build.gradle setup pulling latest wpilib from repo?

[jasonli0616]

It appears that CommandBase was deprecated 2 days ago in a commit to main on wpilib. However, I have version 2023.4.3 installed locally (latest stable release, from March this year).

For some reason, VSCode is now showing CommandBase as deprecated on my computer, even though I haven't updated wpilib (no released were even made since this change, documentation hasn't been updated) and it has broken the code, specifically in pathplannerlib/src/main/java/com/pathplanner/lib/auto/BaseAutoBuilder.java.

No releases have been made since the commit deprecating this; is the build.gradle somehow getting the latest wpilib code from the wpilib repo?

[mjansen4857]

You'll likely want to ask over at the WPILib repo about this. Is your version of GradleRIO in build.gradle hardcoded to a specific version (should be line 3)?

[mjansen4857]

Also, does code still build or is there an error while building? Its possible that it could just be pulling docs for the main branch for some reason.

[jasonli0616]

There's an error while building (main branch on this repo), CommandBase was deprecated and the methods defined in Commands now return Command rather than CommandBase.

This was changed in a commit 2 days ago in wpilib with no release made so I'm not sure how that's possible.

[jasonli0616]

@mjansen4857 The dependencies in the build.gradle are pulling the latest HEAD rather than the latest stable release. Changes were made on the allwpilib repo which were not updated in a release, which caused the issue.

implementation 'edu.wpi.first.wpilibNewCommands:wpilibNewCommands-java:2023.+'

pathplanner/pathplannerlib/build.gradle

Lines 28 to 46 in fc33c44

	dependencies {
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.cscore:cscore-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.cameraserver:cameraserver-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.ntcore:ntcore-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.wpilibj:wpilibj-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.wpiutil:wpiutil-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.wpimath:wpimath-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.wpilibNewCommands:wpilibNewCommands-java:2023.+'
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.hal:hal-java:2023.+'
	implementation "org.ejml:ejml-simple:0.41"
	implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.12.4"
	implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.12.4"
	implementation "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.4"
	implementation 'edu.wpi.first.thirdparty.frc2023.opencv:opencv-java:4.6.0-2'
	testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.9.0'
	testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params:5.9.0'
	testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.9.0'
	}

Resolved, thanks

[jasonli0616]

I'm attempting to build pathplannerlib, not a robot project, sorry for the confusion. It's telling me that CommandBase has been marked for deprecation, and is throwing errors related to that. I will reinstall WPILib to see if something is wrong with my current installation.

[mjansen4857]

Oh, my bad. I thought you were getting errors building a robot project because of PPLib. This makes a lot more sense now.

Are you running the build command before you run publish? I'm not sure if its needed but I always run both in order, both with -PreleaseMode

[jasonli0616]

I'm reinstalling WPILib right now, so I'll try that in a sec.

I wasn't running build before, I was just running ./gradlew publish -Preleasemode. However, just opening the repo in WPILib VSCode was showing errors in Intellisense. If that's not happening for you, it's probably my installation of WPILib

[mjansen4857]

I dealt with a lot of errors like this while developing before the 2023 season and it shouldn't need a reinstall. You don't even need WPILib installed at all to develop projects like this since Gradle takes care of all of it. The release mode flag is case sensitive, so make sure it is exactly -PreleaseMode

I'm not sure how VSCode handles the intellisense, but it always seems to do weird things for me. The intellisense might be fixed after you get a release mode build working. I usually just use IntelliJ instead of VSCode, it has a much better understanding of Gradle projects and the intellisense is usually more useful.

[jasonli0616]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Yep it works with -PreleaseMode. Gotta ensure that the capitalization was right. Thanks for the help!