* Move units into API docs instead because suffixes make user code verbose and hard to read
* Rename trackWidth to trackwidth
* Make ultrasonic classes use meters instead of a mix of m, cm, mm, ft,
and inches
The Google C++ protobuf implementation has issues with dynamic linkage across DLL boundaries because it uses global variables. It also has a compile-time dependency because the protoc version must exactly match the libprotobuf version. Using nanopb with a customized generator fixes both of these issues.
Co-authored-by: Gold856 <117957790+Gold856@users.noreply.github.com>
Splitting the files didn't help readability or save compilation time and
it confused contributors. Merging them is also in line with how C++
modules will be written.
Reading exported data from shared objects on windows is broken. It requires __declspec(dllimport). However, this is problematic, as we use the same static libraries both from a shared and static context. So we can't just blindly apply dllimport.
The linker should have caught this, as data members are exported in a different way. However, due to a bug in native-utils, data member symbols were exposed directly. However, interacting with those data member was completely broken.
The only way we can really solve this is to just not use static data members. We're pretty good about this in WPILib itself. However, protobuf is absolutely terrible at this. There are a ton of inline functions that access global data. For the protobuf library itself, we can solve this easily enough.
However, for the generated protobuf code, this is much more problematic. The member needed to bypass the global data is private. This means using just the stock protobuf code, this problem is not solvable. But, protobuf generated code has insertion points. Those insertion points let us add our own code into the generated code via a protoc plugin. And it just so happens that an insertion point exists to add extra public methodsto the generated protobuf header. There is also an insertion point to let us add to the cpp file.
The methods we need are the getters, for unpacking protobufs. For any protobuf that has a message as a member, we generate a new wpi_x() getter (the existing one is just x(), where x is the field name). We then implement this in the cpp file. A trick we can use is in the cpp file, we can safely call the x() function, as the cpp file is in the same library as the global. Thus we can call that inline method, and not actually need to directly access any internal private state of the protobuf object.
TL;DR, all protobuf classes that have messages as fields now have a wpi_x() accessor that must be used instead of x() if you want the code to work on windows. After wpilibsuite/native-utils#212, the bad code will fail to link, rather then just fail at runtime.
This makes it easier to define schemas when the type name is non-trivial (e.g., templated structs).
This is breaking for a) custom struct implementations and b) anything calling `wpi::Struct<T>::GetTypeString(info...)` in C++ directly. In both cases, it's a simple translation: For A, rename `GetTypeString()` to `GetTypeName()` and remove the struct: at the beginning, and for B, use `wpi::GetStructTypeString<T>(info...)` instead.
This implements de/serialization for the types that aren't templated (SwerveDriveKinematics) in C++ or where there is no trivial way to go round-trip (Splines) for the messages.
The goal of this addition is to allow LinearSystemId.createDCMotorSystem to use kV and KA instead of the moment of inertia, DCMotor object, and gearing.
RKDP is strictly better in terms of accuracy per unit of work. We used
RKF45 for sim physics in the 2021 season, but we transitioned to RKDP
before the 2022 season.
The template argument order for UnscentedTransform was reversed to match
all the other UKF classes. Since UnscentedTransform is intended as a
class for internal use only, this shouldn't cause much breakage.
* Replace Matrix<> with Vector<> where vectors are explicitly intended.
I found these via `rg "Eigen::Matrix<double, \w+, 1>"`.
* Pass all Eigen matrices by const reference. I found these via `rg
"\(Eigen"` on main (the initializer list constructors make more false
positives).
* Replace MakeMatrix() and operator<< usage with initializer list
constructors. I found these via `rg MakeMatrix` and `rg "<<"`
respectively.
* Deprecate MakeMatrix()
