On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Thibault Kruse <kruset@in.tum.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When using rostopic pub or rosservice call I often find it difficult to get
> the YAML right quickly, and a bit tedious as well.
>
> I therefore implemented a function for
> $ rosmsg prototype
> $ rossrv prototype
>
> that work similar to rosmsg show and rossrv show, except that yaml is
> returned that can be used for rostopic pub / rosservice call.

> Examples:
> $ rosmsg prototype sensor_msgs/PointCloud
> "{channels: [{name: '', values: []}], header: {frame_id: '', seq: 0, stamp:
> {nsecs: 0,\
>      secs: 0}}, points: [{x: 0.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0}]}"

+1

I find "rostopic pub" commands difficult to type by hand on the fly,
which is when they are most useful.
-- 
 joq