[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2 02/14] libcamera: control_ids: Fix documentation for controls namespace

[Laurent Pinchart]

The controls namespace isn't documenting, making it impossible to
reference the variables it contains. Furthermore, within the
documentation page for the control_ids.h file, links from overview to
detailed variable documentation are broken for the same reason. Both
issues can be fixed by documenting the controls namespace.

Unfortunately doxygen then fails to parse the initialisers for the
controls global variables correctly and considers them as functions. To
work around this, modify the control_ids.cpp generation script to hide
the variables from doxygen, but still expose their documentation.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
---
 src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp.in | 13 ++++++++++++-
 src/libcamera/gen-controls.py    | 18 ++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp.in b/src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp.in
index f699ac9eea54..dd5433820a8b 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp.in
+++ b/src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp.in
@@ -16,9 +16,20 @@
 
 namespace libcamera {
 
+/**
+ * \brief Namespace for libcamera controls
+ */
 namespace controls {
 
-${controls}
+${controls_doc}
+
+#ifndef __DOXYGEN__
+/*
+ * Keep the controls definitions hidden from doxygen as it incorrectly parses
+ * them as functions.
+ */
+${controls_def}
+#endif
 
 } /* namespace controls */
 
diff --git a/src/libcamera/gen-controls.py b/src/libcamera/gen-controls.py
index 0899e40b4080..a3e52fb36f7a 100755
--- a/src/libcamera/gen-controls.py
+++ b/src/libcamera/gen-controls.py
@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@ def snake_case(s):
 
 
 def generate_cpp(controls):
-    template = string.Template('''/**
+    doc_template = string.Template('''/**
+ * \\var extern const Control<${type}> ${name}
 ${description}
- */
-extern const Control<${type}> ${name}(${id_name}, "${name}");''')
+ */''')
+    def_template = string.Template('extern const Control<${type}> ${name}(${id_name}, "${name}");')
 
-    ctrls = []
+    ctrls_doc = []
+    ctrls_def = []
 
     for ctrl in controls:
         name, ctrl = ctrl.popitem()
@@ -39,9 +41,13 @@ extern const Control<${type}> ${name}(${id_name}, "${name}");''')
             'id_name': id_name,
         }
 
-        ctrls.append(template.substitute(info))
+        ctrls_doc.append(doc_template.substitute(info))
+        ctrls_def.append(def_template.substitute(info))
 
-    return {'controls': '\n\n'.join(ctrls)}
+    return {
+        'controls_doc': '\n\n'.join(ctrls_doc),
+        'controls_def': '\n'.join(ctrls_def),
+    }
 
 
 def generate_h(controls):
-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart