RosTooling_Extension

Overview

RosTooling_Extension is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to enhance development experience for RosTooling languages. It provides the similar content assist functionalities available in Eclipse.

Features

• Code completion for ROS files
• Syntax highlighting
• Model validation
• ROS 2 package generation
• ROS 2 node generation [TODO]

Installation

1. Clone this RosTooling repository

git clone -b esa/main git@github.com:ipa-esa/RosTooling.git 

2. Open the repo and build fatjar server + client

./gradlew clean installExtension

Testing the extension

1. Run the following command to install the extension and open the demo folder in vs code.

./gradlew startCode

2. Edit the turtlesim_system.rossystem file. Use Ctrl+Space to trigger content assist and explore the available options.

3. Once done, generate the ROS 2 package by running the command ROSSYSTEM: Generate ROS 2 Package from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

Debugging the extension

1. Open the rostooling-languages folder in Visual Studio Code.
2. Set breakpoints in the extension code.
3. Press F5 to start the extension in debug mode. This will open a new VS Code window with the extension loaded.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code (latest version recommended)
• Ubuntu 22.04 or later
• ROS (Humble or later)

Note: Windows support is buggy and is being fixed.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature).
3. Commit your changes.
4. Push to your branch.
5. Open a Pull Request.

License

TODO

Support

For issues and feature requests, please use the GitHub Issues page.

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Maintained by ipa-esa

What's Changed

• ✨ added custom service provider for vscode code-gen by @ipa-esa in ipa-esa/RosTooling#3

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ipa-esa/RosTooling/compare/v3.0.0-SNAPSHOT...v3.1.0-SNAPSHOT