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+/CMakeLists.txt.user
+# Compiled Object files
+*.slo
+*.lo
+*.o
+*.obj
+
+# Precompiled Headers
+*.gch
+*.pch
+
+# Compiled Dynamic libraries
+*.so
+*.dylib
+*.dll
+
+# Fortran module files
+*.mod
+*.smod
+
+# Compiled Static libraries
+*.lai
+*.la
+*.a
+*.lib
+
+# Executables
+*.exe
+*.out
+*.app
+
+
+build*

ros_type_introspection/CHANGELOG.rst

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+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Changelog for package ros_type_introspection
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+1.1.0 (2018-03-22)
+------------------
+* critical bug fix
+* fixed compilation of test
+* remove potential problem in other projects
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+1.0.2 (2018-02-08)
+------------------
+* fixing issue with blobs (detected when parsing sensor_msgs::Image)
+* added test for sensor image
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+1.0.1 (2017-11-14)
+------------------
+* added return value to deserializeIntoFlatContainer
+* bug fix
+* fix compilation issue
+* fix potential issue with static variables
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+1.0.0 (2017-10-12)
+------------------
+* Complete refactoring
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti, Kartik Mohta, Ian Taylor, Mehdi Tlili 
+
+0.8.0 (2017-08-30)
+------------------
+* fixing a serious issue with vectors which are too large
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.7.1 (2017-08-29)
+------------------
+* ros Time and Duration fixed
+* tests fixed
+* important API Change
+* might fix issue reported in `#5 <https://github.com/facontidavide/ros_type_introspection/issues/5>`_. print_number made public
+* adding inline to fix compilation error `#4 <https://github.com/facontidavide/ros_type_introspection/issues/4>`_
+* maintain nanosecond precision for time/duration
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti, Ian Taylor
+
+0.6.3 (2017-06-26)
+------------------
+* speed up
+* yet another bug fixed
+* considerable speed improvement
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.6.2 (2017-06-23)
+------------------
+* bug fix. types where missing in conversion
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.6.1 (2017-06-22)
+------------------
+* fixed a bug in resize
+* potential compilation problem fixed
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.6.0 (2017-06-20)
+------------------
+* moved the deserializing code
+* new API
+* fixing issue in resize (to be tested)
+* fixed osx compilation failure due to implicit_instantiation of std::array
+* Fix formating and typos
+* Contributors: Bo Li, Davide Faconti, Sam Pfeiffer
+
+0.5.1 (2017-04-02)
+------------------
+* fix the test
+* fix tests?
+* compilation fix
+* typo fix
+* test fixed
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.5.0 (2017-03-25)
+------------------
+* toStr changed
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.4.3 (2017-02-13)
+------------------
+* FIX: bug found in cache. reverting the recent change
+* Contributors: davide
+
+0.4.1 (2017-02-09)
+------------------
+* COSMETIC: more consistent code
+* considerable speed improvement in applyNameTransform
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.4.0 (2017-02-06)
+------------------
+* critical bug fixed
+* remove compilation warnings
+* Update README.md
+* Contributors: Davide Faconti
+
+0.3.3 (2016-11-04)
+------------------
+* removed serious bug that might cause double free
+* Contributors: davide
+
+0.3.2 (2016-10-26)
+------------------
+* fixing tests (EXPECTED_EQ is more informative)
+* changed the type of ROSType::baseName() and added SString::toStdString()
+
+0.3.1 (2016-10-20)
+------------------
+* added BSD license
+* added an alternative implementation of ShapeShifter
+
+0.3.0 (2016-10-17)
+-----------
+
+* Doxygen added
+* Moved to gtests instead of Catch.
+* Final API (?)
+
+0.2.0 (2016-10-17)
+-----------
+
+* All unit tests pass, but coverage is not very high.
+* By default is uses the custom string implementation.
+* Stable (?) API

ros_type_introspection/CMakeLists.txt

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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
+project(ros_type_introspection)
+
+find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS regex)
+
+
+find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS 
+   roscpp 
+   rostime 
+   topic_tools 
+   rosbag 
+   rosbag_storage 
+   roscpp_serialization
+   sensor_msgs
+   geometry_msgs
+   abseil_cpp
+)
+
+# Build flags
+set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11 ")
+
+###################################
+## catkin specific configuration ##
+###################################
+## The catkin_package macro generates cmake config files for your package
+## Declare things to be passed to dependent projects
+## INCLUDE_DIRS: uncomment this if you package contains header files
+## LIBRARIES: libraries you create in this project that dependent projects also need
+## CATKIN_DEPENDS: catkin_packages dependent projects also need
+## DEPENDS: system dependencies of this project that dependent projects also need
+catkin_package(
+   INCLUDE_DIRS include
+   LIBRARIES ros_type_introspection
+   CATKIN_DEPENDS 
+   roscpp 
+   rostime 
+   topic_tools 
+   rosbag 
+   rosbag_storage 
+   roscpp_serialization
+   abseil_cpp
+   DEPENDS 
+)
+
+###########
+## Build ##
+###########
+
+## Specify additional locations of header files
+## Your package locations should be listed before other locations
+
+include_directories(
+    include
+    ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+)
+
+## Declare a C++ library
+ add_library(ros_type_introspection
+
+   src/ros_type.cpp
+   src/ros_field.cpp
+   src/stringtree_leaf.cpp
+   src/ros_message.cpp
+   src/substitution_rule.cpp
+
+   src/ros_introspection.cpp
+ )
+
+target_link_libraries(ros_type_introspection ${catkin_LIBRARIES})
+
+
+find_package(benchmark CONFIG)
+if (benchmark_FOUND)
+
+add_executable(ros_introspection_benchmark src/tests/benchmark.cpp)
+add_dependencies(ros_introspection_benchmark
+    ${${PROJECT_NAME}_EXPORTED_TARGETS}
+    ${catkin_EXPORTED_TARGETS})
+
+target_link_libraries(ros_introspection_benchmark
+ ${catkin_LIBRARIES}
+  ros_type_introspection
+  benchmark
+)
+
+endif(benchmark_FOUND)
+
+add_executable(rosbag_example          example/rosbag_example.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(rosbag_example   ${catkin_LIBRARIES} ros_type_introspection)
+
+add_executable(subscribe_example        example/subscribe_example.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(subscribe_example ${catkin_LIBRARIES} ros_type_introspection
+)
+
+
+#############
+## Install ##
+#############
+
+# all install targets should use catkin DESTINATION variables
+# See http://ros.org/doc/api/catkin/html/adv_user_guide/variables.html
+
+
+## Mark executables and/or libraries for installation
+install(TARGETS ros_type_introspection 
+   ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}
+   LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}
+   RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_LIB_DESTINATION}
+ )
+
+
+## Mark cpp header files for installation
+install(DIRECTORY include/${PROJECT_NAME}/
+   DESTINATION ${CATKIN_PACKAGE_INCLUDE_DESTINATION}
+   FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.hpp"
+   PATTERN ".git" EXCLUDE
+)
+
+
+#############
+## Testing ##
+#############
+if(CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING)
+
+ catkin_add_gtest(ros_introspection_test
+     src/tests/parser_test.cpp
+     src/tests/deserializer_test.cpp
+     src/tests/renamer_test.cpp
+     )
+
+ target_link_libraries(ros_introspection_test
+   ${catkin_LIBRARIES} boost_regex
+   ros_type_introspection
+   )
+
+endif()

ros_type_introspection/LICENSE

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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 facontidavide
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

ros_type_introspection/README.md

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+# Ros Message Introspection
+### "If you don't know why you need this library, probably you don't need it".
+
+This simple library extracts information from a ROS Message, even when its
+type is unknown at compilation time. 
+
+Have you ever wanted to build an app that can subscribe to __any__ 
+`topic` and extract its content, or can read data from __any__ `rosbag`? 
+What if the topic and/or the bag contains user defined ROS types ignored 
+at compilation time?
+
+The common solution in the ROS ecosystem is to use Python, that provides
+the needed introspection. Tools, for instance, like __rqt_plot__ and __rqt_bag__ 
+took this approach. This library implements a __C++ alternative__.
+
+This library is particularly useful to extract data from two type-erasing classes 
+provided by ROS itself:
+
+1. [topic_tools::ShapeShifter](http://docs.ros.org/diamondback/api/topic_tools/html/classtopic__tools_1_1ShapeShifter.html):
+a type used to subscribe to any topic, regardless of the original type.
+
+2. [rosbag::MessageInstance](http://docs.ros.org/diamondback/api/rosbag/html/c++/classrosbag_1_1MessageInstance.html):
+the generic type commonly used to read data from a ROS bag.
+
+# About version 1.X
+
+Version 1.X has a completely new API; on the other hand, this implementatation is __3 times faster__ and much more flexible.
+To convert old applications should be straighforward, though. Please take a look to the [examples](example)
+and the unit tests to see how to update your code.
+
+
+# Some background
+The ROS Message Types can be described as 
+a [Interface Description Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language).
+This approach is very well known and commonly used on the web and in distributed systems in general.
+
+A [rosmsg](http://wiki.ros.org/rosmsg) is defined by the user; an "IDL compiler", i.e. 
+[gencpp](http://wiki.ros.org/gencpp), 
+reads this schema and generates a header file that contains the source code that the user
+shall include in his/her applications.
+The inclusion of this header file is needed on both the publisher *and* the subscriber sides.
+
+This approach provides strong and type-safe contracts between the producer and the consumer 
+of the message and, additionally, is needed to implements a fast 
+serialization / deserialization mechanism.
+
+The only "problem" is that in very few use cases (for instance if you want to build
+a plugin to [load ROS bags in MATLAB](https://github.com/bcharrow/matlab_rosbag)) 
+you don't know in advance which ROS Messages you will need to read. 
+Therefore, you won't be able to include the necessary header files.
+
+# Acknowledgements
+This library is inspired by these other libraries 
+[matlab_rosbag](https://github.com/bcharrow/matlab_rosbag) and 
+[cpp_introspection](https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/cpp_introspection).
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