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Tuesday 14 Dec 2010
- Adjusted for multiplicity types - Added new templates: attributemethod.html.tmpl is responsible for rendering accessor/mutators for attribute slots, object.html.tmpl for objects. - I now render attribute slots both in their object parameter view & a method view. Furthermore, I distinguish between the incremental vs. ordinary interface (as requested). - Fixed div boxing scheme (again) - Adjusted various places (method.html.tmpl, submethod.html.tmpl) to display the status marks (more to come) - Streamlined the method views, introducing Type and Protection sections - Started adopting the /obj/ prefix in parameter listings - Made the @use mechanism working again (under validation). Once tiny bit needs to be fixed: The upward propagation of status messages if @use is in place. - Removed the cause for redundant validation calls by traversing the entity hierarchy only once. - Added nx-specific tracers (to distinguish between ensemble and slot objects, ...) For now, they work fine, but are tangled with non-nx tracing. This needs refactoring. - Added another nx-specific tracer which tackles the issue of the __resolve_method_path helper. While quite cumbersome and coupling nxdoc to many internal design decisions of nx, it turns any change in nx.tcl unnecessary. - Fixed ::nx::doc::handleinfo to deal with objects as methods (the case for intermediate ensemble objects). - Added ::nsf::setter support - Fixed the validation support for submethod structures. - Some cleanup (to be continued)
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Tuesday 07 Dec 2010
Accomplishments: - Completed a first version of the sandboxed (partial) evaluation of Tcl source artifacts (packages, script files, C extensions) based on a dedicated child/slave interp environment: see ::nx::doc::Sandbox; the test suite and the test documentation builts run on it. - Based on this infrastructure, we can now generate a snapshot of a program's structure to be documented (and contrast it to the explicitly documented structure). - Added simplistic css sprites for visualising the doc entity status (extra, missing, mismatch, complete); see also library/lib/doc-assets/status.svg and library/lib/doc-assets/status.png - The entity status is printed optionally along with the print name of an entity - Added switch-like parts to represent properties of doc entities: @deprecated, @stashed, @c-implemented, @syshook. The implementation and use of ::nx::doc::SwitchAttribute should be reviewed after having figured out how to proceed using "switching" objparams. - I provide a multi-property dispatcher as doc-syntactic sugar and for mere convenience: @property Various: - Corrected some div-boxing mess in the templates - Added a filtered helper to process entity collections - Made the mixin layer infrastructure more symmetric (a revoke operation). - Added tracers for ::nsf::method and ::nsf::alias (remains to be completed) - Renamed ::nx::doc to ::nx::processor and turned it into another mixin layer to trace the doc entity creation in e.g. readin() - Companion (*.nxd) files: Revised the handling of companion files. Temporarily moved generic/nsf.nxd in the top-level directory. We need to find a permanent place as its location is currently derived from the location of the shared extension. A candidate is doc/ but this is not linked to the shared extension location at all. - processor.readin() now returns a collection of entities created during its execution. - Improved robustedness and orthogonality: destroy hooks; the tag-dispatcher can now handle empty comment lines; when placing NSF object tracer, we now use the freshly added introspection of an object system's method aliases.
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Friday 15 Oct 2010
- Corrected the link generation for autocomplete/search entries in case of @use chaining and made them location-independent - Removed an superfluous div-closing tag in class.html.tmpl - Refactored the backend code for the auto-completion search box, separating the concerns of rendering the JS array of hashes and serialising entities into a dict representation. The latter allows to discriminate entity-specific rendering behaviour (together with the mixin layer facility). - Added the entity type (its pretty name) to the search results presented to the doc user. - Removed the unwanted "::"s from @project and @package names.
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Tuesday 05 Oct 2010
- Major refactoring based on a minimal Mixin Layer facility to modularise optional features (such as templating, documentation verification etc.) in layers of mixins to be applied to the entire entity hierarchy. - Rewrote the html templating machinery in terms of a mixin layer: NxDocRenderer - Used the new modularisation granularity to add @glossary-specific link rendering (following ideas from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hattrick/) - Completed glossary support and added acronym handling - Added back references and ref counting for @glossary entries (to be displayed with the glossary lists) - I added the short-cut lists for selected part types of @class entities, namely @class-method and @class-attribute. - Fixed the rendering of methods and attributes for ascending alphabetical order.
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Wednesday 29 Sep 2010
- Minor revision of template files (to unify the naming of markup labels) - Removed occurrences of old [:let] - Use href() helper method to generate fragments of per-document ("local") anchor names - Introduced more pretty_name and pretty_plurals for part attributes - Make filename generation aware of the property of being a part or partof entity! - Revised the documentation of [::nsf::current] slightly - Adding setter ([:!let]) and getter ([:!get]) to the templating language, both being aware of @use chains. - Refactored the resolution behaviour for part levels, relative to a given entity, into a helper StructuredEntity->owned_parts(). Based on this helper, the navigation structures can be rendered on common grounds (e.g., drop-down search box, menus in th eleft bar) - Adding the attributes "pretty_name" and "pretty_plural" to part attribute slots (used for rendering section names in the nav menu etc.). - Adding a helper method href() to render the href attribute values of entity anchors (links, menu items, ...) - Unified the rendering of the selection data used by the drop-down box for the various entity_types, again, using the owned_parts() helper - Refactored the generation of navigation menu in the left bar into a proper template: leftbar.html.tmpl - Reflect recent naming changes (e.g., predefined.tcl -> nsf.tcl) - Adding support for documentation inheritance; first, fixed @command support for it - Refactored the upward resolution of partof entities into a central and shared facility (Entity->get_upward_path()) - Adjusting for changes in introspection interface (info.callable() -> info.lookup()) - Adding a first aliasing (@use) mechanism. Remains to be tested properly, though it works sufficiently for the known use cases. - Adding some safety checks to Tag->find() - Refactoring context->parse@tag to use the Tag->find() helper (now shared between tag creation and link resolution) - Tag path normalisation (expanding shortcuts, balanced list check, ...) went into Tag->normalise(). - Changed the [:link ...] mechansism ({{@someTag ...}}) to operate on the new tag notation. Added support for sub-method and sub-command link rendering (looks sufficient for the moment). - Changed the existing *.nxd companions to match these notational modifications.
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Wednesday 08 Sep 2010
- Added support for companion documentation files (based on the file extension *.nxd) - Moved the nsf and nx documentation blocks in generic/predefined.nxd and library/nx/nx.nxd, respectively - Un-exported @param, provide two aliases @attribute and @parameter (in the respective contexts). - Changed the test suite and the two documentations to reflect the naming changes.
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- Added two new templates: method.html.tmpl and submethod.html.tmpl - Generalised the support for sub-commands and sub-methods, including a shortcut notation for tag lines. - Adding the special handling of initcmd blocks of attribute slots: They are processed as @param specifications of their owning (class) object. In a next step, I will limit this special handling to the first comment block only, while subsequent ones are evaluated in the context of the slot object itself. - Fixed an issue with cleaning up the processing-related mixin classes in the CommentBlockParser: As the nested notation of doc entities can conflict with relation slot forwarders (*::info::mixin vs. *::info mixin <add|delete>), I revert to using ::nsf::relation directly. - Fixed the default namespace resolution (still needs some review, once all use cases are figured out!) Changed nx and nsf documentation accordingly. - Add first doc text for Object->info() and its sub-methods (for testing purposes, merely) - Added an initial implementation for parsing level support. By introducing skipping axes into the tag notation (e.g., @..param), we can now differentiate between different scopes of applications for tags. This has a number of advantages: a) processing becomes more efficient (skip-level annotated tags can be identified early), b) we do not have maintain different tag labels for different parsing levels (e.g., @child-object vs. @object), ... - Parsing levels have to be maintained within the documentation processor and provided to the comment block parsers at work. This still has to be accomplished. - Adapted the naming scheme for qualifier tags (for now). Instead of "child" scopes, we coerce the entity names using namespace delimiters (this fits nested objects nicely) - Changed the resolution behaviour for dotted tag labels: Intermediate nodes (i.e., entities) are not allocated anymore, on the fly. Rather, it is a pure id resolution, except from the leaf element which is effectively initialised as a documentation entity. This has major implications: It requires partof entities to exist prior to any part entity. However, the id resolution work can later be reused when introducing the new tag notations into the link block markers in the templating engine (avoiding zombie and widely undescribed doc entities). - Started shifting id generation into part attributes (for the time being). Probably I will do so permanently to avoid the complexity in the various new() factories for doc entity types. - Adjusted the tests accordings and added many more on the navigatable tag notation. - Renamed EntityClass and PartClass into Tag and PartTag. The meta-class names so better reflect their purpose as entity factory classes, based on the tag notation scheme. Added a QualifierTag meta-class which marks tags (@class, @object, @command) which impose extra requirements when not being part of another entity (in particular, default namespace resolution). If not part of another entity, they represent *qualifying* language constructs, i.e. language constructs which help identify other elements (command -> subcommand, object -> nested object or method). - Started harmonising the entity class hierarchy (not ready cooked yet): Entity < StructuredEntity < ContainerEntity < @project < @method < @package < PartEntity < @object (@param) < @class < @command The most important change is that all entities (entity instances) can become parts, however, only a single entity class (@param) is critical about it.
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Monday 30 Aug 2010
- Refactoring templating code: Separated generic and backend-specific templating behaviour into distinct classes: BaseTemplateData and NxDocTemplateData. Rewrote the getter logic for the @doc strings to retrieve different representations (as_text() and as_list()). - Multi-line block markers: To achieve this, I moved the handling of block markers into the template data classes. - Adjusted the tests for the changes ...
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Thursday 26 Aug 2010
- Added an experimental gathering facility for part objects, relative to a given entity object. It returns a [dict] which allows to reuse the parts gathered throughout the templates rendering process. - Moved the process=@* methods to the doc object (this increases the cohesion). - Adjusted the current documentation artifacts for the changes (@object -> @class where applicable).
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- Renamed the existing object.html.tmpl to class.html.tmpl and fix it to reflect class features. Providing an object-only template remains to be done. - Added an experimental gathering facility for part objects, relative to a given entity object. It returns a [dict] which allows to reuse the parts gathered throughout the templates rendering process. - Moved the process=@* methods to the doc object (this increases the cohesion). - Adjusted the current documentation artifacts for the changes (@object -> @class where applicable).
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