Crate async_mavlink

Async adapter for the mavlink crate

The mavlink crate offers a low level API for MAVLink connections. This crate adds a thin async API on top of that. The most important feature is a subscribe based communication model. It allows the user to subscribe to a certain type of message. All subsequent messages of that type then can be received in a async stream. In order for this to function, it is necessary to execute the event loop of the connector as a task. This crate aims to be executor independent, e.g. it should work with all async executors.

This so far is only a proof of concept. While it might serve your usecase well, expect things to break. Contributions and suggestions are wellcome!

Example: Pulling all Parameters from a Vehicle

In this example the subscribe method is utilized to collect all parameters of the vehicle.

use std::collections::HashMap;
use async_mavlink::{AsyncMavConn, MavMessageType, to_string};
use mavlink::common::*;
use smol::prelude::*;

smol::block_on(async {
    // connect
    let (conn, future) = AsyncMavConn::new("udpin:127.0.0.1:14551")?;
     
    // start event loop
    smol::spawn(async move { future.await }).detach();

    // we want to subscribe to PARAM_VALUE messages
    let msg_type = MavMessageType::new(&MavMessage::PARAM_VALUE(Default::default()));

    // subscribe to PARAM_VALUE message
    let mut stream = conn.subscribe(msg_type).await;

    // and send one PARAM_REQUEST_LIST message
    let msg_request = MavMessage::PARAM_REQUEST_LIST(Default::default());
    conn.send_default(&msg_request).await?;
    let mut parameters = HashMap::new();

    // receive all parameters and store them in a HashMap
    while let Some(MavMessage::PARAM_VALUE(data)) = (stream.next()).await {
        parameters.insert(to_string(&data.param_id), data.param_value);
        if data.param_count as usize == parameters.len(){
            break;
        }
    }

    // do something with parameters
})

Structs

AsyncMavConn	A async adapter for a MAVLink connection
MavMessageType	Representation of the type of a specific MavMessage

Functions

to_char_arr	Create char array for mavlink's PARAM_VALUE_DATA struct
to_string	Extract String from mavlink's PARAM_VALUE_DATA struct