`rosmsg list` or `rosmsg show` equivalent for dynamic reconfigure?

asked 2016-02-24 07:01:22 -0500

lucasw gravatar image

updated 2020-11-21 12:06:10 -0500

Is there a way to list every dynamic reconfigure config on the system, and then show the config parameters for a specific one?

I was about to create a new cfg file for a project and was wondering if there was already a similar one in existence. This isn't a super compelling usage since there isn't a way to re-use cfg files inside other cfg files (though maybe that wouldn't be hard to add), I would either find something that works but if one parameter was missing I would have to cut and paste every gen.add into a new cfg.

It looks like locate Config.h | grep opt shows all the reconfigure files installed into opt, but the autogenerated headers aren't very readable.

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Have you looked at the dynparam command?

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2016-02-24 12:16:30 -0500 )edit

rosrun dynamic_reconfigure dynparam list shows live nodes that have dynamic reconfigure services, not all available types. It is akin to rosservice list when I want rossrv list.

lucasw gravatar image lucasw  ( 2016-02-24 17:45:01 -0500 )edit
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You're right, I misread your question. I'm not aware of any tool that can do this, but it shouldn't be too hard to create something (catkin_pkg for the pkgs with dyncfg and then some parsing of the .cfg files). Would make a nice rainy day project.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2016-02-25 02:56:11 -0500 )edit

Moved answer to comment section as it's not an actual answer.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2016-02-25 02:56:50 -0500 )edit

That would work when the source code is present, but the .cfg files don't come with the pre-built packages... but maybe all those *Config.h files (or the python equivalents) could be parsed into a concise summary- or even in the same gen.add python format so it could be cut and paste into a new .cfg

lucasw gravatar image lucasw  ( 2016-02-25 10:51:50 -0500 )edit