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.
The most important change is to ensure that the "Overload" headers added by
PyDocConverter code are indented correctly, i.e. using the same indent level
as the comment itself, otherwise Sphinx directives such as :param: were not
parsed correctly.
Also add a vertical separator using reST "|" formatting character to increase
separation between the overloads.
Make the rules for combining explicitly specified docstring, autodoc one and
the one obtained by translating Doxygen comments implicit in the structure of
the code itself instead of writing complicated conditions checking them.
This results in small changes to the whitespace in the generated Python code
when using autodoc, but this makes it PEP 8-compliant, so it is the right
thing to do anyhow.
Also cache the docstring built from translated Doxygen comments. The existing
code seemed to intend to do it, but didn't, really. This helps with
performance generally speaking (-10% for a relatively big library using a lot
of Doxygen comments) and also makes debugging Doxygen translation code less
painful as it's executed only once instead of twice for each comment.
Finally, avoid putting "r", used for Python raw strings, into docstrings in C
code, it is really not needed there.
Sphinx doesn't allow sections inside the function documentation and gives tons
of SEVERE warnings for them, so while just emphasizing the "Overload" header
is not ideal, it is better than before because at least the string "Overload"
itself appears in the Sphinx-generated output.
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.
William S Fulton