Yet another attempt to make the prose on the std crate page
clearer and more informative.
This does a lot of things: tightens up the opening, adds useful links
(including a link to the search bar), offers guidance on how to use
the docs, and expands the prelude docs as a useful newbie entrypoint.
r? @steveklabnik cc @aturon
The very first code fragment off every struct and trait documentation page generates wrong playground code. This pull request adjusts ```playpen.js``` to only create a link for real examples.
Documentation:
```rust
pub struct String {
// some fields omitted
}
```
Playground:
```rust
Struct std::String
[−]
[src]
```
r? @steveklabnik
Avoids some code duplication and relies less on deprecated properties on `KeyboardEvent`. The code is still looking quite bad, but that’s primarily because interop in this area is a disaster zone.
Sharpens the help dialogues edges by removing border-padding, which
matches better with the rest of the document.
Also increases somewhat the rounded edges of the key symbols to
make it clear they are symbols.
Also introduces closing apostrophes and ellipsis for search field
placeholder.
Sharpens the help dialogues edges by removing border-padding, which
matches better with the rest of the document.
Also increases somewhat the rounded edges of the key symbols to
make it clear they are symbols.
Also introduces closing apostrophes and ellipsis for search field
placeholder.
Since the "Book" already avoids jQuery in its inline script tags and playpen.js is tiny, I figured I would convert it to plain old JS as well.
Side note: This is a separate issue, but another thing I noticed in my testing is that the "⇱" character doesn't display correctly in Chrome on Windows 7. (Firefox and IE work fine; other browsers not tested)
r? @steveklabnik
Edit: Github didn't like the "script" tag above
Edit 2: Actually, now IE seems to render "⇱" fine for me. Odd.
There are more possible optimizations left (cached length in loops) as
well as some possible bugs (shadowed variables) to fix. This is mostly
syntactic.
Rustdoc fixes for associated items
This is related to isssue #22442 and solves it partly.
This solves the search index links of associated types and constants,
so that they link to the trait page.
Also add an Associated Constants section if constants are present.
To separate concerns, instead of checking the state of `#toggle-all-docs` by looking at its label text, I add or remove a class `will-expand` depending on whether the button’s next click will expand everything. (The `if` statement’s two branches were swapped as part of this change.)
I moved the desired text values to a function `labelForToggleButton`, so changing the values will be easier. I also note in a comment the other file where the text is duplicated.
To allow the labels of both types of toggle buttons to be uniformly set, I added a `span.inner` to the global button too.
I split the template in `render.rs` into multiple lines to make room for the `span`, and that adds whitespace around the `[` and `]` text elements. That seems to be okay, though – the page still looks the same.
I updated the CSS styling for `.collapse-toggle > .inner` to add a little extra space around the symbol, to make minus signs easier to identify. (`#toggle-all-docs > .inner` does not need the same style, since its text size is bigger, so it naturally puts more space around the symbol.)
So that if people accidentally delete the character, they won’t re-type it as a hyphen, which would cause bugs.
I changed ‘+’ too, even though it won’t be re-typed incorrectly, so that it is easier to see when plus is used as a symbol for the button, and when it is used as an operator in code. It also makes it clearer that the use of an entity for minus is on purpose, so people won’t be tempted to replace the entity incorrectly with a hyphen character.
Whenever a type implements Deref, rustdoc will now add a section to the "methods
available" sections for "Methods from Deref<Target=Foo>", listing all the
inherent methods of the type `Foo`.
Closes#19190
This commit is an overhaul to how rustdoc deals with stability of the standard
library. The handling has all been revisited with respect to Rust's current
approach to stability in terms of implementation as well as the state of the
standard library today. The high level changes made were:
* Stable items now have no marker by default
* Color-based small stability markers have been removed
* Module listings now fade out unstable/deprecated items slightly
* Trait methods have a separate background color based on stability and also
list the reason that they are unstable.
* `impl` blocks with stability no longer render at all. This may be re-added
once the compiler recognizes stability on `impl` blocks.
* `impl` blocks no longer have stability of the methods implemente indicated
* The stability summary has been removed
Closes#15468Closes#21674Closes#24201
This adds search by type (for functions/methods) support to Rustdoc. Target issue is at https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/658.
I've described my approach here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/658#issuecomment-76484200. I'll copy the text in here as well:
---
Hi, it took me longer than I wished, but I have implemented this in a not-too-complex way that I think can be extended to support more complex features (like the ones mentioned [here](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12866#issuecomment-66945317)).
The idea is to generate a JSON representation of the types of methods/functions in the existing index, and then make the JS understand when it should look by type (and not by name).
I tried to come up with a JSON representation that can be extended to support generics, bounds, ref/mut annotations and so on. Here are a few samples:
Function:
```rust
fn to_uppercase(c: char) -> char
```
```json
{
"inputs": [
{"name": "char"}
],
"output": {
"name": "char",
}
}
```
Method (implemented or defined in trait):
```rust
// in struct Vec
// self is considered an argument as well
fn capacity(&self) -> usize
```
```json
{
"inputs": [
{"name": "vec"}
],
"output": {
"name": "usize"
}
}
```
This simple format can be extended by adding more fields, like `generic: bool`, a `bounds` mapping and so on.
I have a working implementation in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/compare/master...mihneadb:rustdoc-search-by-type. You can check out a live demo [here](http://data.mihneadb.net/doc/std/index.html?search=charext%20-%3E%20char).
The feature list is not that long:
- search by types (you *can* use generics as well, as long as you use the exact name - e.g. [`vec,t -> `](http://data.mihneadb.net/doc/std/index.html?search=vec%2C%20t%20-%3E))
- order of arguments does not matter
- `self` is took into account as well (e.g. search for `vec -> usize`)
- does not use "complex" annotations (e.g. you don't search for `&char -> char` but for `char -> char`)
My goal is to get a working, minimal "base" merged so that others can build upon it. How should I proceed? Do I open a PR (badly in need of code review since this is my first non "hello world"-ish rust code)?
---
This should fix#22615. Previously, the playpen links grabbed the content of all `.rusttest` containers on the same level to build the URL. Now they just select the one before the `pre` they are shown in.
I have only tested this by changing the file in my local build of the docs (not by running rustdoc itself).
It had been a source of huge bloat in rustdoc outputs. Of course,
we can simply disable compiler docs (as `rustc` generates over 90M
of HTML) but this approach fares better even after such decision.
Each directory now has `sidebar-items.js`, which immediately calls
`initSidebarItems` with a JSON sidebar data. This file is shared
throughout every item in the sidebar. The current item is
highlighted via a separate JS snippet (`window.sidebarCurrent`).
The JS file is designed to be loaded asynchronously, as the sidebar
is rendered before the content and slow sidebar loading blocks
the entire rendering. For the minimal accessibility without JS,
links to the parent items are left in HTML.
In the future, it might also be possible to integrate crates data
with the same fashion: `sidebar-items.js` at the root path will do
that. (Currently rustdoc skips writing JS in that case.)
This has a huge impact on the size of rustdoc outputs. Originally
it was 326MB uncompressed (37.7MB gzipped, 6.1MB xz compressed);
it is 169MB uncompressed (11.9MB gzipped, 5.9MB xz compressed) now.
The sidebar JS only takes 10MB uncompressed & 0.3MB gzipped.
