Migrate uuid_msgs to ros2 #593
Description
Feature request
Feature description
The plan is to use UUIDs at identifiers for goals in ROS 2 actions.
Since goal IDs will be included in various message/service types (e.g. goal requests and responses) and there already exists a ROS message package uuid_msgs, this is a proposal to migrate the package to the ros2 org.
Implementation considerations
There is already a ROS 2 port of uuid_msgs pending (ros-geographic-info/unique_identifier#13), but I propose we add the message definitions to a new repo ros2/unique_identifier and package unique_identifier_msgs.
Along with the package containing the ROS message definition, we should also have some language-specific libraries for working UUIDs that could go in separate packages. For example, the structure of the repo might look like:
- unique_identifier
- unique_identifier_c
- unique_identifier_cpp
- unique_identifier_msgs
- unique_identifier_python