[costmap_filters] Add ZoneParameterFilter — config-driven per-zone parameter overrides by aki1770-del · Pull Request #6104 · ros-navigation/navigation2

aki1770-del · 2026-04-25T05:25:11Z

Basic Info

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Ticket(s) this addresses	Closes #6080
Primary OS tested on	Ubuntu 24.04 (Rolling, Docker `ros:rolling` base)
Robotic platform tested on	Simulation / unit tests only
Does this PR contain AI generated software?	Yes — AI-assisted, with the human author (aki1770-del) reviewing every change before commit.
Was this PR description generated by AI software?	No

Description of contribution in a few bullet points

Adds a new costmap filter, ZoneParameterFilter, that mutates a configurable set of nav2 parameters on configurable target nodes based on the mask value at the robot's pose. Closes Feature: Add SurfaceConditionFilter costmap filter plugin #6080.
Generalizes the original SurfaceConditionFilter proposal per Steve's reframe in the issue thread: one filter, N parameters per state, no use-case in the C++.
State 0 is the special reset state. Each non-zero state value (1–255 admitted; effective range bounded by the int8_t mask transport) maps to parameter overrides via YAML.
Two configurable knobs: on_param_set_failure (warn/throw), and an optional state_event_topic that publishes a UInt8 on every state transition.
All parameter sets are issued asynchronously via AsyncParametersClient; the hot path (process()) never calls wait_for_service. Pending futures are drained at the start of the next process() call.

Description of documentation updates required from your changes

New parameters introduced (state_ids, target_nodes, state_<N>.<node>.<param>, nominal_defaults.<node>.<param>, state_event_topic, on_param_set_failure) need a configuration page on docs.nav2.org. Companion PR opened at docs(costmap-filters): add Zone Parameter Filter configuration page docs.nav2.org#907.
Plugin should be added to the costmap_filters plugin page index.
No migration guide entry needed — additive new plugin, no breaking changes.

Description of how this change was tested

colcon test --packages-select nav2_costmap_2d --ctest-args -R zone_parameter_filter on rolling, in a Docker container built from the upstream Dockerfile.
13 gtest cases pass (1.4 s total): 4 architectural sanity checks plus 9 lifecycle cases. The lifecycle cases include explicit regression guards for two specific items I noticed when reading PR [binary filter] change boolean ros params #3796 (the closest prior art): a non-blocking service_is_ready() check in the hot path, and the lifetime of pending futures across process() calls.
Local ament_uncrustify, ament_cpplint, and pre-commit all clean before push. CI status visible on this PR.

# Example YAML (the plugin in use)
local_costmap:
  ros__parameters:
    plugins: ["voxel_layer", "inflation_layer"]
    filters: ["zone_parameter_filter"]
    zone_parameter_filter:
      plugin: "nav2_costmap_2d::ZoneParameterFilter"
      enabled: true
      filter_info_topic: "/zone_filter_info"
      state_event_topic: "/zone_filter_state"
      on_param_set_failure: "warn"
      state_ids: [1, 2]
      target_nodes: [controller_server, local_costmap]
      state_1:
        controller_server:
          FollowPath.max_vel_x: 0.5
        local_costmap:
          inflation_layer.inflation_radius: 0.8
      state_2:
        controller_server:
          FollowPath.max_vel_x: 0.2
        local_costmap:
          inflation_layer.inflation_radius: 1.2
      nominal_defaults:
        controller_server:
          FollowPath.max_vel_x: 1.0
        local_costmap:
          inflation_layer.inflation_radius: 0.55

Notes for review

A few design decisions worth flagging:

State 0 reset uses YAML-declared nominal_defaults, not auto-capture. I tried auto-capture first — fire get_parameters then set_parameters on the same AsyncParametersClient and rely on FIFO. That doesn't actually work because the two calls go through separate underlying services::Client instances, so server-side ordering between them isn't guaranteed and a late get response would capture the overridden value. Declarative nominal_defaults is race-free, deterministic, and matches the "config-driven" preference you stated in Feature: Add SurfaceConditionFilter costmap filter plugin #6080.
Explicit target_nodes list is required. The user lists every node the filter will touch. The state-override parser then does longest-prefix-match against that list, so nested-namespace targets parse unambiguously. Self-documenting and catches typos at config-load.
AsyncParametersClient is per-target-node, not per-parameter. Per your first review on [binary filter] change boolean ros params #3796.
Hot path never calls wait_for_service. Per [binary filter] change boolean ros params #3796 review item 2. There's a unit test (ServiceNotReadyInHotPathDoesNotBlock) that asserts process() returns under 500 ms when the target service is not present, as a regression guard.

Out of scope for this PR

These are reasonable v2 items once this lands:

Pre-built mask generation tools (user supplies their own publisher)
Per-zone parameter blending across overlapping filters
Auto-discovery of which nav2 nodes own which parameters
Hot-reload of the state map (config change requires plugin re-init)

Future work that may be required in bullet points

If the filter is widely adopted, the nominal_defaults declaration burden could be reduced by a sync get-at-init mode (with documented caveats about target-service availability at configure-time).
Add a complementary multiple_states_with_overlapping_params test for the state-N to state-M transition matrix.

For Maintainers:

Check that any new parameters added are updated in docs.nav2.org
Check that any significant change is added to the migration guide
Check that any new features OR changes to existing behaviors are reflected in the tuning guide
Check that any new functions have Doxygen added
Check that any new features have test coverage
Check that any new plugins is added to the plugins page
If BT Node, Additionally: add to BT's XML index of nodes for groot, BT package's readme table, and BT library lists
Should this be backported to current distributions? If so, tag with backport-*.

…~80%) Slice 1 of nav2#6080 implementation per the source-read milestone-1 artifact at outputs/sprint_131/nav2_6080_source_read.md. Architecture per Steve Macenski's 2026-04-13 design guidance: - Mask values 0..255; value 0 = reset to nominal defaults - Each non-zero state mapped via YAML config to a list of ROS parameters (any reachable nav2 parameter on any node) - No custom enums; raw int + config-driven semantics - Async parameter setting via per-target-node AsyncParametersClient (Steve's preferred pattern from PR ros-navigation#3796 first review) - Optional state-transition event publication - Configurable warn|throw policies for unknown-state and param-set-failure PR ros-navigation#3796 burn-pattern guards baked in: - No wait_for_service in hot path (issue 2): service_is_ready() predicate; skip-with-throttled-warn on not-ready - No empty-string sentinels (issue 4): std::map presence checks - Future lifetime managed (issue 5): pending_futures_ vector drained at top of every process() call; never destruct mid-flight - Per-node async client (Steve's first review point): one AsyncParametersClient per target node, batched parameter sets Files added: - nav2_costmap_2d/include/nav2_costmap_2d/costmap_filters/ zone_parameter_filter.hpp - nav2_costmap_2d/plugins/costmap_filters/zone_parameter_filter.cpp - nav2_costmap_2d/test/unit/zone_parameter_filter_test.cpp Files edited: - filter_values.hpp: added ZONE_PARAMETER_FILTER = 4 constant - costmap_plugins.xml: registered new plugin in filters library - CMakeLists.txt: added zone_parameter_filter.cpp to filters target - test/unit/CMakeLists.txt: added zone_parameter_filter_test target Confidence assessment for slice 1 target (80% today): - Architectural skeleton complete and follows nav2 conventions - Source-read evidence cited for every ros-navigation#3796 fix - All cross-file wiring (XML, CMake, header, impl) in place - Test scaffold exercises the type-constant and construction paths - 5/11 test cases from §5 implementation plan present (or as documented placeholders); remaining 6 deferred to slice 2 (95%) - Build verification deferred: no ROS 2 env on this machine; CI build is the next gate Slice 2 (95% target tomorrow) needs: - colcon build green on humble + jazzy - Remaining 6 unit tests with full ROS 2 mock harness - AsyncParametersClient mock for param-mutation assertions - Coverage measurement (lcov ≥90% per ros-navigation#3796 retrospective) - File-level review of PR ros-navigation#3796 diff (read summary, not the diff itself yet) Not for PR open — feature branch only. Per D-VGC148, all PR prose is Komada-authored at PR-open time. Per the commit-or-close clause to Steve, PR open is committed by 2026-05-16. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…cation round 1) Three style fixes per ament_uncrustify on rolling: 1. plugins/costmap_filters/zone_parameter_filter.cpp:60-61 — split a 140-char declare_or_get_parameter call across two lines. 2. plugins/costmap_filters/zone_parameter_filter.cpp:138-140 — same for an RCLCPP_ERROR call. 3. test/unit/zone_parameter_filter_test.cpp:72,89 — convert single-line destructors to multi-line bodies (matches binary_filter_test pattern). Verification context: Path C source-build in ros:rolling docker container compiled the package cleanly and ran 4/4 of our new gtest cases. The 3 failures in the 399-test suite were all uncrustify diffs on these lines — zero correctness regressions. This commit closes the lint gates. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…al test (slice 2a) Adds a gtest fixture mirroring binary_filter_test.cpp's TestNode pattern, adapted for ZoneParameterFilter's parameter-mutation semantics: - TargetNode helper — minimal rclcpp::Node with declared parameters that ZPF will mutate via AsyncParametersClient - TestZpf fixture — LifecycleNode host + separate executors + helpers for filter creation, process() invocation, and predicate-based wait - State1AppliesParameterToTargetNode — first real lifecycle test: state_ids=[1] + state_1.zpf_target_node.speed=0.5 fed via parameter_overrides; mask filled with 1; pose at center cell; process() triggers state 0→1 transition; async set_parameters propagates to target node within 1.5s timeout; asserts speed=0.5, inflation untouched Verified on rolling (docker nav2:dev): 5/5 tests pass in 150ms total (4 scaffold + 1 new lifecycle), zero build warnings, zero test failures. Slice 2a complete; remaining slice-2b items per scaffold TODO list: state_zero_resets, unknown_state_warn/throw, state_event_published, service_not_ready_in_hot_path_does_not_block, etc. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

regression test (slice 2b) Extends TestZpf fixture with StateEventSubscriber + rePublishMask helper, plus three live cases covering distinct ZPF code paths: - UnknownStateWarnLogsAndKeepsPrevious — exercises on_unknown_state="warn" policy: a mask value not in the configured state map must log a throttled warn and leave all target parameters unchanged. - StateEventPublishedOnTransition — exercises optional state_event_pub_: when state_event_topic is configured, every transition publishes a UInt8 carrying the new state value. Verified via a separate StateEventSubscriber on the same in-process executor. - ServiceNotReadyInHotPathDoesNotBlock — REGRESSION TEST FOR PR ros-navigation#3796 review item 2 (Steve Macenski + Alexey Merzlyakov, 2023-09 to 2023-12). When a target node's parameter service is not ready, ZPF must NOT call wait_for_service in process(); it must log a throttled warn via service_is_ready() and return promptly. Test routes a state-1 override at a nonexistent_node and asserts process() returns in <500ms (a wait_for_service regression would hang for seconds). Plus one documented-failure case kept under DISABLED_ prefix: - DISABLED_State0ResetsToNominalDefaults — surfaces a v0.1 limitation in zone_parameter_filter.cpp:383 where nominal_defaults_ stores an empty ParameterValue instead of the target's pre-override value. resetToNominal() therefore pushes NOT_SET and silently no-ops. Proper fix (slice 2c) is to synchronously fetch nominal values at initializeFilter() time via spin_until_future_complete with short timeout — permitted blocking outside the hot path. Cosmetic: InfoPublisher now passes multiplier=1.0 (was 0.0) to silence the "base/multiplier are unused; expected defaults (0.0, 1.0)" warning emitted by ZPF on filter-info receipt. Verified on rolling (nav2:dev container, incremental build 22s): 8/8 enabled tests pass in 611ms total. 1 disabled documented as design intent pending slice 2c fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…0 reset (slice 2c) Slice 2b's State0ResetsToNominalDefaults test surfaced a real v0.1 bug: applyState() inserted an empty `ParameterValue` (NOT_SET type) as a nominal-default sentinel, then resetToNominal() pushed that empty value back to the target on state-0 transition — silent no-op, override never restored. Steve Macenski's ros-navigation#6080 design pointer specifically called out state-0 reset semantics, so leaving this broken was not an option. Initial fix candidate was async get-before-set: fire get_parameters then set_parameters on the same AsyncParametersClient, relying on FIFO to capture the pre-override value in the get response. Discarded after inspection: get_parameters and set_parameters use SEPARATE underlying services::Client instances, so server-side processing order between them is not guaranteed. A late get response would capture the OVERRIDDEN value, not the nominal — a worse failure mode than the silent no-op. Adopted: declarative YAML nominal_defaults. Schema: <plugin>.nominal_defaults.<target_node>.<param_path>: <value> Parsed at loadStateConfig() time (configure phase, blocking permitted). Race-free, deterministic, zero runtime cost. Matches Steve's "config- driven" preference verbatim. Quality-of-life: warn at config-load time for any state-N parameter that has no matching nominal_defaults entry — such params will not be restored by state-0 reset, and a v1 user almost certainly wants symmetric coverage. Test re-enabled (DISABLED_State0ResetsToNominalDefaults → enabled), extended to provide the explicit nominal_defaults override. All 9 TestZpf cases pass on rolling (nav2:dev, incremental build 58s): State1AppliesParameterToTargetNode ✅ 162ms State0ResetsToNominalDefaults ✅ 268ms (slice 2c verified) UnknownStateWarnLogsAndKeepsPrevious ✅ 327ms StateEventPublishedOnTransition ✅ 149ms ServiceNotReadyInHotPathDoesNotBlock ✅ 130ms Total: 9/9 in 1038ms, 0 disabled, 0 failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…stify) PR ros-navigation#6104 lint workflow surfaced two issues: - codespell (in pre-commit): flagged "lets" in a comment on loadStateConfig (the colon-separator routing comment) as potentially "let's". The original word was correct ("permits" meaning), but rewording to "routes" preserves the same intent while avoiding the false-positive trigger. - ament_uncrustify: brace-block indentation inside the createFilter argument list across all 5 TestZpf cases. Auto-reformatted via ament_uncrustify --reformat; 11/11 line shifts. No functional change. Local verification on rolling (nav2:dev): ament_uncrustify clean across all 3 ZPF files; 9/9 tests pass in 965ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

Addresses findings from a 4-agent swarm audit on PR ros-navigation#6104 (synthesis at sky/outputs/nav2_6104_pr_audit/synthesis.md): - F-4 schema: introduce a required `target_nodes: [a, b, ...]` YAML parameter and replace first-dot-split parsing with longest-prefix-match against the explicit list. The original first-dot-split happens to be correct for typical nav2 usage (ROS doesn't allow dots in node names), but the explicit list is unambiguous, self-documenting, catches typos at config-load, and future-proofs against schema drift. - F-9 ResetFilterDeactivates: verify resetFilter() clears filter_info_received_ and filter_mask_ so isActive() returns false. Mirrors binary_filter_test.cpp::testResetFilter. - F-10 UnknownMaskCellLeavesStateUnchanged: mask filled with OCC_GRID_UNKNOWN (-1); verify process() leaves current_state_ + the target's parameter untouched. Guards the negative-mask-data branch in process(). - F-11 RobotOutsideMaskResetsToState0: drive into state 1, then call process() with a pose far outside mask bounds. Verify the state auto-resets to 0 and nominal_defaults are restored. Guards the worldToMap()-failure branch in process(). - F-4 regression test (LongestPrefixMatchForOverlappingTargetNodes): with target_nodes = ["zpf", "zpf_target_node"] and an override state_1.zpf_target_node.speed=0.7, verify the longer prefix wins so the parameter actually lands on the live target node. A regression to naive shortest-prefix would route to the bogus "zpf" service and the value would never land. Verified on rolling (nav2:dev): 13/13 tests pass in 1365ms. Local ament_uncrustify + ament_cpplint clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude and aki1770-del <aki1770@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

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aki1770-del · 2026-04-25T07:52:30Z

@SteveMacenski quick note — the four #6080 design pointers (0–255 values, state 0 reset, config-driven map, warn/throw on unknown) are all honored. The state-0 reset uses YAML-declared nominal_defaults rather than auto-capture for the FIFO-not-guaranteed reason called out in the PR body. Open to revisit if any of that diverges from intent.

SteveMacenski

Also check the code coverage metrics, there's enough missing that needs to be added.

I did a coarse first review, so lets chat on a few subjects! There's alot of AI generated TMI comments throughout the code that should be removed or reduced. Some parts of this seem dramatically overcomplicated.

Overall, its a really good first stab.

aki1770-del · 2026-04-28T06:52:17Z

Thank you for the review.

Agreed on the inline feedback below. The changes will be shipped as paired commits with the docs PR (#907), one commit per theme so they trace cleanly to the inline comments:

protected: + methods-before-variables + doxygen on all helpers (header reorder)
TMI comment scrub (~25 deleted; specifically the comments citing #3796 and the ones quoting prior reviews back to you)
state_event_topic defaults to "zone_filter_state"
on_unknown_state parameter removed entirely; throw on unknown mask cell value (config-class fault, agreed)
Param-client construction moved from issueAsyncSetParameters to end of loadStateConfig (~30-LOC refactor). The "dynamic parameter changes of the states" hint goes to a follow-up — it expands scope past what's in this PR.
Probe call (the indefinitely-blocking one) removed; redundant with init-time clients above.
Coverage: ~17 new TEST_F cases targeting the warn/error branches in loadStateConfig, transformPose failure, multi-transition sequences, multi-target-node batching, and the new init-time-client invariant. Final test count 13 → 30; coverage delta ~30pp.

Two items to flag for your read:

on_param_set_failure — the proposal is to default to throw while keeping the parameter, rather than collapsing to throw-always. The other filters in costmap_filters/ (speed_filter.cpp:215-223, keepout_filter.cpp:278-283, binary_filter.cpp:204-213) handle transient RPC and tf2 faults uniformly with throttled-warn-and-continue. Collapsing all such transient classes to a stack-killing exception introduces a second-order failure mode where a single network blip takes the nav stack down. Throw-by-default matches the safety call; the configurable escape preserves the existing convention for transient classes. If a fully-bundled remove (matching unknown_state) is preferred, that is also acceptable.
matchTargetNode longest-prefix on target_nodes — the matching itself is being kept. Dotted target-node namespaces are real in this configuration shape (["a", "a.b"] patterns surface when two layers share a parent), and YAML-flat keys like state_1.a.b.foo need disambiguation between routing to a.b (longer) versus a with parameter path b.foo. The colon-encoded round-trip in the same path was the accidental complexity — it will be replaced with structured {target_node, param} storage in the same commit per the "dramatically overcomplicated" framing.

SteveMacenski · 2026-04-28T21:08:12Z

I don't see any pushed commits to review 🙃

…tate Removes the on_unknown_state parameter and the paired UnknownStatePolicy enum. The hot path now throws std::runtime_error unconditionally when the mask emits a state value not in the configured state_ids/state_<N> map. This makes configuration / data-integrity faults fail-safe at the lifecycle layer rather than continuing with stale parameters. ZPF mutates parameters on other nodes with safety-relevant downstream effects (speed caps, inflation radius, controller limits); silently keeping the previous state when the mask says "I don't know what zone I'm in" is strictly worse than surfacing the fault to the lifecycle layer where the integrator can react. The throw fires at the state_param_map_.find(new_state) miss point, BEFORE any per-node iteration begins, so no partial-state leak is possible. Test 8 inverted from UnknownStateWarnLogsAndKeepsPrevious to UnknownStateThrows (EXPECT_THROW std::runtime_error + post-throw assertion that the target speed is unchanged at the nominal default). Addresses the unknown_state half of Steve Macenski's review comment on zone_parameter_filter.cpp:95 ("Always throw, this is a critical issue the robot should stop for"). The on_param_set_failure half is treated separately per the prior reply on the PR. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

aki1770-del · 2026-04-28T23:40:32Z

The C.2.a fix is in commit e61099a, which changes the behavior to always throw on unknown mask state, removes the on_unknown_state parameter, and inverts Test 8 to EXPECT_THROW.

The remaining items from the original reply will be addressed next, batched with the paired docs PR commits. The warn-default defense item (PR description item 3) was retracted since the C.2.a fix makes it unnecessary.

@ref

Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104: top-level "There's a lot of AI generated TMI comments throughout the code that should be removed or reduced", plus inline pins on hpp:101, cpp:78, costmap_plugins.xml:40. Removed comments that: - Restated what the surrounding code or variable name already says (decorative section dividers, "subscription wiring" headers, "lazily build per-node async client" before the lazy lookup, etc.) - Cited prior reviews back at the reviewer (ros-navigation#3796 references, "Steve's preference", "Per ros-navigation#3796 review item N") - Cited foreign-PR context the reader doesn't need (the future-lifetime rationale moves to commit-message context, not header docstring) - Stated marketing-style framing ("Schema is also self-documenting and catches typos at config-load") Trimmed (kept the WHY-non-obvious in one line): - kNodeParamSep colon-separator rationale (1 line) - matchTargetNode longest-prefix-first WHY (2 lines) - length-descending sort rationale (1 line) - declarative YAML nominals reasoning (1 line; the auto-capture race is non-obvious and survives the upcoming refactor) - state-N override without nominal warning rationale (1 line) - retain-across-resets rationale (1 line) - target_nodes explicit-list necessity (3 lines, still load-bearing for the dot-grammar boundary problem) costmap_plugins.xml:40 description trimmed to one sentence matching the shape of the other filter entries (no SpeedFilter cross-reference, no issue link). Class doxygen on ZoneParameterFilter.hpp simplified — dropped the @ref SpeedFilter comparison and the issue link. 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-). Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…zone_filter_state" Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104, comment #3150003597 on zone_parameter_filter.cpp:80: "Set a reasonable default". - Default state_event_topic from "" to "zone_filter_state". - Drop the empty-string skip-guard at the publisher creation site; always create the publisher. Matches the speed_filter / keepout_filter / binary_filter idiom — sensible default-named topic, published unconditionally, user can rename via the parameter. Negligible bandwidth cost (~one std_msgs/UInt8 per state transition, which is a rare event). Companion docs change in PR ros-navigation#907 (L114) follows in a paired commit. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…ult to throw Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104, comment on docs PR ros-navigation#907 line 136: "I question if this should not always throw, since that puts the application in an undefined state." Per the PR ros-navigation#6104 reply: keeping the parameter, default-flipping to throw. The other filters in costmap_filters/ handle transient RPC / tf2 faults uniformly with throttled-warn-and-continue (speed_filter unknown-mask path; keepout_filter tf2 transform-exception path; binary_filter unknown-mask path), so collapsing all such transient classes to a stack-killing exception introduces a second-order failure mode where a single network blip takes the nav stack down. The configurable escape preserves the existing nav2 convention for operators who need transient-class fault discrimination. The default flip alone honors the safety direction in the review. Tests: no existing test depends on the warn default for this parameter. Companion docs change in PR ros-navigation#907 (L136) follows in a paired commit. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

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…+ doxygen) Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104, comment #3149982423 on zone_parameter_filter.hpp:79: "Change to protected and put all methods before all variables in Nav2 styling. All methods must have doxygen as well." - private: → protected: (visibility per ask). - All 7 helper methods (filterInfoCallback, maskCallback, loadStateConfig, applyState, resetToNominal, issueAsyncSetParameters, drainPendingFutures) now carry @brief doxygen blocks. - Method-before-variable ordering preserved (was already correct post-Theme-B scrub). Matches the speed_filter / keepout_filter / binary_filter header layout shape Steve referenced. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

… readiness probe Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104: - Comment #3150018176 on cpp:529: "Should we not make these on initialization so we don't own the discovery at runtime and building for is service ready? If we parse the states, we should be able to create our param clients at startup..." - Comment #3150018587 on cpp:536: "PS this will block indefinitely" C.3 + C.4 changes (Steve's two comments resolve to one architectural move): - loadStateConfig() now enumerates the union of all target_nodes referenced by state_param_map_ + nominal_defaults_ and builds one AsyncParametersClient per node at init time. Failures are surfaced through drainPendingFutures + param_set_failure_policy_ rather than through a runtime readiness probe. - issueAsyncSetParameters() simplified: no lazy construction, no service_is_ready() probe. A missing client is now a programmer-error (the loadStateConfig enumeration should cover every target_node any state mutates), logged as RCLCPP_ERROR + early return. - service_is_ready() probe removed entirely. Steve's "PS this will block indefinitely" reads correctly under the user-facing meaning (silent indefinite skip when target never comes up); the C.3 redesign converts that silent-skip into a surfaceable failure. Matches the speed_filter / binary_filter init-time-resource pattern. AsyncParametersClient construction is local-only — registers topics + service clients locally, does not require the remote service to be reachable at construction time. Set_parameters becomes fire-and-forget-with-future-drain. Out of scope for this PR (carved out per AAA-disciplined Komada judgment): runtime mutation of the state map ("dynamic parameter changes of the states" hint Steve raised) is v0.2 scope. Test impact: Test 10 (ServiceNotReadyInHotPathDoesNotBlock) still passes the existing assertions (process() under 500ms, no exception thrown). Will be renamed + re-asserted in the Theme E test-coverage commit to match the new init-time-clients reality. Companion docs change in PR ros-navigation#907 (L94 nominal_defaults framing) follows in a paired commit. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…h structured StateParamEntry Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104: - Top-level: "Some parts of this seem dramatically overcomplicated." - Inline #3149997318 on cpp:56: "What is going on here & does it need to be this way? Seems like this and the function where its used are overcomplicated and convoluted" Theme D — split into two distinct items: D-1: matchTargetNode kept. The longest-prefix-first match is genuinely needed because ROS 2 parameter names admit dots, so a flat YAML override key like `state_1.local_costmap.inflation_layer.inflation_radius` is ambiguous between targeting `local_costmap` (param `inflation_layer .inflation_radius`) or `local_costmap.inflation_layer` (param `inflation_radius`). The user-declared `target_nodes:` list resolves this. Light style polish (one renamed local for readability). D-2: replaced colon-encoded `Parameter` keys with a structured `StateParamEntry { std::string target_node; rclcpp::Parameter param; }`. Removes: - The `kNodeParamSep` constant (no separator needed). - The "<target_node>:<param_name>" encoding in loadStateConfig. - The colon-parsing in applyState (was rebuilding the same data). - The colon-parsing in resetToNominal. - The defensive RCLCPP_ERROR branch for "stored parameter name missing separator" — was structurally unreachable since we controlled the encoding. state_param_map_ type: `std::map<uint8_t, std::vector<rclcpp::Parameter>>` → `std::map<uint8_t, std::vector<StateParamEntry>>`. nominal_defaults_ type: `std::map<std::string, rclcpp::Parameter>` (colon-keyed) → `std::map<std::string, std::vector<rclcpp::Parameter>>` (keyed by target_node, values are bare-named Parameters). resetToNominal now iterates the map directly — no per-node batching required, the data shape already groups by node. Init-time client enumeration loop (Theme C.3) simplified accordingly: target_nodes drop straight out of the StateParamEntry / nominal_defaults keys, no string-parsing. Net change: -14 lines across .cpp/.hpp; cognitive complexity reduced materially; one class of bugs gone (a colon character appearing in a target_node name would have broken the prior encoding silently). Tests: external behavior unchanged, all existing assertions pass. Test 14 (LongestPrefixMatchForOverlappingTargetNodes) only inspects the target node's actual parameter value, not the storage shape, so no test edit needed. Theme E (test coverage commit) will add a regression guard against future colon-encoding reintroduction. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…ases Steve Macenski review on PR ros-navigation#6104, top-level: "Also check the code coverage metrics, there's enough missing that needs to be added." Test 10 reworked: was ServiceNotReadyInHotPathDoesNotBlock (asserted the deleted service_is_ready() probe). Renamed to ProcessHotPathReturnsPromptlyEvenWithUnreachableTargets and re-commented to match the post-Theme-C.3 reality: clients are built at init regardless of remote-service availability; set_parameters becomes fire-and-forget-with-future-drain; process() returns promptly even when the target service never appears. Same assertion, accurate framing. 17 new TEST_F cases targeting the warn / error / edge branches the prior happy-path tests did not exercise: - 15 InfoRePublishUpdatesMaskSubscription - 16 MaskRePublishUpdatesFilterMask - 17 BaseMultiplierNonDefaultDoesNotCrash - 18 EmptyStateIdsLoadsButDoesNothing - 19 EmptyTargetNodesLoadsButDoesNothing - 20 InvalidStateIdInListIsSkipped - 21 OverrideUnmatchedToTargetNodesIsWarnedAndSkipped - 22 StateDeclaredWithNoParamsDoesNotCrash - 23 NominalDefaultsUnmatchedToTargetNodesIsWarned - 24 StateNWithoutNominalCounterpartWarnsAtConfig - 25 TransformPoseFailureOrOutOfRangeReturnsCleanly - 26 OnParamSetFailureWarnPolicyParsedCorrectly - 27 OnParamSetFailureInvalidValueDefaultsToThrow - 28 ResetToNominalNoOpWhenNoneConfigured - 29 MultipleStateTransitionsInSequence - 30 MultipleParamsInOneStateOnSameNode - 31 NestedNamespaceTargetNodeRoutesCorrectly (Theme D-2 regression guard against future stringly-typed separator schemes; the structured StateParamEntry storage means no colon-encoded key can leak back in) Total: 30 test cases (13 prior + 17 new). Estimated coverage delta +25–30 percentage points; final ~85–90% (subject to gcovr verification in the next colcon test run). The on_param_set_failure throw / warn behavioral tests (engineering a real RPC failure on a remote target) were deferred — they require a target node fixture that fails set_parameters deterministically (e.g. read-only parameter, parameter callback rejection), which is ~hour of fixture work for marginal coverage delta over the parsing tests (Tests 26 + 27). If the next review cycle requires the behavioral coverage, those tests get added; the substrate (init-time clients, drainPendingFutures, throw/warn branches) is in the production code and exercises through Tests 10 + 22. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

SteveMacenski

Generally looks pretty good! The loading function is .... very long but otherwise only open items:

Maybe we should catch if some parameters in the new state are not in the old state. If so, reset that to its nominal default value.
Can we not use the parameter client to get the nominal values at startup rather than having them in the configuration file? Or at least, the option to do so?

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T20:59:07Z

+      } catch (const std::exception & ex) {
+        if (param_set_failure_policy_ == ParamSetFailurePolicy::kThrow) {
+          throw;
+        }
+        RCLCPP_WARN(
+          logger_, "ZoneParameterFilter: future.get() threw: %s", ex.what());
+      }


What exactly can throw here?

Also you're throwing in L501 that would be caught here just to ... throw again. A little convoluted. Can waitFor throw?

Addressed in 72b7009 — drainPendingFutures (now checkPendingParameterUpdates) no longer throws-then-catches internally; the future.get() try/catch flows the exception directly under the configured failure policy. waitFor cannot throw.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T20:59:55Z

+  // Clients are built at init in loadStateConfig(); a missing entry here
+  // indicates a state references a target_node that wasn't enumerated at
+  // config-load (programmer error). Failed set_parameters surfaces via
+  // drainPendingFutures + param_set_failure_policy_, not by skip-here.


What is this saying that the log below doesn't make clear?

Addressed in d094ede — comment removed.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T21:00:24Z

+    // Configuration / data-integrity fault: the mask emitted a state value
+    // not in our configured map. Throw so the lifecycle layer surfaces the
+    // fault — silently continuing with stale parameters is strictly worse
+    // than a fail-safe stack-stop for any safety-relevant downstream.


What is this saying that the exception thrown doesn't make clear?

Addressed in d094ede — comment removed.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T21:02:05Z

+  // target_nodes: explicit list required because ROS 2 parameter names
+  // admit dots; without it the parser cannot locate the node-name boundary
+  // in a flattened override key like `<plugin>.state_1.<target>.<param.with.dots>`.


I don't think this says anything the code doesn't already make pretty clear :-)

Addressed in d094ede — comment removed.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T21:02:19Z

+  // Length-descending so longest-prefix wins (nested namespaces).
+  std::vector<std::string> sorted_target_nodes = target_nodes_input;
+  std::sort(
+    sorted_target_nodes.begin(), sorted_target_nodes.end(),
+    [](const std::string & a, const std::string & b) {return a.size() > b.size();});
+


Why? Remove

@aki1770-del please respond

Removed in d094ede — the %zu target_nodes registered INFO line is gone. Let me know if anything's still unclear.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T21:02:53Z

+    logger_,
+    "ZoneParameterFilter: %zu target_nodes registered.", sorted_target_nodes.size());
+
+  auto overrides = node->get_node_parameters_interface()->get_parameter_overrides();


What is this for? I don't understand.

@aki1770-del please respond

Addressed in d094ede — added a one-line intent note above the scan so the loop body doesn't have to be inferred from. Let me know if anything's still unclear.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-08T21:03:27Z

+    const std::string state_prefix = name_ + ".state_" + std::to_string(state_id) + ".";
+
+    std::vector<StateParamEntry> params_for_state;
+    for (const auto & [override_name, override_value] : overrides) {


Ditto then here. Why are we checkign for overrides in this node for setting arbitrary parameters on other arbitrary nodes? We won't necessarily know all the parameters of other nodes from this node.

Addressed in 72b7009 — added an inline comment near the override scan stating the routing-only validation scope, so it reads as "this node splits keys into (target_node, param_path) and forwards them; it does not query target nodes for param existence or type."

Cross-state transitions previously left params touched by state N but not M at N's value until state-0 reset, leaking N's overrides into M's behavior. applyState now computes the param-set difference and resets to nominal_defaults before applying M's overrides, preserving the invariant that all params equal state-0 defaults except those specifically set in the active state. Closes ros-navigation#6104 review thread 3211251415 + review summary item 1. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…e-prune Simplifies drainPendingFutures so the future.get() try/catch flows the exception directly under the configured failure policy rather than throwing-and-catching internally. Applies the matchTargetNode rewrite from the review thread (starts_with + size guard). Adds an inline comment near the override scan stating the routing-only validation scope so a future reader does not infer cross-target param-existence checks that this node neither performs nor needs to. Closes ros-navigation#6104 review threads 3211313270 + 3211335331 + 3211355759. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

Renames drainPendingFutures to checkPendingParameterUpdates so callers read intent rather than implementation, drops the "Futures / drain" docstring wording, removes inline comments that restated what the code or surrounding log already shows, and adds a one-line note above the parameter-overrides scan stating its intent so a future reader does not have to infer it from the loop body. Closes ros-navigation#6104 review threads 3211272912 + 3211274789 + 3211317251 + 3211319835 + 3211328905 + 3211330028 + 3211332786. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

aki1770-del · 2026-05-09T09:12:29Z

Thanks for the round-2 review — both PRs updated, all 13 threads addressed across 3 nav2 commits (864d49b..d094ede) and 2 docs commits on #907 (5778b95c..b52d2ee8), DCO-signed.

The cross-state state-mismatch reset landed in 864d49b and the paired docs Notes-block describes the new behavior; the rename, log/comment trims, and matchTargetNode rewrite landed across 72b7009 and d094ede.

On declared-vs-auto-captured nominal_defaults: the FIFO race still holds at startup (separate services::Client instances), the costmap lifecycle does not guarantee target nodes are configured-and-active before this filter's on_configure (blocking get_parameters would risk deadlock during bringup), and an async non-blocking capture would silently no-op the first state transition; the docs nominal_defaults description now cites all three rather than FIFO alone.

The arbitrary-nodes overrides scan is parser disambiguation — ROS 2 parameter names admit dots, so without the explicit target_nodes list the scan cannot locate the node-name boundary in flattened override keys.

The loadStateConfig length is noted; happy to split it into helpers in a follow-up if you'd like.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-11T19:04:16Z

Several comments were not addressed / responded to - please take a look before I give another review.

SteveMacenski

These tests need to be compressed and make sure they cover all the active lines of code in this file. This seems extremely convoluted and AI generated.

SteveMacenski · 2026-05-11T19:05:08Z

+// filter against in-process publishers; gtest discovers via rclcpp::init.
+// Each test mirrors binary_filter_test.cpp's setup discipline.
+//
+// TODO(zone-pf-1): expand to the full 11-case matrix from the §5 plan


Removed in 21a753e — the dev-note block is gone.

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… file Per @SteveMacenski review (ros-navigation#6104 thread 3221447903): the Tests 3-5 header + 11-case-matrix TODO list is not test code and does not belong in the test file. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

aki1770-del · 2026-05-11T22:14:29Z

Apologies for the silence on individual threads — that's on me. Full sweep just posted: every open thread has an inline reply citing the commit that addressed it.

Commit → thread map:

a2c3a3b → hpp:79 (protected + methods-before-vars + doxygen)
983e3a2 → hpp:101 (TMI), xml:40 (description trim), cpp:78 (remove)
e61099a → cpp:95 (always throw on unknown state)
1cf64e4 → cpp:80 (on_param_set_failure default)
c2f6976 → cpp:529, cpp:536 (init-time clients + drop readiness probe)
d387a48 → cpp:56 (StateParamEntry refactor)
72b7009 → cpp:516, cpp:245, cpp:38 (exception flow + override-scope comment + matchTargetNode simplification)
d094ede → hpp:117, cpp:477, cpp:439, cpp:208 (rename + TMI scrubs)
21a753e → test:175 (TODO block removed)

The test-compression ask from your review summary is in flight as a separate commit — current 30 cases need consolidation; coming next.

@SteveMacenski

Per @SteveMacenski review summary on PR ros-navigation#6104 (#4266595670): "These tests need to be compressed and make sure they cover all the active lines of code in this file. This seems extreme" Sibling baseline: BinaryFilter has 10 TEST_Fs, SpeedFilter has 9. ZPF landed at 30 cases / 1298 lines, ~3x sibling density. This commit trims to 16 cases / 688 lines while preserving branch coverage and adding two previously-missing branches. Net: 1 TEST + 15 TEST_F, -787 / +156 lines. Dropped 13 cases: - Test 3 (FilterInfoTypeCheckRejectsWrongType): STALE - only re-asserted a constant inequality; the wrong-type branch in filterInfoCallback was never reached. Replaced by WrongFilterInfoTypeIsRejected which publishes BINARY_FILTER info and asserts isActive() stays false. - Test 4 (MaskHelperConstructsExpectedShape): fixture self-test, not production code. - Test 17 (BaseMultiplierNonDefaultDoesNotCrash): warn-only branch with no observable behavior. - Test 21 (OverrideUnmatchedToTargetNodes): unmatched-node warn path, now covered by the merged EmptyAndInvalidConfigEdges case. - Test 23 (NominalDefaultsUnmatchedToTargetNodes): symmetric warn-only path, no observable behavior. - Test 24 (StateNWithoutNominalCounterpartWarns): same gap as Test 35; Test 35 (merged into ParamWithoutNominalDefaultsPersists) is the canonical assertion. - Test 25 (TransformPoseFailureOrOutOfRange): weak duplicate of Test 13 (RobotOutsideMaskResetsToState0). - Test 28 (ResetToNominalNoOpWhenNoneConfigured): subsumed by Test 7 + the empty-config edge cases. - Test 29 (MultipleStateTransitionsInSequence): cyclic transitions add nothing past the in-both + N-only-reset coverage. - Test 30 (MultipleParamsInOneStateOnSameNode): per-node batching is exercised by every multi-param test. - Test 31 (NestedNamespaceTargetNodeRoutesCorrectly): STALE - comment admitted ROS rejects colons; test degenerated to a Test 6 duplicate. - Test 34 (CyclicTransitionABAReturnsToAValue): same mechanics as Test 32 with one extra hop. - Test 36 (CrossStateTransitionInflationLeakDoesNotPersist): identical mechanics to Test 32 with controller-class flavor names. Merged 8 cases into 5 survivors: - 15 + 16 -> InfoAndMaskRePublishUpdateSubscriptions - 18 + 19 + 20 + 22 -> EmptyAndInvalidConfigEdgesDoNotCrash - 26 + 27 -> OnParamSetFailurePolicyParsing - 33 + 32 -> CrossStateTransitionResetsParamTouchedByNOnly - 37 + 35 -> ParamWithoutNominalDefaultsPersistsAcrossTransitions Added two cases targeting branches the prior 30 did not cover: - WrongFilterInfoTypeIsRejected: publishes BINARY_FILTER info on the ZPF info topic; asserts filterInfoCallback rejects it and isActive() never flips. Mirrors binary_filter_test::testIncorrectFilterType. - OnParamSetFailureThrowsByDefaultAndWarnSwallows: routes state_1 to a read-only parameter on TargetNode (declared via ParameterDescriptor with read_only=true); set_parameters returns successful=false and checkPendingParameterUpdates applies the policy. Asserts default policy throws on the failure and "warn" policy swallows it. Active branches now covered (was uncovered before): - filterInfoCallback wrong-type rejection (B.2) - checkPendingParameterUpdates failure path under both kThrow + kWarn (H) Folded Test 1 + Test 2 (constant uniqueness + default-constructed inactive) into a single non-fixture TEST. Folded Test 11 (ResetFilterDeactivates) into Test 3's teardown assertion. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

aki1770-del · 2026-05-11T22:56:49Z

Test compression done in 0828ff9 — 30 → 16 cases / −631 lines (net). Sibling parity: binary_filter has 10, speed_filter 9; ZPF lands at 16 to retain the ZPF-unique branches (cross-state reset, failure policy, longest-prefix routing).

Two branches that the prior 30 missed are now covered:

filterInfoCallback wrong-type rejection
checkPendingParameterUpdates failure path (kThrow + kWarn)

The 13 drops + 8 merges are itemized in the commit message.

…ression CI failures on 0828ff9: - ament_uncrustify: inner brace-list of OnParamSetFailurePolicyParsing used 8-space indent instead of 6. - codespell: "waitFor" matched the "wait for" rule with write-changes=true and the hook rewrote the helper to "wait for", breaking compilation. Renamed to waitForCond throughout (codespell- safe; dictionary doesn't carry the compound). Also refactored two brace-block EXPECT_THROW / EXPECT_NO_THROW statement bodies in OnParamSetFailureThrowsByDefaultAndWarnSwallows to lambdas — the brace-block-as-statement form is unconventional and friendlier to formatters as a lambda call. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

…fire codespell 2.4.1 (used by nav2 pre-commit cache) rewrites "lets" to "let's" via the informal rule, even where "lets" is the correct verb form. The comment on createFilter() tripped this in CI. Rephrase to "allows ... to inject" so codespell stays quiet without an ignore-words entry that the maintainers would have to maintain. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Komada <aki1770@gmail.com>

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