DDS

class ApplicationJob
{
    WaitSet wait_set_;
    GuardCondition terminate_condition_;
    std::thread thread_;

    void main_loop()
    {
        // Main loop is repeated until the terminate condition is triggered
        while (false == terminate_condition_.get_trigger_value())
        {
            // Wait for any of the conditions to be triggered
            ReturnCode_t ret_code;
            ConditionSeq triggered_conditions;
            ret_code = wait_set_.wait(triggered_conditions, eprosima::fastrtps::c_TimeInfinite);
            if (ReturnCode_t::RETCODE_OK != ret_code)
            {
                // ... handle error
                continue;
            }

            // Process triggered conditions
            for (Condition* cond : triggered_conditions)
            {
                StatusCondition* status_cond = dynamic_cast<StatusCondition*>(cond);
                if (nullptr != status_cond)
                {
                    Entity* entity = status_cond->get_entity();
                    StatusMask changed_statuses = entity->get_status_changes();

                    // Process status. Liveliness changed and data available are depicted as an example
                    if (changed_statuses.is_active(StatusMask::liveliness_changed()))
                    {
                        std::cout << "Liveliness changed reported for entity " << entity->get_instance_handle() <<
                            std::endl;
                    }

                    if (changed_statuses.is_active(StatusMask::data_available()))
                    {
                        std::cout << "Data avilable on reader " << entity->get_instance_handle() << std::endl;

                        FooSeq data_seq;
                        SampleInfoSeq info_seq;
                        DataReader* reader = static_cast<DataReader*>(entity);

                        // Process all the samples until no one is returned
                        while (ReturnCode_t::RETCODE_OK == reader->take(data_seq, info_seq,
                                LENGTH_UNLIMITED, ANY_SAMPLE_STATE,
                                ANY_VIEW_STATE, ANY_INSTANCE_STATE))
                        {
                            // Both info_seq.length() and data_seq.length() will have the number of samples returned
                            for (FooSeq::size_type n = 0; n < info_seq.length(); ++n)
                            {
                                // Only samples for which valid_data is true should be accessed
                                if (info_seq[n].valid_data)
                                {
                                    // Process sample on data_seq[n]
                                }
                            }

                            // must return the loaned sequences when done processing
                            reader->return_loan(data_seq, info_seq);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

public:

    ApplicationJob(
            const std::vector<DataReader*>& readers,
            const std::vector<DataWriter*>& writers)
    {
        // Add a GuardCondition, so we can signal the processing thread to stop
        wait_set_.attach_condition(terminate_condition_);

        // Add the status condition of every reader and writer
        for (DataReader* reader : readers)
        {
            wait_set_.attach_condition(reader->get_statuscondition());
        }
        for (DataWriter* writer : writers)
        {
            wait_set_.attach_condition(writer->get_statuscondition());
        }

        thread_ = std::thread(&ApplicationJob::main_loop, this);
    }

    ~ApplicationJob()
    {
        // Signal the GuardCondition to force the WaitSet to wake up
        terminate_condition_.set_trigger_value(true);
        // Wait for the thread to finish
        thread_.join();
    }

};

// Application initialization
ReturnCode_t ret_code;
std::vector<DataReader*> application_readers;
std::vector<DataWriter*> application_writers;

// Create the participant, topics, readers, and writers.
ret_code = create_dds_application(application_readers, application_writers);
if (ReturnCode_t::RETCODE_OK != ret_code)
{
    // ... handle error
    return;
}

{
    ApplicationJob main_loop_thread(application_readers, application_writers);

    // ... wait for application termination signaling (signal handler, user input, etc)

    // ... Destructor of ApplicationJob takes care of stopping the processing thread
}

// Destroy readers, writers, topics, and participant
destroy_dds_application();