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Documentation: application-developer: Add camera detection check

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The simple-cam application has a check to ensure that at least one
camera is present before attempting to access the first camera, to avoid
a crash. Update the application developer's guide to match this
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
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Laurent Pinchart 2021-09-27 00:07:33 +03:00
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@ -109,10 +109,18 @@ the Camera Manager reports as available to applications.
Camera devices are stored by the CameraManager in a list accessible by index, or
can be retrieved by name through the ``CameraManager::get()`` function. The
code below retrieves the name of the first available camera and gets the camera
by name from the Camera Manager.
by name from the Camera Manager, after making sure that at least one camera is
available.
.. code:: cpp
if (cm->cameras().empty()) {
std::cout << "No cameras were identified on the system."
<< std::endl;
cm->stop();
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
std::string cameraId = cm->cameras()[0]->id();
camera = cm->get(cameraId);