API review

Proposer: Wim Meeussen

Present at review:

• List reviewers

Question / concerns / comments

Vijay

• You are defining parameters "joint_state_topic" and "robot_desc_param". These should be parameter and topic remappings instead:
  

  •  <remap from="robot_description" to="different_robot_description" />   <remap from="joint_states" to="different_joint_states" /> 

• Confusing have a robot_state_publisher and a state_publisher. I might rename state_publisher to be robot_state_publisher_node.
• Documentation

  • Your mainpage.dox links to a JointStateListener. If this is not part of the released API, then remove it from mainpage.dox.

  • Document what the return value of publishTransforms means
  • Document what the "~tf_prefix" does. Or maybe this is an unreleased feature?

Stu

• On the main package page, could you link to something that explains the "tf_prefix" parameter better? You just link to the main tf documentation. Linking to something more specific would be better.
• Change the documentation of the example launch file to not have the "robot_desc_param" parameter.
• There are a few corner cases of publishTransforms that I'd like to see documented:
  • What if you give joints that don't exist in the tree?
  • What if you don't give values for all the joints that exist in the tree?

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