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..
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              Vladimír Vondruš <mosra@centrum.cz>

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..

Sphinx
######

:breadcrumb: {filename}/plugins.rst Plugins
:ref-prefix:
    typing
    unittest.mock
:footer:
    .. note-dim::
        :class: m-text-center

        `« Metadata <{filename}/plugins/metadata.rst>`_ | `Plugins <{filename}/plugins.rst>`_

.. role:: html(code)
    :language: html
.. role:: py(code)
    :language: py
.. role:: rst(code)
    :language: rst

Makes it possible to document APIs with the `Python doc theme <{filename}/documentation/python.rst>`_
using external files in a way similar to `Sphinx <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/>`_.

.. contents::
    :class: m-block m-default

`How to use`_
=============

`Pelican`_
----------

Download the `m/sphinx.py <{filename}/plugins.rst>`_ file, put it including the
``m/`` directory into one of your :py:`PLUGIN_PATHS` and add ``m.sphinx``
package to your :py:`PLUGINS` in ``pelicanconf.py``. The
:py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES` option is described in the
`Links to external Sphinx documentation`_ section below.

.. code:: python

    PLUGINS += ['m.sphinx']
    M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES = [...]

`Python doc theme`_
-------------------

List the plugin in your :py:`PLUGINS`. The :py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES`
configuration option is described in the `Links to external Sphinx documentation`_
section below, additionally it supports also the inverse --- saving internal
symbols to a file to be linked from elsewhere, see
`Creating an Intersphinx inventory file`_ for a description of the
:py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORY_OUTPUT` option.

.. code:: py

    PLUGINS += ['m.sphinx']
    M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES = [...]
    M_SPHINX_INVENTORY_OUTPUT = 'objects.inv'
    M_SPHINX_PARSE_DOCSTRINGS = False

`Links to external Sphinx documentation`_
=========================================

Sphinx provides a so-called Intersphinx files to make names from one
documentation available for linking from elsewhere. The plugin supports the
(current) version 2 of those inventory files, version 1 is not supported. You
need to provide a list of tuples containing tag file path, URL prefix, an
optional list of implicitly prepended name prefixes and an optional list of CSS
classes for each link in :py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES`. Every Sphinx-generated
documentation contains an ``objects.inv`` file in its root directory (and the
root directory is the URL prefix as well), for example for Python 3 it's
located at https://docs.python.org/3/objects.inv. Download the files and
specify path to them and the URL they were downloaded from, for example:

.. code:: py

    M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES = [
        ('sphinx/python.inv', 'https://docs.python.org/3/', ['xml.']),
        ('sphinx/numpy.inv', 'https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/', [], ['m-flat'])]

Use the :rst:`:ref:` interpreted text role for linking to those symbols. Link
text is equal to link target unless the target provides its own title (such as
documentation pages), function links have ``()`` appended to make it clear it's
a function. It's possible to specify custom link title using the :rst:`:ref:`
link title <link-target>``` syntax. If a symbol can't be found, a warning is
printed to output and link target is rendered in a monospace font (or, if
custom link title is specified, just the title is rendered, as normal text).
You can append ``#anchor`` to ``link-target`` to link to anchors that are not
present in the inventory file, the same works for query parameters starting
with ``?``. Adding custom CSS classes can be done by deriving the role and
adding the :rst:`:class:` option.

.. block-success:: Shorthand linking and disambiguation

    Specifying fully-qualified name for every link would get very boring very
    fast, which is why the :py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES` option allows you to
    specify a list of global implicitly prepended prefixes. Apart from that,
    the prefixes can be set also on a per-page basis by listing them in
    :rst:`:ref-prefix:` in page metadata. This is useful especially when
    writing pages in the `Python doc theme`_ to avoid writing the fully
    qualified name every time you need to linking to some documented name.

    Finally, when using the :rst:`:ref:` role in any of the directives
    described in the `Module, class, enum, function, property and data docs`_
    section below, path of the currently documented name is used as well. This
    can save you from repeated typing when for example referencing members of a
    currently documented class.

    The name matching is always done in this order:

    1.  as-is, with no prefix, so :rst:`:ref:`open()`` *always* matches the
        builtin :ref:`open()` and not whatever else found in current scope
    2.  in case of the documentation directives, with increasingly shortened
        path of currently documented name prepended
    3.  prefixes from :rst:`:ref-prefix:`
    4.  prefixes from :py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES`

    In order to disambiguate, you have a few options. Specifying larger prefix
    is usually enough; if you suffix the link target with ``()``, the plugin
    will restrict the name search to just functions; and finally you can also
    restrict the search to a particular type by prefixing the target with a
    concrete target name and a colon --- for example,
    :rst:`:ref:`std:doc:using/cmdline`` will link to the ``using/cmdline`` page
    of standard documentation.

The :rst:`:ref:` a good candidate for a `default role <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#default-role>`_
--- setting it using :rst:`.. default-role::` will then make it accessible
using plain backticks.

.. code-figure::

    .. code:: rst

        .. among page metadata
        :ref-prefix:
            typing
            unittest.mock

        .. default-role:: ref

        .. role:: ref-flat(ref)
            :class: m-flat

        -   Function link: :ref:`open()`
        -   Class link (with the ``xml.`` prefix omitted): :ref:`etree.ElementTree`
        -   Page link: :ref:`std:doc:using/cmdline`
        -   :ref:`Custom link title <PyErr_SetString>`
        -   Flat link: :ref-flat:`os.path.join()`
        -   Omitting :rst:`:ref-prefix:`: :ref:`Tuple`, :ref:`NonCallableMagicMock`
        -   Link using a default role: `str.partition()`

    .. default-role:: ref

    .. role:: ref-flat(ref)
        :class: m-flat

    -   Function link: :ref:`open()`
    -   Class link (with the ``xml.`` prefix omitted): :ref:`etree.ElementTree`
    -   Page link: :ref:`std:doc:using/cmdline`
    -   :ref:`Custom link title <PyErr_SetString>`
    -   Flat link: :ref-flat:`os.path.join()`
    -   Omitting :rst:`:ref-prefix:`: :ref:`Tuple`, :ref:`NonCallableMagicMock`
    -   Link using a default role: `str.partition()`

When used with the Python doc theme, the :rst:`:ref` can be used also for
linking to internal types, while external types, classes and enums are also
linked to from all signatures.

.. note-success::

    For linking to Doxygen documentation, a similar functionality is provided
    by the `m.dox <{filename}/plugins/links.rst#doxygen-documentation>`_
    plugin.

`Creating an Intersphinx inventory file`_
=========================================

In the Python doc theme, the :py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORY_OUTPUT` option can be used
to produce an Intersphinx inventory file --- basically an inverse of
:py:`M_SPHINX_INVENTORIES`. Set it to a filename and the plugin will fill it
with all names present in the documentation. Commonly, Sphinx projects expect
this file to be named ``objects.inv`` and located in the documentation root, so
doing the following will ensure it can be easily used:

.. code:: py

    M_SPHINX_INVENTORY_OUTPUT = 'objects.inv'

.. block-info:: Inventory file format

    The format is unfortunately not well-documented in Sphinx itself and this
    plugin additionally makes some extensions to it, so the following is a
    description of the file structure as used by m.css. File header is a few
    textual lines as shown below, while everything after is zlib-compressed.
    The plugin creates the inventory file in the (current) version 2 and at the
    moment hardcodes project name to ``X`` and version to ``0``::

        # Sphinx inventory version 2
        # Project: X
        # Version: 0
        # The remainder of this file is compressed using zlib.

    When decompressing the rest, the contents are again textual, each line
    being one entry::

        mymodule.MyClass py:class 2 mymodule.MyClass.html -
        mymodule.foo py:function 2 mymodule.html#foo -
        my-page std:doc 2 my-page.html A documentation page

    .. class:: m-table

    =========== ===============================================================
    Field       Description
    =========== ===============================================================
    name        Name of the module, class, function, page... Basically the link
                target used by :rst:`:ref:`.
    type        Type. Files created by the ``m.sphinx`` plugins always use only
                the following types; Sphinx-created files may have arbitrary
                other types such as ``c:function``. This type is what can be
                used in :rst:`:ref:` to further disambiguate the target.

                -   ``py:module`` for modules
                -   ``py:class`` for classes
                -   ``py:function`` :label-warning:`m.css-specific` for
                    functions, but currently also methods, class methods and
                    static methods. Sphinx uses ``py:classmethod``,
                    ``py:staticmethod`` and ``py:method`` instead.
                -   ``py:attribute`` for properties
                -   ``py:enum`` :label-warning:`m.css-specific` for enums.
                    Sphinx treats those the same as ``py:class``.
                -   ``py:enumvalue`` :label-warning:`m.css-specific` for enum
                    values. Sphinx treats those the same as ``py:data``.
                -   ``py:data`` for data
                -   ``std:doc`` for pages
                -   ``std::special`` :label-warning:`m.css-specific` for
                    special pages such as class / module / page listing
    ``2``       A `mysterious number <https://github.com/dahlia/sphinx-fakeinv/blob/02589f374471fa47073ab6cbac38258c3060a988/sphinx_fakeinv.py#L92-L93>`_.
                `Sphinx implementation <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/a498960de9039b0d0c8d24f75f32fa4acd5b75e1/sphinx/util/inventory.py#L129>`_
                denotes this as ``prio`` but doesn't use it in any way.
    url         Full url of the page. There's a minor space-saving
                optimization --- if the URL ends with ``$``, it should be
                composed as :py:`location = location[:-1] + name`. The plugin
                can recognize this feature but doesn't make use of it when
                writing the file.
    title       Link title. If set to ``-``, :py:`name` should be used as a
                link title instead.
    =========== ===============================================================

    For debugging purposes, the ``sphinx.py`` plugin script can decode and
    print inventory files passed to it on the command line. See ``--help`` for
    more options.

    .. code:: shell-session

        $ ./m/sphinx.py python.inv
        # Sphinx inventory version 2
        # Project: Python
        # Version: 3.7
        # The remainder of this file is compressed using zlib.
        CO_FUTURE_DIVISION c:var 1 c-api/veryhigh.html#c.$ -
        PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM c:var 1 c-api/memory.html#c.$ -
        PYMEM_DOMAIN_OBJ c:var 1 c-api/memory.html#c.$ -
        ...

`Module, class, enum, function, property and data docs`_
========================================================

In the Python doc theme, the :rst:`.. py:module::`, :rst:`.. py:class::`,
:rst:`.. py:enum::`, :rst:`.. py:enumvalue::`, :rst:`.. py:function::`,
:rst:`.. py:property::` and :rst:`.. py:data::` directives provide a way to
supply module, class, enum, function / method, property and data documentation
content.

Directive option is the name to document, directive contents are the actual
contents; in addition all directives except :rst:`.. py:enumvalue::` have an
:py:`:summary:` option that can override the docstring extracted using
inspection. No restrictions are made on the contents, it's also possible to
make use of any additional plugins in the markup. Example:

.. code:: rst

    .. py:module:: mymodule
        :summary: A top-level module.

        This is the top-level module.

        Usage
        -----

        .. code:: pycon

            >>> import mymodule
            >>> mymodule.foo()
            Hello world!

    .. py:data:: mymodule.ALMOST_PI
        :summary: :math:`\pi`, but *less precise*.

By default, unlike docstrings, the :rst:`:summary:` is interpreted as
:abbr:`reST <reStructuredText>`, which means you can keep the docstring
formatting simpler (for display inside IDEs or via the builtin :py:`help()`),
while supplying an alternative and more complex-formatted summary for the
actual rendered docs. It's however possible to enable
:abbr:`reST <reStructuredText>` parsing for docstrings as well --- see
`Using parsed docstrings`_ below.

.. block-warning:: Restrictions

    Names described using these directives have to actually exist (i.e., be
    accessible via inspection) in given module. If a referenced name doesn't
    exist, a warning will be printed during processing and its documentation
    ignored.

    Similarly, documentation supplied using these directives *cannot* override
    any inspected properties of the names it documents --- the type info,
    function signatures, property mutability or default values can only be
    specified through code itself. This is a design decision done in order to
    ensure code and documentation stay in sync as much as possible. If you
    *really* need to modify these for documentation purposes, you can do it
    during the module import in the
    `main configuration file <{filename}/documentation/python.rst#basic-usage>`_.
    For example:

    .. code:: py

        import mymodule

        # Due to various reasons, foo()'s annotated return type is `object`.
        # Change it to `str` for the documentation.
        mymodule.foo.__annotations__['return'] = str

        INPUT_MODULES = [mymodule]

`Modules`_
----------

The :rst:`.. py:module::` directive documents a Python module. In addition, the
directive supports a :rst:`:data name:` option for convenient documenting of
module-level data. The option is equivalent to filling out just a
:rst:`:summary:` of the :rst:`.. py:data::` directive `described below <#data>`_.

.. code:: rst

    .. py:module:: math
        :summary: Common mathematical functions
        :data pi:   The value of :math:`\pi`
        :data tau:  The value of :math:`\tau`. Or :math:`2 \pi`.

        This module defines common mathematical functions and constants as
        defined by the C standard.

`Classes`_
----------

Use :rst:`.. py:class::` for documenting classes. Similarly to module docs,
this directive supports an additional :rst:`:data name:` option for documenting
class-level data as well as :rst:`:property name:` for properties. Both of
those are equivalent to filling out a :rst:`:summary:` of the
:rst:`.. py:data::` / :rst:`.. py:property::` directives `described <#data>`_
`below <#properties>`_.

.. code:: rst

    .. py:class:: mymodule.MyContainer
        :summary: A container of key/value pairs
        :property size: Number of entries in the container

        Provides a key/value storage with :math:`\mathcal{O}(\log{}n)`-complexity
        access.

`Enums and enum values`_
------------------------

Use :rst:`.. py:enum::` for documenting enums. Values can be documented either
using the :rst:`.. py:enumvalue::` directive, or in case of short descriptions,
conveniently directly in the :rst:`.. py:enum::` directive via
:rst:`:value name:` options. Example:

.. code:: rst

    .. py:enum:: mymodule.MemoryUsage
        :summary: Specifies memory usage configuration
        :value LOW: Optimized for low-memory big-storage devices, such as
            refrigerators.
        :value HIGH: The memory usage will make you angry.

    .. py:enumvalue:: mymodule.MemoryUsage.DEFAULT

        Default memory usage. Behavior depends on platform:

        -   On low-memory devices such as refrigerators equivalent to :ref:`LOW`.
        -   On high-end desktop PCs, this is equivalent to :ref:`HIGH`.
        -   On laptops, this randomly chooses between the two values based
            Murphy's law. Enjoy the battery life when you need it the least.

`Functions`_
------------

The :rst:`.. py:function::` directive supports additional options ---
:rst:`:param name:` for documenting parameters, :rst:`:raise name:` for
documenting raised exceptions and :rst:`:return:` for documenting the return
value. It's allowed to have either none or all parameters documented (the
``self`` parameter can be omitted), having them documented only partially or
documenting parameters that are not present in the function signature will
cause a warning. Documenting one parameter multiple times causes a warning, on
the other hand listing one exception multiple times is a valid use case.
Example:

.. code:: rst

    .. py:function:: mymodule.MyContainer.add
        :summary: Add a key/value pair to the container
        :param key:                 Key to add
        :param value:               Corresponding value
        :param overwrite_existing:  Overwrite existing value if already present
            in the container
        :raise ValueError:  If the key type is not hashable
        :return:                    The inserted tuple or the existing
            key/value pair in case :p:`overwrite_existing` is not set

        The operation has a :math:`\mathcal{O}(\log{}n)` complexity.

.. block-success::  Referencing function parameters

    What's also shown in the above snippet is the :rst:`:p:` text role. It
    looks the same as if you would write just ````overwrite_existing````,
    but in addition it checks the parameter name against current function
    signature, emitting a warning in case of a mismatch. This is useful to
    ensure the documentation doesn't get out of sync with the actual signature.

For overloaded functions (such as those coming from pybind11), it's possible to
specify the full signature to distinguish between particular overloads.
Directives with the full signature have a priority, if no signature matches
given function, a signature-less directive is searched for as a fallback.
Example:

.. code:: rst

    .. py:function:: magnum.math.dot(a: magnum.Complex, b: magnum.Complex)
        :summary: Dot product of two complex numbers

    .. py:function:: magnum.math.dot(a: magnum.Quaternion, b: magnum.Quaternion)
        :summary: Dot product of two quaternions

    .. py:function:: magnum.math.dot
        :summary: Dot product

        .. this documentation will be used for all other overloads

`Properties`_
-------------

Use :rst:`.. py:property::` for documenting properties. This directive supports
the :rst:`:raise name:` option similarly as for `functions`_, plus the usual
:rst:`:summary:`. For convenience, properties that have just a summary can be
also documented directly in the enclosing :rst:`.. py:class::` directive
`as shown above <#classes>`__.

.. code:: rst

    .. py:property:: mymodule.MyContainer.size
        :summary: Number of entries in the container

        You can also use ``if not container`` for checking if the container is
        empty.

`Data`_
-------

Use :rst:`.. py:data::` for documenting module-level and class-level data. This
directive doesn't support any additional options besides :rst:`:summary:`. For
convenience, data that have just a summary can be also documented directly in
the enclosing :rst:`.. py:module::` / :rst:`.. py:class::` directive
`as shown above <#module>`__.

.. code:: rst

    .. py:data:: math.pi
        :summary: The value of :math:`\tau`. Or :math:`2 \pi`.

        They say `pi is wrong <https://tauday.com/>`_.

`Using parsed docstrings`_
==========================

By default, docstrings are `treated by the Python doc generator as plain text <{filename}/documentation/python.rst#docstrings>`_
and only externally-supplied docs are parsed. This is done because, for example
in Python standard library, embedded docstrings are often very terse without
any markup and full docs are external. If you want the docstrings to be parsed,
enable the :py:`M_SPHINX_PARSE_DOCSTRINGS` option. Compared to the directives
above, there's only one difference --- instead of a :rst:`:summary:` option,
the first paragraph is taken as a summary, the second paragraph as the option
list (if it contains option fields) and the rest as documentation content.
Continuing with the :rst:`.. py:function::` example above, embedded in a
docstring it would look like this instead:

.. code:: py

    def add(self, key, value, *, overwrite_existing=False):
        """Add a key/value pair to the container

        :param key:                 Key to add
        :param value:               Corresponding value
        :param overwrite_existing:  Overwrite existing value if already present
            in the container
        :return:                    The inserted tuple or the existing
            key/value pair in case ``overwrite_existing`` is not set

        The operation has a :math:`\mathcal{O}(\log{}n)` complexity.
        """