[PATCH v5 16/18] Documentation: Split public/private documentation

Dan Scally dan.scally at ideasonboard.com
Wed Aug 7 10:30:22 CEST 2024


Hi Laurent - thanks for the patch

On 05/08/2024 15:36, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> From: Daniel Scally <dan.scally at ideasonboard.com>
>
> The API reference pages generated by Doxygen are comprehensive, but
> therefore quite overwhelming for application developers who will
> likely never need to use the majority of the library's objects. To
> reduce the complexity of the documentation, split it into two runs of
> doxygen.
>
> The first run of doxygen is for the public API. We pass a specific list
> of source files to parse, which is built from the arrays of public
> headers and sources in meson build files. This ensures that we only
> generate the documentation for code from those files.
>
> A custom Python script is needed to add the list of input files to
> Doxyfile, as several of the objects included in the header and source
> array are custom_tgt objects, which can't be handled as strings to
> populate a variable in the configuration data.
>
> The headers defining the Extensible and Object classes (class.h and
> object.h respectively), as well as the corresponding source files, are
> excluded from the public API documentation despite being referenced in
> the meson public headers and sources arrays. This is due to the fact
> that public API classes inherit from Extensible and Object, making the
> Extensible and Object classes part of the public ABI. Those two base
> classes are however implementation details and must not be accessed
> directly by application code.
>
> The second run of doxygen is for the internal API. This contains
> documentation for all of the library's objects as it currently does.
> This set will now be output into build/Documentation/internal-api-html.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally at ideasonboard.com>
> Co-developed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---

The python script to generate the list of input files is definitely better than scattered foreach 
loops collecting a list in a hacky way - good improvement.

>   .../{Doxyfile.in => Doxyfile-common.in}       | 24 -------
>   Documentation/Doxyfile-internal.in            | 30 ++++++++
>   Documentation/Doxyfile-public.in              | 20 ++++++
>   Documentation/gen-doxyfile.py                 | 46 ++++++++++++
>   Documentation/meson.build                     | 70 +++++++++++++++++--
>   5 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>   rename Documentation/{Doxyfile.in => Doxyfile-common.in} (62%)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/Doxyfile-internal.in
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/Doxyfile-public.in
>   create mode 100755 Documentation/gen-doxyfile.py
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Doxyfile.in b/Documentation/Doxyfile-common.in
> similarity index 62%
> rename from Documentation/Doxyfile.in
> rename to Documentation/Doxyfile-common.in
> index 6e5a3830ec38..a70aee430e77 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Doxyfile.in
> +++ b/Documentation/Doxyfile-common.in
> @@ -17,20 +17,11 @@ EXTENSION_MAPPING      = h=C++
>   
>   TOC_INCLUDE_HEADINGS   = 0
>   
> -INTERNAL_DOCS          = YES
>   CASE_SENSE_NAMES       = YES
>   
>   QUIET                  = YES
>   WARN_AS_ERROR          = @WARN_AS_ERROR@
>   
> -INPUT                  = "@TOP_SRCDIR@/Documentation" \
> -                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera" \
> -                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/ipa/ipu3" \
> -                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/ipa/libipa" \
> -                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera" \
> -                         "@TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera" \
> -                         "@TOP_BUILDDIR@/src/libcamera"
> -
>   FILE_PATTERNS          = *.c \
>                            *.cpp \
>                            *.dox \
> @@ -38,19 +29,6 @@ FILE_PATTERNS          = *.c \
>   
>   RECURSIVE              = YES
>   
> -EXCLUDE                = @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/base/span.h \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/device_enumerator_sysfs.h \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/device_enumerator_udev.h \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/ipc_pipe_unixsocket.h \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/device_enumerator_sysfs.cpp \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/device_enumerator_udev.cpp \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/ipc_pipe_unixsocket.cpp \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/pipeline/ \
> -                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/tracepoints.cpp \
> -                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/tracepoints.h \
> -                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/ipa/soft_ipa_interface.h \
> -                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/src/libcamera/proxy/
> -
>   EXCLUDE_PATTERNS       = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/ipa/*_serializer.h \
>                            @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/ipa/*_proxy.h \
>                            @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/ipa/ipu3_*.h \
> @@ -73,8 +51,6 @@ EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS        = libcamera::BoundMethodArgs \
>   
>   EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS       = YES
>   
> -HTML_OUTPUT            = api-html
> -
>   GENERATE_LATEX         = NO
>   
>   MACRO_EXPANSION        = YES
> diff --git a/Documentation/Doxyfile-internal.in b/Documentation/Doxyfile-internal.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5e0310091416
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/Doxyfile-internal.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
> +
> + at INCLUDE_PATH          = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation
> + at INCLUDE               = Doxyfile-common
> +
> +HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES     = NO
> +HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS     = NO
> +HTML_OUTPUT            = internal-api-html
> +INTERNAL_DOCS          = YES
> +
> +INPUT                  = "@TOP_SRCDIR@/Documentation" \
> +                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera" \
> +                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/ipa/ipu3" \
> +                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/ipa/libipa" \
> +                         "@TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera" \
> +                         "@TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera" \
> +                         "@TOP_BUILDDIR@/src/libcamera"
> +
> +EXCLUDE                = @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/base/span.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/device_enumerator_sysfs.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/device_enumerator_udev.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/ipc_pipe_unixsocket.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/device_enumerator_sysfs.cpp \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/device_enumerator_udev.cpp \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/ipc_pipe_unixsocket.cpp \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/pipeline/ \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/tracepoints.cpp \
> +                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/internal/tracepoints.h \
> +                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/include/libcamera/ipa/soft_ipa_interface.h \
> +                         @TOP_BUILDDIR@/src/libcamera/proxy/
> diff --git a/Documentation/Doxyfile-public.in b/Documentation/Doxyfile-public.in
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..36bb57584a07
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/Doxyfile-public.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
> +
> + at INCLUDE_PATH          = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation
> + at INCLUDE               = Doxyfile-common
> +
> +HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES     = YES
> +HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS     = YES
> +HTML_OUTPUT            = api-html
> +INTERNAL_DOCS          = NO
> +
> +INPUT                  = "@TOP_SRCDIR@/Documentation" \
> +                         ${inputs}
> +
> +EXCLUDE                = @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/base/class.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/base/object.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/include/libcamera/base/span.h \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/base/class.cpp \
> +                         @TOP_SRCDIR@/src/libcamera/base/object.cpp
> +
> +PREDEFINED            += __DOXYGEN_PUBLIC__
> diff --git a/Documentation/gen-doxyfile.py b/Documentation/gen-doxyfile.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..c2a4184dd195
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/gen-doxyfile.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +# Copyright (C) 2024, Google Inc.
Does this mean it's drawn from elsewhere? Or is it a copy-paste error?
> +#
> +# Author: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> +#
> +# Generate Doxyfile from a template
> +
> +import argparse
> +import os
> +import string
> +import sys
> +
> +
> +def fill_template(template, data):
> +
> +    template = open(template, 'rb').read()
> +    template = template.decode('utf-8')
> +    template = string.Template(template)
I'd add a line break here.
> +    return template.substitute(data)
> +
> +
> +def main(argv):
> +
> +    # Parse command line arguments
The comment can probably be skipped.
> +    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
> +    parser.add_argument('-o', dest='output', metavar='file',
> +                        type=argparse.FileType('w', encoding='utf-8'),
> +                        default=sys.stdout,
> +                        help='Output file name (default: standard output)')
> +    parser.add_argument('template', metavar='doxyfile.tmpl', type=str,
> +                        help='Doxyfile template')
> +    parser.add_argument('inputs', type=str, nargs='*',
> +                        help='Input files')
> +
> +    args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
> +
> +    inputs = [f'"{os.path.realpath(input)}"' for input in args.inputs]
> +    data = fill_template(args.template, {'inputs': (' \\\n' + ' ' * 25).join(inputs)})
> +    args.output.write(data)
> +
> +    return 0
> +
> +
> +if __name__ == '__main__':
> +    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
> diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build
> index 1d84ed815b50..bf28233a2ce8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/meson.build
> +++ b/Documentation/meson.build
> @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ if doxygen.found() and dot.found()
>   
>       cdata.set('PREDEFINED', ' \\\n\t\t\t '.join(doxygen_predefined))
>   
> -    doxyfile = configure_file(input : 'Doxyfile.in',
> -                              output : 'Doxyfile',
> -                              configuration : cdata)
> +    doxyfile_common = configure_file(input : 'Doxyfile-common.in',
> +                                     output : 'Doxyfile-common',
> +                                     configuration : cdata)
>   
>       doxygen_public_input = [
>           libcamera_base_public_headers,
> @@ -50,17 +50,75 @@ if doxygen.found() and dot.found()
>           doxygen_internal_input += [ipu3_ipa_sources]
>       endif
>   
> -    custom_target('doxygen',
> +    # We run doxygen twice - the first run excludes internal API objects as it
> +    # is intended to document the public API only. A second run covers all of
> +    # the library's objects for libcamera developers. Common configuration is
> +    # set in an initially generated Doxyfile, which is then included by the two
> +    # final Doxyfiles. We collected a list of the public sources in
> +    # doxygen_public_sources to pass to the public run and include it in cdata
> +    # here - although both Doxyfile and Doxyfile-internal will also receive
> +    # the same parameter they simply ignore it.
This comment needs correcting now as it references the older method.
> +
> +    # This is the "public" run of doxygen generating an abridged version of the
> +    # API's documentation.
> +
> +    doxyfile_tmpl = configure_file(input : 'Doxyfile-public.in',
> +                                   output : 'Doxyfile-public.tmpl',
> +                                   configuration : cdata)
> +
> +    doxyfile = custom_target('doxyfile-public',
> +                             input : [
> +                                 doxygen_public_input,
> +                             ],
> +                             output : 'Doxyfile-public',
> +                             command : [
> +                                 'gen-doxyfile.py',
> +                                 '-o', '@OUTPUT@',
> +                                 doxyfile_tmpl,
> +                                 '@INPUT@',
> +                             ])
> +
> +    custom_target('doxygen-public',
>                     input : [
>                         doxyfile,
> -                      doxygen_public_input,
> -                      doxygen_internal_input,
> +                      doxyfile_common,
>                     ],
>                     output : 'api-html',
>                     command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
>                     install : true,
>                     install_dir : doc_install_dir,
>                     install_tag : 'doc')
> +
> +    # This is the internal documentation, which hard-codes a list of directories
> +    # to parse in its doxyfile.
> +
> +    doxyfile_tmpl = configure_file(input : 'Doxyfile-internal.in',
> +                                   output : 'Doxyfile-internal.tmpl',
> +                                   configuration : cdata)
> +
> +    doxyfile = custom_target('doxyfile-internal',
> +                             input : [
> +                                 doxygen_public_input,
> +                                 doxygen_internal_input,
> +                             ],
> +                             output : 'Doxyfile-internal',
> +                             command : [
> +                                 'gen-doxyfile.py',
> +                                 '-o', '@OUTPUT@',
> +                                 doxyfile_tmpl,
> +                                 '@INPUT@',
> +                             ])
I think we can skip the script for the internal run -there's no templated values to be replaced and 
the generated Doxyfile-internal is identical to the Doxyfile-internal.tmpl.
> +
> +    custom_target('doxygen-internal',
> +                  input : [
> +                      doxyfile,
> +                      doxyfile_common,
> +                  ],
> +                  output : 'internal-api-html',
> +                  command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
> +                  install : true,
> +                  install_dir : doc_install_dir,
> +                  install_tag : 'doc-internal')
>   endif
>   
>   #


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