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2023-08-31Re-land "[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating website"Med Ismail Bennani
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>
2023-08-31Revert "Re-land "[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating website""Med Ismail Bennani
This reverts 3 commit: - f0731d5b61ba798e6d5a63a92d9228010e5a3b50. - 8e0a087571a31057bb98939e3ada73227bed83c7. - f2f5d6fb8d53bc4bd93a3d4e110134ed017b636f. This changes were introduced to silence the warnings that are printed when generating the lldb module documentation for the website but it changed the python bindings and causes test failures on the macos bot: https://green.lab.llvm.org/green/job/lldb-cmake/59438/ We will have to consider other options to silence these warnings.
2023-08-29Re-land "[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating website"Med Ismail Bennani
This reverts commit 18f1c1ace7a6099f3e8e56cf4b81aa0f64a7dd23 and fix the build failure issues introduced because of the `STRING_EXTENSION_OUTSIDE` swig macros. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017 Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
2023-08-29Revert "[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating website"Med Ismail Bennani
This reverts commit 498b59e01133bed16c72dd939a9daa8ae1f359e4 since it introduces a build failure: https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/68/builds/58995 Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
2023-08-29[lldb/docs] Silence warnings when generating websiteMed Ismail Bennani
This patch does various things to silence the warnings that show up when generating the website documentation. First, this patch adds the missing definition for special member methods in every SBAPI class. If the class cannot implement one of the special member method, we just define it as a null operation (pass). This should fix the following warnings: ``` WARNING: missing attribute __int__ in object lldb.SB* WARNING: missing attribute __len__ in object lldb.SB* WARNING: missing attribute __hex__ in object lldb.SB* WARNING: missing attribute __oct__ in object lldb.SB* WARNING: missing attribute __iter__ in object lldb.SB* ``` Then, it un-skips the various `static` methods that we didn't generate the methods for, since it's not necessary thanks to the automod-api module. Finally, this comments out the `_static` directory in the sphinx config, since we don't need it anymore. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017 Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
2021-01-17Reland [lldb][docs] Use sphinx instead of epydoc to generate LLDB's Python ↵Raphael Isemann
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
2021-01-15Revert "[lldb][docs] Use sphinx instead of epydoc to generate LLDB's Python ↵Raphael Isemann
reference" This reverts commit bab121a1b66e85390cad019ec921febcba35519d. It seems the docs buildbot doesn't have the required Python headers.
2021-01-15[lldb][docs] Use sphinx instead of epydoc to generate LLDB's Python referenceRaphael Isemann
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