No Type HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor for HardwareMap

[aeleos]

There is no type HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor for HardwareMap. Using gyroSensor instead when the object is created like HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor GyroSens returns the error
Error:(81, 43) error: incompatible types required: HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor found: GyroSensor
and using the type HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor returns the error
Error:(81, 28) error: cannot find symbol variable HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor

I am fairly sure I explored all the possibilities and its actually a bug, but I am not sure as I can't see the source code for the hardwaremap function.

[calebsander]

You need to cast the object if you want it as a HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor, although there is no reason to since that class doesn't have any methods other than those in GyroSensor.

[aeleos]

Unless I am understanding it wrong what you should be doing is something like
HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor gyro;
gyro = hardwareMap.HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor.get("gyro_1");
which returns the error Error:(81, 28) error: cannot find symbol variable HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor

[calebsander]

Really what you should be doing is GyroSensor sensor = this.hardwareMap.gyroSensor.get("sensorName");

[aeleos]

And so that will work even if I am using the NXT Gyro Sensor?

[calebsander]

You will get an instance of GyroSensor. If your configuration file specifies that the name you provided is for a HiTechnic gyro, then that object will be of type HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor, even though it is being stored in a variable of type GyroSensor. When you call getRotation() on it, it will return the result of calling getRotation() on any object of type HiTechnicNxtGyroSensor.

[calebsander]

Can this be closed?