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:
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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)?
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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.
This pull request add tooltips to most links of sidebar.
The tooltips display "summary line" of items' document.
Some lengthy/annoying raw markdown code are eliminated, such as links and headers.
- `[Rust](http://rust-lang.org)` displays as `Rust` (no URLs)
- `# header` displays as `header` (no `#`s)
Some inline spans, e.g. ``` `code` ``` and ```*emphasis*```, are kept as they are, for better readable.
I've make sure `&` `'` `"` `<` and `>` are properly displayed in tooltips, for example, `&'a Option<T>`.
Online preview: http://liigo.com/tmp/tooltips/std/index.html
@alexcrichton @steveklabnik since you have reviewed my previous ([v1](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/13014),[v2](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/16448)) PRs of this serise, which have been closed for technical reasons. Thank you.
Increases the delay of the search box to 500ms after key up. I tried
adding a three character minimum for setting the delay, but didn't find
it very useful.
Should close#20095
Fixes#20732, that all links in some modules point to the same code
examples was reported. The ID's generated for documents in
librustdoc are not all unique, which means the code rendered as
text is not being properly selected.
This change removes the unique id generation and instead changes the
frontend code to grab the correct code sample by it's relative
position in the dom.
Due to the CSS changes done by the previous patch to make the line
numbers clickable (#20092), the sidebar became unclickable. This commit
reverts the changes and adopts an alternative approach.
While talking on IRC, someone wanted to post a link to the Rust source code, but while the lines of the rendered source code do have anchors (`<span id="[line number]">`), there is no convenient way to make links as they are not clickable. This PR makes them clickable.
Also, a minor fix of the FAQ is included.
This series of commits deals with broken links to the source code. It also refactors some repetitive codes from Rustdoc. The most important commit, 1cb1f00d40f000ac7633b62a603db4fcea835ca6, describes the rationale; this will fix a half of #16289. Other commits are reasonably independent to each other and can be made into indiviudal PRs at the request.
### Notes on the broken source links
As of bda97e8557820cc4ec13645dbdf976e5ccaa0ce1 (I've used this to check the PR works as intended), there are 281 (!) such broken links. They can be further classified as follows:
* 178 links to incorrect item types. This is the first half of #16289, and this PR fixes all of them.
* 89 links to redirect pages. They are not technically "broken" but still doesn't give a source code. I have a fix for this in mind, which would make a redirect page slightly *fat*.
* 14 links to incorrect `DefId` in the `gotosrc` parameter. This is #15309, and affects many `liballoc` reexports in `libstd` but *nothing else* (curiously). I'm yet to track this down; might be a metadata bug (not sure).
* 0 links to the crate reexported as a different name. This is the second half of #16289, and seems not hard to fix but I'm running out of time.
Prevalence of this kind of bugs calls for a full link verifier integrated into the testing process. :S
They are just (unsafe) functions and static items to most users
and even compilers! The metadata doesn't distinguish them, so Rustdoc
ended up producing broken links (generated `ffi.*.html`, links to
`fn.*.html`). It would be best to avoid this pitfall at all.
As with last time (where I marked .woff files as binary so that git does
not perform newline normalization), it's unclear how it got corrupted in
the first place.
Sometimes (e.g. on Rust CI) the "expand description" text of the
collapse toggle was displayed by default, when a page is first
loaded (even though the description is expanded), because some
Content-Security-Policy settings disable inline CSS.
Setting it the style with the `.css` method allows the output to be used
in more places.
Sometimes (e.g. on Rust CI) the "expand description" text of the
collapse toggle was displayed by default, when a page is first
loaded (even though the description is expanded), because some
Content-Security-Policy settings disable inline CSS.
Setting it the style with the `.css` method allows the output to be used
in more places.
This has the primary advantage of not interfering with browser default
behavior for links like being able to cmd/ctrl+click on a result to open
the result in a new tab but leave the current page as-is (previous
behavior both opened a new tab and changed the current tab's location to
the result's)
Fixes str/struct ambiguity (by removing the synonym) and pushes raw searches to the history instead of processed ones.
# [Live Version Here](http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~abeinges/doc/std/)
