Hi

From what understand about launch file, <param> defined in <node> are private to that <node>. But the behaviour of my launch file doesn't look right to me. Here is the content of the launch file:

<arg name="num" default="2"/>                                 
<param name="~num_drones" value="$(arg num)"/>                

 <node name="A" pkg="drone_core" type="drone.py">             
     <param name="local_name_leaked" value="leaked"/>          
 </node>                                

 <node name="B" pkg="drone_simulator" type="sim.py">   
     <param name="local_name" value="debug"/>                  
 </node>

Here are what rosparam list returned for A and B

/A/local_name_leaked
/A/num_drones       
/B/local_name       
/B/local_name_leaked
/B/num_drones

So my question is, why would "local_name_leaked" show up under /B namespace?

I'm using Jade.

Thanks

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Update 1

I've narrowed down the cause. I'm reposting the full launch file for clairty

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>                          

<launch>                                                        

    <param name="~num_drones" value="2"/>                       
    <!--param name="num_drones_local" value="2"/-->             

    <node name="A" pkg="drone_core" type="drone.py">           
        <param name="local_name_leaked" value="leaked" />       
    </node>                                                     

    <node name="B" pkg="drone_simulator" type="sim.py"> 
      <param name="local_name" value="debug"/>                  
    </node>                                                     

</launch>

With this <param name="~num_drones" value="2"/>, I get:

PARAMETERS                      
 * /A/local_name_leaked: leaked 
 * /A/num_drones: 2             
 * /B/local_name: debug         
 * /B/local_name_leaked: leaked 
 * /B/num_drones: 2                   
 * /rosdistro: jade             
 * /rosversion: 1.11.21

With this <param name="num_drones_local" value="2"/> I get:

PARAMETERS                       
 * /A/local_name_leaked: leaked  
 * /B/local_name: debug          
 * /num_drones_local: 2          
 * /rosdistro: jade              
 * /rosversion: 1.11.21

Notice one has "~num_drones", one has "num_drones". I was assuming <param name="~num_drones" value="2"/> would create private param in any sub sequence declaration of <node> block. But is that allowed? It seems to do that, but also cause any parameter declared inside <node> block to "leak" to sub sequence <node> blocks.