• Libtraci

Libtraci

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Libtraci#

The main way to interact with a running simulation is TraCI which gives the complete flexibility of doing cross-platform, cross-language, and networked interaction with sumo acting as a server. To allow coupling with client code, bindings must be provided for each client language. Historically, this has led to a larger number of client implementations with varying levels of API completeness and only the python client was kept up-to-date by the core SUMO development team.

The avoid this problem, Libtraci is provided as a SWIG compatible C++ client library that is fully compatible with Libsumo. It even uses the same header files as Libsumo.

• C++ interface based on static functions and a few simple wrapper classes for results which can be linked directly to the client code
• Pre-built language bindings for Java and Python (using SWIG)
• Future support for other programming languages via SWIG

Unlike Libsumo, Libtraci allows

• multiple clients
• running with sumo-gui

Limitations#

The following things currently do not work (or work differently than with the TraCI Python client):

• subscriptions that require additional arguments (except for vehicle.getLeader)
• stricter type checking
  • the pure Python TraCI client sometimes accepts any iterable object where Libtraci wants a list
  • pure Python may accept any object where Libtraci needs a boolean value
• there is no cleanup / waiting for the started subprocess (sumo)

Building it#

If swig and the developer packages for your target language (e.g. Python or Java) are installed the build should be enabled by default. For the Python bindings you will get a libtraci.py and a _libtraci.so (or .pyd on Windows) in SUMO_HOME/tools/libtraci. For Java the jar and .so (or .dlls) are placed in the bin dir. Please add the bin or tools dir to your relevant search paths.

Using libtraci#

Python#

import libtraci
libtraci.start(["sumo", "-c", "test.sumocfg"])
libtraci.simulationStep()
libtraci.close()

Existing traci scripts can mostly be reused by calling

import libtraci as traci

In case you have a lot of scripts you can also set the environment variable LIBTRACI_AS_TRACI to a non empty value which will trigger the import as above.

C++#

Example Code (test.cpp)#

#include <iostream>
#include <libsumo/libtraci.h>

using namespace libtraci;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    Simulation::start({"sumo", "-n", "net.net.xml"});
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        Simulation::step();
    }
    Simulation::close();
}

compiling on Linux (make sure SUMO_HOME is set and sumo has been built)#

g++ -o test -std=c++11 -I$SUMO_HOME/src test.cpp -L$SUMO_HOME/bin -ltracicpp

running on Linux#

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$SUMO_HOME/bin ./test

Java#

You might want to use the available Maven package.

Example Code (APITest.java)#

import org.eclipse.sumo.libtraci.*;

public class APITest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.loadLibrary("libtracijni");
        Simulation.start(new StringVector(new String[] {"sumo", "-n", "net.net.xml"}));
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            Simulation.step();
        }
        Simulation.close();
    }
}

compiling on Linux#

make sure SUMO_HOME is set and the jar / so / dll files are available

javac -cp $SUMO_HOME/bin/libtraci-1.8.0-SNAPSHOT.jar APITest.java

running on Linux#

java -Djava.library.path=$SUMO_HOME/bin -cp $SUMO_HOME/bin/libtraci-1.8.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:. APITest