In addition to the changes in the previous commit, also avoid syntax
errors in the generated Python docstrings by splitting them into several
parts if there are 3 quotes in a row in the input, as it's impossible to
have them inside triple-quoted strings, generally speaking (i.e. if
there are occurrences of both """ and ''' inside the string).
Single-line Doxygen comments ending with a double quote resulted in
syntactically-invalid Python docstrings in the output, so use triple
single quotes as delimiters in this case to avoid it.
If the parameter has a default value, add the string ", optional" to
the parameter type description in the translated python comments.
Three examples with default values were already present in the test
cases, so their expected python output has been updated accordingly.
Using the standard inspect module instead of accessing __doc__ directly allows
the tests to pass both when using and not using -builtin, as whitespace-only
differences between the docstrings don't matter then because inspect.getdoc()
removes the indentation and the leading and trailing spaces.
This is similar to what had been already done for python_docstring unit test
in fa282b3540.
This is unnecessary and inconsistent with "builtin" case in which the
docstrings are not indented in the generated C++ code, thus making it
impossible to write tests working in both cases.
Most of the changes in this commit simply remove the extra whitespace from the
expected values in the tests.
For the parameter documentation to be really taken as such, in its entirety,
by Sphinx, it must be indented relative to the :param: tag. Do this by
appending an extra indent after every line of the output and work around the
unnecessary indent of the last line by removing the trailing whitespace.
This required updating the existing tests and removing the expected but not
present any more whitespace from them, but as trailing whitespace in the
documentation is at best insignificant (and at worst harmful) anyhow, this is
not a big price to pay for simpler translator code.
This is important to preserve the structure of the lists which appear
correctly in Python output without any additional effort if the indentation is
lost.
It is also makes the behaviour consistent for
/**
*
*
*/
comments and those without the asterisks in the middle lines, as now the
indentation is preserved in both cases while it was only preserved when the
asterisks were present previously.
Using C++ types in documentation for Python users is more harmful than
useless, so use Python types whenever possible and allow defining "doctype"
typemap to customize this for the user-defined types.
reST is standard Python markup, so use *...*, ``...`` and so on instead of
_..._, '...' etc.
No other changes even though the mapping of some Doxygen tags to markup used
for them seems suspicions (e.g. \var almost certainly should be the same as
\em).
Use the more or less standard :param:, :type:, :return: and :raises: in the
function/methods descriptions.
Update the output expected from the Python tests accordingly.
Update Doxygen-specific Python unit tests to work with the new indentation.
Update one of Doxygen-specific Java tests to still build with the new handling
of srcdir.
Vadim Zeitlin