CON-92: Added APIs to obtain versions used by Connector (#61)

* CON-92: Added APIs to obtain versions used by Connector

 + tests
 + docs

* CON-92: Changed output to return BUILD IDs as a single string

Co-authored-by: Sam Raeburn <sam@rti.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7ca0997)

Author: samuelraeburn

rticonnextdds-connector.js

@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ class _ConnectorBinding {
       RTI_Connector_set_max_objects_per_thread: ['int', ['int']],
       RTIDDSConnector_getJSONInstance:['char *', ['pointer', 'string']],
       // This API is only used in the unit tests
-      RTI_Connector_create_test_scenario: ['int', ['pointer', 'int', 'pointer']]
+      RTI_Connector_create_test_scenario: ['int', ['pointer', 'int', 'pointer']],
+      RTI_Connector_get_build_versions: ['int', [ref.refType('char *'), ref.refType('char *')]]
     })
   }
 }
@@ -2067,6 +2068,38 @@ class Connector extends EventEmitter {
   static setMaxObjectsPerThread (value) {
     _checkRetcode(connectorBinding.api.RTI_Connector_set_max_objects_per_thread(value))
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the version of Connector.
+   *
+   * This static method provides the build IDs of the native libraries being used
+   * by Connector, as well as the version of the Connector API.
+   *
+   * .. note::
+   *   This is a static method. It can be called before creating a 
+   *   :class:`Connector` instance.
+   *
+   * @returns {string} A string containing information about the version of Connector.
+   */
+  static get_version() {
+      // Obtain version of Connector from package.json
+      const versionString = require('./package.json').version
+      // Parse numbers out of string
+      const versionNumbers = versionString.split('.')
+      // Now get the build IDs of the native libraries
+      const nativeConnectorVersion = ref.alloc('char *')
+      const nativeCoreCVersion = ref.alloc('char *')
+      _checkRetcode(connectorBinding.api.RTI_Connector_get_build_versions(
+          nativeCoreCVersion,
+          nativeConnectorVersion))
+
+      // Now create the string containing all of the above information
+      let versionStr = "RTI Connector for JavaScript, version "
+        + versionNumbers[0] + "." + versionNumbers[1] + "." + versionNumbers[2] + "\n"
+      versionStr += ref.readCString(nativeCoreCVersion.deref()) + "\n"
+      versionStr += ref.readCString(nativeConnectorVersion.deref())
+      return versionStr
+  }
 }
 
 // Export the API

test/nodejs/test_rticonnextdds_connector.js

@@ -101,6 +101,29 @@ describe('Connector Tests', function () {
       expect(connector).to.be.instanceOf(rti.Connector)
   })
 
+  it('is possible to obtain the current version of Connector', function () {
+    const version = rti.Connector.get_version()
+    expect(version).to.be.a.string
+
+    // The returned version string should contain four pieces of information:
+    // - the API version of Connector
+    // - the build ID of core.1.0
+    // - the build ID of dds_c.1.0
+    // - the build ID of lua_binding.1.0
+    // Expect "RTI Connector for JavaScript, version X.X.X"
+    let regex = /RTI Connector for JavaScript, version ([0-9][.]){2}[0-9]/
+    expect(regex.test(version)).deep.equals(true)
+    // Expect "NDDSCORE_BUILD_<VERSION>_<DATE>T<TIMESTAMP>Z"
+    regex = /.*NDDSCORE_BUILD_([0-9][.]){2}[0-9]_[0-9]{8}T[0-9]{6}Z/
+    expect(regex.test(version)).deep.equals(true)
+    // Expect "NDDSC_BUILD_<VERSION>_<DATE>T<TIMESTAMP>Z"
+    regex = /.*NDDSC_BUILD_([0-9][.]){2}[0-9]_[0-9]{8}T[0-9]{6}Z/
+    expect(regex.test(version)).deep.equals(true)
+    // Expect "RTICONNECTOR_BUILD_<VERSION>_<DATE>T<TIMESTAMP>Z"
+    regex = /.*RTICONNECTOR_BUILD_([0-9][.]){2}[0-9]_[0-9]{8}T[0-9]{6}Z/
+    expect(regex.test(version)).deep.equals(true)
+  })
+
   // Test for CON-200
   it('Connector should not segfault if deleted twice', async function () {
     const xmlProfile1 = path.join(__dirname, '/../xml/TestConnector.xml')