RobotWebTools / rosbridge_suite

Server Implementations of the rosbridge v2 Protocol

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Feature Request: Provide method for retrieving message definitions #416

Closed gkjohnson closed 3 years ago

gkjohnson commented 5 years ago

Just like rosbridge provides a method for requesting ros topic types it would be great to provide a method for retrieving ros message definitions using something like the get_msg_text function the rosmsg utility.

Specifically I'm interested in using this with Roslibjs to dynamically infer message types and help to automate some message processing on the client.

Thanks!

uahic commented 5 years ago

A bit semi-related: For typechecking however (tyepscript) I dont see how this would help during development time. What I do is to just write interfaces that mirror the message types (that helps alot for coding, especially autocompletion) but yeah... alot of manual typing. Hence -> typescript ;)

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gkjohnson commented 3 years ago

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jtbandes commented 3 years ago

For ROS 2, see also #574 and https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/1159