Implemented a bson_only_mode flag for the TCP version of rosbridge #257
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Related to #253
This commit allows users to switch to a full-duplex transmission of BSON messages and therefore eliminates the need for a base64 encoding of binary data when running in this mode.
The new mode is fully optional and is not activated by default.
You can use the new mode by starting:
or
Your rosbridge_server will now only expect and transmit data in BSON.
This PR can also provide an improvement for problems like in RobotWebTools/roslibjs#126,
because the TCP handler can make some assumptions on the length of the message when using BSON. This is due to the length field that is located in the first four bytes of every BSON message.