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If not, see . ======================================================================*/ /// @file /// @author Don Gagne #ifndef FirmwarePlugin_H #define FirmwarePlugin_H #include "QGCMAVLink.h" #include "VehicleComponent.h" #include "AutoPilotPlugin.h" #include #include class Vehicle; /// This is the base class for Firmware specific plugins /// /// The FirmwarePlugin class is the abstract base class which represents the methods and objects /// which are specific to a certain Firmware flight stack. This is the only place where /// flight stack specific code should reside in QGroundControl. The remainder of the /// QGroundControl source is generic to a common mavlink implementation. The implementation /// in the base class supports mavlink generic firmware. Override the base clase virtuals /// to create you firmware specific plugin. class FirmwarePlugin : public QObject { Q_OBJECT public: /// Set of optional capabilites which firmware may support typedef enum { SetFlightModeCapability, ///< FirmwarePlugin::setFlightMode method is supported MavCmdPreflightStorageCapability, ///< MAV_CMD_PREFLIGHT_STORAGE is supported } FirmwareCapabilities; /// @return true: Firmware supports all specified capabilites virtual bool isCapable(FirmwareCapabilities capabilities) = 0; /// Returns VehicleComponents for specified Vehicle /// @param vehicle Vehicle to associate with components /// @return List of VehicleComponents for the specified vehicle. Caller owns returned objects and must /// free when no longer needed. virtual QList componentsForVehicle(AutoPilotPlugin* vehicle) = 0; /// Returns the list of available flight modes virtual QStringList flightModes(void) = 0; /// Returns the name for this flight mode. Flight mode names must be human readable as well as audio speakable. /// @param base_mode Base mode from mavlink HEARTBEAT message /// @param custom_mode Custom mode from mavlink HEARTBEAT message virtual QString flightMode(uint8_t base_mode, uint32_t custom_mode) = 0; /// Sets base_mode and custom_mode to specified flight mode. /// @param[out] base_mode Base mode for SET_MODE mavlink message /// @param[out] custom_mode Custom mode for SET_MODE mavlink message virtual bool setFlightMode(const QString& flightMode, uint8_t* base_mode, uint32_t* custom_mode) = 0; /// FIXME: This isn't quite correct being here. All code for Joystick suvehicleTypepport is currently firmware specific /// not just this. I'm going to try to change that. If not, this will need to be removed. /// Returns the number of buttons which are reserved for firmware use in the MANUAL_CONTROL mavlink /// message. For example PX4 Flight Stack reserves the first 8 buttons to simulate rc switches. /// The remainder can be assigned to Vehicle actions. /// @return -1: reserver all buttons, >0 number of buttons to reserve virtual int manualControlReservedButtonCount(void) = 0; /// Called before any mavlink message is processed by Vehicle such that the firmwre plugin /// can adjust any message characteristics. This is handy to adjust or differences in mavlink /// spec implementations such that the base code can remain mavlink generic. /// @param vehicle Vehicle message came from /// @param message[in,out] Mavlink message to adjust if needed. virtual void adjustMavlinkMessage(Vehicle* vehicle, mavlink_message_t* message) = 0; /// Called when Vehicle is first created to send any necessary mavlink messages to the firmware. virtual void initializeVehicle(Vehicle* vehicle) = 0; /// Determines how to handle the first item of the mission item list. Internally to QGC the first item /// is always the home position. /// @return /// true: Send first mission item as home position to vehicle. When vehicle has no mission items on /// it, it may or may not return a home position back in position 0. /// false: Do not send first item to vehicle, sequence numbers must be adjusted virtual bool sendHomePositionToVehicle(void) = 0; /// Returns the parameter that is used to identify the default component virtual QString getDefaultComponentIdParam(void) const = 0; /// Adds the parameter meta data to the Fact virtual void addMetaDataToFact(Fact* fact, MAV_TYPE vehicleType) = 0; /// List of supported mission commands. Empty list for all commands supported. virtual QList supportedMissionCommands(void) = 0; /// Returns the names for the mission command json override files. Empty string to specify no overrides. /// @param[out] commonJsonFilename Filename for common overrides /// @param[out] fixedWingJsonFilename Filename for fixed wing overrides /// @param[out] multiRotorJsonFilename Filename for multi rotor overrides virtual void missionCommandOverrides(QString& commonJsonFilename, QString& fixedWingJsonFilename, QString& multiRotorJsonFilename) const = 0; }; #endif