On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Thibault Kruse <kruset@in.tum.de> wrote:
> 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}]}"
> $ rossrv prototype gazebo/SetModelConfiguration
> "{joint_names: [''], joint_positions: [0.0], model_name: '',
> test_urdf_param_name: ''}"
> $ rosmsg prototype tf/tfMessage
> "{transforms: [{child_frame_id: '', header: {frame_id: '', seq: 0, stamp:
> {nsecs: 0,\
>          secs: 0}}, transform: {rotation: {w: 0.0, x: 0.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0},
> translation: {\
>          x: 0.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0}}}]}"

+1

I can never remember the command-line syntax.

	brian.