getLocation() Crashing, invalid parameter type

[varun-dubagunta-clubs]

Hello, I was running some test code to isolate my errors and the logs returned the following issue

TypeError: getLocation(): incompatible function arguments. The following argument types are supported:
1. (self: spaceteams.SC_Compute_Server.Entity) -> spaceteams.SC_Compute_Server.FramedLoc

for reference, I have included the variable declaration that got passed in here:
moon1: sc.Entity = this.GetParam(sc.VarType.entityRef, "moonFrame")
rpos = Rover1.getLocation(moonFrame)

[connorjak]

getLocation() no longer has any input args; we haven't updated our general Python API docs in a while. In VS Code, you can usually control-click the one of the spaceteams/st functions and that will take you to SC_Compute_Server.pyi, which is guaranteed to be up to date with all of the available function signatures.

For the purposes of the competition, I recommend using EntityTelemetry functions such as ET.GetCurrentXY(entity)

[varun-dubagunta-clubs]

Thank you for the reply! Quick follow up question: does the entity parameter refer to the frame?

[connorjak]

Entities have body-fixed frames, you can get a body-fixed frame for an entity with .getBodyFixedFrame(). Body-centered frame is also available (uses entity's resident frame for the attitude and the entity's location for the origin)

[connorjak]

Also be careful, we haven't put out the best information on this (will address it during Task 1 feedback); if you do things such as directly call getLocation() for the movable entities in the MissionManager script, that works around the loss-of-comms functionality and is invalid for the competition.