Change Log
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0.5.9 (2022-09-12)
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* Fix flake8 errors
* Re-format code using black
* package.xml: Add missing build_export_depend
* Fix EOF and trailing whitespace
* Add pre-commit config
* README: Add note about branches
* pass down log_level to helper functions (`#60 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/60>`_)
* Declare file encoding
  This is necessary on ROS Melodic (Python2), because I have added a
  non-ASCII character (u umlaut) in my last commit.
* Add LICENSE file and license headers
* Contributors: Martin Günther, Yuri Rocha

0.5.8 (2022-03-03)
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* add option to change log level (`#58 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/58>`_)
* Contributors: Yuri Rocha

0.5.7 (2021-09-08)
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* Handle None values in dictionary
* Add tests for None
* Dockerfile-kinetic: Add --include-eol-distros
* Contributors: Martin Günther

0.5.6 (2021-03-01)
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* Propagate strict_mode, check_missing_fields in _convert_to_ros_type
  Previously, _convert_to_ros_type dropped strict_mode and
  check_missing_fields in nested messages.
* Add NestedUint8ArrayTestService tests
* propagate check_types in _convert_to_ros_type (`#51 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/51>`_)
  Co-authored-by: Martin Günther <martin.guenther@dfki.de>
* Fix binary_array_as_bytes=False with nested msgs
* Add param binary_array_as_bytes
  Closes `#45 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/45>`_.
* Contributors: Marc Bosch-Jorge, Martin Günther, Otacon5555

0.5.5 (2020-11-09)
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* Decode strings from ROS messages as UTF8
  This makes the python2 behavior equal to python3.
* python3 only: Validate base64 strings
* Add bytes to python3 string types
  This means that `bytes` will now also be base64-decoded, which fixes the following tests on python3:
  * test_dictionary_with_uint8_array_bytes
  * test_dictionary_with_uint8_array_bytes_unencoded
  * test_dictionary_with_3uint8_array_bytes
  On python2, `bytes` is just an alias for `str`, which is why it worked
  without this.
* Fix and add tests
* Contributors: Martin Günther

0.5.4 (2020-10-13)
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* Avoid numpy dependency
* Contributors: Martin Günther, betaboon

0.5.3 (2020-08-20)
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* Add check_types parameter to convert_dictionary_to_ros_message (`#42 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/42>`_)
* Allow numpy numeric types in numeric fields  (`#41 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/41>`_)
  Fixes `#39 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/39>`_.
* perf: Remove remaining regexes
  This is only a small speedup of about 1.03x.
* perf: Avoid regex in _is_field_type_a_primitive_array
  This makes the function almost 3x faster.
* perf: Reorder type checks
  Perform the cheaper checks first. This results in a speedup of about
  1.2x.
* perf: Avoid regex in is_ros_binary_type
  This makes is_ros_binary_type almost 5x faster and as a result the whole
  convert_ros_message_to_dictionary function almost 2x faster.
* Compare types, not type names; improve error message
  Old error message:
  TypeError: Wrong type: '1.0' must be float64
  New error message:
  TypeError: Field 'x' has wrong type <type 'numpy.float64'> (valid types: [<type 'int'>, <type 'float'>])
* Remove unused python_to_ros_type_map
* added test for convert_dictionary_to_ros_message with int8 array
* python 3 fix for _convert_to_ros_binary
* Contributors: Martin Günther, Steffen Rühl

0.5.2 (2020-07-09)
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* Check for wrong field types when converting from dict to ros msg
* Check for missing fields when converting from dict to ros msg
* Contributors: Martin Günther, alecarnevale

0.5.1 (2020-05-25)
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* Initial release into Noetic
* Decode base64-encoded byte arrays as unicode
* Make tests compatible with python3
* add check for python3 str serializing `#33 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/33>`_ (`#34 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/34>`_)
* efficient conversion of primitive array to ros type (`#31 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/31>`_)
* efficient conversion of primitive array
* removed unused _convert_from_ros_primitive
* optionally ignore extra fields when deserializing (`#29 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/29>`_)
* Remove EOL distros indigo + lunar from CI
* travis CI: Use matrix to split ROS distros
* Update README (convert to md, add build status)
* Contributors: Martin Günther, George Hartt, Jannik Abbenseth, Omri Rozenzaft

0.5.0 (2019-01-17)
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* Initial release into Lunar and Melodic
* Remove support for Jade (EOL)
* Change maintainer from Brandon Alexander to Martin Günther
* Move repo from baalexander to uos
* Add serialize_deserialize to unit tests, fix incorrect tests caught by this
* Remove dependency on ROS master in tests; all tests are now unit
  tests  (`#18 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/18>`_)
* Add service request/response support (`#17 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/17>`_)
* Fix fixed-size uint8 array conversion failure (`#15 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/15>`_)
* Fix unicode handling in string fields (`#13 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/13>`_)
* Enable testing only if CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING is set (`#9 <https://github.com/uos/rospy_message_converter/issues/9>`_)
* Contributors: Martin Günther, Brandon Alexander, George Laurent, Jean-Baptiste Doyon, Viktor Schlegel, Rein Appeldoorn, Will Baker, neka-nat

0.4.0 (2015-12-13)
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* Adds support for ROS Jade
* Removes support for ROS Groovy and Hydro (EOL)
* Uses single branch for all ROS versions
* Docker support for local development and Travis CI

0.3.0 (2014-06-03)
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* Adds support for ROS Indigo

0.2.0 (2013-07-15)
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* Updates to ROS Hydro
* Builds and runs tests with Travis CI
* Adds CHANGELOG

0.1.4 (2013-04-16)
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* Documents Python functions
* Throws error if invalid JSON or dictionary

0.1.3 (2013-03-04)
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* Adds rostest dependency

0.1.2 (2013-03-04)
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* Adds missing build_depends and run_depends

0.1.1 (2013-03-01)
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* Adds message_generation dependency to fix build

0.1.0 (2013-02-27)
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* Initial release of rospy_message_converter