How to get nodes and topics without ros running
So I tried to get my head arround how to best solve this problem but I'm probably missing a simple solution. i have a ros workspace. In this workspace I have multiple packages. And in each package I have probably multiple ros nodes.
Now what I want to do is I want to write a script that can get my all the nodes and possibly also all the publishers subscribers. Also if possible the parameters and services .
One idea of me was getting all the packages via the rospack list | workspace_name and that also works great to get the packages in the workspace.
But now the problem is how to I get all the publishers /subscribers. I know that I could get them online if the node is running via the rosnode command but how should I do this offline.
I hope I just overlooked something, I hope someone could help me what the offline methode for this is.
For additional information I'm working on ros Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04.
Why do you want to do that ? Being "offline" means that you don't initialize your nodes and publishers/subscribers and everything else so you won't be able to find anything.
I second the comment by @Delb: it would be good if you can provide some more context. Perhaps easier alternatives or more suitable approaches exist for what your ultimate goal is.