I got this working with 2 updates.
1. The error message you have is because the ROS time object is being returned as this mxArray format, which is a bridge between interpreted calls and C/C++ code. I had success sticking the whole unpacking of time into a separate function
coder.extrinsic ('getTime');
[s,ns] = getTime; %get rostime
where the getTime function is defined in a separate file as
function [s,ns] = getTime
t = rostime('now');
s = t.Sec;
ns = t.Nsec;
end
2. I had to explicitly define the input/output data types for the MATLAB Function block. If you look at the toolstrip while you have the MATLAB Function code open, there will be an "Edit Data" option. Here, you can set data types for the inputs and outputs.
For example, I tried your code on a message type of geometry_msgs/TwistStamped, which creates a Bus object in the workspace. The data type you have to use is then Bus: SL_Bus_testRosMsg_geometry_msgs_TwistStamped, which you can select as shown in the screenshot below. (If you don't see the bus data types created by the "Blank Message" block, hit the "Refresh data types" option in the drop-down).
- Sebastian
