[Gazebo7] VisualPlugins are deprecated source strings

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Original report (archived issue) by Dave Coleman (Bitbucket: Dave Coleman).

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The gazebo_ros_video plugin outputs SDF deprecation warnings:

Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].

Using the following XML:

  <!-- Screen Display -->
  <gazebo reference="display">
    <visual>
        <plugin name="screen_video_controller" filename="libgazebo_ros_video.so">
          <height>600</height>
          <width>1024</width>
          <topicName>/robot/xdisplay</topicName>
          <robotNamespace>/robot</robotNamespace>
        </plugin>
    </visual>
  </gazebo>

I have replicated this bug with Baxter and RRBot. I then tried the non-ROS worlds/blink_visual.world example created by @chapulina and found the same warnings:

Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].
Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].
Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].
Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].
Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].
Warning [parser.cc:437] Converting a deprecated SDF source[data-string].

I notice that his pull request was merged into Gazebo 7 last July but the example world is not available in my Ubuntu debian install of Gazebo, as reported here. Is there a pending update of Gazebo 7 that will fix this? How can I supress this URDF/SDF warning?

Related PR in gazebo_ros_pkgs

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Original comment by Dave Coleman (Bitbucket: Dave Coleman).

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• Edited issue description

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Original comment by Dave Coleman (Bitbucket: Dave Coleman).

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I have confirmed this problem persists in the latest Gazebo 7 version from OSRF Debians (7.5.0)

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Original comment by Ian Chen (Bitbucket: Ian Chen, GitHub: iche033).

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pull request #2646 should fix it

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Original comment by Louise Poubel (Bitbucket: chapulina, GitHub: chapulina).

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• changed state from "new" to "resolved"

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Original comment by Dave Coleman (Bitbucket: Dave Coleman).

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Thanks @iche033!