Added support for custom parameter bridge node names #402
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In cases where you may need to run multiple parameter bridges at the same time (eg: in multiple docker containers connected to the same ROS1 master) I was unable to run due to bridge nodes containing the same name. Initially passing in a command to rename the ros2 bridge is not successful because ROS1 and ROS2 parse the command line arguments differently.
Here, I am simply accounting for that, by reformatting the command line argument passed into ROS1 bridge node. This way I am able to specify custom names for the parameter bridge and therefore run multiple instances of the parameter bridge.
You can now simply pass in the arguments for a custom node name for the parameter bridge: