rclnodejs v1.4.0

Feature added

• Support .idl files for ROS message/service/action (#1181) , like:

Input file JointState.idl:

#include "std_msgs/msg/Header.idl"

module sensor_msgs {
  module msg {
    struct JointState {
      std_msgs::msg::Header header;
      sequence<string> name;
      sequence<double> position;
      sequence<double> velocity;
      sequence<double> effort;
    };
  };
};

Output JointState.msg:

# JointState.msg
# Generated from IDL file

std_msgs/Header header
string[] name
float64[] position
float64[] velocity
float64[] effort

To generate messages from IDL files, use the generate-messages-idl npm script:

npm run generate-messages-idl

Documentation

Reorg the README structure (#1182)