rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
jazzy

API Docs
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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
kilted

API Docs
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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
rolling

API Docs
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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

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ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
Browse Code

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
Browse Code

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
Browse Code

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

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No message files found.

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humble

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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

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No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
iron

API Docs
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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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humble

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Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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ROS Distro
humble

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Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
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Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

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Services

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Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

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humble

API Docs
Browse Code
Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

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ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
Browse Code
Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

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rosx_introspection package from rosx_introspection repo

rosx_introspection

ROS Distro
humble

API Docs
Browse Code
Wiki

Package Summary

Version	2.0.1
License	MIT
Build type	CATKIN
Use	RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI	https://github.com/facontidavide/rosx_introspection.git
VCS Type	git
VCS Version	master
Last Updated	2025-10-01
Dev Status	DEVELOPED
Released	RELEASED
Contributing	Help Wanted (-) Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-)

Package Description

Parse any ROS/ROS2 message without compile-time information

Maintainers

Davide Faconti

Authors

Davide Faconti

README.md

ROS X Introspection

Unified successor of the following libraries:

The library compiles either using:

ROS1 (catkin),
ROS2 (colcon/ament) or
without any ROS dependency (vanilla cmake).

To parse any ROS message at runtime, it requires:

The name of the type (for instance “sensors_msgs/JointState”)
The definition of the type (for instance this one),
The raw memory buffer to be deserialized into individual key/values pairs.

The raw memory buffer is usually obtained by:

rosbag::MessageInstance and Topic::ShapeShifter in ROS1.
GenericSubscriber or rosbag2_storage::SerializedBagMessage on ROS2.
MCAP.

Python binding

Compilation instructions:

cmake -S. -B build_python -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DROSX_PYTHON_BINDINGS=ON
cmake --build build_python

If you have a rosbag (MCAP file) you can test it with this command

PYTHONPATH=build_python/python python3 python/mcap_ros_parser.py path_to_your_rosbag.mcap

Note that we are providing the folder where the dynamic library is using PYTHONPATH.

CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

Merge pull request #21 from bryzhao/fix/scikit-build-core-compatibility Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Fix CMakeLists to support scikit-build-core installations
Merge pull request #20 from nealtanner/bugfix/mac-compliation fix compilation errors on mac
replace sprintf with snprintf
inline vs constexpr
Contributors: Bryan Zhao, Davide Faconti, Neal Tanner

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

optionally remove JSON support
new formatting
fix memory and add README
add python binding
NanoCDR
Merge pull request #16 from traversaro/patch-1 Add missing include of functional header in message_definition_cache.cpp
Fix issue #13
Merge pull request #11 from valgur/bugfix/clang Fix ros_parser.cpp compilation failures on Clang
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur, Silvio Traversaro

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

bug fix
add unit tests
Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

use CPM to download dependenies
Merge pull request #9 from valgur/feature/cmake-improvements
Contributors: Davide Faconti, Martin Valgur

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

New version including JSON conversion
Contributors: Basavaraj-PN, Davide Faconti, ahmad-ra

Package Dependencies

Deps	Name
	catkin
	ament_cmake
	sensor_msgs
	geometry_msgs
	roscpp
	roscpp_serialization
	ament_index_cpp
	rclcpp
	rosbag2_cpp

System Dependencies

Name
rapidjson-dev

Dependant Packages

Name	Deps
foxglove_bridge

Launch files

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Messages

No message files found.

Services

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Plugins

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Maintainers

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ROS X Introspection

Python binding

Changelog for package rosx_introspection

2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

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Python binding

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2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

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ROS X Introspection

Python binding

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2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

2.0.0 (2025-09-24)

1.0.2 (2024-07-28)

1.0.1 (2024-06-29)

1.0.0 (2024-06-26)

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ROS X Introspection

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2.0.1 (2025-10-01)

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