moving joy cli into Software

misc/virtualJoy/joy_cli.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# license removed for brevity
+import rospy
+import sys
+
+from sensor_msgs.msg import Joy
+
+from __builtin__ import True
+
+
+def keyCatcher(host):
+    pub = rospy.Publisher('/'+host+'/joy', Joy, queue_size=1)
+    rospy.init_node('joy-cli', anonymous=True)
+
+    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
+        direction = raw_input('Enter direction(a,w,s,d)--> ')
+        if direction == 'w':
+            axes = [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] 
+        elif direction == 's':
+            axes = [0.0, -1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] 
+        elif direction == 'd':
+            axes = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] 
+        elif direction == 'a':
+            axes = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] 
+        else:
+            axes = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+
+        msg = Joy(header=None, axes=axes, buttons=None)
+        pub.publish(msg)
+        rospy.sleep(0.5)
+
+        axes = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+        msg = Joy(header=None, axes=axes, buttons=None)
+        pub.publish(msg)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        raise Exception("No hostname specified!")
+    else:
+        hostname = sys.argv[1]
+
+    try:
+        keyCatcher(host = hostname)
+    except rospy.ROSInterruptException:
+        pass
+