Many teams have issues trying to read the DS too early. By switching to an optional, we cause teams to check 2 things. Either 1) they explicitly check, and their code is correct, or 2) they just read .value() and their code reboots in a loop. However, because the DS will eventually connect, this 2nd case is ok, and should theoretically be undetectable on the field.
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.
* 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 real robot has match time set to -1.0 until it's enabled, and then
counts down. Disabling the robot sets the time to -1.0.
The sim GUI has been updated to add preset buttons for auto and teleop
match times. The enable match timing checkbox has been removed as it's
no longer required.
The DS socket plugin has also been fixed to properly initialize
matchTime to -1.0 and reset it to -1.0 on disable.
Most of these were unused, the IMU ones were just debug messages.
The only one that wasn't removed is in portable-file-dialogs.cpp since
the replacement looks less trivial.
Storage is now nested.
Separate "roots" can be configured which save to separate files.
In particular, this is used to save wpigui and ImGui window position
to a -window.json file.
ImGui's ini (for window position) is mapped to JSON.
You can optionally specify a directory to load from on the command line.
If one isn't provided, it uses the global system directory.
Any changes made are automatically saved here.
Workspace | Open: select directory, the current layout is replaced with that
workspace, and future auto-saves also switch to that location. The main
window size/location is not changed, only the contents.
Workspace | Save As: select directory, the current layout is saved there,
and future auto-saves also switch to that location.
Workspace | Reset: window locations are preserved, but all other settings
are reset to default (including e.g. removing plot windows). This will also
end up clearing the current save file. as with load, the main window
size/location is not changed.
Workspace | Save As Global: "save as" to the global system location
Notably, the main window size/location is only loaded at startup, but is
auto-saved as part of the current workspace.
Inconsistent names were found using the following regular expressions.
* `rg "TEST(_F|_P)?\(\w+,\s+\w+Test\)"`
* `rg "TEST(_F|_P)?\(\w+,\s+Test\w+\)"`
* `rg "TEST(_F|_P)?\(\w+Tests,\s+\w+\)"`
Fixes#3495.
- Twine, StringRef, Format, and NativeFormatting have been removed
- Logging now uses fmtlib style formatting
- Nearly all uses of wpi::outs/errs have been replaced with fmt::print() or
std::puts()/std::fputs() (for unformatted strings).
- A wpi/fmt/raw_ostream.h header has been added to enable
fmt::print() with wpi::raw_ostream
Use ghc::filesystem as fill on older GCC (e.g. RoboRIO).
This can be removed once all GCC platforms have upgraded to 8.1 or later.
File open functionality has been retained from LLVM but moved to "fs" namespace
and tweaked for improved consistency with std::filesystem (e.g. error_code is
passed by reference instead of returned).
Also update WPILibC's Filesystem functions to return std::string.
Substantially improves Mechanism2d by moving it to NetworkTables and adding
a robot API to create the mechanism elements, instead of requiring a JSON file.
Co-authored-by: Peter Johnson <johnson.peter@gmail.com>
