Add Iceoryx introspection tool to ROS Iceoryx build

[ksuszka]

Feature request

Please add Iceoryx introspection tools to ROS.

Feature description

Iceoryx comes with very useful introspection tool iox-introspection-client which shows current utilization of the shared memory transport.

Implementation considerations

Unfortunately, Iceoryx version in ros-humble-iceoryx-* packages is not compatible with iox-introspection-client installed by the iceoryx package. Please add building iox-introspection-client to ROS build. AFAIK it can be added be enabling INTROSPECTION=ON cmake option during Iceoryx build (or by removing COLCON_IGNORE file if colcon is used for building)

[eboasson]

A good suggestion, but I don't know who is responsible for maintaining the Iceoryx build in ROS, Cyclone just depends on it.

@clalancette do you know whether anyone is maintaining the build/packaging for Iceoryx in ROS?

[clalancette]

@clalancette do you know whether anyone is maintaining the build/packaging for Iceoryx in ROS?

The maintainer is listed as "iceoryx-oss-support@apex.ai"

[eboasson]

Stupid me, could've thought of looking for that myself. Thanks @clalancette, I'll email them.

[mossmaurice]

@ksuszka Thanks for creating the issue.

I have created the respective issue in the iceoryx repository (https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/issues/2099) and will add the introspection client.

cc @eboasson

[mossmaurice]

@ksuszka

The following releases for ROS 2 humble, iron, rolling and for iceoryx itself were created, which include the iceoryx introspection:

• https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/39143
• https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/39151
• https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/39154
• https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/releases/tag/v2.0.5

Could you give it a try? Then we can close this issue.

cc @eboasson