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The Robot Code for the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition INFINITE RECHARGE
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Constant management on multiple robots #31

Closed Zinka010 closed 4 years ago

Zinka010 commented 4 years ago

We need some sort of way to not have to change the code every time we deploy on different robots.

A file like robot-config on the roboRIO is one possible solution which worked extremely well in the past.

kevlam2706 commented 4 years ago

I liked how we did it in the past. My only concern is the additional levels of indirection required - if you know what I mean. However, it worked, so feel free to bring it forward as-is unless you prefer a different way.

georgetzavelas commented 4 years ago

How about exploring the use of a .properties file?

Zinka010 commented 4 years ago

@kevlam2706 I'm not super sure what you mean by indirection. Is it the annoyance of having to SSH into the roboRIO and create the file or more over the having the robot specific generic?

kevlam2706 commented 4 years ago

I take it back. I was thinking of the way we used to do constants before they did the FluidConstants. There used to be a few arrays that you had to define your constant (and the keys) before you could finally use it.

I like what they were trying to do with FluidConstant where these values were constants, but editable on the Shuffleboard or SmartDashboard. I don't know if we need ALL of our robot constants to be this fluid (a fluid constant seems to be an oxymoron) but we should give some thought to how we can define things like PID values in a way that we can edit them quickly if we need to do testing and calibrating.

On 1/14/20, JustinToft notifications@github.com wrote:

@kevlam2706 I'm not super sure what you mean by indirection. Is it the annoyance of having to SSH into the roboRIO and create the file or more over the having the robot specific generic?

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kevlam2706 commented 4 years ago

This seems to be done and working.