eProsima Shapes Demo Documentation

eProsima Shapes Demo is an application in which Publishers and Subscribers are shapes of different colors and sizes moving on a board. Each shape refers to its own topic: Square, Triangle or Circle. A single instance of the eProsima Shapes Demo can publish on or subscribe to several topics at a time.

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Overview

eProsima Shapes Demo can be used to demonstrate the capabilities of eProsima Fast DDS or as a proof of interoperability with other RTPS-compliant implementations.

For more information about the application, check out the eProsima Shapes Demo documentation. You can find all the application's source code on our GitHub repository.

1. Installation Guide
2. Getting Started
3. Generating documentation in other formats
4. Running documentation tests

Installation Guide

1. In order to build and test the documentation, some dependencies must be installed beforehand:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install -y \
       git \
       python3 \
       python3-pip \
       python3-venv \
       python3-sphinxcontrib.spelling \

2. Clone the repository

   cd ~
   git clone https://github.com/eProsima/Shapes-Demo-Docs shapes-demo-docs

3. Create a virtual environment and install python3 dependencies

   cd ~/shapes-demo-docs
   python3 -m venv shapes-demo-docs-venv
   source shapes-demo-docs-venv/bin/activate
   pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt

Getting Started

To generate the documentation in a HTML format for a specific branch of eProsima Shapes Demo run:

cd ~/shapes-demo-docs
source shapes-demo-docs-venv/bin/activate
make html

Generating documentation in other formats

The documentation can be generated in several formats such as HTML, PDF, LaTex, etc. For a complete list of targets run:

cd ~/shapes-demo-docs
make help

Once you have selected a format, generate the documentation with:

cd ~/shapes-demo-docs
source shapes-demo-docs-venv/bin/activate
make <output_format>

Running documentation tests

This repository provides a set of tests that verify that:

1. The RST follows the style guidelines
2. There are no spelling errors
3. The HTML is built correctly

Run the tests by:

cd ~/shapes-demo-docs
source shapes-demo-docs-venv/bin/activate
make test

Contributing

If you are interested in making some contributions, either in the form of an issue or a pull request, please refer to our Contribution Guidelines.