RAPP Platform

The main concept of RAPP Platform is based on the cloud robotics concept. Currently, the RAPP Platform is a collection of ROS nodes and back-end processes that aim to deliver ready-to-use generic services to robots. The ROS nodes provide generic functionalities, such as Image processing, Audio processing, Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech, Ontology & Database operations, and other procedures.

Querying available services through the API with a service controller is normally the first step. However, before doing that we have to configure the parameters which are needed to connect to the platform:

Platform

Structure rapp::cloud::platform in rapp-api/cpp/rapp/cloud/asio/platform.hpp. It saves the parameters of the RAPP platform. The parameters are the following:

IP/domain: use an IP (e.g., 155.207.19.229) or a domain (e.g., rapp.ee.auth.gr)
Port: default port is 9001
Authentication token: needed to authorise access to the platform service
Protocol: optional: you can choose between http or https protocols. Will default to HTTP.

In every application you create, you must define the platform endpoint, by creating a platform object and using the parameters above.

Alternatively, you can use a yaml configuration file and load the parameters from it.

Config

Class rapp::config in rapp-api/cpp/rapp/config/config.hpp. It loads the parameters of the platform from a file.

Methods of the class

std::string rapp::config::load_auth_token(std::string filename): Return token parameter from file.
rapp::cloud::platform rapp::config::load_yaml_config(std::string filename): Return a platform variable fill with ip/domain, port and protocol from a yaml file.

You can see an example in source/config.cpp.

Build example

To build the example, follow the next steps:

Go to your project path (in our case config/)
Build your project:
```
mkdir build
cd build 
cmake ..
make
```
If build was succesful you will now have an executable config in the folder build.
Run your executable
```
./config
```