On Monday 26 July 2010 16:24:07 Michaël Presseau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have some orocos application deploy with the deployer and the cdeployer.
> We need to document it. We want to list properties, methods, ports, etc.
> For ports, we need to document connected peers and connection name (as
> written in the deployment xml file).
>
> Is Orocos 1.8 is providing a documentation solution?

There is no such tool. People are looking to do this for 2.0 using a component
loader which writes the component interface to an XML file. This tool won't
work for 1.x components. It will also use a new xml format.

For 1.x, the best thing probably is to make a derivative of
DeploymentComponent that has the feature to introspect a peer and dump it to
some file format. We can not browse connections yet, but I have heard there are
patches in the making for 1.x.

>
> If no, are you interested to add it in 1.8 ?

1.8 receives no more updates, and feature additions are always done in new
releases (1.12 for example). I believe most users would be interested in using
such a tool though.

Peter