Adding MoveIt2 #include's stop VS Code Intellisense from working

[navdotnetreqs]

Description

Adding MoveIt2 #include-line(s) to C++ project stops VS Code IntelliSense from working.

• include <moveit/move_group_interface/move_group_interface.h>

  or

• include <moveit/move_group/move_group_capability.h>

Adding other libraries or #include <moveit/move_group/capability_names.h> does not break functionality.

Your environment

• ROS Distro: Iron
• OS Version: Ubuntu 22.04
• Binary build
• ros-iron-moveit 2.8.0-1jammy.20240815.154016 amd64
• Default RMW

Steps to reproduce

After having set up VS Code with proper extensions (c/c++, ros, cmake etc), I can confirm IntelliSense is working both with error squiggles and autocomplete for a test c++-file.

#include <cstdio>
#include <rclcpp/rclcpp.hpp>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
  (void) argc;
  (void) argv;
  rclcpp::init(argc, argv);
auto const node = std::make_shared<rclcpp::Node>(
    "hello_moveit",
    rclcpp::NodeOptions().automatically_declare_parameters_from_overrides(true)
  );

  auto const logger = rclcpp::get_logger("hello_moveit");

  // Next step goes here

  // Shutdown ROS
  rclcpp::shutdown();

  printf("hello world hello_moveit package\n");
  return 0;
}

As soon as I add #include for movit (from tutorial)

include <moveit/move_group_interface/move_group_interface.h>

IntelliSense stops working completely. I get no include errors. Compiles ok with colcon.

Expected behaviour

I would expect IntelliSense to keep working, and allow me error squiggles and autocompletion for objects from the MoveIt-library as well as all others.

Actual behaviour

No errors are shown, nothing is autocompleted anymore until I remove the include.

Backtrace or Console output

Same thing happens even if moveit-#include is included from another header-file (hello_moveit.h) I can autocomplete stuff from stdio, but if I add #include "hello_moveit.h" (which includes move_group_interface.h), IntelliSense stops again.

With move_group/capability_names.h it works, this would suggest that library include paths are ok.

Any ideas?

[rhaschke]

This seems to be a bug in VS Code, not MoveIt. I guess, including moveit/move_group_interface/move_group_interface.h just requires Code to perform analysis of this code, which takes a while. During this time, IntelliSense is not available? For me, IntelliSense works in the MoveIt code base.

[navdotnetreqs]

Hi @rhaschke, you are probably right, closing this. :)