Previously it would fail on a trivial case like
/// Summary line
/// <trailing space>
/// Regular content
Compliant markdown preprocessor would render that as two separate paragraphs, but our summary line
extractor interprets both lines as the same paragraph and includes both into the short summary resulting in

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)?
---
Previously it would fail on a trivial case like
/// Summary line
/// <trailing space>
/// Regular content
Compliant markdown preprocessor would render that as two separate paragraphs, but our summary line
extractor would interpret both lines as the same paragraph and include both into the short summary.
The new `std::io` module has had some time to bake now, and this commit
stabilizes its functionality. There are still portions of the module which
remain unstable, and below contains a summart of the actions taken.
This commit also deprecates the entire contents of the `old_io` module in a
blanket fashion. All APIs should now have a reasonable replacement in the
new I/O modules.
Stable APIs:
* `std::io` (the name)
* `std::io::prelude` (the name)
* `Read`
* `Read::read`
* `Read::{read_to_end, read_to_string}` after being modified to return a `usize`
for the number of bytes read.
* `ReadExt`
* `Write`
* `Write::write`
* `Write::{write_all, write_fmt}`
* `WriteExt`
* `BufRead`
* `BufRead::{fill_buf, consume}`
* `BufRead::{read_line, read_until}` after being modified to return a `usize`
for the number of bytes read.
* `BufReadExt`
* `BufReader`
* `BufReader::{new, with_capacity}`
* `BufReader::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}`
* `{Read,BufRead} for BufReader`
* `BufWriter`
* `BufWriter::{new, with_capacity}`
* `BufWriter::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}`
* `Write for BufWriter`
* `IntoInnerError`
* `IntoInnerError::{error, into_inner}`
* `{Error,Display} for IntoInnerError`
* `LineWriter`
* `LineWriter::{new, with_capacity}` - `with_capacity` was added
* `LineWriter::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}` - `get_mut` was added)
* `Write for LineWriter`
* `BufStream`
* `BufStream::{new, with_capacities}`
* `BufStream::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}`
* `{BufRead,Read,Write} for BufStream`
* `stdin`
* `Stdin`
* `Stdin::lock`
* `Stdin::read_line` - added method
* `StdinLock`
* `Read for Stdin`
* `{Read,BufRead} for StdinLock`
* `stdout`
* `Stdout`
* `Stdout::lock`
* `StdoutLock`
* `Write for Stdout`
* `Write for StdoutLock`
* `stderr`
* `Stderr`
* `Stderr::lock`
* `StderrLock`
* `Write for Stderr`
* `Write for StderrLock`
* `io::Result`
* `io::Error`
* `io::Error::last_os_error`
* `{Display, Error} for Error`
Unstable APIs:
(reasons can be found in the commit itself)
* `Write::flush`
* `Seek`
* `ErrorKind`
* `Error::new`
* `Error::from_os_error`
* `Error::kind`
Deprecated APIs
* `Error::description` - available via the `Error` trait
* `Error::detail` - available via the `Display` implementation
* `thread::Builder::{stdout, stderr}`
Changes in functionality:
* `old_io::stdio::set_stderr` is now a noop as the infrastructure for printing
backtraces has migrated to `std::io`.
[breaking-change]
The end result is that common fields (id, name, attributes, etc.) are stored in now-structures `ImplItem` and `TraitItem`.
The signature of a method is no longer duplicated between methods with a body (default/impl) and those without, they now share `MethodSig`.
This is also a [breaking-change] because of minor bugfixes and changes to syntax extensions:
* `pub fn` methods in a trait no longer parse - remove the `pub`, it has no meaning anymore
* `MacResult::make_methods` is now `make_impl_items` and the return type has changed accordingly
* `quote_method` is gone, because `P<ast::Method>` doesn't exist and it couldn't represent a full method anyways - could be replaced by `quote_impl_item`/`quote_trait_item` in the future, but I do hope we realize how silly that combinatorial macro expansion is and settle on a single `quote` macro + some type hints - or just no types at all (only token-trees)
r? @nikomatsakis This is necessary (hopefully also sufficient) for associated constants.
We require the *deferred* loading, not just an opportunistic
asynchronous loading. I think `<script defer>` is safe to use,
according to <http://caniuse.com/#feat=script-defer>.
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.
The two main sub-modules, `c_str` and `os_str`, have now had some time to bake
in the standard library. This commits performs a sweep over the modules adding
various stability tags.
The following APIs are now marked `#[stable]`
* `OsString`
* `OsStr`
* `OsString::from_string`
* `OsString::from_str`
* `OsString::new`
* `OsString::into_string`
* `OsString::push` (renamed from `push_os_str`, added an `AsOsStr` bound)
* various trait implementations for `OsString`
* `OsStr::from_str`
* `OsStr::to_str`
* `OsStr::to_string_lossy`
* `OsStr::to_os_string`
* various trait implementations for `OsStr`
* `CString`
* `CStr`
* `NulError`
* `CString::new` - this API's implementation may change as a result of
rust-lang/rfcs#912 but the usage of `CString::new(thing)` looks like it is
unlikely to change. Additionally, the `IntoBytes` bound is also likely to
change but the set of implementors for the trait will not change (despite the
trait perhaps being renamed).
* `CString::from_vec_unchecked`
* `CString::as_bytes`
* `CString::as_bytes_with_nul`
* `NulError::nul_position`
* `NulError::into_vec`
* `CStr::from_ptr`
* `CStr::as_ptr`
* `CStr::to_bytes`
* `CStr::to_bytes_with_nul`
* various trait implementations for `CStr`
The following APIs remain `#[unstable]`
* `OsStr*Ext` traits remain unstable as the organization of `os::platform` is
uncertain still and the traits may change location.
* `AsOsStr` remains unstable as generic conversion traits are likely to be
rethought soon.
The following APIs were deprecated
* `OsString::push_os_str` is now called `push` and takes `T: AsOsStr` instead (a
superset of the previous functionality).
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.
This commit deprecates the majority of std::old_io::fs in favor of std::fs and
its new functionality. Some functions remain non-deprecated but are now behind a
feature gate called `old_fs`. These functions will be deprecated once
suitable replacements have been implemented.
The compiler has been migrated to new `std::fs` and `std::path` APIs where
appropriate as part of this change.
This is not a complete implementation of the RFC:
- only existing methods got updated, no new ones added
- doc comments are not extensive enough yet
- optimizations got lost and need to be reimplemented
See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/528
Technically a
[breaking-change]
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 592][r592] and [RFC 840][r840]. These
two RFCs tweak the behavior of `CString` and add a new `CStr` unsized slice type
to the module.
[r592]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0592-c-str-deref.md
[r840]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0840-no-panic-in-c-string.md
The new `CStr` type is only constructable via two methods:
1. By `deref`'ing from a `CString`
2. Unsafely via `CStr::from_ptr`
The purpose of `CStr` is to be an unsized type which is a thin pointer to a
`libc::c_char` (currently it is a fat pointer slice due to implementation
limitations). Strings from C can be safely represented with a `CStr` and an
appropriate lifetime as well. Consumers of `&CString` should now consume `&CStr`
instead to allow producers to pass in C-originating strings instead of just
Rust-allocated strings.
A new constructor was added to `CString`, `new`, which takes `T: IntoBytes`
instead of separate `from_slice` and `from_vec` methods (both have been
deprecated in favor of `new`). The `new` method returns a `Result` instead of
panicking. The error variant contains the relevant information about where the
error happened and bytes (if present). Conversions are provided to the
`io::Error` and `old_io::IoError` types via the `FromError` trait which
translate to `InvalidInput`.
This is a breaking change due to the modification of existing `#[unstable]` APIs
and new deprecation, and more detailed information can be found in the two RFCs.
Notable breakage includes:
* All construction of `CString` now needs to use `new` and handle the outgoing
`Result`.
* Usage of `CString` as a byte slice now explicitly needs a `.as_bytes()` call.
* The `as_slice*` methods have been removed in favor of just having the
`as_bytes*` methods.
Closes#22469Closes#22470
[breaking-change]
Since we don’t have Deprecated stability level anymore, the only other source of information is
deprecated-since version, which conveniently to us, only exists if the symbol is deprecated.
Fixes#21789
Since we don’t have Deprecated stability level anymore, the only other source of information is
deprecated-since version, which conveniently to us, only exists if the symbol is deprecated.
Fixes#21789