Jacob Perron

It is now properly included in the rosidl dependency chain. **This should not be backported to Humble or earlier.** It is only available in Rolling, pending https://github.com/ros2/rosidl_defaults/pull/22

"Using parameters in a class" tutorials having inconsistent node names

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This is more of a nitpick, but the default names of the nodes in the parameter class tutorials are inconsistent. The C++ tutorials uses the name `parameter_node` and the Python...

ROS Actions

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This ticket is to track adding support for ROS actions to ros2_java. Some early work related to code generation for actions was done in #66, #76, and #108. There has...

They are now available on PyPI.

MultiThreadedExecutor does not process callbacks asynchronously

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Each callback is guarded by mutex, so even though they are happening in different threads, they are processed in series: https://github.com/ros2-java/ros2_java/blob/ae5edaa0f07f14938913bb5e395544e3ca4d91c5/rcljava/src/main/java/org/ros2/rcljava/executors/MultiThreadedExecutor.java#L85-L87 I proposed a patch to actually execute callbacks in...

Use member classes for service and action child interfaces

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In short, I think it is more intuitive for users to reference Request, Response, Goal, Feedback, and Result interfaces as members of the top-level interface instead of having them as...

Use array instead of List for ROS message types

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This builds on #151. Switching from `java.util.List` to arrays significantly improves performance when converting from C to Java types. Though, for some applications it is still nice to use a...

Useful for getting the current time from the Clock instance. This is a prerequisite for the action server implementation.

Support ROS time

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The ROS 2 design document [Clock and Time](http://design.ros2.org/articles/clock_and_time.html) describes "ROS time" and its relation to the node parameter `use_sim_time`. This ticket is to implement the design of ROS time in...