Feature: FPP Visualize

[thomas-bc]

Originating Project/Creator
Affected Component
Affected Architectures(s)
Related Issue(s)	nasa/fprime#2059
Has Unit Tests (y/n)
Builds Without Errors (y/n)
Unit Tests Pass (y/n)
Documentation Included (y/n)

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Change Description

Depends on:

• Refactor to Flask fprime-community/fprime-visual#1
• Integrate FPP-Layout Tools into FPP PIP Package fprime#2084

Introducing: fprime-util visualize
Within a Topology directory, performs the following

• fpp-to-xml
• fpl-convert-xml
• fpl-layout
• start fprime-visual Flask app to serve visualization

Effectively, this allows with a single command to spin up a visualization of the topology and all its subtopology graphs.

cd Ref/Top
fprime-util visualize

Rationale

Major QoL improvement to visualization capabilities. This is currently doable, but requires a lot of manual installation of tools etc...

Todo

• The 2 things listed in Depends on
• Probably add some tests

Note

Opening as draft in case there's change requests. Do not merge for now, there are a couple of dependencies for this that need to be released before this can go through.

[thomas-bc]

Fails tests because fprime_visual pip package is not currently published.

[thomas-bc]

Ready for review, as all the pieces are there, see nasa/fprime#2059 (comment)

[LeStarch]

A few questions, but looks generally good.

[LeStarch]

I had one more minor question, but not sure it should trip up the PR.