qemu/docs/sphinx
John Snow 636c96cd77 qapi: Fix undocumented return values by generating something
Generated command documentation lacks information on return value in
several cases, e.g. query-tpm.

The obvious fix would be to require a Returns: section when a command
returns something.

However, note that many existing Returns: sections are pretty useless:
the description is basically the return type, which then gets rendered
like "Return: <Type> – <basically the return type>".  This suggests
that a description is often not really necessary, and requiring one
isn't useful.

Instead, generate the obvious minimal thing when Returns: is absent:
"Return: <Type>".

This auto-generated Return documentation is placed is as follows:

1. If we have arguments, return goes right after them.
2. Else if we have errors, return goes right before them.
3. Else if we have features, return goes right before them.
4. Else return goes right after the intro

To facilitate this algorithm, a "TODO:" hack line is used to separate
the intro from the remainder of the documentation block in cases where
there are no other sections to separate the intro from e.g. examples and
additional detail meant to appear below the key sections of interest.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250711051045.51110-3-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[_insert_near_kind() code replaced by something simpler, commit
message amended to explain why we're doing this]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2025-07-14 12:03:03 +02:00
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compat.py docs/qapi-domain: Fix error context reporting in Sphinx 5.x and 6.x 2025-03-11 10:10:57 +01:00
dbusdoc.py docs/sphinx: add sphinx modules to include D-Bus documentation 2021-12-21 10:50:21 +04:00
dbusdomain.py meson: Pass -j option to sphinx 2023-05-18 08:53:50 +02:00
dbusparser.py docs/sphinx: add sphinx modules to include D-Bus documentation 2021-12-21 10:50:21 +04:00
depfile.py docs/sphinx: include kernel-doc script as a dependency 2025-01-17 10:45:38 +00:00
fakedbusdoc.py meson: Pass -j option to sphinx 2023-05-18 08:53:50 +02:00
hxtool.py docs: remove Sphinx 1.x compatibility code 2024-07-12 16:46:21 -04:00
kerneldoc.py docs: remove Sphinx 1.x compatibility code 2024-07-12 16:46:21 -04:00
qapi_domain.py docs/qapi-domain: add return-nodesc 2025-07-14 12:02:58 +02:00
qapidoc.py qapi: Fix undocumented return values by generating something 2025-07-14 12:03:03 +02:00
qmp_lexer.py docs/sphinx/qmp_lexer: Highlight elisions like comments, not prompts 2025-04-08 09:04:34 +02:00