Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

1.5.0

Added

  • Added a wait event to close on IronPython to ensure the close request is sent before returning.

Changed

Fixed

  • Fixed reconnection behavior on IronPython which would trigger reconnects even after a manual disconnect.

Deprecated

Removed

1.4.2

Added

Changed

  • Added tls to the twisted requirement (#111).

Fixed

Deprecated

Removed

1.4.1

Added

Changed

Fixed

  • Fixed bug with action client/server and now they work as expected.

  • Fixed Python 2.7 incompatibilities introduced in 1.4.0.

Deprecated

Removed

1.4.0

Added

Changed

  • Switched to black for python code formatting.

  • Fix incompatible settings between black and flake8.

  • Updated Github Actions workflows to remove python 3.6 builds.

  • Replaced occurrences of raise Exception with more specific Exception subclasses.

Fixed

Deprecated

Removed

1.3.0

Added

  • Added function to set the default timeout value.

  • Added ROS host and port parameters to the command-line interface.

Fixed

  • Fixed #87 where a goal could be marked as terminal on result alone rather than both result and status.

  • Ensure input of Time is always two integers.

1.2.1

Added

Changed

Fixed

  • Fixed blocking issues on the Twisted/Autobahn-based implementation of websockets.

Deprecated

Removed

1.2.0

Changed

  • Changed behavior: Advertising services automatically reconnect when websockets is reconnected.

  • References to ROS master change to ROS.

Added

  • Added Header and Time data types.

  • Added ROS API method to retrieve current ROS time: ros.get_time.

1.1.0

Added

  • Added set_initial_delay, set_max_delay and set_max_retries to RosBridgeClientFactory to control reconnection parameters.

  • Added closing event to Ros class that gets triggered right before closing the connection.

1.0.0

Changed

  • Changed behavior: Topics automatically reconnect when websockets is reconnected.

Added

  • Added blocking behavior to more ROS API methods: ros.get_nodes and ros.get_node_details.

  • Added reconnection support to IronPython implementation of websockets.

  • Added automatic topic reconnection support for both subscribers and publishers.

Fixed

  • Fixed reconnection issues on the Twisted/Autobahn-based implementation of websockets.

0.7.1

Fixed

  • Fixed blocking service calls for Mac OS.

0.7.0

Changed

  • The non-blocking event loop runner run() now defaults to 10 seconds timeout before raising an exception.

Added

  • Added blocking behavior to ROS API methods, e.g. ros.get_topics.

  • Added command-line mode to ROS API, e.g. roslibpy topic list.

  • Added blocking behavior to the Param class.

  • Added parameter manipulation methods to Ros class: get_param, set_param, delete_param.

0.6.0

Changed

  • For consistency, timeout parameter of Goal.send() is now expressed in seconds, instead of milliseconds.

Deprecated

  • The timeout parameter of ActionClient() is ignored in favor of blocking until the connection is established.

Fixed

  • Raise exceptions when timeouts expire on ROS connection or service calls.

Added

  • Support for calling a function in a thread from the Ros client.

  • Added implementation of a Simple Action Server.

0.5.0

Changed

  • The non-blocking event loop runner now waits for the connection to be established in order to minimize the need for on_ready handlers.

Added

  • Support blocking and non-blocking service calls.

Fixed

  • Fixed an internal unsubscribing issue.

0.4.1

Fixed

  • Resolve reconnection issues.

0.4.0

Added

  • Add a non-blocking event loop runner.

0.3.0

Changed

  • Unsubscribing from a listener no longer requires the original callback to be passed.

0.2.1

Fixed

  • Fix JSON serialization error on TF Client (on Python 3.x).

0.2.0

Added

  • Add support for IronPython 2.7.

Changed

  • Handler on_ready now defaults to run the callback in thread.

Deprecated

  • Rename run_event_loop to the more fitting run_forever.

0.1.1

Fixed

  • Minimal documentation fixes.

0.1.0

Added

  • Initial version.