lldb/docs/python_api.rst

LLDB Python API
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..
  The long list of "skip" filters out several global functions that are
  generated by SWIG (but which are not useful as they are only the
  backend for their respective static functions in the classes).
.. automodapi:: lldb
  :no-inheritance-diagram:
  :skip: command
  :skip: declaration
  :skip: in_range
  :skip: is_numeric_type
  :skip: lldb_iter
Reland [lldb][docs] Use sphinx instead of epydoc to generate LLDB's Python reference The build server should now have the missing dependencies. Original summary: Currently LLDB uses epydoc to generate the Python API reference for the website. epydoc however is unmaintained since more than a decade and no longer works with Python 3. Also whatever setup we had once for generating the documentation on the website server no longer seems to work, so the current website documentation has been stale since more than a year. This patch replaces epydoc with sphinx and its automodapi plugin that can generate Python API references. LLVM already uses sphinx for the rest of the documentation, so this way we are more consistent with the rest of LLVM. The only new dependency is the automodapi plugin for sphinx. This patch effectively does the following things: * Remove the epydoc code. * Make a new dummy Python API page in our website that just calls the Sphinx command for generated the API documentation. * Add a mock _lldb module that is only used when generating the Python API. This way we don't have to build all of LLDB to generate the API reference. Some notes: * The long list of skips is necessary due to boilerplate functions that SWIG is generating. Sadly automodapi is not really scriptable from what I can see, so we have to blacklist this stuff manually. * The .gitignore change because automodapi wants a subfolder of our documentation directory to place generated documentation files there. The path is also what is used on the website, so we can't really workaround this (without copying the whole `docs` dir somewhere else when we build). * We have to use environment variables to pass our build path to our sphinx configuration. Sphinx doesn't support passing variables onto that script. Reviewed By: JDevlieghere Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94489 2021-01-15 13:24:24 +01:00			`LLDB Python API`
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			`..`
			`The long list of "skip" filters out several global functions that are`
			`generated by SWIG (but which are not useful as they are only the`
			`backend for their respective static functions in the classes).`
			`.. automodapi:: lldb`
			`:no-inheritance-diagram:`
			`:skip: command`
Re-land "[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating website" This patch re-lands f0731d5b61ba with more fixes and improvements. First, this patch removes `__eq__` implementations from classes that didn't implemented `operator!=` on the C++ implementation. This patch removes sphinx document generation for special members such as `__len__`, since there is no straightforward way to skip class that don't implement them. We also don't want to introduce a change in behavior by implementing artifical special members for classes that are missing them. Finally, this patch improve the ergonomics of some classes by implementing special members where it makes sense, i.e. `hex(SBFrame)` is equivalent to `SBFrame.GetPC()`. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017 Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma> 2023-08-31 20:34:56 +01:00			`:skip: declaration`
Reland [lldb][docs] Use sphinx instead of epydoc to generate LLDB's Python reference The build server should now have the missing dependencies. Original summary: Currently LLDB uses epydoc to generate the Python API reference for the website. epydoc however is unmaintained since more than a decade and no longer works with Python 3. Also whatever setup we had once for generating the documentation on the website server no longer seems to work, so the current website documentation has been stale since more than a year. This patch replaces epydoc with sphinx and its automodapi plugin that can generate Python API references. LLVM already uses sphinx for the rest of the documentation, so this way we are more consistent with the rest of LLVM. The only new dependency is the automodapi plugin for sphinx. This patch effectively does the following things: * Remove the epydoc code. * Make a new dummy Python API page in our website that just calls the Sphinx command for generated the API documentation. * Add a mock _lldb module that is only used when generating the Python API. This way we don't have to build all of LLDB to generate the API reference. Some notes: * The long list of skips is necessary due to boilerplate functions that SWIG is generating. Sadly automodapi is not really scriptable from what I can see, so we have to blacklist this stuff manually. * The .gitignore change because automodapi wants a subfolder of our documentation directory to place generated documentation files there. The path is also what is used on the website, so we can't really workaround this (without copying the whole `docs` dir somewhere else when we build). * We have to use environment variables to pass our build path to our sphinx configuration. Sphinx doesn't support passing variables onto that script. Reviewed By: JDevlieghere Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94489 2021-01-15 13:24:24 +01:00			`:skip: in_range`
			`:skip: is_numeric_type`
			`:skip: lldb_iter`