The current DS thread model has some pretty major issues. It makes it difficult to know if all data is from the same remote packet, and if the data changes while the robot loop is running. Additionally, the DS thread is used for a few other things (MotorSafety and State Tracking for EducationalRobot). This also makes sim difficult, as user code has to wait for the thread to know it has new data.
This change completely rethinks how threading works in the driver station model.
First, the DS HAL system receives a new data callback, either from Netcomm or DriverStationSim. Inside the context of this callback, all the low latency data is read and put into a cache. Doing some investigation on the robot side, this is perfectly safe to do, and also ensures a ds packet will not be parsed before we finish reading the current packet data.
After all data is read, the cache is swapped with a 2nd buffer. This buffer just stores the data, none of the HAL DS calls read from this buffer. An event is then fired, stating there is new data ready to go.
Robot code calls HAL_UpdateDSData(). This swaps the 2nd buffer with a 3rd buffer, which always contains the current data. This data will not be updated until HAL_UpdateDSData is called again. Which solves the state problem.
The high level driver station classes have. an updateData() call, which calls HAL_UpdateDSData, and then update button state variables, then data log and update the NT FMS data table (Java also caches across the JNI boundary here, but that could trivially be removed). An extra event provider is provided, allowing other threads to know when this call has been completed.
IterativeRobotBase calls DS.updateData() at the beginning of each loop, and only once per loop. This means all commands will always have the same state.
All of this means there is no longer a DS thread. Everything happens synchronously. This means Sim and testing is easier, as you can just call DriverStationSim.NotifyNewData(), and then DriverStation.UpdateData(), and you can guarantee that all the DriverStation.*** data is up to date.
As for Motor Safety and Educational Robot State Handling, those can all be handled by their own threads. The Educational Thread only needs to run under EducationalRobot, and MotorSafety will only be started if there is a motor safety object enabled.
This is enabled by the C++20 __VA_OPT__ feature.
Uses of "{}" format string were updated.
Some warning suppressions were required for older clang versions.
Also improve codegen of wpi::Logger::Log(), frc::ReportError(), and frc::MakeError();
these generate better and less redundant code if they use fmt::string_view for the
format string instead of templating on it.
* Use explicit this capture required by C++20
* Use C++20 span
* Replace wpi::numbers with std::numbers
* Fix C++20 clang-tidy warning false positive in fmt
* Remove ciso646 include since C++20 removed that header
* Fix global-buffer-overflow asan warnings in ntcore tests
* Add DIOSetProxy constructor to HAL
* Upgrade MSVC compiler to 2022
* Bump native-utils to 2023.2.7 (changes to std=c++20)
Co-authored-by: Peter Johnson <johnson.peter@gmail.com>
The existing raw time has an issue where it jumps around, as in the FPGA if the frequency is not a multiple or divisor of 25 Mhz it jumps around by 1 every second. While waiting on an FPGA change, update the API to make raw output give nanoseconds rather then a scaled value. This does a longer read cycle to get the correct value, but in the future if a fast FPGA function is added this can be easily changed.
Checkstyle naming conventions were changed to allow most of what's in
wpimath. Naming rules were disabled completely in wpimath since almost
all suppressions are for math notation.
SPI Mode setting was very broken. MSB and LSB sets did not work (MSB is the only one supported)
and if LSB was set (which was the default) the ioct to set clock phase would fail. This
deprecates all the individual functions, the LSB/MSB functions, and adds an SPI mode selection
function. This is usually more understandable, and shows up in a lot more documentation
This causes setVoltage to be called on the lower level motor contollers,
which is benefical in cases when they are smart motor controllers.
Previously, the default implementation (using the bus voltage and
calling set()) was used in this case.
This does slightly pessimize the case when the lower level motor
controllers use the default setVoltage implementation, but given the
prevalence of smart motor controllers, this seems like an overall win.
The FPGA API takes microseconds directly, instead of a scaled value. Also add a new HAL level API to trigger multiple DIOs with the same pulse at once.
Now, implicit narrowing conversions are only used with wpi::Now(). This
also fixes clang-tidy warnings about C-style casts. For example:
```
== clang-tidy /__w/allwpilib/allwpilib/wpilibNewCommands/src/main/native/include/frc2/command/SwerveControllerCommand.inc ==
/__w/allwpilib/allwpilib/wpilibNewCommands/src/main/native/include/frc2/command/SwerveControllerCommand.inc:95:18: warning: C-style casts are discouraged; use static_cast/const_cast/reinterpret_cast [google-readability-casting]
auto curTime = units::second_t(m_timer.Get());
^
```
In that case at least, the cast was removed entirely since Get() already
returns a units::second_t.
fmt removed fmt::make_args_checked since it's no longer needed for
constexpr format string checks.
fmt deprecated implicit conversions from enums to integers in format
arguments, so I added explicit static casts.
PMD requires that variables only initialized in the constructor be
final. The compiler errors if those final variables aren't guaranteed to
be initialized, so extra else branches were added to ensure that.
PMD also requires that classes with only private constructors be final.
The equivalent C++ classes were finalized as well, except for
TimeInterpolatableBuffer because it doesn't expose factory functions.
This creates a default log file that captures NT changes and
automatically renames the log file based on time and match info.
DriverStation joystick logging will be implemented by the DriverStation
class instead.
SetPositionOffset was added. Been requested multiple times, and easy to implement.
The javadocs mentioned GetPositionInRotation. It has tripped up many people how to get the absolute position from the encoder (You currently have to have precreated the DutyCycle object). Add this method (as GetAbsolutePostition) to make this easier to do.
The checks for making sure a matching set of values was read was doing direct double comparisions. This worked ok in the DutyCycle case, but has problems in the analog case. Solve this by using an epsilon comparison.
And finally, scale AnalogEncoders analog input to 0-1 instead of 0-5. This was reported a few years ago, but the issue was missed. This caused the encoder to count from 0-5, then 1-6, then 2-7 etc. This is solved and now works correctly.
Closes#3188Closes#4046Closes#4051
And fixes the following issue on CD
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/wpilib-analogencoder-java/372649
