Changelog

0.8.1 (2016-06-17)

• handle flip problems when connections go down

0.8.0 (2015-10-10)

• many gateway connection bugfixes
• gateway tests again functional

0.7.9 (2015-07-09)

• add rosgraph dependency
• import rosgraph to handle MasterError
• skipps if node is not availalble
• update
• xmlrpc uri is also recorded now
• add xmlrpc in node
• refactoring
• refactoring flipp updates
• refactoring ros service callback functions closes #307
• add more prints to investigate insecure pickle closes #302
• increase hubconnection socket timeout to resolve frequent hub disengagement closes #301
• [rocon_gateway] some new convenience args.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier, Jihoon Lee, dwlee

0.7.8 (2015-04-27)

• fix the wrong message format parsing. closes #297
• Contributors: Jihoon Lee

0.7.7 (2015-03-23)

• [rocon_gateway] make local gateway information available immediately.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier

0.7.6 (2014-11-21)

• [rocon_gateway] bugfix gateway param setting
• [rocon_gateway] hint to the user what environment variable needs to be set if using multiple interfaces.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier

0.7.5 (2014-09-23)

• Merge branch 'cyclic_flip' of https://github.com/robotics-in-concert/rocon_multimaster into cyclic_flip
• updating logic to store filtered flip
• Merge branch 'indigo' into cyclic_flip
• Hints for the ignorant.
• cleanup
• now it prevents cyclic flips. it addresses #283. Fix #283
• it was silently ignoring if topic being flipped does not have type information. Now it provides warning that it is not flippable
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier, Jihoon Lee

0.7.4 (2014-08-25)

0.7.3 (2014-05-26)

• lists instead of semi-colon separated strings for hub whitelist/blacklist parameters.
• keep trying to resolve zeroconf hubs instead of blacklisting them so we can come back from wireless dropouts, #271.
• update publisher queue_size to avoid warning in indigo.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier

0.7.1 (2014-05-06)

• fix minor graph variable refactoring bugs.
• optimized updating flipped_in_connections. closes #267
• remote_gateway_info needs more time to find the concert if launched with other nodes at startup.
• make remote_gateway_info roslaunchable.
• use a loop period in the remote_gateway_info script.
• remove the redundant (is in rocon_gateway_utils) gateway resolver from the master api
• bugfix erroneous interpretation of boolean keys on the hub, fixes #263.
• handle a socket error with a warning when user sets a wireless ip to ROS_IP.
• option for putting remote_gateway_info on a loop.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier, Jack O'Quin, Piyush Khandelwal

0.7.0 (2014-04-16)

• client to hub connection statistics
• move flip handling from pubsub channels to encrypted posting on the hubs
• disconnect/reconnect to the hub handling
• pep8 and code analysis
• catch and handle many exceptions
• multi-version support for redis servers, currently v2.2 and v2.6
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier, Jorge Santos, Marcus Liebhardt, Piyush Khandelwal, piyushk

0.6.0 (2013-08-30)

• disable uuids, tested with turtlebot, but not with turtle or chatter concerts.
• more info for error checking.
• error checking for master api register service bug.

0.5.3 (2013-07-17)

• handles for configuring and triggering the watcher loop updates.
• don't try and delete a remote gateway's advertisements for it.
• add missing dependencies on rostopic and rosservice.
• bugfix unregister subcriber update faults when subscriber has disappeared.

0.5.0 (2013-05-27 11:03)

• fix problems with new skeletonised connection index for advertising.
• better error feedback on sample errors.
• removal of almost all xmlrpc calls when indexing local connections, and a nosetest.
• move watcher thread into main thread.
• pep8 updates
• included commented disable_zeroconf in the default parameter file.
• trivial comment clearing.
• action search algorithm got patched
• udpate master connection
• gateway master connections script.
• value error handling in the gateway master api just in case someone sends us something rotten.
• trivial pep8 naming
• big cleanupa and fix of pulled interface updates.
• better remote gateway name matching for flips.
• utility wait for remote gateway.
• bugfix missing return element in ros remote service checks.
• flip updates for actions hadn't updated for multihub - bugfixed.
• bugfix remote name matching - wasn't returning with the hash name.
• use same style for names and nodes from rocon gateway tutorials.
• trivial logging update.
• add option for connect hub test in samples.
• bugfix broken hub connections via ros service.
• match uri's in the white/blacklist correctly using urlparse
• remove legacy comment.
• properly modularising rocon_gateway and rocon_hub_client
• handle uri's in the hub blacklist as well.
• handle uri's in the whitelist.
• fix error variable bug, also convert hub lists to semi-colon separated strings so we can use args in launch files.
• parameter to force disabling zeroconf if desired.
• trivial debug message formatting.
• logging to display unique name once generated.
• fix vague debug message.
• return proper objects when aborting zeroconf_scan.
• more streamlined debugging for pulls.
• avoid shutdown exceptions when calling zeroconf services.
• remove redundant unregistered message.
• remove a debug print
• convince redis to let us die peacefully.
• more streamlined debugging messages for advertisements.
• remove a print debugger
• do not add hubs that are already connected.
• no longer used
• hub_manager split into its own module.
• direct discovery merged with zeroconf discovery.
• fix remote gateway info name-type swapped wrong.
• handle disconnecting hubs and proper lock protection on the hubs variable.
• fix gateway shutdown process for flips.
• single flip working.
• bugfix typos from pep8 updates.
• checked flip all cancelling while implementing the flip all part of a flip test.
• trivial commit - pep8 updates, eclipse settings and cleaned out test graveyard.
• flip all is working, fixed a bug in the 'is all' matching as well.
• trivial pep8 updates.
• rocon pull test added.
• single pulls working.
• pull all working.
• early work on pulling.
• provide remote gateway hash names alongside regular names
• cleaned up logging, fixed cancel bug in advertise script.
• regex pattern advertisements test.
• advertisements rocon test finished.
• various patches around pulled interfaces and remote gateway info.
• python complains if you join when a thread isn't (yet) started.
• blacklist the subscribers who eventually connect to the gateway publishers as well.
• add publisher for gateway info to default interface, remove some debug prints.
• publish gateway info if public interface updates.
• advertise all watchlist working.
• local gateway info is working.
• direct and zeroconf hubs now resolving.
• more updates for multihub.
• zeroconf threading working, hub sync started.
• zeroconf threading working, hub sync started.
• background hub discovery thread.
• background hub discovery thread.
• pep8 update.
• uuid's now used to generate unique gateway names.
• 0.4.0
• remove accidentally leftover debugging prints.
• graph test, not yet working.
• bugfix gateway info for the gateway graph.
• fix error when server is found, but no hub name yet set.
• loop with a connection timeout for direct connections.
• last of gateway info latched publisher changes.
• updated subscriber proxy api for flip.
• new gateway info with latched subscriber, working...just some odd implementations to update yet.

0.3.0 (2013-02-05)

• update jihoon e-mail

0.2.2 (2013-01-31)

• bugfix, was accidentally using the firewall flag for checks while pulling.
• fix wiki links.
• catkinized.
• git ignores, comments and remove unused build infra.
• fix gateway matching for pulled interfaces.
• fix remote gateway matching for flips.

0.1.8 (2012-12-23 13:59)

• ungracefuly handling hub connection exceptions.
• eradicate unused imports.
• applied register_subscriber to the action subscribers as well.
• more expansive feedback.
• catch some errors when registering subscribers.
• typo'd some of the variable names.
• bugfix for when subscriber disappears before it can receive a server update when unflipping.
• pep8 and some cleanup.
• some exception and license handling

0.1.7 (2012-12-13)

• added xmlrpcapi calls to the action subscriber registrations.
• cancelling topics on unregistering a subscriber.
• notifies subscriber nodes of existing publishers, still to do actions and cancelling properly.

0.1.6 (2012-12-12)

• avoid building, rosbuild takes ages now.

0.1.5 (2012-12-09)

• manifest description.

0.1.4 (2012-12-08)

• bugfixes.

0.1.3 (2012-12-07)

• pep8 following...
• resolveHub to resolve_hub. resolveAddress to resolve_address
• ip advertising, uses ROS_MASTER_URI, then ROS_IP, then ROS_HOSTNAME.
• alot of pep8, also bugfix unique name prefix '/'.
• tooltips, also highlighted local gateway.
• hide/show unused advertisements working.
• it catches topic with no leading /.
• generalize re-gex matching function
• looking good, but barely done.
• bugfix flipped in connections, it was listing flipped connections.
• pep8 and started adding a graph class (aka rosgraph.graph).
• pep8 stuff.
• bugfix rocon_hub_client rename.
• rocon_utilities with the logger console added.
• pep8 for rocon_hub.
• rocon_gateway_hub->rocon_hub, client also.
• unflipping two flips at once failed, bugfixed bad variable reference.
• gateway module in src
• gateway_info now publishes huburi as well
• starting rqt graphing, but groovy is mad right now.
• convenience/prettified gateway info script.
• convenience remote gateway info script.
• move demos to tutorials, more consistent with ros conventions.
• interactive script for pulls done.
• started on the interactive pull, but getting tangled in sleep.
• advertise script done.
• interactive flip script finished.
• hacks to fix empty nodes.
• script almost where I want it, for unflips need to parse watchlist though, not flips.
• more scripting.
• some docs for master api and also clean up remote gateway info for actions.
• bugfix pruning of publishers after action list parsing.
• working towards the convenient flipper.

0.1.2 (2012-11-24 18:09)

0.1.1 (2012-11-24 15:57)

• got started, but not gotten very far with the flip script.
• advertise_all in yaml.
• implemented flip_all/pull_all in yaml, advertise_all.
• started laying out what will be used for advertise/flip/pull all from parameter configuration.
• probably buggy, but regex'd gateways seems to be working with surprisingly little work.
• probably buggy, but regex'd gateways seems to be working with surprisingly little work.
• bugfix res -> python style regular expressions

0.1.0 (2012-11-14)

• comms to msgs
• flip and pull service back to using remote rules instead of gateway, rule[] combination.
• multiple rules for pulls now working as well.
• flipping with multiple flip rule service argument (array) working, pulling broken.
• started work on the demo launchers.
• added pulled interface for the remote gateway info.
• solve th gateway registration racing condition.
• commented the wrong one
• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/robotics-in-concert/rocon_multimaster
• comments about the gateway registration racing condition, 105.
• remove zeroconf avahi dependency.
• flipped interface information now on the redis server.
• more logical rocon:gateway:advertisements key for redis, instead of rocon:gateway:connections.
• bugfix in pull error handling, also some comment fixes
• unflipping for actions.
• renaming misleading action_interface to interactive_interface
• test fibonacci server, averaging seems broken.
• flipping fibonacci action client and successfully ran server on the other end, but unflipping fails. Also regex'ing action patterns to work with fibonacci, not fibonacci/.
• remap averaging server so averaging client works (this actionlib tutorial is buggy?)
• fixed bug -- logical error in remote service checks if remote gateway does not exist
• removed inapplicable print statement
• removed empty stubs for actions in master api -- action servers/clients can now be registered/unregistered with the local master
• fixing some small bugs in the pull calls
• reordered hub api shutdown. useful incase the hub shuts down.
• moving pulled watch update alongside the public update.
• moving flip watch update alongside the public update.
• move pirate launchers back for now, too much referencing them.
• adding some action client/server tests.
• error message handling for advertise call.
• bugfix for resolving our new private hub (was by default pointing to the system hub).
• deactive flipped list for gateways that have disappeared.
• merged last of common code from flipped and pulled interfaces.
• More merging of flipped and pulled interfaces.
• starting the common active ancestor interface.
• removed a rather unused pair of functions.
• static public interfaces from yaml.
• pull interface information.
• default rules for flips and pulls. Also cleaning up gateway info ready for pull interfaces.
• remove debugging print command.
• do not uniqueify the gateway name if not necessary.
• partially doing static parameterised pulls, flips etc.
• removing cruft from master_api
• check for local service name before registering.
• synchronising lost pulls for lost gateways.
• fast pull updates.
• fast updates for advertisements.
• add firewall to the gateway info and fix a firewall bug (string to int conversion).
• early bird flip firewalling error messages.
• firewall flag on the redis server. Also cleaned up some redis handling.
• privatising hub variables.
• remove depracated hub code, broadcastTopicUpdate.
• firewall flag.
• improved watcher sleep and shutdown.
• privatising watcher thread variables.
• clearing flips and local flip registrations on shutdown.
• removed graveyard tests, started rocon_gateway_tests module for reusing test code.
• fixed license locations.
• fix flip tests, also update for rule.rule.xxx -> remote.rule.xxx in Remote.srv
• still bugs in unit test - now working.
• simplifying - moved type constants out to their own message type.
• the pull api. tested using pull-all/pull-all-cancel only. mostly a direct copy of the flip interface, though the watcher thread logic is somewhat different. seems to work fine.
• merged with upstream repo. rolled back my blacklist code as already implemented. silly me.

• 1) refactored basic messages as per discussion. 2) enabled blacklists in flipped interface (plus a couple of minor bug fixes) 3) improved some of the utils serialization/deserialization functions

• publishers and subscribers no longer contain the part connections for action_clients/action_servers
• remote gateway info now working
• re-enabled getting watchlist/blacklist back in advertise/advertiseall req. this was a useful feature and does not require a manual update
• a bit more cleanup with the advertise call
• a bit of cleanup
• refactored basic structures. advertisements working, will test flipping next.
• flipAll, unFlipAll now working with merged blacklists and updated unflipall interface.
• public_interface cleanup and multi-threaded safety, also fixed 2 minor bugs in FlippedInterface that were spotted
• merged with upstream repo
• more work on flip, flipall - almost there.
• less verbose.
• default connections blacklist from ros param list, but not using yet
• a number of bug fixes.
• got the test to a somewhat acceptable level. also fixed public in getGatewayInfo
• flip rules can now take node arguments of 1) node name, 2) regex, 3) None.
• fixed regex matching in public interface.
• checking in a couple of minor things left behind in manual merge
• flipped in registrations added to gateway info.
• manually accepting piyush's pull request (https://github.com/robotics-in-concert/rocon_multimaster/pull/81) since I forgot to actually press the pull request button.
• flip services fully working (unflip too).
• flip services working (unflip services broken).
• simplify directory structure.
• moving old implementation to graveyard. and resturcture the stack
• eclipse projects and gateway hub script started.
• initial package structure.