Changelog for package ros2topic

0.36.0 (2024-11-20)

• NodeStrategy supports node name argument. (#941)
• feat(echo --clear): add --clear option to echo (#819)
• Contributors: Guillaume Beuzeboc, Tomoya Fujita

0.35.0 (2024-10-03)

• Support multiple topics via ros2 topic hz. (#929)
• Remove TODO for OpenSplice DDS issue. (#928)
• Contributors: Tomoya Fujita

0.34.1 (2024-07-29)

• Switch to using rclpy.init context manager. (#918)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.34.0 (2024-06-17)

0.33.0 (2024-04-26)

0.32.0 (2024-04-16)

0.31.2 (2024-03-27)

0.31.1 (2024-02-07)

• Remove parentheses from assert statement. (#878)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.31.0 (2024-01-24)

0.30.1 (2023-12-26)

0.30.0 (2023-11-06)

0.29.1 (2023-10-04)

0.29.0 (2023-08-21)

• Load a message/request/goal from standard input (#844)
• Contributors: ymd-stella

0.28.0 (2023-07-11)

• Add marshalling functions for rclpy.type_hash.TypeHash (rep2011) (#816)
• Contributors: Hans-Joachim Krauch

0.27.0 (2023-06-07)

• [service introspection] ros2 service echo (#745)
• Contributors: Brian

0.26.1 (2023-05-11)

0.26.0 (2023-04-28)

0.25.0 (2023-04-18)

• remove deprecated options (#824)
• Make all of the dependencies in pure Python packages exec_depend. (#823)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.24.1 (2023-04-12)

• Expect type hash cli output in test (#822)
• Contributors: Emerson Knapp

0.24.0 (2023-04-11)

• Fix the type annotation in pub.py. (#814)
• Switch to using new event_handler instead of qos_event. (#787)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.23.0 (2023-03-02)

• avoid flaky test that subscriber might not receive the message (#810)
• Adds a [--max-wait-time]{.title-ref} option to [ros2 topic pub]{.title-ref} (#800)
• Contributors: Arjo Chakravarty, Chen Lihui

0.22.0 (2023-02-14)

• Fix some flake8 warnings related to style. (#805)
• Adds a timeout feature to rostopic echo (#792)
• Refactor common types (#791)
• Allow configuring liveliness in ros2 topic echo and pub (#788)
• Extend timeout to shutdown the command line process. (#783)
• [rolling] Update maintainers - 2022-11-07 (#776)
• a couple of typo fixes. (#774)
• Contributors: Arjo Chakravarty, Audrow Nash, Chris Lalancette, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Tomoya Fujita

0.21.0 (2022-11-02)

• Add support use_sim_time for ros2 topic hz/bw/pub. (#754)
• Use set_message_fields from rosidl_runtime_py (#761)
• Contributors: Esteve Fernandez, Lei Liu

0.20.0 (2022-09-13)

• Expand auto to the current time when passed to a Header field (#749)
• Add verbose option to echo that also prints the associated message info (#707)
• Contributors: Esteve Fernandez, Ivan Santiago Paunovic

0.19.0 (2022-04-29)

• update docs for bandwidth functions. (#709)
• Split the bandwidth functions into a get and print. (#708)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.18.3 (2022-04-08)

0.18.2 (2022-03-30)

• Add timeout to kill hanging tests (#701)
• Contributors: Audrow Nash

0.18.1 (2022-03-28)

• Add yaml dump flow style. (#698)
• Contributors: Tomoya Fujita

0.18.0 (2022-03-01)

• support ros2topic echo once option. (#695)
• Fix special case for fastrtps incompatible QoS. (#694)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.17.1 (2022-01-25)

0.17.0 (2022-01-25)

0.16.1 (2022-01-14)

0.16.0 (2022-01-14)

• Depend on launch packages instead of ros_testing to avoid circular dependency (#685)
• Add QoS history and depth information if available. (#678)
• Cleanup mislabeled BSD license (#447)
• Contributors: Shane Loretz, Tomoya Fujita, Tully Foote

0.15.0 (2021-11-18)

• Update maintainers to Aditya Pande, Audrow Nash, and Michael Jeronimo (#673)
• Updated maintainers (#670)
• Update lost messages test case (#669)
• Implementation of message filtering for ros2 (#654)
• Change default QoSProfile for pub (#653)
• Add option in ros2 topic pub to wait for N matching subscriptions, use N=1 by default when combined with --times (#642)
• [ros2 topic pub]{.title-ref} starts publishing right away. (#626)
• Fix Topic Info Test with "Infinite" printing (#616)
• Add changelogs (#635)
• QoS autodetection (#613)
• Make Lost Messages option ON by default (#633)
• Contributors: Aditya Pande, Audrow Nash, Emerson Knapp, Gonzo, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jorge Perez, Tomoya Fujita, matthews-jca

0.14.0 (2021-04-26)

0.13.0 (2021-04-06)

• Add verbose info for topic list. (#351)
• Contributors: ChenYing Kuo

0.12.0 (2021-03-02)

• Remove maintainer. (#597)
• Add option to support use_sim_time. (#581)
• Add Audrow as a maintainer. (#591)
• Contributors: Audrow Nash, Claire Wang, Tomoya Fujita

0.11.0 (2021-01-25)

0.10.1 (2020-12-08)

• Add filter option to ros2topic . (#575)
• Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.10.0 (2020-11-02)

• Update deprecated qos policy value names. (#571)
• Update maintainers. (#568)
• Fix the test to use the topic name. (#566)
• Improve the error message for invalid message types. (#558)
• Use reliable QoS for ros2topic tests. (#555)
• Add option to echo serialized messages. (#470)
• Enable --no-daemon flag for some cli tools. (#514)
• Use transient_local and longer keep-alive for pub tests. (#546)
• Add --keep-alive option to 'topic pub'. (#544)
• Add option to ros2 topic echo to report lost messages. (#542)
• Support QoS Depth and History via ros2 topic pub/echo. (#528)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Claire Wang, Dereck Wonnacott, Dirk Thomas, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Scott K Logan, tomoya

0.9.5 (2020-06-01)

• Guard against passing None to rclpy subscriber. (#520) * Guard against passing None to rclpy subscriber Fixes #519
  • Add regression test
• Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.9.4 (2020-05-26)

• Use consistent quotes in help messages. (#517) Using single quotes inside double quotes is consistent with the other CLI help messages.
• Fix typo in [ros2 topic delay]{.title-ref} help. (#510)
• Contributors: Audrow Nash, Jacob Perron

0.9.3 (2020-05-13)

• Make CLI more robust to discovery latency. (#494)
• Contributors: Michel Hidalgo

0.9.2 (2020-05-08)

0.9.1 (2020-05-06)

• Fix expectation of "Incompatible QoS" messages in unit test. (#496)
• Contributors: Miaofei Mei

0.9.0 (2020-04-29)

• Implement times for ros2 topic pub. (#491)
  • Implement times for ros2 topic pub
• Stop using 'node_name' and 'node_namespace' in tests. (#498) They are both deprecated, and print warnings in CI like: Warning: The parameter 'node_name' is deprecated, use 'name' instead
• [ros2topic bw] Monotonic clock, units, fstring. (#455)
  • Use monotonic clock to avoid system time jumps
  • Fix units on message sizes
  • Make bw message easier to understand
  • Use f strings
  • Add back []
  • Update BW test regex
• Replace deprecated launch_ros usage. (#487) The Node parameter 'node_executable' has been deprecated and replaced with the parameter 'executable'.
• Skip CLI tests on Windows until we resolve the blocking/hanging isuse. (#489)
• Fix formatting of "ros2 topic info -v" output. (#473)
  • Fix formatting of "ros2 topic info -v" output
  • Improve test strictness vertical spacing of "ros2 topic info -v" output
• Added incompatible event support to ros2 topic echo and ros2 topic pub. (#410) Co-authored-by: Miaofei <<miaofei@amazon.com>>
• More verbose test_flake8 error messages (same as ros2/launch_ros#135)
• Remove ready_fn from test descriptions. (#376)
• Used get_available_rmw_implementations from rclpy. (#461)
• Add delay when retrying tests involving the CLI daemon. (#459) This is to give time for discovery to happen between the daemon node and the test fixture nodes.
• Enhanced ros2 topic info to display node name, node namespace, topic type and qos profile of the publishers and subscribers. (#385) Co-authored-by: Miaofei Mei <<ameision@hotmail.com>>
• Use f-string. (#448)
  • Use f-string
  • Remove unused variable
• Only load required entry points which improves the performance. (#436)
  • Extend API to exclude extensions from loading
  • Add add_subparsers_on_demand() function
  • Update all extensions to use the new API
  • Deprecate old API, add deprecation warnings
• Add support for showing info of hidden topic. (#423)
• [ros2topic] Use import message logic provided by rosidl_runtime_py. (#415) Connects to #218. Note that the action feedback logic in the echo verb was incorrect, resulting in a ModuleImportError. The new logic added in https://github.com/ros2/rosidl_runtime_py/pull/9 should fix the error.
• Use imperative mood in constructor docstring. (#422)
• Add timestamp to ros2topic test where needed. (#416)
• Contributors: Alejandro Hernández Cordero, ChenYing Kuo, Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Jaison Titus, Miaofei Mei, Peter Baughman, Shane Loretz, Steven! Ragnarök

0.8.6 (2019-11-19)

• [ros2topic] show default values for --qos-* Options. (#400)
• Fix new linter warnings as of flake8-comprehensions 3.1.0. (#399)
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.8.5 (2019-11-14)

• 0.8.5
• Fix ros2 topic pub --node-name. (#398)
  • Fix ros2 topic pub --node-name
  • Give DirectNode node_name kwarg
  • Not node_name -> node_name is None
• Contributors: Shane Loretz

0.8.4 (2019-11-13)

• 0.8.4
• Merge pull request #396 from ros2/BMarchi/assert_from_output_tests [ros2topic] Assert on listener node output for ros2topic cli test
• Assert on listener node output for ros2topic cli test
• Fix ros2topic test_echo_pub.py test suite. (#384)
• [ros2topic] make info verb display the type of the topic. (#379)
• Contributors: Brian Ezequiel Marchi, Brian Marchi, Michael Carroll, Michel Hidalgo, Mikael Arguedas

0.8.3 (2019-10-23)

• 0.8.3
• Refactor test_echo_pub.py pytest into a launch test. (#377)
• End-to-end test coverage for CLI commands output. (#304)
  • Add end-to-end CLI output tests for ros2:
  • ros2action
  • ros2service
  • ros2topic
  • ros2msg
  • ros2srv
  • ros2interface
  • ros2node
  • ros2pkg
• [ros2topic] Add test timeout for tests using subprocess. (#374) In case a subprocess hangs, then we are not waiting forever.
• Move rosidl implementation details to rosidl_runtime_py. (#371) * Move rosidl implementation details to rosidl_runtime_py This resolves several TODOs. Here is the PR moving the related functions to their new home: https://github.com/ros2/rosidl_runtime_py/pull/3
  • Remove dependencies on deprecated packages
  • Remove obsolete test
  • Make linters happy :)
• Expose qos durability and reliability to ros2topic echo. (#283) * Expose durability, reliability, and preset profile QoS options to 'topic echo'. Also add pytests for 'topic echo' and 'topic pub' to prevent future regressions against these new features
  • Simplify echo and pub tests to not use a timer, explicitly specify timeout parameter for subprocess calls
  • Patch stdin for windows test, and increase echo timeout for arm build
  • Disable tests for now on Windows until we figure out a proper workaround
• Contributors: Emerson Knapp, Jacob Perron, Michel Hidalgo, Shane Loretz

0.8.2 (2019-10-08)

• 0.8.2
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.8.1 (2019-10-04)

• 0.8.1
• Contributors: Michael Carroll

0.8.0 (2019-09-26)

• Install resource marker file for packages. (#339)
• Update setup.py version. (#331) Versions now match latest tag and package.xml.
• Install package manifest. (#330)
• Pass keyword arguments by name. (#317)
• Add topic pub prototype completer. (#299)
• Fix ros2 topic bw output units. (#306)
• Add no_str and no_arr options for ros2 topic echo. (#216)
  • Add no_str and no_arr options for ros2 topic echo
  • Modify argument help
• Print all types. (#275)
• Add 'topic find' verb. (#271)
  • Add 'topic find' verb
  • Alphabetical order
  • Use TopicTypeCompleter
  • Replace TopicTypeCompleter with message_type_completer
• Add 'topic type' verb. (#272)
  • Add 'topic type' verb
  • Fix doc
  • Add func return code
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Jeremie Deray, Michel Hidalgo, Vinnam Kim

0.7.4 (2019-05-29)

• Only allow window sizes of 1 and higher. (#252)
• Use system_default as qos for ros2 topic pub. (#245)
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Karsten Knese

0.7.3 (2019-05-20)

• Use rclpy qos name translations instead of defining here. (#240)
  • Use rclpy qos name translations instead of defining here
  • Use revised name mapping APIs
• [ros2topic] Update pub to use qos command line settings. (#238)
  • Update pub to use qos command line settings.
  • Clean up logic, remove type=str, add comment.
  • Address deprecation warnings.
• [ros2topic] Handle multiple namespace parts in message type. (#237) Fixes #235. Now the 'bw', 'hz', and 'delay' verbs work again.
• Fix deprecation warnings. (#234)
• Contributors: Emerson Knapp, Jacob Perron, Michael Carroll

0.7.2 (2019-05-08)

• Separate the yaml of messages with three dashes. (#230)
• Add xmllint linter test. (#232)
  • Add xmllint test to ament_python packages
  • Cover new packages as well
• Remove unused test dependency
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Mikael Arguedas

0.7.1 (2019-04-17)

• Port rostopic bw. (#190) * Copy original file for ros2topic bw porting This file is originally copied from: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/6e5016f4b2266d8a60c9a1e163c4928b8fc7115e/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init_\_.py
  • Add rostopic bw original file link

  * Port rostopic bw to ros2topic enable ros2topic bw to display bandwidth used by topic.

• Contributors: Chris Ye

0.7.0 (2019-04-14)

• Use migrated message utility functions These functions are more generally useful outside of ros2topic and so they have been moved to rosidl_runtime_py.
• Use safe_load instead of deprecated load. (#212)
• Support array.array and numpy.ndarray field types. (#211)
• Duplicate --include-hidden-topics in list verb. (#196)
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Mikael Arguedas

0.6.3 (2019-02-08)

• Fix overindentation flake8 error. (#192)
• Consistent node naming. (#158)
  • Support for easy integration with ros2 security features by starting CLI nodes with a consistent prefix.
  • Removing unneeded comment
  • Making DirectNode visible (removing hidden node prefix) to have consistent node naming for ros2cli.
  • Start all CLI nodes as hidden.
  • Shortening the default CLI node name prefix from '_ros2cli_node' to '_ros2cli'
  • Importing HIDDEN_NODE_PREFIX from rclpy, renaming CLI_NODE_NAME_PREFIX -> NODE_NAME_PREFIX.
  • Ros2node - Importing HIDDEN_NODE_PREFIX from rclpy
  • Linter fixes.
• Contributors: AAlon, Shane Loretz

0.6.2 (2018-12-12)

0.6.1 (2018-12-06)

• 0.6.1 bump package.xml, setup.py and setup.cfg versions
• Delay/hz/pub/echo work with action feedback topic
• Fix delay/echo/hz with hidden topics hz, delay, echo always check hidden topics
• Contributors: Shane Loretz

0.6.0 (2018-11-19)

• Move get_msg_class to API module The two methods get_msg_class and _get_msg_class are both used in delay and hz module, avoid cop-n-paste the code but move it into the api module and reuse it in both locations.
• Small changes to optimize code
  • Remove confused "string to" on help
  • Move import to the top of the file
  • Use local variable instead of multiple funcion call.
• Major function changes for hz cmd porting
  • Remove irrelevant code and reserve hz related code
  • Port rostopic hz to ros2topic based on ROS2 API format
• Add ros2topic hz original file link
• Copy original code for ros2topic hz porting Copy file from ROS1 and port to ros2. This file is originally from: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/6e5016f4b2266d8a60c9a1e163c4928b8fc7115e/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init_\_.py
• Port rostopic delay to ros2topic
  • Remove irrelevant code and reserve hz code (ros has only one __init_.py file include all topic commands, ros2 has splitted commands to isolated file)
  • Major functional changes of delay cmd with ROS2 API
  • Update license format to pass test_copyright
  • Use Time duration to compute the delay
  • Check window_size as non-negative integer, fix no print when set window as 1
• Add rostopic delay original file link
• Copy original file for ros2topic delay porting This file is originally copied from: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/6e5016f4b2266d8a60c9a1e163c4928b8fc7115e/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init_\_.py
• [ros2topic] use a timer instead of time.sleep. (#141) time.sleep will add the time the publish call takes to each cycle. Use a timer to avoid pub rate loss.
• Contributors: Chris Ye

0.5.4 (2018-08-20)

• Don't truncate dictionary keys. (#137)
• Fix echo sometimes printing .…. (#135)
• [ros2topic] add missing rclpy dependency. (#134)

• Fix echo for big array messages. (#126) Issue1: ros2 topic echo pointcould2(big arrays), has no response, updated the logical to make more sensible. a. (by default) full_length=false, truncate_length=128, then print max 128 (fix big arrays issue) b. pass truncate_length=X, then print max X.

  c. pass full_length=true (whatever truncate_length), then set truncate_length=None and print full_length. Issue2: missed truncate_length to _convert_value(). Since truncate_length is a key argument, pass it explicitly to _convert_value()

• Contributors: Chris Ye, Mikael Arguedas, Shane Loretz

0.5.3 (2018-07-17)

• Merge pull request #123 from ros2/limit_printing [topic pub] add option to limit printing published msgs
• Remove default node name
• [topic pub] add option to limit printing published msgs
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.5.2 (2018-06-28)

• Fix echo for nested messages. (#119)
  • Fix echo for nested messages
  • Use string representation for bytes
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.5.1 (2018-06-27 12:27)

0.5.0 (2018-06-27 12:17)

• Pass actual node object to subscriber function. (#116)
• Add pytest markers to linter tests
• Ignore F841 from latest Pyflakes release. (#93)
• Info verb for ros2topic. (#88)
  • Info verb for ros2 topic
  • Fix flake8 issues with the existing code in info.py
  • Add unit test for test_info()
  • Count publishers and subscribers in topic into
  • Add test for [topic info]{.title-ref}
  • Fix flake8 issues.
  • Address PR feedback:
  • Update the output text
  • Rename the test topic name
  • Delete obsolete code
  • Use contextlib.redirect_stdout instead of a custom decorator
  • Remove single use vars
• Set zip_safe to avoid warning during installation. (#83)
• Allow to pass a node name to ros2 topic pub. (#82)
• Print full help when no command is passed. (#81)
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Mikael Arguedas, Nick Medveditskov

0.4.0 (2017-12-08)

• [ros2topic] pub: add --repeat. (#66)
  • First shot at passing -r argument
  • [ros2topic] add once and rate parameters
  • [ros2service] add once and rate parameters
  • Simplify logic, add sleepd for once publisher and remove argparse
  • Fix spelling
  • Format default the same as argparse does
  • Format default the same as argparse does
  • Move logic to the right function
  • Mimic ros2topic and remove extra logic
  • Consistent with services
• Merge pull request #64 from ros2/add_type_completer add type completer for 'topic pub' and 'service call'
• Add type completer for 'topic pub' and 'service call'
• Remove test_suite, add pytest as test_requires
• Make sure to check errors when expanding the topic name. (#58) * Make sure to check errors when expanding the topic name. We need to catch ValueErrors when actually doing the expansion, then InvalidTopicNameException when doing the validation.
  • Switch to using the string from the original exception.

• Support non-absolute topic names. (#57) * Support non-absolute topic names. If the user passes "/topic_name" to the ros2 echo command, it works properly. If they pass "topic_name" to the ros2 echo command, it fails to match. This change just allows us to deal with non-absolute topic names.

• 0.0.3
• Fix request message population. (#56)
  • Use set_msg_fields
  • Remove unused comment
  • Move function and error definition to api module
  • Use message filling method from ros2topic
  • Alphabetical order
• Merge pull request #48 from ros2/improve_error_message better error message when passing an invalid value to ros2 topic pub
• Better error message when passing an invalid value to ros2 topic pub
• Use test_msgs. (#47)
  • Use test_msgs instead of test_communication
  • Remove unused message
  • Test all messages with fixtures
• Merge pull request #46 from ros2/flake8_plugins update style to satisfy new flake8 plugins
• Update style to satisfy new flake8 plugins
• Implicitly inherit from object. (#45)
• 0.0.2
• Merge pull request #36 from ros2/improve_error_message better error message
• Better error message
• Update test
• Truncate arrays, bytes, and strings by default, add option to show in full or use custom threshold. (#31)
  • Truncate arrays, bytes, and strings by default, add option to show in full or use custom threshold
  • Add short options
• Merge pull request #27 from ros2/also_catch_value_errors also handle ValueError nicely
• Also handle ValueError nicely
• Merge pull request #24 from ros2/recursive_msg_population fix population of recursive message fields
• Fix population of recursive message fields
• Use yaml for parsing msg and srv values. (#19)
• Merge pull request #15 from ros2/various_fixes various fixes and improvements
• Add missing dependency on yaml
• Various fixes and improvements
• Revert no_demangle option until it can be fixed. (#9)
• Refactor get topic names and types. (#4)
  • Ros2topic: use rclpy utility
  • Ros2topic: fixup
  • Ros2topic: support multiple types
  • Ros2service: initial commit
  • Ros2topic: support no_demangle
  • Fix include order
  • Missed a commit
  • Ros2service: add pep257 tests
  • Fix echo to support multiple types
  • Improve shutdown behavior of call, add loop option
  • Address comments
• Merge pull request #5 from ros2/pep257 add pep257 tests
• Add pep257 tests
• Merge pull request #1 from ros2/initial_features Entry point, plugin system, daemon, existing tools
• Add ros2topic echo, list, pub including previous tests for yaml/csv output
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Mikael Arguedas, William Woodall