
+};
+
 TEST_F(TestLoggingMacros, test_log_from_node) {
   auto logger = rclcpp::get_logger("test_logging_logger");
   EXPECT_TRUE(log_function(logger));
   EXPECT_TRUE(log_function_const(logger));
   EXPECT_TRUE(log_function_const_ref(logger));
+
+  DerivedLogger derived_logger(logger);
+  RCLCPP_INFO(derived_logger, "successful log from derived logger");
 }
