fprime-gds customization #1966
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I've implemented a custom framing protocol and I want to continue using fprime-gds to communicate with my F' instance. Does |
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Unfortunately the answer is “yes and no”. Currently the basic framework to load in additional framers exists, which you can see if you look at the pyserial connection mechanism. However, the code required to auto-detect an external plugin does not yet exist in One of my students is working on getting this done to support CCSDS frames as they are implemented for GT-2, so it is of general interest to the community to get this going. I won’t make promises on the delivery of this feature, but I do expect it to work before GT-2 delivers for flight (so, maybe 9 months). |
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Is this something that will be contributed back to |
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We would be happy to contribute it back, under the assumption we get there first. In this case, the student's [reasonable] proposal is to write the code that frames/deframes our CCSDS, then hook that into GDS and get it to work, and then after it works refactor to make it at If the JPL team gets |
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Thank you for the answer. |
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Coming back to this discussion for posterity: we now have a plugin system in the GDS thanks to LeStarch! https://github.com/nasa/fprime/blob/devel/docs/HowTo/develop-gds-plugins.md So swapping |
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Also note, we are leaning strongly into switching to a CCSDS implementation ourselves. Perhaps there is collaboration/coordination we should do? |
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Unfortunately the answer is “yes and no”. Currently the basic framework to load in additional framers exists, which you can see if you look at the pyserial connection mechanism. However, the code required to auto-detect an external plugin does not yet exist in
fprime-gds.One of my students is working on getting this done to support CCSDS frames as they are implemented for GT-2, so it is of general interest to the community to get this going. I won’t make promises on the delivery of this feature, but I do expect it to work before GT-2 delivers for flight (so, maybe 9 months).