Feature request: robot_description topic

[Timple]

To ease the transition to ROS2 we would like to use a robot_description topic instead of a parameter.

Would a PR get accepted which expands the model view with a topic option?

Implementation would be an enum box which chooses between Parameter (default) or Topic.

[130s]

Is setting robot description ROS Parameter on ROS2 side not an option? Just wondering, but in one of a ros1-2 bridge projects I think I saw that (robot running on ros1, then there's a bridge to receive some in ros2, but in ros2 redundantly set robot description). It's not nice but worked. Just fyi.

[Timple]

I've created a plugin which solves this issue: https://github.com/nobleo/rviz_robot_description_topic