actionlib [WIP]

Package Summary

A pure go implementation for ROS action library built on top of ROSGO. This package is unstable and the API can change in future.

Prerequisites

This library uses messages GoalID, GoalStatus and GoalStatusArray from actionlib_msgs package. Please generate Go code for the messages in actionlib_msgs package and place them in your $GOPATH/src.

Use the following commands after install gengo.

gengo -out=$GOPATH/src msg actionlib_msgs/GoalID
gengo -out=$GOPATH/src msg actionlib_msgs/GoalStatus
gengo -out=$GOPATH/src msg actionlib_msgs/GoalStatusArray

Status

This package implements all the features of actionlib library but is still very unstable and is still a work in progress to fix known issues and make this packge more robust. Following are the features that are implemented and what's to be added in the future.

Implemented

• Action Client
• Action Server
• Simple Action Client
• Simple Action Server
• Client Goal Handler
• Server Goal Handler
• Go code generation from action definitons

To Be Added

• Tests
• Documentation
• Fix for golint issues
• Go mod

How To Use

Examples of client and server usage can be found in rosgo/test folder.