rosrust is a pure Rust implementation of a ROS client library.
The crate heavily uses serde for message generation macros, so adding it to the project is advised.
The following set of dependencies is needed for the full set of features:
[dependencies]
rosrust = "0.6.5"
rosrust_codegen = "0.6.5"
serde = "1.0.25"
serde_derive = "1.0.25"
[build-dependencies]
rosrust_codegen = "0.6.5"The build dependency is used for message generation.
rosrust is almost there with implementing all features of a ROS Client Library by fulfilling ROS requirements for implementing client libraries which are given in a more detailed form in the technical overview.
Mostly the missing features are related to extra tooling, like sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 and sensor_msgs/Image encoding/decoding, TF tree handling, and other things that are external libraries in roscpp and rospy as well.
The API is very close to the desired final look.
Integration with catkin will be handled once a satisfying set of features has been implemented.
The API is close to reaching its final form.
There are multiple examples in the examples folder. The publisher/subscriber and service/client examples are designed to closely immitate the roscpp tutorial.
Message generation is done at build time. If you have ROS installed and sourced in your shell session, you will not need to do any extra setup for this to work.
To generate messages, create a build.rs script in the same folder as your Cargo.toml file with the following content:
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
// If you wanted
// * messages: std_msgs/String, sensor_msgs/Imu
// * services: roscpp_tutorials/TwoInts
// * and all the message types used by them, like geometry_msgs/Vector3
rosmsg_main!("std_msgs/String", "sensor_msgs/Imu", "roscpp_tutorials/TwoInts");In your main file all you need to add at the top is:
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
rosmsg_include!();This will include all the generated structures, and add them to the msg namespace. Thus, to create a new sensor_msgs/Imu, you call msg::sensor_msgs::Imu::default(). All fields are always public, so you can initialize structures as literals.
All of the structures implement debug writing, so you can easily inspect their contents.
If we wanted to publish a defined message (let's use std_msgs/String) to topic chatter ten times a second, we can do it in the following way.
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
rosmsg_include!();
fn main() {
// Initialize node
rosrust::init("talker");
// Create publisher
let mut chatter_pub = rosrust::publish("chatter").unwrap();
let mut count = 0;
// Create object that maintains 10Hz between sleep requests
let mut rate = rosrust::rate(10.0);
// Breaks when a shutdown signal is sent
while rosrust::is_ok() {
// Create string message
let mut msg = msg::std_msgs::String::default();
msg.data = format!("hello world {}", count);
// Send string message to topic via publisher
chatter_pub.send(msg).unwrap();
// Sleep to maintain 10Hz rate
rate.sleep();
count += 1;
}
}If we wanted to subscribe to an std_msgs/UInt64 topic some_topic, we just declare a callback. An alternative extra interface with iterators is being considered, but for now this is the only option.
The constructor creates an object, which represents the subscriber lifetime. Upon the destruction of this object, the topic is unsubscribed as well.
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
rosmsg_include!();
fn main() {
// Initialize node
rosrust::init("listener");
// Create subscriber
// The subscriber is stopped when the returned object is destroyed
let _subscriber_raii = rosrust::subscribe("chatter", |v: msg::std_msgs::UInt64| {
// Callback for handling received messages
ros_info!("Received: {}", v.data);
}).unwrap();
// Block the thread until a shutdown signal is received
rosrust::spin();
}Creating a service is the easiest out of all the options. Just define a callback for each request. Let's use the roscpp_tutorials/AddTwoInts service on the topic /add_two_ints.
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
rosmsg_include!();
fn main() {
// Initialize node
rosrust::init("add_two_ints_server");
// Create service
// The service is stopped when the returned object is destroyed
let _service_raii =
rosrust::service::<msg::roscpp_tutorials::TwoInts, _>("add_two_ints", move |req| {
// Callback for handling requests
let sum = req.a + req.b;
// Log each request
ros_info!("{} + {} = {}", req.a, req.b, sum);
Ok(msg::roscpp_tutorials::TwoIntsRes { sum })
}).unwrap();
// Block the thread until a shutdown signal is received
rosrust::spin();
}Clients can handle requests synchronously and asynchronously. The sync method behaves like a function, while the async approach is via reading data afterwards. The async consumes the passed parameter, since we're passing the parameter between threads. It's more common for users to pass and drop a parameter, so this being the default prevents needless cloning.
Let's call requests from the AddTwoInts service on the topic /add_two_ints.
The numbers shall be provided as command line arguments.
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust_codegen;
use std::{env, time};
fn main() {
env_logger::init();
// Fetch args that are not meant for rosrust
let args: Vec<_> = rosrust::args();
if args.len() != 3 {
eprintln!("usage: client X Y");
return;
}
let a = args[1].parse::<i64>().unwrap();
let b = args[2].parse::<i64>().unwrap();
// Initialize node
rosrust::init("add_two_ints_client");
// Wait ten seconds for the service to appear
rosrust::wait_for_service("add_two_ints", Some(time::Duration::from_secs(10))).unwrap();
// Create client for the service
let client = rosrust::client::<msg::roscpp_tutorials::TwoInts>("add_two_ints").unwrap();
// Synchronous call that blocks the thread until a response is received
ros_info!(
"{} + {} = {}",
a,
b,
client
.req(&msg::roscpp_tutorials::TwoIntsReq { a, b })
.unwrap()
.unwrap()
.sum
);
// Asynchronous call that can be resolved later on
let retval = client.req_async(msg::roscpp_tutorials::TwoIntsReq { a, b });
ros_info!("{} + {} = {}", a, b, retval.read().unwrap().unwrap().sum);
}There are a lot of methods provided, so we'll just give a taste of all of them here. Get requests return results, so you can use unwrap_or to handle defaults.
#[macro_use]
extern crate rosrust;
#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;
fn main() {
env_logger::init();
// Initialize node
rosrust::init("param_test");
// Create parameter, go through all methods, and delete it
let param = rosrust::param("~foo").unwrap();
ros_info!("Handling ~foo:");
ros_info!("Exists? {:?}", param.exists()); // false
param.set(&42u64).unwrap();
ros_info!("Get: {:?}", param.get::<u64>().unwrap());
ros_info!("Get raw: {:?}", param.get_raw().unwrap());
ros_info!("Search: {:?}", param.search().unwrap());
ros_info!("Exists? {}", param.exists().unwrap());
param.delete().unwrap();
ros_info!("Get {:?}", param.get::<u64>().unwrap_err());
ros_info!("Get with default: {:?}", param.get::<u64>().unwrap_or(44u64));
ros_info!("Exists? {}", param.exists().unwrap());
}Logging is provided through macros log_debug!(), log_info!(), log_warn!(), log_error!(), log_fatal!().
Setting verbosity levels and throttled logging have yet to come!
Similar to rospy and roscpp, you can use the command line to remap topics and private parameters. Private parameters should be provided in a YAML format.
For more information, look at the official wiki, since the attempt was to 100% immitate this interface.
You can get a vector of the leftover command line argument strings with rosrust::args(), allowing easy argument parsing. This includes the first argument, the application name.
rosrust is distributed under the MIT license.