rclnodejs v0.18.0

Feature

• Propose making Node extendable (i.e, create Node subclasses) #753 e.g.

class MyNode extends Node {
  constructor(
    nodeName,
    namespace = '',
    context = Context.defaultContext(),
    options = NodeOptions.defaultOptions
  ) {
    super(nodeName, namespace, context, options);
    this.init();
  }

Bug Fix

• Find ros packages from ament index #747
• benchmark code does not build on foxy #739
• High CPU load if there are no registered handles #752

Others

• [AppVeyor] Update to Visual Studio 2019 #755
• Adding configuration for prettier #738
• Mitigate docker hub rate limiting #766
• remove test.js #748
• Improve RclHandle ptr free() strategy #728
• Remove the redundant test-rate.js #762

rclnodejs v0.17.0

Feature

• ROS2 Lifecycle Node (managed node) #722

  async init() {
    await rclnodejs.init();

    this._count = COUNTD_DOWN;
    this._node = rclnodejs.createLifecycleNode(NODE_NAME);
    this._node.registerOnConfigure((prevState)=>this.onConfigure(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnActivate((prevState)=>this.onActivate(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnDeactivate((prevState)=>this.onDeactivate(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnShutdown((prevState)=>this.onShutdown(prevState));
    this._StateInterface = rclnodejs.createMessage('lifecycle_msgs/msg/State').constructor;

    rclnodejs.spin(this._node);
  }

Bug Fix

• Problem with space in path #711
• Shuts down all contexts on sigint; remove g_sigint_gc #720
• Fix action support to interface_loader.loadInterfaceByPath() #730
• Fix some compilation warnings generated by: node-gyp rebuild (#734)
• Removed unused vars #741

Others

• Improve the docs & shutdown behavior when the node process is terminated #721
• Cleanup Message Generation #726
• Clean up some tests #725
• Simplify rclnodejs/index.js #737

rclnodejs v0.16.0

Feature

• Improve typing support for services #708
• Support to publish/subscribe serialized messages #646
• Update typings to support pub-sub of serialized messages #706

Bug Fix

• Segfault during generate_messages script #699

Others

• Add TypeScript syntax highlighting to README #701
• Upgrade the macOS to 10.15.5 on CircleCI #702

rclnodejs v0.15.3

Bug Fix

• Error in TimeSource subscription to /clock topic #696
• Upgrade ref-napi to 3.0.0

rclnodejs v0.15.2

Note: v0.15.2 is a hotfix version and verified by 04b1493. (2020-8-7)

Bug Fix

• Add missing type declarations for action server/client destroy methods #690
• Improve tsd generation resilency. #691
• fix: electron (#685)
• Correct the description of sendGoal function #692

rclnodejs v0.15.1

Note: v0.15.1 is a hotfix version, which fixed an urgent memory leak problem in rclnodejs and is verified by 17b9c66. (2020-7-30)

Bug Fix

• memory leaks in RclHandle and ref-napi #674

rclnodejs v0.15.0

Note: v0.15.0 has been tested against ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy Patch Release 1 by 3071fea (2020-7-21)

Feature

• multiple context support #668 #669

Bug Fix

• Use Read-write locks to protect the data shared between threads #662
• Gen 'number[] | typed-array' union in tsd files #658 #665
• fix compatibility for eloquent #666
• Align with the basic types which can be typed-arrays #670
• Fix compiling error when using Node.js v10.12.0 #678
• Fix double-free when using typed array #679
• fix use-after-free in subscription callbacks #680

rclnodejs v0.14.1

Note: v0.14.1 has been tested against ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy by 142b970 (2020-6-10)

Bug Fix

• Rename rosidl_generator_c to rosidl_runtime_c #650
• Call rcl_logging_configure/rcl_logging_fini when init/shutdown #652

rclnodejs v0.14.0

Note: v0.14.0 has been tested against ROS 2 Eloquent Elusor - Patch Release 1 by #653 (2020-5-8)

Features Added

• Add actions support to rclnodejs #630
  Actions gets supported, see detailed implementation steps here and the related examples
• use_sim_time parameter support #599
• Adds test for --log-level cmdline arg usage #608
• Adds Time#toMsg() #620

Bug Fix

• Fix all build warnings when building with Node.js v12 #618
• Fix test failures with dtslint v3.4 #622
• Disable common compiler warnings #623
• Removes compiler format string literal warning #627
• Use libuv utilities to retrive symbols #633
• Remove spdlog as dependency #641
• Remove invalid import #645
• Remove extraneous surrounding namespace from DEFAULT_OPTIONS #642

Misc

• Use clang-format (by Google style) to format C++ code #636
• Format the codebase by npm run format 711072d
• Remove jsdoc from npm package #639
• Update dependency 99ba8b4
• Reduce the unpacked package size from 4.71MB to 701kB

rclnodejs v0.13.0

Note: V0.13.0 has been tested against ROS 2 Eloquent Elusor - Patch Release 1 (2020-03-12)

Features Added

• Introducing ros2 parameters and name remapping #576
• Add Rate for #564
• Added Node#now() with test #598
• Add getLogger to Node object #591
• Add getClock to Node object #592)

Bug Fix

• Time fromMsg() fix #601
• eslint improvements #603
• Fix possible error when generating typescript definitions #600
• Fix compile errors with node v12 #582
• Replace ref libraries with v12 compatible alternates #578
• Fix v8 deprecation warnings #567

Misc

• Allow installing with Node v12 and update README #597
• Fix format script on Windows and include subfolders #586
• Use linters by lint-staged #583
• Upgrade uuid to 7.0.2