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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-01-20 17:21:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2014-01-20 17:21:44 +0100 |
| commit | 57f7239fc8a5dc0867da07e5c7b1dc023227deb6 (patch) | |
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Doc: move API docs in their own chapter and add more of it.
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diff --git a/doc/ext/appapi.rst b/doc/ext/appapi.rst deleted file mode 100644 index a6393d40..00000000 --- a/doc/ext/appapi.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,505 +0,0 @@ -.. highlight:: rest - -Extension API -============= - -.. currentmodule:: sphinx.application - -Each Sphinx extension is a Python module with at least a :func:`setup` function. -This function is called at initialization time with one argument, the -application object representing the Sphinx process. This application object has -the following public API: - -.. method:: Sphinx.setup_extension(name) - - Load the extension given by the module *name*. Use this if your extension - needs the features provided by another extension. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_builder(builder) - - Register a new builder. *builder* must be a class that inherits from - :class:`~sphinx.builders.Builder`. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_config_value(name, default, rebuild) - - Register a configuration value. This is necessary for Sphinx to recognize - new values and set default values accordingly. The *name* should be prefixed - with the extension name, to avoid clashes. The *default* value can be any - Python object. The string value *rebuild* must be one of those values: - - * ``'env'`` if a change in the setting only takes effect when a document is - parsed -- this means that the whole environment must be rebuilt. - * ``'html'`` if a change in the setting needs a full rebuild of HTML - documents. - * ``''`` if a change in the setting will not need any special rebuild. - - .. versionchanged:: 0.4 - If the *default* value is a callable, it will be called with the config - object as its argument in order to get the default value. This can be - used to implement config values whose default depends on other values. - - .. versionchanged:: 0.6 - Changed *rebuild* from a simple boolean (equivalent to ``''`` or - ``'env'``) to a string. However, booleans are still accepted and - converted internally. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_domain(domain) - - Make the given *domain* (which must be a class; more precisely, a subclass of - :class:`~sphinx.domains.Domain`) known to Sphinx. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.override_domain(domain) - - Make the given *domain* class known to Sphinx, assuming that there is already - a domain with its ``.name``. The new domain must be a subclass of the - existing one. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_index_to_domain(domain, index) - - Add a custom *index* class to the domain named *domain*. *index* must be a - subclass of :class:`~sphinx.domains.Index`. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_event(name) - - Register an event called *name*. This is needed to be able to emit it. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_node(node, **kwds) - - Register a Docutils node class. This is necessary for Docutils internals. - It may also be used in the future to validate nodes in the parsed documents. - - Node visitor functions for the Sphinx HTML, LaTeX, text and manpage writers - can be given as keyword arguments: the keyword must be one or more of - ``'html'``, ``'latex'``, ``'text'``, ``'man'``, ``'texinfo'``, the value a - 2-tuple of ``(visit, depart)`` methods. ``depart`` can be ``None`` if the - ``visit`` function raises :exc:`docutils.nodes.SkipNode`. Example: - - .. code-block:: python - - class math(docutils.nodes.Element): pass - - def visit_math_html(self, node): - self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'math')) - def depart_math_html(self, node): - self.body.append('</math>') - - app.add_node(math, html=(visit_math_html, depart_math_html)) - - Obviously, translators for which you don't specify visitor methods will choke - on the node when encountered in a document to translate. - - .. versionchanged:: 0.5 - Added the support for keyword arguments giving visit functions. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_directive(name, func, content, arguments, **options) - Sphinx.add_directive(name, directiveclass) - - Register a Docutils directive. *name* must be the prospective directive - name. There are two possible ways to write a directive: - - * In the docutils 0.4 style, *obj* is the directive function. *content*, - *arguments* and *options* are set as attributes on the function and - determine whether the directive has content, arguments and options, - respectively. **This style is deprecated.** - - * In the docutils 0.5 style, *directiveclass* is the directive class. It - must already have attributes named *has_content*, *required_arguments*, - *optional_arguments*, *final_argument_whitespace* and *option_spec* that - correspond to the options for the function way. See `the Docutils docs - <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/rst-directives.html>`_ for - details. - - The directive class must inherit from the class - ``docutils.parsers.rst.Directive``. - - For example, the (already existing) :rst:dir:`literalinclude` directive would be - added like this: - - .. code-block:: python - - from docutils.parsers.rst import directives - add_directive('literalinclude', literalinclude_directive, - content = 0, arguments = (1, 0, 0), - linenos = directives.flag, - language = direcitves.unchanged, - encoding = directives.encoding) - - .. versionchanged:: 0.6 - Docutils 0.5-style directive classes are now supported. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_directive_to_domain(domain, name, func, content, arguments, **options) - Sphinx.add_directive_to_domain(domain, name, directiveclass) - - Like :meth:`add_directive`, but the directive is added to the domain named - *domain*. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_role(name, role) - - Register a Docutils role. *name* must be the role name that occurs in the - source, *role* the role function (see the `Docutils documentation - <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/howto/rst-roles.html>`_ on details). - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_role_to_domain(domain, name, role) - - Like :meth:`add_role`, but the role is added to the domain named *domain*. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_generic_role(name, nodeclass) - - Register a Docutils role that does nothing but wrap its contents in the - node given by *nodeclass*. - - .. versionadded:: 0.6 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_object_type(directivename, rolename, indextemplate='', parse_node=None, \ - ref_nodeclass=None, objname='', doc_field_types=[]) - - This method is a very convenient way to add a new :term:`object` type that - can be cross-referenced. It will do this: - - * Create a new directive (called *directivename*) for documenting an object. - It will automatically add index entries if *indextemplate* is nonempty; if - given, it must contain exactly one instance of ``%s``. See the example - below for how the template will be interpreted. - * Create a new role (called *rolename*) to cross-reference to these - object descriptions. - * If you provide *parse_node*, it must be a function that takes a string and - a docutils node, and it must populate the node with children parsed from - the string. It must then return the name of the item to be used in - cross-referencing and index entries. See the :file:`conf.py` file in the - source for this documentation for an example. - * The *objname* (if not given, will default to *directivename*) names the - type of object. It is used when listing objects, e.g. in search results. - - For example, if you have this call in a custom Sphinx extension:: - - app.add_object_type('directive', 'dir', 'pair: %s; directive') - - you can use this markup in your documents:: - - .. rst:directive:: function - - Document a function. - - <...> - - See also the :rst:dir:`function` directive. - - For the directive, an index entry will be generated as if you had prepended :: - - .. index:: pair: function; directive - - The reference node will be of class ``literal`` (so it will be rendered in a - proportional font, as appropriate for code) unless you give the *ref_nodeclass* - argument, which must be a docutils node class (most useful are - ``docutils.nodes.emphasis`` or ``docutils.nodes.strong`` -- you can also use - ``docutils.nodes.generated`` if you want no further text decoration). - - For the role content, you have the same syntactical possibilities as for - standard Sphinx roles (see :ref:`xref-syntax`). - - This method is also available under the deprecated alias - ``add_description_unit``. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_crossref_type(directivename, rolename, indextemplate='', ref_nodeclass=None, objname='') - - This method is very similar to :meth:`add_object_type` except that the - directive it generates must be empty, and will produce no output. - - That means that you can add semantic targets to your sources, and refer to - them using custom roles instead of generic ones (like :rst:role:`ref`). Example - call:: - - app.add_crossref_type('topic', 'topic', 'single: %s', docutils.nodes.emphasis) - - Example usage:: - - .. topic:: application API - - The application API - ------------------- - - <...> - - See also :topic:`this section <application API>`. - - (Of course, the element following the ``topic`` directive needn't be a - section.) - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_transform(transform) - - Add the standard docutils :class:`Transform` subclass *transform* to the list - of transforms that are applied after Sphinx parses a reST document. - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_javascript(filename) - - Add *filename* to the list of JavaScript files that the default HTML template - will include. The filename must be relative to the HTML static path, see - :confval:`the docs for the config value <html_static_path>`. A full URI with - scheme, like ``http://example.org/foo.js``, is also supported. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_stylesheet(filename) - - Add *filename* to the list of CSS files that the default HTML template will - include. Like for :meth:`add_javascript`, the filename must be relative to - the HTML static path, or a full URI with scheme. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_lexer(alias, lexer) - - Use *lexer*, which must be an instance of a Pygments lexer class, to - highlight code blocks with the given language *alias*. - - .. versionadded:: 0.6 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_autodocumenter(cls) - - Add *cls* as a new documenter class for the :mod:`sphinx.ext.autodoc` - extension. It must be a subclass of :class:`sphinx.ext.autodoc.Documenter`. - This allows to auto-document new types of objects. See the source of the - autodoc module for examples on how to subclass :class:`Documenter`. - - .. XXX add real docs for Documenter and subclassing - - .. versionadded:: 0.6 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_autodoc_attrgetter(type, getter) - - Add *getter*, which must be a function with an interface compatible to the - :func:`getattr` builtin, as the autodoc attribute getter for objects that are - instances of *type*. All cases where autodoc needs to get an attribute of a - type are then handled by this function instead of :func:`getattr`. - - .. versionadded:: 0.6 - -.. method:: Sphinx.add_search_language(cls) - - Add *cls*, which must be a subclass of :class:`sphinx.search.SearchLanguage`, - as a support language for building the HTML full-text search index. The - class must have a *lang* attribute that indicates the language it should be - used for. See :confval:`html_search_language`. - - .. versionadded:: 1.1 - -.. method:: Sphinx.connect(event, callback) - - Register *callback* to be called when *event* is emitted. For details on - available core events and the arguments of callback functions, please see - :ref:`events`. - - The method returns a "listener ID" that can be used as an argument to - :meth:`disconnect`. - -.. method:: Sphinx.disconnect(listener_id) - - Unregister callback *listener_id*. - -.. method:: Sphinx.emit(event, *arguments) - - Emit *event* and pass *arguments* to the callback functions. Return the - return values of all callbacks as a list. Do not emit core Sphinx events - in extensions! - -.. method:: Sphinx.emit_firstresult(event, *arguments) - - Emit *event* and pass *arguments* to the callback functions. Return the - result of the first callback that doesn't return ``None``. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. method:: Sphinx.require_sphinx(version) - - Compare *version* (which must be a ``major.minor`` version string, - e.g. ``'1.1'``) with the version of the running Sphinx, and abort the build - when it is too old. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - - -.. exception:: ExtensionError - - All these functions raise this exception if something went wrong with the - extension API. - -Examples of using the Sphinx extension API can be seen in the :mod:`sphinx.ext` -package. - - -.. _events: - -Sphinx core events ------------------- - -These events are known to the core. The arguments shown are given to the -registered event handlers. - -.. event:: builder-inited (app) - - Emitted when the builder object has been created. It is available as - ``app.builder``. - -.. event:: env-get-outdated (app, env, added, changed, removed) - - Emitted when the environment determines which source files have changed and - should be re-read. *added*, *changed* and *removed* are sets of docnames - that the environment has determined. You can return a list of docnames to - re-read in addition to these. - - .. versionadded:: 1.1 - -.. event:: env-purge-doc (app, env, docname) - - Emitted when all traces of a source file should be cleaned from the - environment, that is, if the source file is removed or before it is freshly - read. This is for extensions that keep their own caches in attributes of the - environment. - - For example, there is a cache of all modules on the environment. When a - source file has been changed, the cache's entries for the file are cleared, - since the module declarations could have been removed from the file. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. event:: source-read (app, docname, source) - - Emitted when a source file has been read. The *source* argument is a list - whose single element is the contents of the source file. You can process the - contents and replace this item to implement source-level transformations. - - For example, if you want to use ``$`` signs to delimit inline math, like in - LaTeX, you can use a regular expression to replace ``$...$`` by - ``:math:`...```. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. event:: doctree-read (app, doctree) - - Emitted when a doctree has been parsed and read by the environment, and is - about to be pickled. The *doctree* can be modified in-place. - -.. event:: missing-reference (app, env, node, contnode) - - Emitted when a cross-reference to a Python module or object cannot be - resolved. If the event handler can resolve the reference, it should return a - new docutils node to be inserted in the document tree in place of the node - *node*. Usually this node is a :class:`reference` node containing *contnode* - as a child. - - :param env: The build environment (``app.builder.env``). - :param node: The :class:`pending_xref` node to be resolved. Its attributes - ``reftype``, ``reftarget``, ``modname`` and ``classname`` attributes - determine the type and target of the reference. - :param contnode: The node that carries the text and formatting inside the - future reference and should be a child of the returned reference node. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. event:: doctree-resolved (app, doctree, docname) - - Emitted when a doctree has been "resolved" by the environment, that is, all - references have been resolved and TOCs have been inserted. The *doctree* can - be modified in place. - - Here is the place to replace custom nodes that don't have visitor methods in - the writers, so that they don't cause errors when the writers encounter them. - -.. event:: env-updated (app, env) - - Emitted when the :meth:`update` method of the build environment has - completed, that is, the environment and all doctrees are now up-to-date. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - -.. event:: html-collect-pages (app) - - Emitted when the HTML builder is starting to write non-document pages. You - can add pages to write by returning an iterable from this event consisting of - ``(pagename, context, templatename)``. - - .. versionadded:: 1.0 - -.. event:: html-page-context (app, pagename, templatename, context, doctree) - - Emitted when the HTML builder has created a context dictionary to render a - template with -- this can be used to add custom elements to the context. - - The *pagename* argument is the canonical name of the page being rendered, - that is, without ``.html`` suffix and using slashes as path separators. The - *templatename* is the name of the template to render, this will be - ``'page.html'`` for all pages from reST documents. - - The *context* argument is a dictionary of values that are given to the - template engine to render the page and can be modified to include custom - values. Keys must be strings. - - The *doctree* argument will be a doctree when the page is created from a reST - documents; it will be ``None`` when the page is created from an HTML template - alone. - - .. versionadded:: 0.4 - -.. event:: build-finished (app, exception) - - Emitted when a build has finished, before Sphinx exits, usually used for - cleanup. This event is emitted even when the build process raised an - exception, given as the *exception* argument. The exception is reraised in - the application after the event handlers have run. If the build process - raised no exception, *exception* will be ``None``. This allows to customize - cleanup actions depending on the exception status. - - .. versionadded:: 0.5 - - -Checking the Sphinx version ---------------------------- - -.. currentmodule:: sphinx - -Use this to adapt your extension to API changes in Sphinx. - -.. data:: version_info - - A tuple of five elements; for Sphinx version 1.2.1 beta 3 this would be - ``(1, 2, 1, 'beta', 3)``. - - .. versionadded:: 1.2 - Before version 1.2, check the string ``sphinx.__version__``. - - -.. _template-bridge: - -The template bridge -------------------- - -.. currentmodule:: sphinx.application - -.. autoclass:: TemplateBridge - :members: - - -.. _domain-api: - -Domain API ----------- - -.. module:: sphinx.domains - -.. autoclass:: Domain - :members: - -.. autoclass:: ObjType - -.. autoclass:: Index - :members: |
